Sitting behind the computer monitor on Phil Beauregard’s cluttered desk at a startup called Objective Logistics is a hardcover book published in 2011: the authorized biography of Steve Jobs.

Jobs managed to pull off something that is rarer in the business world than a no-hitter is in baseball. For about a decade after his return to Apple in 1997, Jobs ran two successful public companies, Apple and Pixar, simultaneously.

Beauregard is attempting a similar feat. He’s one of a very small number of Boston entrepreneurs who have started and raised investor money for two companies in tandem. It’s such a complicated act that people like Beauregard don’t like to get too specific about how much time they spend on each company. “I’m there when they need me,” he says of Company #2, Rekindle, “and they really don’t need me that much anymore.” Read more in my latest Innovation Economy column in the Sunday Globe.

From: http://betaboston.com/