Sentences with phrase «as with founders»

As with founders, once they are owners they will do what it takes to keep the company alive.

Not exact matches

In keeping with what has been a familiar theme for the founder at Glenview Capital Management, Robbins picked Express Scripts - Cigna, CVS - Aetna and McKesson as his winners in the field.

She said «most of the founders we work with look at YC as the gold standard,» and that distancing the fund from YC could «hinder our chances of raising successor funds.»

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

As Vijay Chittoor, a marketing thought leader and the founder and CEO of Blueshift wrote:» «Marketing Automation 1.0» was all about reacting to simple «events» in a user's journey with a brand, with simple rules set up by marketers.

The founders also identified their ideal customers as people with homes for sale who would be trading up to larger houses.

The founder of Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker, shared with «Managing Asia» in 2016 the leadership qualities that helped him champion China's rise as an economic powerhouse.

«I have learned, as an entrepreneur, the most important skill you have to have is you have to be an optimist and pessimist at the same time,» said Stephanie Tilenius, former Google VP and founder of Vida, an app that pairs you with 24/7 access to a health coach.

I was completely taken with her as a founder.

-- 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

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.

In a conversation with Term Sheet, Barna talks about her transition from operator to investor, her biggest mistakes as a founder, and whether she plans to start another company.

One early - stage startup founder who asked not to be identified told Business Insider that this sentiment resonated with him as well.

As she expands her furniture company, RockPaperRobot founder Jessica Banks walks us through her big decisions: where to manufacture, whom to partner with and what materials to use.

Investors will be slower to back high - risk organizations that may not perform as expected in the market, and founders need to align their strategies with this shifting landscape.

As writer Jeff Bercovici describes him in «Gim me Some Slack,» CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield is a serial founder, a guy with entrepreneurship in his bones.

As the founder, you're most likely to have connections with people who've developed deep and robust professional networks.

The Gawker founder has reportedly had talks in the past with billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban as well as eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, who already funds his own independent media entity, First Look Media.

They're much more interested in speaking with a founder than a PR firm, because they want to hear your story just as much as they want to hear about your actual startup.

As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

While walking in with lots of questions for those on the sales floor is totally acceptable, customers who don't realize it's the busiest shopping day of the year may feel let down when it's impossible for you to spend as much time catering to their requests, says Mike Wittenstein, founder of Storyminers, an Atlanta - based customer experience and service design consultancy.

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.

Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton will file for personal bankruptcy protection as early as Monday after losing a fight in a Florida court for a shield against a judgment in a breach of privacy case involving professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Wood believes Tesla, with a current market value of around $ 56 billion, should be in the same league as the big four tech stocks due to Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX.

He achieved a better personal payday than the founders of some venture - backed buyouts with price tags that were twice as high.

«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.»

It starts with one, two, maybe three individuals, then propagates through the organization, and is reinforced by those founders or leaders as the company scales over time.

«Solutions» include pre-emptive activities such as building long - term relationships with future founders or mentoring at incubators to meet teams pre-seed, plus getting really good at reference diligence, but we still rely upon accelerating the «would we work well together» discussion during fast - moving investments.

«We offer a visible benefit that positions the company as family - friendly and concerned with education,» says «Education Today» founder Jonathan Carson.

Now, as Spinergy Inc. founder and CEO Martin Connolly tours Interbike, taking in row after flashy row of bicycle frames, wheels, components, and gadgetry, he notes with particular pride the number of booths showcasing Spinergy wheels on their display bikes.

In the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem, I've seen founders and their board members forget this at times, as they seek to install someone with the right pedigree but perhaps the wrong cultural fit.

This means you have thought carefully about your weaknesses as a founder or CEO, and surrounded yourself with others who can fill in those gaps.

I spend a ton of time with founders discussing personal issues such founder fighting, the fear of failure, the rejection of investors as well as dealing with real failure and figuring out the aftermath.

As a father of girls he felt remorseful for the comment and ended up talking with Crosby about championing female founders.

One of the things I've probably been most inconsistent with in my journey as a startup founder is whether to raise funding or to bootstrap.

Tomorrow's business leaders and startup founders will be today's young kids whose parents have raised them with an entrepreneurial spirit — a skill that is increasingly important as young people flood the startup world and the freelance economy grows.

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.

Startup founders wear lots of hats in the beginning, but as the business grows, you'll need to bring on employees with specialized talents and relinquish control over the tasks you hired them to do.

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.

OneOne - described as a «super-secure version of Snapchat» by the founder - was launched just over a week ago and allows users to send messages to each other with no tracking or storing of data.

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.

As president of Y Combinator, of which he was part of the first class, Altman has gained popularity through a nuanced, founder - focused personality, less brash than many founders and venture capitalists, and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham famously said that «Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder [he] refer [s] to most when... advising startups.»

Founders named Bitcoin as the most overhyped technology, with bots and conversational user interfaces coming next.

As a former Goldman Sachs VP and the founder of women's networking group 85 Broads, which paired young women with established execs, Hanson's been around both the old and new guard of female leaders.

Websites such as Founder Dating can pair you up with other aspiring entrepreneurs.

«Argentina has been all over the place,» says Marcos Galperin, the founder of the auction website Mercado Libre, which, with a $ 4 billion market capitalization on the Nasdaq, is widely regarded as the country's most successful entrepreneurial company.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

With 400 employees arranged in six offices around the globe, Lightspeed founder and CEO Dax Dasilva travels as light as possible, holding most of his international meetings by video conference from the company's brand new headquarters in Montreal's historic Gare Viger.

The next month, he, Wolowitz, and Reisman started Founders Entertainment, with Russell's childhood bedroom serving as the unofficial company headquarters.