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Here
is a list of sponsored profiles and profiles
written for our "Entrepreneurial
Dominion" feature in 2004:
Aegis
Environmental: An
Ounce of Prevention
Some
engineering firms excel at fixing environmental problems
after they’ve occurred. Aegis Environmental prefers to
steer its clients clear of trouble in the first place.
Sponsored
profile, November 19, 2004 special edition
Alpha
Omega Capital Partners: From
Beginning to End
To
entrepreneurs accustomed to operating businesses, selling
one presents special challenges. Alpha Omega Capital
Partners manages the process for them from start to
finish.
Sponsored
profile, November 17, 2004
ADI
Engineering: A
Chip is Just a Chip
Intel's
network processors are inert flakes of silicon until a
company like ADI Engineering breathes life into them.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, November 17, 2004
ZyLAB
North America LLC: High-Flying
Dutchman
Johannes
Scholtes has big plans for ZyLAB's paper management
system. Powerful search-and-retrieval capabilities make
it the tool of choice for spooks, prosecutors and, with
luck, public corporations.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, October 27, 2004
PostPicasso.com.
A
Work in Progress
PostPicasso.com
helps emerging artists market themselves on the Web.
After years of tinkering, the Richmond firm is putting
the finishing touches on its own business model.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, October 20, 2004
Heads
Up Systems. Spreadsheets
on Steroids
Heads
Up Systems feeds on the scraps left by the giant
enterprise software companies -- helping plant managers
make complex operational decisions.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, October 13, 2004
Alpine
Armoring: Selling
Protection
Fred
Khoroushi supplies bullet-proof limos and SUVs to
American contractors and government officials in some of
the most dangerous corners of the planet. Sadly,
business couldn’t be better.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, October 6, 2004
Wyatt
& cO.: The
Mom Who Beat the Mob
Whether
she's defying the Russian mafia or battling to preserve
her beloved Virginia piedmont, Cate Magennis Wyatt is a
force to be reckoned with.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, September 29, 2004
Alpha
Natural Resources: Survivor
Mike
Quillen emerged from a battered coal industry to forge
Alpha Natural Resources, almost overnight, into Virginia's largest coal producer
-- and one of its largest, most profitable companies.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, September 22, 2004
Dreaming
Creek: High Tech, High
Timber
The
timberwrights at Dreaming Creek join computer-aided
design and manufacturing with 2,000-year-old
construction techniques to build some of the best timber
frame houses in the world.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, September 15, 2004
Plateau
Systems: New
Peaks for Plateau
Plateau
Systems didn't interest dotcom-addled
venture capitalists back in 1999. But four years of
solid profitability and triple-digit growth make
the learning management company one of Northern Virginia’s hottest IT performers
today.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, September 8, 2004
310
Marketing: Holding
the Ugly Baby
Debbie Kurtz
launched a business doing what her economic development
clients didn’t want to do: Work
the phones to develop leads. Now her
growing company is providing
turn-key marketing services.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, September 1, 2004
Geeks
on Call, Inc.: Chief
Geek
There's
big business in providing computer repair service to
homes and small businesses. Richard
Cole wants to professionalize the independent
techies who serve that fragmented market.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, August 25, 2004
NanoSonic,
Inc.: Bend
Me, Shape Me, Any
Way you Want Me
NanoSonic
has introduced Metal Rubber, its first nano-tech product
with broad commercial potential. Look for more awesome
materials to come out of the Blacksburg lab.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, August 18, 2004
Tachyon
Networks, Inc.: There
Aren't Any Backhoes in Space
Tachyon
Networks has figured out how to deliver reliable,
high-speed Internet service over satellites. Now it's
targeting companies that need bandwidth in remote
locations or back-up for vulnerable land lines.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, August 11, 2004
Environmental
Solutions, Inc.: Waste
Not, Want Not
Environmental
Solutions, Inc., has built a growing business converting
industrial waste into marketable raw materials. Coming soon: a waste “exchange.”
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, August 4, 2004
First
Avenue Networks: Making
a Fetish of Flexibility
Dean
Johnson has a new telecom business model: Leasing
spectrum to other
companies with new business models. He’s positioned First Avenue
Networks as a winner however the wireless industry shakes out.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, July 28, 2004
InphoMatch:
Catching
the Next Wireless Wave
InphoMatch
has found a niche transferring text messages between
wireless carriers with incompatible
networks. Now it's gearing up to do the same
for photos and streaming video.
Entrepreneurial Dominion, July
21, 2004
Southeastern
Institute of Research: From
Boomers to Zoomers
The
Southeastern Institute of Research, Virginia's
oldest market research firm, is finding new life
as an expert in everything from Baby Boomers to
commuting patterns.
Entrepreneurial Dominion, July 14, 2004
Cypress
Natural Gas: Life's
a Gas
Rick
Gechter has a simple formula for trading natural gas in
a post-Enron world: Stay focused, keep overhead low and
don’t get greedy.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, June 30, 2004
The
Shawmark Group: Polish
and Spit
Turn-around
veteran Jon Stout is looking for down-and-out military
contractors in the
Washington
area that he can polish up and spit back into
the marketplace.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, June 23, 2004
Old
Dominion Security: Asking
More, Giving More.
The
uniformed security business is afflicted by
constant turnover. Rafe Wilkinson at Old Dominion
Security keeps employees motivated by treating
them like professionals and setting higher
expectations.
Sponsored
profile, June 16, 2004
The
Wildlife Center of Virginia: Tripwire
Trailblazer.
The
Wildlife Center of Virginia doesn't just patch up
birds and turtles. it's developing a system to
track wildlife-borne diseases and protect humans
from the threat of bioterrorism.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, June 16, 2004
Ascend
Therapeutics: Thin
Skinned.
Ascend
Therapeutics specializes in delivering
pharmaceuticals through the epidermis. Its TamoGel
product could provide relief to millions of women
who suffer from chronic breast pain.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, June 9, 2004
AdvanceTEC:
Cleaning
Up With Clean Rooms
AdvanceTEC
is thriving in the business of designing
contamination-free work places. Its competitive
advantages: creativity and a willingness to take
risk.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, June 2, 2004
ObjectVideo:
In
the Right Place at the Right Time
ObjectVideo's video-recognition technology took years to develop. But after 9/11, it was just what America needed to protect its vital infrastructure.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, May 26, 2004
Cinea:
Blockbuster
Virginia-based
Cinea develops technology that combats movie
piracy. A system for thwarting camcorder copies
could prove to be a mega-hit.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, May 19, 2004
Lumenos:
Power
to the Patient
Step aside, HMOS. Consumer-driven health care is the Next Big Thing in the medical marketplace -- and
Lumenos, which packages Health Reimbursement Accounts, is perfectly positioned to benefit.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, May 12, 2004
The
Egg Factory:
Sunny
Side Up
The
serial optimists at The Egg Factory are developing
“transformational” products – from video-enabled
floor mats to
an anti-kidnap solution – each with $1 billion or
more in market potential.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, May 5, 2004
Chmura
Economics & Analytics:
Workforce
Wizardry
Chmura
Economics & Analytics has developed a Virginia
labor-market database with extraordinary powers. Subscribers can
conjure sophisticated analysis with a few clicks of a
mouse.
Entrepreneurial Dominion, April 28, 2004
TrafficLand:
Going
with the Flow
Everyone
in metro Washington
hates the traffic
congestion – except Larry Nelson. The CEO of
TrafficLand, Inc., is building a business by delivering
streaming video images of driving conditions on the city’s
highways.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, April 21, 2004
kSero:
kSero
Sera
No,
Susan
Hardwicke doesn’t believe “whatever will be, will
be.” The laser-focused
CEO of kSero expects
her cognitive
development programs
will change the face of early
childhood
education.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, April 14, 2004
iTvRatings.com:
A
Voice for the Voiceless
Amir
Ajizadeh built a website so television viewers can tell
the networks what they think -- and provide an
alternative to the Nielsen ratings.
Entrepreneurial
Dominion, April 7, 2004
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