"Each of our stores is tailored to its neighborhood," said Humberto Leon, who co-founded Opening Ceremony with Carol Lim, a pal from his undergraduate days at Berkeley.
Miss Alberta Bennet with Clara Thornhill & Katharine Bleecker Meighs, founded Open House, Inc.
Chuck Templeton, a local entrepreneur who founded Open Table, a restaurant-reservation site, is unfazed.
Ms. Friedman, a former chief executive of HarperCollins, founded Open Road in 2009.
The nonprofit Theater Development Fund, best known for operating the TKTS discount ticket booths, founded Open Doors in 1998 with the playwright Wendy Wasserstein ("The Heidi Chronicles").
We set out to discover whether open access could be a sustainable model for publication, and founded Open Book Publishers in 2008.
Together with Jeffrey Sharp, a film producer of features including "Boys Don't Cry" and "You Can Count on Me," Ms. Friedman, 64, has founded Open Road Integrated Media to focus almost exclusively on digital publishing.
Stacy Ratner, 37, a social-media entrepreneur who founded Open Books in 2006, refuses to dwell on the depressing figures, choosing instead to see them as a rallying cry for her organization and its wide range of programs tutoring, online mentoring, creative-writing classes and résumé-polishing which in 2009 reached 1,500 adults and children.
Samantha Payne co founded Open Bionics, an award winning robotics company that is changing the face of the prosthetics industry.
Moxie Marlinspike founded Open Whisper Systems, the organization behind the cryptography protocol used by Signal, WhatsApp, Google's Allo and Facebook Messenger.
