But it was certainly a blessing when it led her to start up Poppy Industries, an Australian cosmetics and lingerie company.
Boston's venture capital and start-up industries, once fueled by the minicomputer boom, have been shrinking in recent years.
Knight, who spent 30 years in the TV, music, venture capital and hi-tech start-up industries, was accepted by a well-known French school, which then changed its mind and asked if he wouldn't mind taking their executive MBA instead, where he "would fit in better with the profile".
FinchFactor is the leading reputation management company for brands and agencies working within the creative, tech innovation and start-up industries, globally.
"If there were ever a justification in 1992 or earlier for a start-up industry," he said recently, "that has long been overcome".
Friday will be the start of the annual South by Southwest festival, a week of presentations, meet-ups, parties, barbecues and hallway talks about the ever-evolving start-up industry and the technology world.
"I started looking at activism as a potential start-up industry," he says.In classic Silicon Valley fashion, the firm takes its name from a plot device in "Star Wars".
India's start-up industry, which has historically shunned government oversight, and thrived without it, is now asking the government for support, in the form of a national policy on entrepreneurs.
Almost every member of Myspace's founding team has begun a new venture, and several are among the leaders of Los Angeles's blossoming start-up industry, now known as Silicon Beach.
Despite big banks now trying to catch up by providing entrepreneurs with incubator facilities and capital, this is pretty much still a start-up industry with high risks but even bigger potential.
DealBook » From the Ashes of Myspace, Start-Ups Rise | "Almost every member of Myspace's founding team has begun a new venture, and several are among the leaders of Los Angeles's blossoming start-up industry, now known as Silicon Beach," The New York Times writes.
