Fortune, June 1, 2015

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(1) Dinah Eng, The Sweet Taste of Success. How a family of refugees, led by Andrew Ly, turned Sugar Bowl Bakery 烘培坊 into a dessert powerhouse. (under the heading “Venture: How I got started”)
fortune.com/2015/05/24/andrew-ly-sugar-bowl-bakery/
(Andrew Ly 李基安, 67, who co-founded the bakery with his four brothers * * * The brothers transformed a San Francisco coffee shop into a wholesale operation with annual sales approaching $100 million. Ly’s story: My dad moved from China [潮州] to a village in Vietnam [from the context: south Vietnam]in the 1930s”)

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.

(2) Stacey Higginbotham, Smart Lighting Heats up. Startups selling Internet-connected lightbulbs are rising. Lighting giants like Philips and GE? Reeling.
fortune.com/2015/05/22/philips-ge-osram-smart-light-war/
(“Soraa, a lighting company founded in 2008 by Nobel Prize in physics winner Shuji Nakamura, sells commercial lights to California Pizza Kitchen and Starwood Hotels”)

My comment:
(a) Together with two other Japanese, Shūji NAKAMURA 中村 修二 received Nobel prize for inventing blue LED independently. He is currently a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
(b) About>> Our Story. SORAA, Inc, undated
www.soraa.com/about
(founded in 2008 in Goleta [in Santa Barbara County], California, by Shuji Nakamura, Steven DenBaars, and James Speck; GaN on GaN™ LEDs -- or “built from pure gallium nitride substrates”)
(i) The company Soraa is unexplained. However:

Japanese English dictionary
sora 空【そら】 (n): "sky"
(ii) Its headquarters is in Fremont, California
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont,_California
(named after American explorer John Charles Frémont) [whose French-Canadian father's surname was Frémon)


(3) Nicolas Rapp, It’s No Secret That Americans’ Diets Have Changed Over the Years. But These Data Show Just How Drastically We’ve Altered What We Put in Our Stomachs.
fortune.com/2015/05/21/how-americans-eat/

My comment: Please drag the cursor over each line, and a word will show up to indicate what the line is for.