Top entrepreneurs say it's just luck ... and hard work.Luck, long hours and a willingness to take risks are some of the qualities often mentioned by entrepreneurs who have built their own businesses from scratch. This year, several finalists for Los Angeles-area Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards were nominated with their fellow founders. Jonathan Carson and Eric Kurtzman, two lawyers who ditched the law profession to create Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a technology start-up catering to attorneys, were nominated jointly for the award. Chuck Champion, president of pari-mutuel horse racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with web site Youbet.com, is paired with the firm's chief executive David Marshall David Marshall may refer to:
A handful of other finalists were nominated without their co-founders including Steven Foster, co-founder of Hollywood-based Lucky Strike Entertainment Inc.; Brian P.Y. Liu, cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found and chief executive of Ls Angeles-based LegalZoom.com; and Mehran Nia, co-founder and chief executive of Carson-based U.S. Auto Parts Auto parts are components of automobiles. They mainly are, in alphabetic order (only car specific articles or articles with car section):
Several finalists are serial entrepreneurs including C. Bryce Benjamin, who founded Language Weaver, a translation software firm in Marina del Rey; Stuart Levy, founder and chief executive of Los Angeles-based Tokyopop, a marketer of Japanese anime; David Lord, chief executive of Beverly Hills-based RazorGator Interactive Group, a provider of tickets for sports and entertainment events; Isaac Shepher, founder of Encino-based medical response company Life Alert Emergency Response Inc. (which coined the phrase "I've fallen and I can't get up"); and Mark Theis, president of Westlake Village-based mortgage lender HMS HMS abbr. Her (or His) Majesty's Ship HMS (Brit) abbr (= His (or Her) Majesty's Ship) → Namensteil von Schiffen der Kriegsmarine Capital. |
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