But to grow a business, entrepreneurs eventually have to solicit financing from the venture capitalists who invest on behalf of endowments, pension funds, foundations and the like.
Artists draw the concepts being discussed on wall-size blackboards, and entrepreneurs role-play, pretending to solicit financing from venture capitalists played by actors.
This difference, which is likely to be much in evidence at the Group of 20 meetings in Cannes this weekend, leads to expectations that China is willing and able to help the world out of its economic problems — a perception that flared, then sputtered, after Europe sent envoys to China to solicit financing for the euro zone's bailout and came away empty-handed.
Dr. Piccard has focused primarily on soliciting financing and sponsorships for the $72 million plane.
Sensing an Internet phenomenon, Mr. Huh solicited financing from investors and forked over $10,000 of his own savings to buy the Web site from the two Hawaiian bloggers who started it.
Andr?osman, a former Polaroid employee, and Florian Kaps, a former manager of the Lomographic Society, an online community for film enthusiasts, solicited financing from private donors to buy the film manufacturing equipment from Polaroid.
Mind you, we're not sure yet whether it's perfectly O.K. for campaigns to solicit and finance new primaries.
The agreement allows Transmeridian to solicit higher offers until financing is in place for the transaction, according to the statement.
The legislation would require the secretary of transportation to solicit proposals for the financing, design, construction and operation of a high-speed rail system between the two cities, with the goal of "achieving less than two-hour express service".
Mr. Savisaar, who is popular with Estonia's Russian-speaking minority, was damaged by a report in the newspaper Postimees that he had solicited money to finance the construction of a Russian Orthodox church from Vladimir I. Yakunin, who is the president of Russian Railways and a close ally of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
