Cater2.me now has about 80 clients including prominent start-ups like Ngmoco, Yelp and Posterous.
At the same time, Ms. McLaughlin has transformed Richmond into the Bay Area's unlikely leader in solar power production, home to prominent start-ups like SunPrint and SunPower.
Mr. Hoffman, who is a prominent start-up investor at Greylock Partners, said that by breaking the hackers into nine teams working on different ideas, Fwd.us improved the chances that someone would come up with something great.
It was only when a handful of prominent start-ups like Twitter, Zynga and Yelp began preparing for multibillion-dollar initial public offerings in recent months that they began lobbying City Hall for an overhaul of the tax code.
Despite the growing number of prominent start-ups spread across the Continent, many European countries are still divided by cultural and language barriers that make it difficult for small tech firms to quickly expand compared with their American counterparts.
In a more prominent start-up, Nick Valenti, chief executive of the Patina Restaurant Group in Manhattan, installed Jonathan Benno, former executive chef at Per Se, in Lincoln Ristorante at Lincoln Center.
Hampton Creek, a prominent start-up that is trying to bring tech industry panache to the world of mayonnaise, ranch dressing and other food products, has come under scrutiny by regulators for its business practices.
But it seems that a serious problem in a data centre in northern Virginia triggered an outage that affected some of the firms using that centre's infrastructure, including Foursquare, a social-media company, and a number of other prominent start-ups.
Such worries also came up when a former TechCrunch writer, Sarah Lacy, announced that she was beginning a new blog, called PandoDaily, to cover start-ups using money from prominent start-up founders including Peter Thiel of PayPal and Tony Hsieh of Zappos and venture funds including Accel Partners' Seed Fund and SV Angel, a prolific investor in early stage start-ups.
In the battle of the England full-backs, between the self-exiled Nick Abendanon and Alex Goode, the current number two to Mike Brown, Goode was the more prominent, starting the counterattack that put Charlie Hodgson in position for a long drop goal, beautifully struck.
The sale is notable in that it is one of the first prominent start-ups in Warsaw to catch the eye of outside investors.
