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- Acacia
Research Corp. (NASDAQ: ACTG) licenses its DMT and V-Chip technologies
to media and electronics companies. The DMT technology covers the transmission
and receipt of digital audio and digital video content, commonly known
as audio-on-demand, video-on-demand, and audio/video streaming, and
is supported by 5 U.S. and 31 foreign patents. ATG is located in Newport
Beach, Calif.
- Catcher Inc.
Founded in 2005, Catcher is a publicly traded company that produces
highly robust mobile computing solutions to help security and operations
professionals survey, assess and communicate efficiently. Since its
inception, its core focus is simple: develop technologies that help
people to respond more quickly and efficiently to critical situations
in harsh environments.
- Classic
Journeys LLC approaches overseas adventure tours with total
enthusiasm for a region's people and culture. Traveling in small groups,
guests can choose from walking and non-walking tours. Their small group
tours in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and around the world
with local guides accomplish private travels. As one of the premier
cultural walking tour operators, Classic Journeys offers guests spontaneity,
flexibility and a sense of personal discovery - minus the logistical
hassles.
- ClearPlay
based in Salt Lake City, it provides family-oriented software filters
for watching movies on genuine,studio-authorized DVDs. ClearPlay-enabled
DVDs skips over or mute materialthat is deemed inappropriate by the
viewer or parent, turning an R-rated movie into PG or PG-13 format.
- CombiMatrix
CombiMatrix Corporation is a biotechnology company headquartered near
Seattle, Washington, USA, with a subsidiary, CombiMatrix Molecular Diagnostics,
headquartered in Irvine, California. The company's CustomArray™ products
are DNA microarrays, which have uses in pharmaceutical, biotech, and
agrochemical industries as well as in research and government markets.
The company also uses its technology in synergistic internal programs
for diagnostics development, drug development, and biodefense in addition
to partnerships for nanomaterials development.
- Corporate Lodging
Consultants is the largest provider of lodging solutions for
non-discretionary business travel in North America. CLC has more than
250 clients and places customers in approximately 30,000 rooms each
night. CLC serves the trucking industry, railroad, airlines, disaster
services, food service and work crews. CLC has the buying power and
experience to reduce cost and make lodging easy for companies and their
employees by negotiating lower rates with more than 14,000 different
hotels. CLC is based in Wichita, Kan.
- Entertainment Properties
Trust (NYSE: EPR) is a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and
is the largest owner of entertainment related real estate in North America,
owning 49 megaplex movie theatre properties and entertainment retail
centers in major metropolitan markets in the United States and Canada.
The portfolio of properties is comprised of 5.7 million square feet
of properties and has $1.1 billion of assets. The company is based in
Kansas City, Mo.
- Freedom Is Not Free(Pro Bono)
Established in 2005, Freedom Is Not Free is a mission driven organization
focusing on aiding wounded troops, their families and the families of the
fatally wounded. Freedom Is Not Free is a non-partisan, non-profit, organization.
All administrative expenses are paid for by members of the Patriot Advisory Board
ensuring that 100% of donations go to support programs and grants. Freedom Is Not
Free receives no federal, state or government funding.All funds are allocated by
"those who have been there," active duty and veteran Purple Heart recipients and
their survivors (Purple Heart Board).
- Hair Club for
Men & Women Made famous by founder Sy Sperling's trademark phrase,
"I'm not just the president, I'm also a client," Hair Club has more
than 30 years experience and over 90 locations nationwide. Its staff
of hair replacement consultants, physicians, and world-class stylists,
offer more solutions, more answers and more possibilities. As the world's
leading provider of all proven hair loss solutions, it uses its extensive
experience to find the right solution for each person.
- Imperium
Renewables is one of the nation's leading commercial biodiesel
refiners, bioneering locally grown fuel and technology for cleaner air
and energy independence. We are the first company in the Pacific Northwest
to open and operate a commercial-scale biodiesel refinery producing
fuel that meets or exceeds ASTM D-6751 specifications.
- LEI Financial
Lyons Enterprises, Inc. (LEI) is a financial and real estate company that encompasses
five distinct divisions: LEI Financial, LEI Financial Services, LEI Commercial, Lyons
Realty and LEI Mexico. The LEI Financial corporate headquarters are situated in San Diego,
California, with a satellite office in Tempe, Arizona.
- Life+Gear
Life+Gear is a new consumer brand predicated upon providing families
and individuals with optimal emergency and disaster preparedness products
specifically designed to provide practical and effective survival solutions.
Life+Gear has beencombined with quality synergistic products pulled
from worldwide emergency and disaster preparedness agencies to create
today's most comprehensive collection of safety oriented products available.
The evolution of the "Life+Gear" concept was greatly accelerated by
the Southeast Asian tsunami disaster of 2004 as well as Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita and the 7.2 earthquake in Pakistan in 2005.
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Neumont University
is a small private university based in Salt Lake City, UT
that educates the most sought after software developers in the country.
The only degrees students in the school can get are in computer science.
The school was founded in 2002 by entrepreneurs as a solution to the
growing demand for computer scientists in the U.S. What makes Neumont
different is that the curriculum and instruction is project-based,
aimed at giving students the specific skills and abilities that Information
Technology employers have told Neumont theyre looking for. The
results of this approach speak for themselves: Neumonts graduates
have an average starting salary of $60,000higher than the national
average for other computer science programs in the country. And Neumont
students average more than two job offers apiece by the time they
graduate.
- Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Inc
Headquartered in Tustin, California, Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: PPHM) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on
the research, development and commercialization of novel therapeutics for cancer and a
wide range of viral diseases. Founded in 1981 as the Techniclone Corporation and changed
its name to Peregrine Pharmaceuticals in 2000, the company went public in 1995 and is
traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- Project Insight
Project Insight is the leading web based project management software
for the mid-market. Their mission is to bring project teams and management
teams together in a collaborative space and to provide solutions that
help organizations operate more efficiently and productively. Project
Insight is dedicated to developing and providing web-based project management
software and services according to the highest standards in the industry.
They follow the Project Management Institute's (PMI) standards and our
software is PMBOK compliant (Project Management Book of Knowledge).
Their customers include Cisco, American Honda, Merrill Lynch, NASA,
Target and Tempur-Pedic.
- Russell
Stover Candies - In 1923, Mr. & Mrs. Russell Stover began
a candy business in their bungalow home in Denver. The company has grown
into the largest producer of fine boxed chocolates in the United States
with more than 50 company-owned retail shops and more than 40,000 wholesale
accounts throughout the 50 states, Canada and Puerto Rico. Russell Stover
has its headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.
- San Diego
Space Museum Developed in the south end of Balboa Park for The
California Pacific International Exposition of 1935-36, the Ford Motor
Company,invested $2.8 million to build a hall for the Transportation
Exhibition to showcase the 1935 line of Ford cars and products, and
other forms of transportation. After the 1936 exposition, Ford donated
the building to the City of San Diego. In 1973 it was designated as
the future home of the San Diego Air & Space Museum. It covers five
centuries of aviation history, demonstrating the remarkable progress
of manned flight with more than 60 aircraft and space vehicles on display.
- Steve Gray Ministries Inc.
From a tiny cornfield town to the international stage, Pastors Steve and Kathy Gray
have been bringing their message and ministry to audiences across the country and
around the world for 25 years. Their newest venture, the Steve & Kathy Show, blends
humor with a serious message about how ordinary people can get closer to God.
- SupplyFrame
Founded in 2003, the company's product, also called SupplyFrame, is an electronic
component search engine that gives buyers and engineers the most current available
facts and purchasing information about millions of electronic components in real-time.
SupplyFrame offers exclusive up-to-date pricing, availability, sources, compliance
information, trends, and electronic component cross reference data. SupplyFrame is the
only search engine of its kind created for the electronic parts industry and, for that
matter, with a specific industry target.
- Susan Swartz
Susan Swartz is a newspaper columnist, author, public radio commentator
and long-time journalist living in San Francisco. She has columns in
both the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and the New York Times News Service.
Swartz's second book, The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living after
50, describes the model of the new fifty-plus woman as a Juicy Tomato,
one who is ready to make the second half of life as meaningful as the
first.
- T Bones
The minor league baseball team in Kansas City, KS. Originally the Duluth-Superior Dukes,
they were moved to Kansas City in 2002 and renamed by the fans. They have had solid success
in their past seasons and are currently preparing for their fifth season played at
CommunityAmerica Ballpark.
- Three Dog
Bakery is a specialty manufacturer of fresh-baked treats and
food for dogs. Three Dog has company-owned and franchised bakeries in
the United States, Japan and South Korea. It also sells its products
in various retail outlets throughout the United States. Three Dog is
based in Kansas City, Mo.
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