Sentences with phrase «as a startup executive»

As a startup executive with an engineering background, I know firsthand what it's like to have holes in my knowledge base.

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An angel investor in roughly 75 startups, including Square and Pinterest, Lanman previously founded recommendation app Livestar and spent nine years as a corporate strategy executive at Microsoft.

What really matters is that startup executives grow beyond their backgrounds to embrace their roles as educational leaders.

Most founders use their time in Santiago as a sabbatical, during which they learn the startup ropes from previous participants who have stayed put in Chile — 132 graduates so far, according to Start - Up Chile's executive director, Sebastian Vidal.

In the decade since Skype launched in Tallinn, the company has spawned legions of startups, venture capitalists, and executives known locally as the «Skype mafia,» offering emigrants (digital or otherwise) a built - in set of co-founders, funders, and partners.

He credits his former boss at Mozilla for developing him as an executive and his old startup buddies for bringing him there.

This year's high - growth entrepreneurship working group counts Scott Case, chief executive of Startup America, among its advisors and will cover topics such as crowdfunding, entrepreneurial ecosystems and universities.

As the proprietor of a so - called two - sided marketplace, Travis Kalanick, who resigned Tuesday night as chief executive of the $ 70 billion ride - hailing startup, spent years carefully balancing the interests of drivers against those of passengerAs the proprietor of a so - called two - sided marketplace, Travis Kalanick, who resigned Tuesday night as chief executive of the $ 70 billion ride - hailing startup, spent years carefully balancing the interests of drivers against those of passengeras chief executive of the $ 70 billion ride - hailing startup, spent years carefully balancing the interests of drivers against those of passengers.

Uber has technically been without a CFO since Brent Callinicos left in 2015, but the company is especially reeling after its top finance executive, Gautam Gupta, left his role as head of finance to join a startup.

At the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, Stewart Thornhill, who also serves as the executive director of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, says that while an MBA is by no means necessary to startup success, it can be helpful.

From video resumes to business development pitches, job seekers are expected to distinguish themselves from the outset because startups usually do not have HR managers to serve as buffers before top candidates meet the busy executives they will be working for.

As more new drugs are bred in little biotechs, executives at giant firms are decamping to startups.

The hire is another coup for Coinbase, which has rapidly been building out its executive team as the more than 5 - year - old startup, now worth over $ 1 billion, attempts to fortify its reputation as one of few professional financial institutions catering to Bitcoin investors.

In her two and a half years as Yahoo's chief executive, Marissa Mayer has acquired more than 40 startups.

And while I spent the next decade as a senior executive in a number of successful companies, big and small, my only stint as a startup CEO ended in bankruptcy when the dot - com bubble burst.

In theory, nothing is stopping big companies from taking the same strategy approach as startups do, as I teach in my seminar «Three Ways to Get Back Your Company's Start - upness» at Babson College's Executive Education Center.

Last year, Yu made our startup Executive Dream Team as its CFO.

The fund comes during a tumultuous year for the venture capital and tech industries as they deal with sexism scandals that have resulted in the ouster of notable investors and executives at firms like Ignition Partners and startups like Uber and SoFi.

Just when it looked like Dara Khosrowshahi's tenure as CEO of Uber was coming into focus, the genial executive has muddied the water by buying, of all things, a bike - sharing startup called Jump.

A onetime tech startup founder, he is part of a small group of senior Latino executives at Goldman; just 3.5 % of the firm's senior officials and managers identify as Hispanic or Latino.

Another early morning in Vancouver, BC and a meeting starts with a full house of equity crowdfunding industry participants including entrepreneurs, lawyers, investors, securities regulators, government, tech and finance executives who want to make sure this city keeps its crown as the entrepreneur and tech startup capital of Canada.

Fran Hauser is a long - time media executive, startup investor and author of The Myth of the Nice Girl.Best known for her role building PEOPLE.com — one of the biggest media brands online — Hauser made the leap to early stage investing in 2014, funding and advising consumer - focused companies such as HelloGiggles, Mogul, The Wing and Gem & Bolt.

C100 Charter Members include some of the most successful Canadians working in some of the most important tech companies in the Silicon Valley, include startups CEOs, top executives of companies such as Apple, Cisco, EA, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and venture investors representing more than $ 8 billion in capital.

India and US - based early stage investment firm India Internet Fund (IIF), which was earlier known as India Internet Group, plans to invest $ 50,000 - 200,000 (Rs 30 lakh to Rs 1.2 crore) in up to 10 mobile technology startups in 2015, a top executive of the firm told Techcircle.in.

Most startups do not have a «true» VP of sales at the seed stage and often are willing to hire someone more junior into a sales role, rather than hire an executive as they may with a CTO or CEO.

The deal is the largest - ever purchase of a U.S. e-commerce startup and a sign Wal - Mart Chief Executive Doug McMillon sees the shift to online shopping and the expansion of Amazon.com Inc. as existential threats to the company's five decades of growth.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

One recent New York Times homage to the phenomenon compared dropping out to «lighting out for the territories to strike gold,» with one young executive describing it as «almost a badge of honor» among startup entrepreneurs.

Dollar Shave Chief Executive Officer and lead pitchman Michael Dubin calls them «butt - wipes,» underscoring the startup's ethos that consumer goods aren't as fancy or expensive as giant companies such as Procter & Gamble and Unilever would have shoppers believe.

The snappily dressed former Facebook executive, who co-founded Social Capital in 2011, made early bets on Bitcoin, started a hedge fund, and raised $ 600 million to help startups go public through an unconventional vehicle known as a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company.

A former top executive behind China's biggest acquisition of an overseas carmaker is setting out to make history twice, raising $ 1 billion in an initial fundraising round as the latest homegrown electric vehicle startup to challenge Tesla Motors Inc..

After working with RISE and other startup community projects, a mentor suggested I extend that purpose as Executive Director of CTAN, and here I am.

Talad Invoice, a lending platform initiated by a fintech startup, is expected to grow at an exponential rate this year, following two years of peer - to - peer lending using invoices as loans collateral, said Watewiboon Pumipue, chief executive officer of D90 Capital Co, which operates the financial platform.

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Coon has served as a co-founder, executive management, and strategic partner for numerous healthcare and biotech startup companies, including roles as President of RxGen, President and CEO of BCS, Inc., President and CEO of HepatoTech, Inc., Executive Vice-President of CellzDirect (acquired by Invitrogen - Life Technologies), and the Senior Director of Business Development for RTI Interexecutive management, and strategic partner for numerous healthcare and biotech startup companies, including roles as President of RxGen, President and CEO of BCS, Inc., President and CEO of HepatoTech, Inc., Executive Vice-President of CellzDirect (acquired by Invitrogen - Life Technologies), and the Senior Director of Business Development for RTI InterExecutive Vice-President of CellzDirect (acquired by Invitrogen - Life Technologies), and the Senior Director of Business Development for RTI International.

For Singaporean startups like ViSenze, an AI - powered visual search engine used by the likes of Uniqlo and e-commerce platforms such as Myntra in India and Rakuten in Japan, having executives with a powerful passport represents a subtle but meaningful competitive advantage — especially when the company grew its international footprint by opening new offices in San Francisco, London, New Delhi and Beijing.

Zornosa served as CMO at Knight Ridder Digital, as a founding executive at two startups and helped a third complete a successful IPO.

Tinder has hired one of EBay's top officials as chief executive after a five - month search to replace embattled founding CEO Sean Rad, the West Hollywood, Calif., startup announced Friday.

Polskin, who served as an executive VP at the Magazine Publishers of America, met with a media startup called Byliner that publishes feature article and works of short fiction as e-books, often referred to as e-book singles or e-singles.

Shelfie's executives in Canada talk about the startup scene in book publishing — and conclude it's not as hot as it used to be.

Long time BlackBerry executive, Andrew Bocking (Photo Right), was head of the BBM division as BlackBerry broke it out into its own sort of startup.

Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center along the way.

Neil Gross, executive director of investor rights group FAIR Canada, says for the most part Canadian consumers are too complacent in terms of tolerating fees from companies such as banks, rather than switching to lower - cost options such as credit unions or some of the emerging financial technology startups.

3) I believe you're currently working as an executive in the tech startup world; how has that affected your travel lifestyle?

Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell launched a new virtual reality startup with Jason Crawford called Modal VR, with Crawford acting as chief executive.

While he works closely with the Rift team, he's also keenly aware of VR's evolution over the last five years as he's part of a small group of Oculus executives who helped create an enormous rush of interest in VR when they sold their startup to Facebook in 2014 for roughly $ 3 billion.

Marc has served as a poverty lawyer, taught in and directed the clinical program at Harvard Law School, has done path - breaking work on document automation and artificial intelligence, and been an executive in several startups.

Greg Osberg, the long - time Newsweek executive who later headed up mobile video startup Buzzwire, has been hired as CEO of the Philadelphia I...

As program manager she represents NMA in Germany and abroad spreading the program's benefits for European and Israeli startups, scouting potential applicants for the program and mingling with media executives and investors.

CrowdStar, the fast - growing social game startup behind Happy Aquarium, has hired Niren Hiro, an executive at mobile ad network AdMob as its...