What form of business ownership did troy smith select when he first made the decision to be an entrepreneur?

Troy Smith decided on "sole proprietorship" form of business.  A sole proprietorship is a small business where there's really no legal distinction between the person who is the owner and the business itself.

Troy Smith opened his first drive-in business in Shawnee, Oklahoma in the early 1950s -- a root beer stand called Top Hat.  In 1956 he added a partner (so his business became a "partnership" then.)  Later he added many franchises (expanding the business further), and eventually his company became a publicly traded corporation.  Oh, that corporation and chain of drive-in franchises is now called Sonic, which has been the name of the Smith-founded restaurant chain since 1959.

Troy Smith retired from managing the Sonic Corporation in 1983, and passed away in 2009, at age 87.

The Holy Roman Empire, as an "empire", did not have a territory of its own. It must be understood in the context of feudalism: a number of princes/kings/bishops/whatever were tied, through sworn allegiance, to the elected Emperor. In a way, we can say that the Empire extended exactly as far as these constituent elements extended. On the other hand, the Emperor did not "own" these lands. In the vassal-suzerain relationship, the vassal owes support and a solid does of obedience, but is still the rightful owner of his lands (and in the feudal world, land ownership is merged with the judicial power). The Emperor could own some territories, not because he was Emperor, but through personal inheritance. The imperial crown did not come with a specific dedicated domain. This matters a lot from a strategic point of view: in Medieval times, the size of the army you could muster depended on your resources, i.e. the lands that you owned. The Emperor could, as the ultimate suzerain for all Empire territories, requests his vassals to provide for troops (that's what Frederick I did for the ill-fated Third Crusade), but in order to maintain order within the Empire (i.e. to keep his own vassals under his control), the Emperor had to rely on his own resources.

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