In 1999, he left to start his own health care insurance agency, the Landers & Creel Southeastern Group, with a partner.

It was reassuring to start that process with a partner.

Mr. Blake, 26, started Yorktown with a partner about two and a half years ago.

But Mr. Miglin started his own company in 1982, with a partner, J. Paul Beitler.

This led at the war's end to his starting a business with a partner that adapted the new detector technology for civilian uses.

The firm was started by Joseph Mappin, in 1810, with a partner, Mr Arundel.

Shortly after they were married in 1999, she began working in her husband's movie equipment rental business, which he had started with a partner in the early 1990's.

After working for six years as a manager in a garment factory, he said, he scraped together the money to start his own factory with a partner.

Eventually he trained himself to be a photographer and got a job taking pictures for a newspaper, which led him to start a magazine with a partner.

After completing his apprenticeship in 1830, he moved to Vincennes and started a newspaper there with a partner.