I first heard Brandan's story when he shared it on a Sunday morning with the congregation I founded, One Church in Chandler, Arizona.
Vincent G. Chin, who founded one of the world's largest reggae record labels, died on Feb. 2 at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
It also opens a window on the Woolworth Building and its developer, Frank W. Woolworth, who founded one of America's great retail empires, the F. W. Woolworth Company.
"I'd already set up and founded one business.
A software writer, Mr. McDowell founded one company in high school and sold it.
He had founded one of the first Negro banks in Chicago.
With foresight and tenacity she founded one of New York's best job training programs.
She is the widow of Theodore Newhouse, one of three brothers who founded one of the nation's biggest communications conglomerates.
He was a self-made businessman and entrepreneur who founded one of the pre-eminent jewelry manufacturing companies in New York City.
Her father, Conrad Schlumberger, was a brilliant physicist who founded one of the world's most successful corporations, Schlumberger, Ltd.
