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Peter Thiel Along with Ken Howery and Luke Nosek, the founders of Paypal are now leading the Founders' Fund VC firm, which invested in Facebook, Geni, Powerset and Slide
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It seems that what kept the above entrepreneurs coming back for more, is their passion of technology.
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"But when we do," he said, "we'll figure out a way to fix it".
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Also, keep an eye on his great new blog http://blog.pmarca.com Joe Kraus Excite anyone
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JotSpot was the second venture of Joe Kraus, and it eventually got acquired by Google for an undisclosed amount of money; Joe is now a Googler, but I suspect that a new idea may flame his passion for founding another startup
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Dreamers Dreamers know this business very well, but they choose to pursue bigger dreams and take bigger risks
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They usually go out of the web business and run after more scientific projects
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But the interesting point is they both reinforce their technology passions by investing in younger companies too
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Michael Robertson Similar to Mark Shuttleworth, Michael Robertson is also in the operating systems business
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Trevor Blackwell He stated a company called AnyBots, focusing on humanoid robots in his peaceful office in Mountain View
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Reid Hoffman He was a member of the board of directors at Paypal, but he is now preparing for possibly the biggest IPO of the web 2.0 era (unless Facebook does one too) with his professional networking venture, LinkedIn
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Mark Fletcher His first success ONEList became a part of Yahoo in 1999, but that was not enough for him - he then founded Bloglines, which eventually got acquired by Ask
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Pierre Chappaz Founder of the shopping comparison engine Kelkoo, which became the biggest hit of Europe after Yahoo bought it, he is now heading Wikio - a mix of Digg and search, focused on Europe
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Similarly Pierre Omidyar is founder and still chairman of eBay
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What would you do next if you sold your company to an Internet giant for millions of dollars
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Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis Kazaa, Skype and now Joost
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The midsize plane, the company's first all-new aircraft in more than a decade, is the first to be made primarily from carbon composite, a light plasticlike material similar to what you might find in golf clubs or tennis rackets
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CVC said in its press release it expects Samsonite to continue to become more oriented toward the luxury market and increase market share in Asia should everything go according to plan, "making it highly suitable for an initial public offering at some other date"
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As for funding, they are not as lucky as their serial entrepreneur peers - they usually need government grants, since the chances of getting a return is relatively much lower
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Conclusion None of these entrepreneurs are solely motivated by money
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Since being rescued in July 2003 by selling $106 million in shares to a group of investors that included Bain Capital LLC , a Boston private equity firm, Samsonite has used the money raised to pay down some interest on the debt that had built as the company changed hands several times since the '70s
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He was a co-founder of Viaweb, which was sold to Yahoo
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More issues could surface beginning next month, when Boeing hopes to start an intensive, eight-month flight-testing program to get final Federal Aviation Administration approval for the 787
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Boeing wants to eventually build more than 100 Dreamliners a year
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Marc Andreesen He was the founder of Netscape and now he's on the web 2.0 bandwagon with Ning - a network of social networks
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Now he's heading First Round Capital - a seed stage investment company with a rich portfolio including Wikia, OpenAds, Powerset and Riya
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It also has the most efficient jet engines built
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Other improvements will make the planes more stable in turbulence, Boeing said
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If they look close enough at the plane being unveiled Sunday, journalists and industry executives will find temporary fasteners in the fuselage where real bolts will eventually end up
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"But taking it to the next stage of developments required a change in ownership"
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Aside from natural wariness about any new airplane, the biggest concern for Boeing could be getting parts fast enough to fill orders
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Samsonite Corp.of Mansfield, the world's top luggage maker, said yesterday it has been sold to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners Ltd
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"I am excited to continue our successful journey to create the world's leading travel lifestyle brand together with CVC Capital Partners"
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The deal comes as the company showed signs of emerging from a period of turmoil
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It has placed more emphasis on its higher-end product line such as Samsonite Black Label, enlisting well-known designers such as Marc Newsom and Alexander McQueen
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Christine Chen , analyst for Needham & Co.LLC, said Samsonite has no "pure play competitors" in the luggage market that are publicly traded
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Dick Millard , spokesman for Samsonite, said the company's current operations will not change much in the immediate future despite the change in ownership
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We have thousands of unique and character properties
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Well this is not scientific, but definitely a big dream
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Martin Roscheisen Co-founder of eGroups, he is now in the green energy business with his solar power company NanoSolar
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These North European stars haven't stopped disrupting decades-old businesses and changing the way we use our computers, using P2P.Their latest venture, Internet TV service Joost, raised $45 M from high profile VC firms like Sequoia Capital
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Bain, Ares, and the pension plan, which controlled 85 percent of Samsonite's shares at the time of the sale, had been exploring the possibility of listing the company on the United Kingdom's London exchange but received several unsolicited offers from private equity firms including CVC.The investment group saw better value in selling to CVC than taking Samsonite public
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Despite any uncertainties about the new plane and Boeing's ability to deliver on schedule, airlines are reserving it like cheap tickets at Christmas
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The company hired Botto li, a former chief executive of Louis Vuitton, in 2004 and has transitioned from a manufacturer into a firm that designs, markets, and distributes its products
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Starting "a brand-new program is a pretty terrifying process early on"
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"The one feature [airlines] really care about is that it's cheaper to fly"
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Thousands of properties for sale across France
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Samsonite was founded in Denver under the name of Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing in 1910 and currently employs about 5,000 people
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New climate-control equipment will let flight crews adjust the plane's humidity so the air isn't so dry
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A shortage of bolts and other fasteners, for instance, caused delays on the first 787
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