1.  Came up with a dilly of an idea to get the fledgling company off the ground.

2.  The agreement angered the Bush administration which was philosophically opposed to the government becoming a venture capitalist for fledgling companies.

3.  Although blue-chip companies like IBM and, more recently, Monsanto, have sold these hybrids, many issuers are fledgling companies whose survival is uncertain.

4.  And Foliofn, a fledgling company in Vienna, Va., offers a way to buy stocks in bundles that look a lot like mutual funds.

5.  And that is why it is important and why, say specialists, it should rank high on the priority list for fledgling companies.

6.  As fledgling companies require more capital to build their businesses and establish a dominant market position, the size of venture capital investments is growing, too.

7.  At the same time, the fledgling antisense companies were finding the science far more challenging than they had anticipated.

8.  Bivio and another fledgling company, Actifunds of Cambridge, Mass., also act as digital matchmaking services for people who want to form clubs.

9.  Above that, the company urges buyers and sellers to use escrow services, fledgling companies that exist to provide security to buyers and sellers alike.

10.  But even more striking, when many fledgling companies return to venture capital firms for their next installment of cash, they are being turned away.