31.   Another Battery investment, the two-year company is a consulting firm that specializes in digital security.

32.   As money has migrated from one generation of tech consulting firms to the next, so has management talent.

33.   As part of an effort to expand its global reach, KPMG has signed a letter of intent to acquire the largest accounting and consulting firm in India.

34.   As president of a thriving communications consulting firm, as well as a mother and wife, Booher writes with the empathy of someone who has been there.

35.   As Unger sees it, GenuOne is a consulting firm whose menu of services and technologies can provide clients with customized solutions to counterfeiting and supply-chain problems.

36.   As the founder of a three-person consulting firm with clients scattered across the United States and Mexico, Jackee McNitt knows value when she sees it.

37.   As the smaller dot-coms die, the money they spent with consulting firms such as iXL goes away.

38.   At consulting firms, analysts are often traveling, spending up to four days a week visiting clients.

39.   At Engineering Global Solutions, a consulting firm in Dearborn, Mich., workers pay for their personal calls on an honor system.

40.   At his death, McAuliffe ran a communications consulting firm.