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The list is intended to give U.S. venture capitalists , entrepreneurs , and other business leaders a heads-up on companies that are stepping into the commercial spotlight . Other distinguished 2005 Hall of Fellows inductees include Paul Baran , researcher and entrepreneur , for his fundamental contributions to the architecture of the Internet ; Alan Shugart , engineer , manager and entrepreneur , for his lifelong contributions to the creation of the modern disk drive industry ; and Ivan Sutherland , researcher , professor and entrepreneur , for the Sketchpad computer-aided design system and his lifelong contributions to computer graphics and education . The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce , with over 1,300 members ranging from multi-national conglomerates to individual entrepreneurs , represents a diverse business community . BEDC provides small businesses , entrepreneurs , small developers , and community organizations with a range of location-related information through Destination Brooklyn , a Web-based interactive map of Brooklyn that helps organizations and individuals conduct preliminary research about where to locate or build in the city . A company or entrepreneur , foreign or domestic , seeking to establish a new venture or expand an existing enterprise can approach IFC directly . This knowledge that you have imparted upon us , does this come from personal experience of having been an entrepreneur , mortgaged your home , started a business ? " Absolutely and unequivocally , I did not kill Ted Binion , " he testified.Tabish , now 39 , has been in prison since the first trial when he was also convicted of assaulting and extorting money from business partner Leo Casey.Tabish did not testify in that trial , and Murphy has indicated she wo n't take the stand this time around.After chronicling his rise from college dropout to entrepreneur , Tabish recalled how , at a urinal in the restaurant Piero 's , Binion struck up a conversation with him that was followed by an awkward salutation . If we saddle employers with excessive burdens of economic and personal risk , if we direct the Nation 's savings to excessively high levels of government consumption , if we fail to provide opportunities for coming generations of entrepreneurs , then our economic leadership is clearly at risk . That is , the ends to which they are directed are typically the freedom and economic success of individual developers and entrepreneurs , and the easy movement of automobiles ; yet while the former ends are in an immediate sense both good and necessary to the common good of any town or city , and the latter end a desirable convenience , neither can ultimately in and of itself form the basis of any community that defines itself with reference to the good life understood as the life of moral and intellectual virtue . It was not , of course , until the heroic days of the American renaissance , at the turn of the century , that the spirit of L'Enfant and our founding fathers was recaptured by that great architect and entrepreneur , Daniel Burnham .