In the three years since, the New Market has achieved dazzling success, listing more than 200 companies, most of them new enterprises based on innovative technology or new business concepts.
But the successes listed by General Miller were tempered by the release this week of figures showing that the guerrilla insurgency in Iraq appears to be reaching a new level of intensity, raising questions about the value of the intelligence.
For one thing, among all of the successes listed on the White House SOTU website, only one the Affordable Care Act can be counted as a true legislative accomplishment, and to say that it has not been popular would be a laughable understatement.
It is somehow not easy to construct a success list.
Top of their success list is App Gear, a range of games which use augmented reality to create stunning interactive levels out of real places.
The Evening Standard looked at why Bond was a success and listed "the things that make Bond attractive: the sex, the sadism, the vulgarity of money for its own sake, the cult of power, the lack of standards".
The relationships between clinical factors and anatomical successes are listed in Table 3.
Instead, Tim listed success after success at AOL, said of course the turnaround was taking a long time, chided the press for focusing only on bad news, and then basically upbraided Wall Street for not giving AOL an appropriately high valuation.
Back in the UK, Serbian brothers Igor and Milenko Pilic are using the help of Sirius - which is run by UK Trade & Investment - to launch their website Hey Success, which lists global opportunities for students, such as scholarships, events, grants and competitions.
The details of what will count as "success" will be listed in the small print and specific metrics will be included when the rules are published in the autumn after the winning challenge is announced.
