31.   But when I started the company, I had no idea this would be done at ski areas the way it is today, or in the Olympics.

32.   By the time he started the company, Bernstein already had made something of a name for himself.

33.   Cassell, however, is one of the Media Lab professors who have not started a company.

34.   Carsey, for instance, quit a comfortable job at the networks, took out a second mortgage and started her company.

35.   Ciola and his family also started a company, Logia Foods of the Bible, to market products based on scripture.

36.   Companies were started by promoters who became rich from selling stock long before the companies foundered.

37.   Decades ago, the handful of women on corporate boards was often wives or daughters of the men who started the company.

38.   Eisner started a company with his friend Jerry Iger to produce new material.

39.   Even the loan from his father that he used to start his company was brokered by his mother, he said.

40.   From Stockholm to Lisbon, a whole generation of motivated, excited managers have poured their energies into starting Internet companies.