As the needs and demands of entrepreneurs change, we are adapting the ecosystem's traditional public and private structures,» said Mike Morin,
CEO of the new Start Garden Ecosystem.
Not exact matches
Specifically, this legislation truly democratizes the access to capital for entrepreneurs by eliminating the last few major limitations in holding entrepreneurs back from using these important
new regulations,» said Ron Miller,
CEO of equity crowdfunding platform
Start Engine Crowdfunding, in an email to Entrepreneur.
(Scotiabank did, however,
start a «digital factory» in 2015, which professed to partner with fintech startups to develop
new technologies, and gifted the University
of Toronto with $ 1.75 million to study «disruptive technologies,» while several big - bank
CEOs acknowledged that AI needed to be harnessed within the industry at a recent conference.)
(The need for branding expertise explains why Emblem Corp., another Canadian licensed producer, recently poached the head
of ad agency KBS Canada to become its
new CEO starting next year.)
Tuesday the slightly humbled
CEO spoke at a UBS investor conference in
New York, sketching his longterm vision for Netflix: To be selling Internet video subscriptions at prices
starting at $ 8 per month in most markets outside
of China.
For Holly Cardew, the
CEO of photo editing company Pixc, «always be hiring» took on
new meaning when she
started her company.
BKEG was acquired in 2003 by
New Wave Entertainment, a producer
of marketing solutions and trailers for the movie industry that's owned by Paul Apel, who
started as an editor at the company and worked his way up to owner and
CEO, a spot he's had for 23 years.
A
new direction for Research In Motion is
starting to take shape under
CEO Thorsten Heins, and it
starts with an acknowledgement
of the gravity
of the situation.
The company is just
starting the matching process on the
new platform, but the end goal is the same one stated by
CEO Brian Chesky in January, in the wake
of Trump's travel ban: Airbnb aims to provide housing for 100,000 people in need over five years.
Or will the
CEOs miss the wild jolt
of stimulation that a
new start - up brings?
Dan Gilbert,
CEO of Quicken Loans, for example, moved his company's headquarters to downtown Detroit to bolster the population numbers and help jumpstart the local economy, then provided further sustenance to the commercial ecosystem by opening a
new start - up incubator and venture capital firm.
TJX marked its 40th anniversary with annual sales
of $ 33.2 billion, a 7 % increase, and profits
of $ 2.3 billion a strong
start for
new CEO Ernie Herrman.
CEO Shah and his Cornell classmate Steve Conine
started out with racksandstands.com in 2002 and quickly expanded, buying dozens
of niche domain names and launching many from scratch—simplydogbeds.com, justshagrugs.com, dinnerplates.com — and in 2011 changing the company name from CSN Stores to Wayfair (700 employees went on a Boston bar crawl in Wayfair T - shirts to help market the
new name).
GraniteShares Founder &
CEO Will Rhind discusses
starting a
new commodities ETF in light
of the energy rally.
In that meeting
of CEOs in
New York, by asking the convener
of the group to
start the exercise, her response gave the rest
of the group permission to be vulnerable.
Rosalind Resnick, the founder and
CEO of Axxess Business Consulting, a
New York consulting firm that advises
start - ups and small businesses, is the author
of Getting Rich Without Going Broke: How to Use Luck, Logic and Leverage to Build Your Own Successful Business.
And the public was ready to pounce: Just 24 hours after Fowler published her post, the Twitter hashtag #DeleteUber had generated almost 5 million more impressions than it did during the weekend
of January 27, when masses
of people
started using it to protest the company's response to a
New York taxi strike and
CEO Travis Kalanick's (soon to be short - lived) participation in President Donald Trump's tech advisory committee.
Albert Wang,
CEO of PatPat, a manufacturer to consumer brand for moms, shares how his company
started as an effort to make shopping better for
new parents.
Investors welcomed the appointment
of the former AirTran Holdings Inc
CEO as a
new start for Spirit, a U.S. carrier that has grown rapidly in the past five years by marketing ultra-low fares with heavy restrictions.
Mark Pownall will become
CEO at Business News from the
start of the
new financial year, replacing Charlie Gunningham, who has been at the helm for four years.
GE's
new CEO, John Flannery, announced plans this October to unload $ 20 billion in assets
of the ailing conglomerate, in a sale that may include two
of its oldest divisions: transportation, and the remainder
of the lighting business
started by Thomas Edison.
I spoke to three successful
CEO moms about what drew them to leadership; their parenting and business challenges; and their advice for the hundreds
of thousands
of women who are likely to
start new businesses in 2014.
«To us, what this shows is that this is a business that had been in turnaround mode under
new CEO Steve Easterbrook, and we are
starting to see some
of these positive results now both domestically and internationally, which is very encouraging,» Trip Miller, managing partner at Gullane Capital Partners and a McDonald's shareholder, told CNBC.
«Not so fast,» said Art Chang,
CEO and Founder
of Tipping Point Partners, a
New York City - based «institutional entrepreneur» that serves as a seed investor and founder
of software
start - ups.
When an employee has a
new idea for how to do business, Brian Halligan,
CEO of Hubspot, a marketing software firm in Boston, sometimes chooses to fire that employee from his or her day job, and appoint that person «
CEO»
of a
new in - house
start - up.
Under Armour
CEO Kevin Plank's Sagamore Development has already amassed the land, secured the public approvals and
started work on a development planned to include not just a
new corporate campus for the athletic apparel company but also millions
of square feet
of additional office, residential and recreational space.
Now, under the leadership
of new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, things are
starting to look a bit di
Signaling what it hopes will mark the
start of a
new phase
of growth, Evernote, the company behind the popular cloud - based productivity app
of the same name, announced today that Phil Libin will step down as
CEO but remain as executive chairman.
Now, under the leadership
of new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, things are
starting to look a bit different at the company.
The
new CEO, Beriker, is
starting immediately; he was formerly chief
of job search engine Simply Hired, which was purchased by Recruit Holdings Co. this year.
«The sheer volume
of new merchants has
started to explode over the last month as more businesses begin to see the value in accepting bitcoin payments,» says Tony Gallippi, co-founder and
CEO of BitPay.
Start with the bloated senior management ranks: a
CEO pulling down a cool half - million a year, now caught in an embarrassing conflict
of interest, as it happens, over the
new cutback plans.
-- some
of the many acquisitions could lead to further write downs, especially if a
new CEO comes in and goes for the «kitchen sink» approach — especially the energy business has some structural problems — fundamentally the company is cheap but not super cheap — often, when the bad news
start to hit, the really bad news only comes out later like for instance Royal Imtech, which was in a very similar business.
Sonoco (NYSE: SON), one
of the largest diversified global packaging companies, announced today the
start of Robert C. Tiede's tenure as the
new President and
CEO of Sonoco.
«Retailers
started to drop Twist and actiVwater,» Klock says, noting that TalkingRain's previous
CEO and vice president
of sales also left for
new opportunities.
When Terry McDaniel stepped in as president and
CEO of Inventure Foods nearly five years ago, it was a refreshing
new start for himself and the company.
«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one
of the defining business challenges
of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on,
starting with our
new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions
of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and
CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.
General Mills has been working to turn around its yogurt business and is
starting to see slow signs
of improvement but «there is more work to do,»
CEO Jeff Harmening said during the CAGNY (Consumer Analyst Group) conference in
New York City.
Sonoco, one
of the largest diversified global packaging companies, announced today the
start of Robert C. Tiede's tenure as the
new President and
CEO of Sonoco.
New says he developed a strong appreciation Chris
New, chairman &
CEO: «I looked around the country to
of a smaller company's flexibility and was inspired to identify what I thought were the
start his own company with the goal
of identifying unjuiced fruits.»
D's Naturals — the plant protein - fueled
start up that recently caught the eye
of investors at General Mills 301 INC and 2X Consumer Partners — will unveil a
new brand (No Cow) and
new products that take it beyond the bar category in January 2018, says
CEO Chris Hickey, who reckons No Cow could ultimately be a $ 100m + brand.
Chairman and
CEO of Flagstone Group, Mehmet Bayraktar, assembled a dream team for The Deck at Island Gardens,
starting with nightlife entrepreneurs Michael Capponi and Eric Milon; Bayraktar now adds Chef Alvarez, who will bring his international flair and pedigree
of culinary experience to Miami's
newest exquisite waterfront eatery.
Arsenal
CEO Ivan Gazidis
started the promotional buildup when he said: «Our pre-season matches enable the squad to complete final preparations ahead
of a
new campaign, and Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers will provide a strong test for the team.
Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy will become the next
CEO of the Rochester Business Alliance at the
start of the
new year, the organization announced on Wednesday morning.
According to sources, Isaac Osei, who is a former Chief Executive Officer (
CEO)
of the Ghana Cocoa Board and one time Ghana's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, is expected to
start his
new work on January 9, 2017.
In what could be the
start of a
new era
of do - it - yourself gene therapy, the
CEO of a biotech startup last month skipped town to undergo a very public round
of anti-aging therapy in Latin America, reports MIT Technology Review.
Andrew Grove, an early employee who, according to the company, «participated in the founding» and became a highly successful
CEO, arrived in the United States as a 20 - year - old refugee from the 1956 Hungarian uprising and earned his degrees at City University
of New York and the University
of California, Berkeley, before
starting the career that led to Intel.
But the head
of another biomedical research advocacy group, Research!America
CEO Mary Woolley, said although her group, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is «pleased» by what it calls «a
starting point,» her group feels the
new initiatives at NIH «should supplement, not supplant, the imperative
of making up for a decade's worth
of lost ground.»
A Mexican geneticist who studied in the United States, she's the
CEO of Código 46, a
new company in Cuernavaca that plans to offer genotyping services for personalized medicine to Mexican clients
starting next month.
«We think this development will help other scientists better utilize open data, hopefully leading to the discovery
of new therapeutic targets for disease,» says first author Andra Waagmeester, PhD, formerly a researcher at Maastricht University and now
CEO of the
start - up company Micelio.