Philip Hoffman, who used to work for Christie's and last year founded the Fine Art Fund, says that more than 80% of its purchases are made directly from owners and attract no commission.
Last year Affleck founded the Eastern Congo Initiative, an advocacy and grant-making group, to help improve the lives of impoverished people in eastern Congo.
This year he founded the Lang Lang International Music Foundation to inspire young children to play and is hoping to take time off from concerts to devote to teaching.
Last year he founded reCaptcha, a new take on the CAPTCHA that he says has yet to be broken and is already being used on thousands of sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Craigslist.
The following year, BGI founded a cognitive genomics unit and named Mr. Zhao as its director.
Last year, she founded the online magazine, Parenting Special Needs, a resource she says she wished she had from the start.
Workday (plans to go public this year), founded by Peoplesoft alums Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, have now put the entire suite of HR and Financials applications into the cloud.
Several of the super PAC knockoffs were inspired by comedian Stephen Colbert, who created a buzz last year when he founded the Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow super PAC to mock the Supreme Court's decision and what Mr. Colbert contends is its invitation for big money to play an even bigger role in politics.
If Levy has hardly been known on Madison Avenue, it is perhaps because he played second banana to the agency's flamboyant founder, the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. (The company name comes from publicit, which means "advertising, " and six, for 1926, the year it was founded.) Lvy burst onto the public scene as he assumed more control of the agency group.
The deal finally closed in June 1999, more than a year after Encore was founded.
Memora was founded last year by two brothers, Chief Executive Antonio and President Andres Rodriquez .
Ann Moulds, who was the victim of a two year stalking campaign, founded Action Scotland Against Stalking.
Sibblingz is a five-person startup founded last year in May, with a few hundred thousand dollars in seed money.
The number of companies it handles has grown every year since it was founded in the mid-1980s, says Mr Crawford.
Skype is buying the group-messaging service GroupMe , just a year after it was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci.
The company Sehgal founded a year ago, Pramana, takes a different approach.
The app, founded last year by former Google engineering manager David Aubespin, makes it quick for conference participants to find and connect others.
We also wondered whether the father had a hand in his son's latest venture, Incubator Capital, a publicly traded Beverly Hills Internet credit-card company founded last year.
Since last year, she has founded political clubs around the country with the aim of luring to the centre-right young Italians who are disenchanted with all existing parties.
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Guitar Syndicate, which was founded last year, has seen its overall online sales grow by 17% since its Facebook store was added in mid-April, according to Mr. Burnett.
He's slumped at a large desk at KatzSmith Productions, the company he co-founded last year with his close friend and collaborator David Katzenberg, son of DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Codon was founded a year ago on the idea that scientists would need a company that could sell tools used in creating such custom-designed biological systems (see: " Photoshop For DNA").
In 1999, he attended a job fair on campus, where he met Sergey Brin, who was manning the booth for Google, a start-up that he and Larry Page had founded a year earlier.
Posterous was founded a year after Tumblr and introduced several innovations that were quickly copied by Tumblr, such as the ability to update your blog by sending an e-mail message to a special address.
Businesswire offers its clients a suite of multimedia products served by CCBN, a five-year-old company founded by Jeff Parker --somewhat of a pioneer in making a business from investor demand for vital corporate information.
Founded last year by a pair of 29-year-old fraternity buddies from the University of Texas, it has created easily downloadable software to enable Web shoppers to make a last-minute price check of dozens of sites when they are about to make a purchase.
Founded last year by a pair of 29-year-old fraternity buddies from the University of Texas, it has created easily downloadable software to let Web shoppers make a last-minute price check of dozens of sites just when they are about to make a purchase.
If Levy has hardly been known on Madison Avenue, it is perhaps because he played second banana to the agency's flamboyant founder, the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. (The company name comes from publicit, which means "advertising, " and six, for 1926, the year the company was founded.) Levy burst onto the public scene as he assumed more control of the agency group.
Founded just last year, GroupMe enables people to message each other for free over mobile devices.
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