Cain started the Quiet Revolution, a start-up aimed at empowering introverts "for the benefit of us all".
Another start-up aimed at a hands-on crowd is Chumby Industries, makers of the Chumby, a small device that looks like a bulky digital photo frame.
One of the more successful companies so far is Mind Candy, a British online game and entertainment start-up aimed at children, which now has more than 80 million registered users worldwide.
Companies that spend billions of dollars a year developing ways to make many more billions of dollars a year tend to have little to learn from presidential campaigns, which are generally start-ups aimed at a one-day sale.
Secondly, if a start-up aims at bringing a new drug to the market, there is great uncertainty in achieving reimbursement from health insurance organizations.
They include the likes of PayPal, which continues to add more services to widen its own payments net; and a range of banks that are starting up at aiming at the new class of consumers, such as Atom, and more established entities that also want in on the action by investing in them (such as BBVA).
He also ventured away from fundamental science, participating in two start-up companies aimed at translating his discoveries (and the discoveries of others) into therapies.
Scottish & Newcastle, fighting a takeover bid from Carlsberg, started arbitration aimed at forcing Carlsberg to give up its stake in a joint venture the companies share in Russia.
As director, Ms. Berlowitz has been a prodigious fund-raiser and started new initiatives aimed at shoring up the broader intellectual culture, particularly in the beleaguered liberal arts.
In it, she recalled how she had made her company, a start-up Web site aimed at executive mothers, appear to be larger than it actually was.
Six rose up from the crowd and started aiming at him.
