Sentences with phrase «even founders of companies»

Even founders of companies that are successful struggle since it can sometimes take a while to become profitable.

The Arcslinger is developed by Big Red Button Entertainment, which employs some very talented veterans from Naughty Dog, even the founder of the company itself, Big Rafel was an art director at Naughty Dog and was working on projects like Jak and Daxter, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.

Not exact matches

Lean manufacturing specialist Matt Girvan, founder of MAG Consulting, said: «Even during what is considered «launch» mode, if a company is selling its cars to customers, it should not be experiencing large amounts of rework.

«Gawker Media Group has agreed this evening to sell our business and popular brands to Univision, one of America's largest media companies,» Gawker founder Nick Denton said in an emailed statement.

Canadian companies even have a new resource to turn to in their quest for female candidates: a recruiting firm launched last year by Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women's Executive Network.

These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.

In a letter of support, they complained that «it is often impossible» for immigrant entrepreneurs to get a visa to stay in the U.S. «Even in cases where the founders already have a visa of some sort, they typically can't use this visa to start a company.

According to her motion for preliminary injunction, her staff was let go, and she was shut out of discussions regarding her company's fate, even though she was the brand's founder and artistic director.

He says that most Silicon Valley founders are lucky to keep 10 %, or even 5 %, of the stock — and that's if they stay with the company.

Even after Thursday's rally, Norwegian's founder and top owner, CEO Kjos who controls a quarter of the company's shares, is expected to demand a significantly higher price before selling, said Korsvold.

Marvin Gralnick, the founder of the company, really believed in Pazo, a new hip, low - cost apparel chain, even though it was losing money.

Millennials would rather support small, local brewers, even if they have to spend a little more money, according to Jason Wilson, founder of Alabama - based craft brewery Back Forty Beer Company, which grew annual revenue to $ 2.2 million in 2014 from $ 52,000 in 2010.

Adam Fleischman, the founder of Umami Restaurant Group, agreed, saying that the power of companies like Chipotle is that their brand often resonates with customers even more than their products do.

It should start even before the company does and, done right, it creates something that survives even the departure of the founders.

Dig Deeper: How to Build Your Personal Brand How to Manage Your Company's Brand: Utilizing New Media Ed Roach, founder of The Brand Experts, a brand management consultancy in West Leamington, Ontario, goes further to suggests that even if you're not 100 percent comfortable with social media you should make an effort to learn it.

This meant that disposing of the founder, and the startup culture responsible for the initial innovation, didn't hurt a company's short - term or even mid-term prospects.

The Hootsuite founder has maintained headquarters in Vancouver even though many large corporate customers are based in the U.S. With 10 million users (including many of the world's biggest companies) deploying Hootsuite to manage social media marketing, the company has proven it's possible to grow a global client base from Gastown.

Billionaire and founder of Virgin Group, Richard Branson, encourages and even celebrates failure at his many companies.

That concern persists: Many said the hardest part of being a founder was maintaining others» jobs — even while providing jobs was often cited as one rewarding aspect of having a company.

And you will have the opportunity to earn more — whether you own the best food truck in Austin, Texas, or you're the top salesperson at your company or even the founder of Instagram.

Yet at some point something changes: the founder gets bored, the company starts making money in a pivot that wasn't part of the original vision or even funds run low but not low enough to justify shutting the doors - especially when there's revenue involved.

What a difference from the traditional state of affairs that most growing businesses have been forced to deal with: no money at all for start - ups or companies that were too small or too old or too dependent on their founders or even too needy for cash (that is, unless they happened to fit onto the investment community's shortlist of sexy companies du jour).

Even if they become part of the founding team, it's not a given that the founder, having come up with the idea has a «guaranteed» leadership role (CEO or VP) in the new company.

«Just because the attacks original from China doesn't mean the people behind the attacks are Chinese or even physically in China,» Gideon Lenkey, founder of protection company Ra Security, told Internetevolution.com.

Even in the absence of explicit expectations that you will check email or monitor social media on weekends, people will «fall into that because of their own desire,» says Dorothy Kudla, founder of a training and development company, Full Circle Connections, who has worked with hundreds of managers at companies from BlackBerry to Cineplex Odeon.

Some investors will try to keep shares of Constellation Brands (STZ) down, even though the company reported strong quarterly results on Thursday, according to TheStreet's founder and Action Alerts PLUS Portfolio Manager Jim Cramer.

Ironically, there will then be a greater and greater need for dual class share structures, even when they are not being used to protect the «idiosyncratic vision» of a company's founders.

The launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket provoked wonder as it streaked across the early evening sky but also caused confusion, leading the company's founder Elon Musk to joke that the people had really seen a North Korean UFO.

In an Entrepreneur article written by FlexJobs» Founder and CEO Sara Sutton Fell, «How a Business With No Office Has One of the Best Company Cultures in America,» find out how remote employers can build a great culture, regardless of where your workers live — or even if you've never met them face - to - face!

«Norwest knows what it takes to build businesses and the team possesses a true passion for helping founders create great companies, even during the toughest of times,» said Sean Jacobsohn, principal at Norwest Venture Partners.

Jess Lee, CEO and co-founder of style and social commerce platform, Polyvore, explains this familiar mental trap, where founders often fall into «moments of extreme unhappiness» and stress — even when your company is doing well.

Even though it is good to always get training or education, especially when it involves the fiscal health of your company, not many founders or business owners take the time to supplement their working knowledge.

Garrett Camp, mostly known as the billionaire founder of Uber, was well on the tech scene before he even started the rideshare company.

Some investors will try to keep shares of Constellation Brands down, even though the company reported strong quarterly results on Thursday, according to TheStreet's founder Jim Cramer.

Even the tone of the article is looking down on and questioning the veracity of the religious faith of the founders of the companies.

I don't mind the personal religious beliefs of company founders, or even the religious tone set for their business.

By 2007, founder and owner David Katleski took full control of Empire Brewing Company and began pushing it in new directions, including moving toward the use of more locally produced ingredients and even locally produced energy.

Even though I. Kunik's products change from time to time, the company says it continues to strive for the same standards of quality, service and honesty that its founder handed down to its current leaders.

He also expanded the company's offerings of nuts to include trail mixes, dried fruits, popcorn and even chocolate - covered products that today would make founder Alfred Lee Schutzman beam with pride.

Even before the event began, Assembly staff members had circulated the cover letters and curriculum vitae of 13 candidates, a mix of former prosecutors, current legislators and a founder of a «cardiac safety» company, Alex Zapesochny.

Still, from the phone records in the FBI affidavit, parts of which are up on the Smoking Gun, it didn't seem like it was a woman - friendly workplace, from the male founder who said that a would - be call girl «looks like a butcher in my opinion» to the conversation about the «baggage» a worker with kids has to the outraged indignation of an applicant who was «shock and confuse» that the company expected its employees to have sex with men who don't even take them out to dinner.

Even though Rienhoff is the founder of two biotechnology companies and holds a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, he has conducted his hunt not as an expert in human genomics but as a do - it - yourself biologist, teaching himself the tricks of the trade as he moves along and doing his research at home.

According to Lisa Conte, founder of Shaman Pharmaceuticals, which supported the treaty even in Rio, the new interpretation «gave those companies the confidence that if they are working in these countries they will have patent protection».

As founder of Never Liked It Anyway, a company dedicated to helping people get over their breakups, I inadvertently spend time investigating the online dating... For many, dating online has become perfectly normal, even expected.

In talking to CEO and founder Son Joo Eun of MegaStudy, one of the most successful disruptive online educational companies worldwide that dramatically lowered the cost of and access to hagwons, or cram schools, in Korea, I was struck not only by how technologically simple the solution is in many respects, but even more so by how devoid it is of utilizing advances in the learning sciences.

Private Eye (2 Sept 2016) revealed how the two founders of North West Academies Trust (NWAT), the only two board members, had paid # 100k of schools funds to their own companies before their first free school even opened.

In its final fight to survive, the De Lorean Motor Company was optimized to achieve profitability selling 4000 cars per year — well below the initial 10,000 - unit break - even plan and a fraction of its founder's absurd 30,000 per annum goal.

Always exciting to learn things about founders of car companies and in this case it is even more exciting as Porsche is not new to the EV Auto.

The demand for domestically (and even locally) made chews is growing, said Scott Freeman, founder and owner of Nature's Logic in Lincoln, Neb., which produces natural chews made from cattle processed within the company's home state.

PetsWell Pantry, a local company that makes fresh pet food and operates a food truck for dogs, was on hand to reward good behavior, even though Lien Alsup, founder of the company, said her food truck's engine wouldn't start on Saturday morning.