Everything about the project was donated, Mr. Rhodes said, from seed money to production services.
Complete Production Services, an initial public offering of 21.7 million shares.
Mr. Starbuck, 43, is a lighting designer at Illumination Production Services, a production design company in West Haverstraw, N.Y.
"This is really a new approach," says Steve Mahrer, a technologist for Panasonic's production services group.
Superior Energy Services, an oil field services company based in New Orleans, agreed to buy a rival, Complete Production Services, for about $2.7 billion.
The Lanois brothers offered their production services first to friends, then to local bands for $60 a day.
Ustream, a privately held company, makes money from advertising, production services and some premium content like pay-per-view.
THE MYSTERY OF CHARLES DICKENS By Peter Ackroyd; directed by Patrick Garland; design by Christopher Woods; lighting by Nick Richings; production stage manager, Frank Hartenstein; production supervisor, Tech Production Services; general management, Dodger Management Group.
Now those production lines have moved out of state or overseas, and most Bay Area manufacturers produce small component parts or offer engineering, design and production services.
However the company said it expected a rise for the full year helped by progress in its production services division, PSN.
Vinovation, a Sebastopol, Calif., consulting and production services company that introduced reverse osmosis, disagrees, saying the technique's application is much wider than just emergency use.
