Sentences with phrase «as founder of a company»

And I was part of the problem: As the founder of the company, I hardly ever took vacation - so employees felt like they shouldn't take time off either.

The link building campaign, SEO expertise, marketing and promotion services are excellent.On a personal note, as founder of my company, I wished I has known about such a service when we first started in 2008.

As the founder of a company that specializes in providing book marketing technologies for authors, I found this section to be especially enlightening.

As the founder of a company, you might think you know what's best, but being open to feedback from employees, a trusted mentor, and clients may help your business» success.

As the founder of a company that helps small business owners manage and improve business credit, he knew it wouldn't do any good to just get angry and cut up the card.

As founder of a company that helps organizations, including the federal government, provide their information in accessible formats, I believe this move offers more than just universal access.

As the founder of a company who curates and finds the best new products on the web, what would be some of Ryan's top three «hunts» that he currently uses or finds the most interesting?

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The course helps founders think of their companies as a series of experiments aimed at locating the sweet spot where enabling technology meets a receptive market.

Vice President Joseph Biden gave a shout - out to health care startup Theranos and its founder on Thursday, as he toured the company's Newark, California, facility and then made some brief remarks before an audience of about 150 Theranos employees and press.

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

«The gig economy is typified by irregularity, meaning there is no job security and instead of having a boss who trains you and helps you improve, your performance is rated on a scale of 1 - 5 stars by strangers who have no understanding of your growth as a professional,» explains Scot Wingo, founder and CEO of Spiffy, a modern on - demand company.

On Dec. 10, the company hired Laurent Potdevin as her successor and said Lululemon founder Chip Wilson would step aside as chairman of the board but remain a director of the company.

As the founder of The Eurich Group, she helps companies from start - ups to the Fortune 100 succeed by improving their leaders» and teams» effectiveness.

Lockheed Martin is one of several legacy companies working to be a part of future Mars missions, while SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk are pushing to begin colonizing Marsas early as 2022.

As angel investor and tech - company founder Tim Berry wrote on Entrepreneur, «You can probably cover everything you need to convey in 20 to 30 pages of text plus another 10 pages of appendices for monthly projections, management resumes and other details.

As part of the CEO Project, a boot camp for entrepreneurs, Schleckser advises CEOs and company founders on the most important areas of their business to focus on.

-- Nick Alt, founder and CEO of VNYL, a subscription company that launched as a successful Kickstarter project and, with its three - year growth, now curates 500,000 new vinyl records annually to its members

Rob Ferguson has resigned as chairman of litigation funder IMF Bentham after failing in a push for the company's three executive directors, including founder Hugh McLernon, to retire from the board.

For those not familiar with the show, it's important to know in the beginning of season 3, the awkward yet assertive founder, Richard Hendrix, is replaced as CEO of his own company by Jack Barker.

Holacracy founder Robertson said he was disappointed with the way some media outlets characterized 14 % of the company leaving as a sign of failure.

As the founder or owner of your company, you should extrapolate your values by running through a number of hypothetical scenarios.

-- Dr. Walter S. Scott, founder, executive vice president, and CTO of satellite imagery company DigitalGlobe, which provides images and geospatial content to U.S. government defense and intelligence agencies, international governments, and major online mapping platforms such as Google.

Besides figuring out whether a family member can take over the company's operations, succession advisors say clans must also come up with a consensus about a transfer of ownership, as well as implement a plan that allows the founder to extract their equity from the firm.

And, of course, then as the founder of the hugely successful personal finance software company Intuit.

«I still feel like I'm behind enemy lines» as a founder turned investor, Busque said, «So I'll say this: I've learned that there are thousands of reasons why an investor won't invest in your company that have nothing to do with you.»

For example, the late Apple founder, Steve Jobs, served as a mentor to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg during the early years of the company.

My wardrobe reflects where I've been — as founder of three companies and part of the startup community for the past eight years.

In a New Yorker report, Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, calls on companies to reassess their values: «This includes rejecting the cult of the top performer, which tolerates otherwise unacceptable behavior, and instead building a culture that functions as the company's immune system: surfacing cases of abuse and identifying toxic elements as fast as possible, and then quickly rejecting them.»

Idan Cohen writes: As the founder of two hardware companies, I agree that building hardware is hard.

Jacob Brody, founder of Benny, says he chose the name because he wants his company to be seen as a trustworthy helper, not a faceless corporation.

I can only speak for myself as a CEO and founder of this company, but I think the rest of my team would probably say the same thing.

«My goal has always been to give everyone at Sharethrough as much information, context and room to care as much as I do as a founder,» says Dan Greenberg, CEO of Sharethrough, an ad - tech company that creates software for publishers and brands and is considered a trailblazer in the native - advertising movement.

Benchmark's lawsuit is a transparent attempt to deprive Travis Kalanick of his rights as a founder and shareholder and to silence his voice regarding the management of the company he helped create.

Larry Kim: As the founder of pay - per - click management - software - company WordStream, Kim's Twitter account is a great source of PPC information, naturally, but he also tweets a lot about social media and content marketing.

Nathan Gilliland was the founder of Boston - based biomass energy company Harvest Power and more recently served as an entrepreneur - in - residence with Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of the world's largest venture capital firms.

And as founder and CEO of Deliciously Sorted, a luxury Ibiza concierge company, it's Serena Cook's job to ensure that every detail is perfect during their stay.

As an industry veteran and founder of TriZetto, which Cognizant bought last fall for $ 2.7 billion, I am often asked how to spot a successful company.

Through the work I've done at Growth Everywhere, I've been lucky enough to chat with notable entrepreneurs such as Jason Lemkin (founder of Echosign, which sold to Adobe), Mark Organ (co-founder of Eloqua, which sold to Oracle) and others who are constantly pushing the boundaries of business success with their own companies.

Shortly after setting up the company, the founders moved SoundCloud to Berlin, which was developing a reputation as one of the most startup - friendly cities in Europe at the time, partly due to its cheap accommodation and its abundance of talented programmers.

There are a lot of ways that one can describe Martha Stewart — cook, television personality, editor - in - chief and more — but most of us probably don't think of her as the founder of a massively successful company.

In contrast, before the company founders of the»80s started their businesses, they were generally involved with activities removed from their companies - to - be — Anita Roddick owned a small hotel in Littlehampton, England, and was raising two young daughters; Yvon Chouinard saw mountain climbing as a calling.

«This will come as an additional shock to Toshiba «s institutional investors that may further undermine confidence in company management, as well as significantly weakening its international nuclear credentials,» said Tom O'Sullivan, founder of energy consultancy Mathyos Japan.

John McAfee, founder of a leading anti-virus software company that still bears his name, went off the compound — literally — causing a maelstrom of bad press as he eluded police.

«When I was starting the business, I never looked at HR as a revenue - generating department,» says Jay Klein, founder of the aspartame - free gum maker the Pur Company.

«Banks are still a dominant hiring force for MBAs and continue to attract top talent, but working for larger, established companies off of Wall Street is becoming more attractive to MBAs as they offer a different type of lifestyle,» Scott Rostan, founder and CEO of Training The Street, a company that offers technical training to financial firms and business schools, said in a statement.

The Southern chain will retain the mark of its founder's personal beliefs as Dan Cathy continues to head the company.

Musk, 46, has built up a showman's reputation as the founder and chief executive officer of Tesla (tsla), calling on true believers to help him overcome the «haters» who question his company's ability to usher in an electric - vehicle age on an ambitious timetable.

«Having the social goal as No. 1 is inadequate and won't make you successful,» said Robin Chase, the founder and former CEO of car - rental company Zipcar and the founder of peer - to - peer car rental company Buzzcar.

It used to be that entrepreneurs were strictly thought of as company founders.

-- Scott Scherr, CEO and founder of Ultimate Software, an HR tech platform on track to hit $ 1 billion in annual revenue this year and used by companies such as Subway, First Horizon, MLB, the Phoenix Suns, Yamaha, and Nikon