When 26-year-old Alex Fine was fired from her job at a skincare company, she took it as a sign to flesh out an idea that had been rolling around in the back of her mind: founding a female-centric sex toy company that would change the way society talks about sex.
That was the seed for Aspiring Minds, founded by two students I had the good fortune to meet, an engineer from MIT and one from IIT.
The level of colloquialism may even jar: Mary is described as a "celebrity", and Maitland, returning to Edinburgh with marriage negotiations on his mind, "found more urgent matter in his in-tray".
With that mission in mind, he founded the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation, located in Abilene, Texas.
With this in mind, Gerbase founded Praxis, a social venture that researches and develops interactive civic education programs for high school students in Brazil.
With authors who want to control their own publishing in mind, he founded Interead and developed the Coolerbooks.com ebook site.
Where were our future designers, with crucial entrepreneurial skills, going to come from?" With this in mind, he founded his own college in 1977, Parnham, which has since turned out more than 200 graduates in furniture design, many of whom have gone on to make their mark around the world.
The emergent mind is founded upon sensory experience.
With that goal in mind, I founded the Food Family Farming Foundation in 2009.
With this in mind, I founded Thrive Detroit L3C as a way to provide micro-enterprise opportunities for low-income individuals.
