Sentences with phrase «building your company around»

It was incredibly hard because we built the company around this really awesome consumer vision, but when the economy fell off a cliff, we basically needed to find an immediate business model and put the consumer stuff on hold for a bit, so that we could survive.

According to a Bloomberg report, young campaign enthusiasts are discarding their old intern and campaign manager positions for something they believe will be more lucrative and potentially game changing — building companies around Web platforms both political parties will embrace.

Pacheco says a critical part of leading your startup to success in an environment with a dominant player is to focus on your key strengths and build your company around them.

The company was gung - ho on building a company around an idea instead of what users wanted.

As CEO, I am focused on building a company around the vision of our founder and the talent of the people we put around him.

The founder and self - described «SHE - E-O» of Thinx has built a company around breaking taboos, starting with her very product — an underwear designed to replace feminine hygiene supplies.

But with some hindsight we can understand why they made the decision to launch the new product, and ditch the «classic» version they had built the company around, because taste tests showed that consumers wanted a sweeter flavor comparable to what Coke's rival, Pepsi, was offering.

«We built the company around the folks we knew we'd need to make it scale.

«We want something that is more organic that therefore you felt compelled to build a company around a product vision you had as opposed to the other way around.»

People are building companies around a single small product so that it can be flipped, sold to a bigger company.

Amazon operates massive web servers, tools so adaptable you can build a company around them without having to actually pay to operate a data center.

If you believe you have a great idea and are passionate about trying to build a company around it then the only thing worse than raising money from inexperienced people is raising no money at all.

«But it's one of the best markets to build a company around innovation because we have a great test market, great infrastructure for financial services.»

Over the years he researched it, trademarked the KAMUT ® name, and built his company around its delicious taste and unique nutritional attributes.

Mr. Difenbach built his company around Biodynamic, Demeter farming standards that were just beginning to be explored around that time.

This is a great product that comes from a well - known brand name that has built a company around offering quality babywearing products that exceed safety standards.

Building a company around the topic of aging poses particular challenges (see» «Gero - Tech» Sprouts, But Will It Bloom?»)

In fact, Ali Beaven, founder and Creative Director of Prezola, has built a company around just that — offering couples a gift list service with a huge choice of both high street and boutique brands, with space for other sought - after items too if they're not already on the site.

Those people are responsible to setup speaking engagements and sell tickets; they are also supposed to get Robert key information about the market in the area he is going to as well so that he can talk about the market he is in and the point about building companies around you to protect your personal wealth has already been beaten to death in counter points.

We've built the company around being a resource for renters, and education is one of our core values.

I'm not sure what the software is worth, but management thinks enough of it to build the company around it.

We've built the company around being a resource for renters, and education is one of our core values.

There are signs that its efforts are ramping up — it snagged Google's top AI executive, John Giannandrea, earlier this week, gaining experience in building a company around AI from the ground up.

Rather, it should serve as a stern note of caution to those seeking to build a company around or upon this exciting new technological marvel.

We built the company around the mission of providing a superior customer experience.

RMA ® Nashville, Tennessee Executive Search Recruiting Firm Resource Management & Acquisitions ™ (RMA ®) has built our company around the business of helping people and corporations succeed.

I love analyzing deals, and now have built a company around my passion and expertise.

Not exact matches

Qualtrics, which calls itself a customer - service experience management company, is built around the idea that immediate feedback makes for a better product.

-- BlackBerry plans to forge stronger partnerships with others in the tech industry and build better relationships with longtime business customers as the smartphone company attempts to turn around flagging operations, chief executive John Chen says.

«The business model of an oil and gas company in the future is going to have to be built around the abundance model, where your returns are not going to be made by commodity price increases,» says Munro.

It should be about investing in great entrepreneurs building great companies and less around speculating on cryptocurrencies and certain financial instruments.

The problem we OWGs (Old White Guys — that's what they call us) have is that we built our companies» cultures around the things that motivated our generation: money, career progression, and retirement plans.

ENTREPRENEUR: Companies charter boats for team - building exercises, albeit around the harbor for a day.

In 2011, Skype's first employee, Taavet Hinrikus, cofounded TransferWise, an online money - transfer company, which now occupies four floors of a Tallinn building and handles about $ 1 billion a month in exchanges around the world.

Already, the company appears to have done a good job building excitement around the game — since Sunday, more than 48,000 tweets have been sent featuring the game's hashtag or the link to the live stream, according to Quid, an artificial intelligence data - analytics company.

Now, as Ko is building company No. 2, a fashion - forward sunglasses brand called Perverse, she's leaning heavily on the discipline that helped her find success the first time around.

He has coached the top business, athletic, and performance leaders around the world, built dozens of hugely successful companies and non-profits, and continues to generously donate his time, money, and talent on a massive scale.

The best way to protect against that, Woodman says, is to build a moat around the company in the form of its content ecosystem.

Among those that speak up are academics, former FAA officials, aerospace industry executives, drone entrepreneurs looking to build new companies around UAS technologies and services, local law enforcement, and U.S. intelligence employees.

Evan Spiegel's company wanted to build hype around its new partnership with artist Jeff Koons.

«It started with this tiny company making pants,» Calhoun says, «but the culture around the brand is what's having the most impact on people, directly and indirectly, and this momentum is building.»

My company, Women Rocking Business, has raised over half a million dollars for women around the globe, women in the rainforest and in Indonesia, supporting them to build businesses that serve their communities and protect our ecosystems, this is something I'm deeply proud of.

Many of Canada's managers understand this instinctively and the top performers — like many of those on Canada's Best Managed Companies list for 2018 — have built their businesses around that reality.

So as the idea developed, about 6 months after doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people, industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.

You'll need to build a sales and support team around you as your company grows and provide them with the resources and training they need to succeed.

«They build their lives around the knowledge of what we do,» says Tanne, whose company is based in Armonk, New York.

The company purposely has fewer desks than employees — 1,520 for 2,000 people — to encourage staff to move around the building.

«Whenever there's been a big platform shift, the companies that ultimately succeeded were the companies that were built around that new platform — whose soul is that new platform,» says Gibbs.

Another example is the Little Miss Matched apparel company, which decided to build a business around selling non-matching socks in sets of three.

But the company's commitment to culture goes beyond surface benefits — Elite was built around the idea that employees should be able to determine their own schedules, workloads and ultimately, pay.