51.   Hecht Harrison distinguishes between entrepreneurship, which it defines as starting a company from scratch, opening a franchise or buying a business, and self-employment.

52.   He started a company called Nike.

53.   He started his company, PowerLight, and depended heavily on government grants to develop the dual-purpose tile.

54.   He started his company.

55.   If I started a company, I asked her, would she be willing to run it?

56.   In fifth place is DSP Communications, a Cupertino wireless communications company started by Israeli immigrant Davidi Gilo.

57.   In each case, Birndorf helps to start the company, gets it running and then moves on.

58.   In partnership with Geoffrey Heal, another economist at Columbia, Chichilnisky had a child and started a company, according to the accounts of colleagues.

59.   Israel is called the Silicon Valley of the Middle East because so many new technology companies get started there.

60.   It was launched this month by Nick Hall, who previously started two companies that failed and worked for a third.