Word: cooperating
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...assembled its first CEO round table at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago in May. Participants included nine business owners from the Chicago area representing a cross section of industries: Len Batterson, a founder of AOL and now chairman and CEO of Vcapital.com an online venture-capital marketplace; Paul Cooper, CEO of Perceptual Robotics, a maker of video software for the Web; Andrew Cory, president of Cory & Associates, an insurance brokerage and employee-leasing firm; Keith Hasty, president and CEO of Best Foam Fabricators, a family-owned manufacturer of foam for the auto industry; Leticia Herrera...
...Cooper: Sometimes, but it also supports us as well. My company wouldn't be here today if I didn't get grants from an SBA [Small Business Administration] program called the Small Business Innovation Research program. It helped me pay for R. and D. to build a prototype. I can certainly tell you from personal experience that a little bit of money can make a huge difference early in a company's history. And similarly, we had some leverage in an investment round from a State of Illinois venture-capital fund. These programs are invaluable...
...Cooper: Well, as the technology guy at the table, I have to say I'm feeling darn great. Technology is playing a huge role in the future of the country, and it looks like it's just a major engine...
...plantation at the head of a cavalry troop. Insouciantly, even rather jauntily, he orders all the Americans--most of them wounded--to be shot, the plantation fired, and for good measure, he marches Gabriel (by this time a dispatch rider for the valiant Colonel Harry Burwell, played by Chris Cooper) off to be hanged. When one of Martin's other sons tries to rescue his brother, he is coldly murdered...
...fundamental intellectual curiosity," says Joshua Cooper Ramo, who wrote Time's 1997 Man of the Year article on Grove. "When there are problems to be solved--whether it is scientific, like how to make a better semiconductor, or business-related, like how to build a business from scratch or where to build a multi-million dollar plant, he will solve them...