Anyone who's ever operated a garage sale or lemonade stand knows the most important aspect of any business is having a product or service that people want.
Specifically, the company, which has offices in Newcastle upon Tyne, London and Kiev, operates a local garage and mechanic online comparison service, allowing drivers to post jobs and receive quotes from local garages and mechanics.
In later years, Mr. Cooper retired to the Sussex coast, where he operated a small garage business.
Apple Tours, which was founded in 1991 by Harry Grant, a New Jersey developer, had for years been cited for a range of misdeeds, from fabricating customs records on imported buses to skirting environmental regulations to switching permits on buses to avoid inspection to operating an illegal garage in a residential neighborhood.
After all, when you work in a garage, operating costs are low, tinkering is encouraged, and it's O.K. to get your hands dirty -- three important factors that lead to entrepreneurial success, and to outgrowing the garage.
The company also ran afoul of city and state inspectors in 1995 for operating an open-air garage that officials said violated building codes and environmental regulations.
In early 1985, Wilkinson struck a deal with the state and urban county governments to retain the park and build a public library and parking garage while allowing Wilkinson to construct and operate a 21-story apartment complex above the garage.
After a brief stint in Seattle, Box moved to Oakland and operated out of a garage belonging to Mr. Levie's uncle.
And there are a number of smaller companies that could yet produce a breakthrough product with mass appeal, just as Google did when it operated out of a garage.More specialised searches, such as those concentrating on web pages that match users' interests, will be a big area of development.
The Red Bull Music Academy, founded in 1998 by the caffeinated energy drink popular in late-night club culture as a low-key workshop operating out of a garage in Berlin, has over the past few years transformed into a nexus of learning for laptop-friendly musicians.
