In real life, Mr. Trump is a considerably less successful businessman, judging by his one publicly traded enterprise.
Mr. Horowitz speaks from experience: A decade ago, he went through a pivot of Loudcloud, a publicly traded enterprise services firm that he founded with Marc Andreessen, into Opsware, a networking software company.
When, in 1994, Hollinger went public, Black retained voting control, and so he never worried much about outside investors, behaving more like a feudal lord than like the C.E.O. of a publicly traded enterprise.
It could become a venture like Wikipedia, run by a nonprofit that depends on donations, or a business like The New York Times Company, a publicly traded enterprise controlled by a family that has a preference for journalistic ambition.
She abandoned some of his trading enterprises but developed small industries in Portugal and new crops in Brazil.
His rapport with the Indians was helped by his early mastery of their customs and languages, and he quickly expanded his trading enterprises throughout the adjacent Ohio Territory.
Croghan espoused the patriot cause during the American Revolution; although his land speculation schemes and trading enterprises left his name on many 18th-century maps, he died impoverished.
By the end of the 7th century the Ionian cities had achieved great prosperity through their trading enterprises, their colonization efforts, and their manufacture of ceramics, textiles, and metalware.
During his youth, study was difficult because he had to support his mother and brothers, but at 19 he began an extraordinary career that alternated learned publication with colonization and trade enterprises.
