Early founding teams are cognitively diverse individuals that can convince early investors that they can overcome the incredible odds of building a company that until now, shouldn't have existed.
Early founding supporters include TCS, Cisco, Accenture and Wal-mart.
But the series will drop four races at tracks owned by the International Speedway Corporation — founded by Bill France, who earlier founded Nascar — and pick up at least three others.
When the venture firm Accel Partners invested in Facebook in 2005, it brought to the company as a consultant Jeff Rothschild, who had earlier founded Veritas Software, a data storage management company.
SolidFire was founded by Dave Wright, who earlier founded Jungle Disk, which leverages Rackspace and Amazon S3 infrastructures to provides reliable, virtually unlimited scalability for any level of data storage.
It just gave Reflektive $3.5 million in seed funding in a deal led by general partner Lars Dalgaard, who earlier founded and ran the HR software company Successfactors.
He co-founded the company in June of last year along with entrepreneur Nathan Stevenson, and booking-engine expert Brian Dass, who earlier founded online hospitality marketing firms Timeless Hospitality (acquired by TravelClick) and Open Hospitality (acquired by Pegasus Solutions).
Fun fact: VideoSurf chief executive Lior Delgo earlier founded travel search startup FareChase and led it to an acquisition by Yahoo back in 2004 (its technology now powers Yahoo Travel).
Bernstein had earlier founded Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The history of the world passport goes back to 1954, when Garry Davis a World War II bomber turned peace activist, who had renounced his American citizenship years earlier—founded the World Service Authority (WSA).
