Sentences with phrase «like other founders»

Like other founders and entrepreneurs, Wu, who has an economics degree from Peking University, is also predisposed to a fail - fast mentality, one at odds with developers who favor a security - minded approach.

Not exact matches

-- Michelle Kennedy, founder and CEO of Peanut, an app which helps mobile - first mothers connect with other like - minded women

However, the rule comes with a caveat: A company must be structured so the company's board could fire the founder, just like any other employee.

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

«Two years ago, I did two events like this,» says Michelle Rago, founder of Michelle Rago Destinations, who has coordinated celebrations for Matt Damon and Jamie Foxx, among others.

«Airlines have started to charge for more things, but with an airline rewards credit card, you can get things like your first bag checked free and priority boarding,» says Erik Larson, president and founder of NextAdvisor.com, which provides consumer - oriented research on credit cards and other products.

If founders with accents are harder to understand, Graham and other investors like him might want to listen more carefully.

«You have large players like Amazon, Google, Facebook and others with big pockets that can say «This is a space we want to own,»,» said Philippe Collard, founder of Yabusame Partners, a management consulting firm specializing in the technology industry.

That idea has been championed by other billionaire entrepreneurs, like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Ruby Polanco, the Honduras - born founder of Ruby Makeup Academy, based in Temple City, California, came to America like hundreds of thousands of other immigrants — she was brought here as a child.

Even a site like the New York Times, which is already more mobile - optimized than many other sites, loads significantly faster: Instead of taking three seconds to load the average page, the Nuzzel founder said, a page loads in less than half a second when Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages is enabled.

The start - up founder had, it seems, conceived of his postings as a way to help other company founders understand what a funding round looks like from the inside, and the effect was that the investment firms began bidding against one another.

Other technology firms, like Facebook, and financial firms, like Carlyle, are attempting to gain access to public market funding without giving shareholders a mechanism to keep the founders accountable.

In an interview on «Squawk Box,» the founder of Duquesne Capital said the Fed's policy of quantitative easing was inflating stocks and other assets held by wealthy investors like himself.

In many ways, Palantir is like Paypal in the 1990s, a startup whose founders — Elon Musk, Max Levchin, and Peter Thiel — all went on to start other, highly successful companies.

«It might seem like I built my business overnight, but what people don't know is that on the marketing side, It took me years of building a network of food writers, chefs, magazine editors, and other people in the industry,» echoes Luuvu Hoang, founder of Txiki Plaka restaurant.

So don't be like all those other CEOs and founders out there who relinquish to a third party 100 percent control of their company's development.

«This investment announces HealthEngine's arrival on the global startup scene, hopefully putting us on a similar trajectory to many of Sequoia's other successes — iconic companies like Apple and Google and more recently startups like Whatsapp, Stripe and Airbnb,» said HealthEngine founder and chief executive Dr Marcus Tan.

Instead of putting up ads on freelance sites and hoping to find work (like every other freelancer), you aggressively seek out your target customers by going to conferences and getting coffee meetings with dozens of founders, just to land 1 client at a time.

Rehan Yar Khan, founder and partner at Orios Venture Partners, said: «Just like in other verticals... hyperlocal logistics will be disrupted through on - demand, players using an «Uberised» model.

With the emergence of individual and corporate income taxes following the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, business leaders like Andrew Carnegie — who, like others, specifically referenced the founders» ideas on broad property ownership in his writings — pushed for integrating the tax treatment of these practices into the new corporate income tax system.

Symbia founder, Jim Smith, like so many others...

Confirmed speakers include founders and top executives representing companies and organizations like Civic.com, Tezos, the Bitcoin Foundation, and Polychain Capital, among others.

Others fear the privacy, security and safety implications as more tasks, from managing the country's roads to reading patients» X-ray results, are automated — and the most dire warnings, from the likes of SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, include the potential arrival of «robots capable of destroying mankind.»

Barrick Gold Corp.'s visionary founder Peter Munk, a man of lofty global ambitions who fulfilled them like few others, died Wednesday at the age of 90.

Kalanick, the founder of Uber and its CEO until this summer, tried to sell about half of his shares in Uber, according to people with knowledge of the matter, but like all other shareholders, is only able to sell about 58 percent of what he sought because too many sellers tried to get rid of their shares.

For one, just like some other exchanges that have gone belly - up in other countries, you could either have the founders make off with the funds or hackers could outright steal the bitcoin holdings (each of these have happened in other smaller exchanges overseas), so, if you were going to buy more than 1, I would suggest setting up accounts with multiple companies (or if you're so inclined, just hold them yourself in your own bitcoin wallet, hardware or whatever).

In my experience, it seems like founders are overly concerned about board composition compared to other provisions in a term sheet.

The same reason why older founders are ignored by the ecosystem is the same reason why women and other minorities struggle in the Valley: It's really not about what you build, but what you look like while building it.

And that law like all the other hateful, disgusting throwbacks to our barbaric theistic society will soon be done away with, regardless of what the «majority» wants, because to do otherwise would be to spit in the faces of the founders and symbolicly burn the constltution.

Is it a legend like those of other religions, in which demonic powers try to prevent the founder of the religion from undertaking his mission?

Like so many other saints and founders of churches in the history of Christianity, the difficulty for the worshiper, which King seems to have come to realize, is that the worship should be directed toward God, not the person being used by God.

Esselmont says that the founder's utterances «like other divine manifestations, may be divided into two classes, in one of which he writes or speaks simply as a man who has been charged by God with a message to his fellows, while in the other class the words purport to be the direct utterance of God himself.»

Second, is the founders» liberalism distinct from liberalism's other forms, like Lockean and Rawlsian liberalism?

These key founders along with others like Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and more, were far from fundamentalist Christians at the time in their lives when they were writing the laws that we still live by today in this country, fred.

«Fresh seafood in the U.S. grocery stores, compared to other countries like Spain, France or Italy, is quite a poor variety,» CEO and founder Oleg Nikitenko says.

That's why it's important for new parents to find ways to be green without breaking the family budget,» says Kelly Wels, the founder of KellysCloset.com, an Internet baby boutique specializing in eco-friendly products and cloth diapers... Wels says that Tobin, like other new moms, is part of a growing number of families who are saying «no» to disposable diapers, which are known to create the third most landfill waste in the U.S., and saying «yes» to more eco-friendly options.»

Speaking at the conference, the Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation said that like every part of the world, investors in Nigeria and Africa were faced with a myriad of challenges, but amidst these challenges, no other destinations provided more opportunities and return on investment as does Nigeria and Africa.

Among the other rich New Yorkers who signed the letter to Cuomo, which appears after the jump, are Democratic donors / bundlers like Leo Hindery Jr. and Bill Samuels (the one - time LG contender and founder of the New Roosevelt Initiative).

Like several other anonymous givers in recent elections, the limited liability company was not principally housed in New York, but in Delaware, a state where the laws provide such anonymity to businesses» corporate founders that some tax experts compare it favorably to the Cayman Islands.

He hasn't gone so far as to change his enrollment, however, like two other mayoral contenders — Doe Fund founder George McDonald and Manhattan Media CEO Tom Allon (who took a page from the old Rudy Giuliani playbook and has also allied with the Liberal Party, though it doesn't have an automatic ballot line, thanks, oddly to now - Gov.

Other bold - faced names at the dinner parties — hosted by the likes of billionaire Cathy Lasry, real estate developer Henry Lambert and federal prosecutor Leslie Cornfeld — include Meredith Bennett, co-executive producer of «The Colbert Report»; television personality (and Rudy Giuliani's ex-wife) Donna Hanover; Democratic pollster Celinda Lake; former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton; Founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council John Adams; and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

Near the end of an hours - long House hearing Wednesday in which other lawmakers took turns bashing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allowing privacy invasions, Collins spent four minutes «liking» the tech billionaire and much of what he did in two days of congressional testimony.

They note that while some major liberal issues have passed the Senate under Republican and IDC control, like a minimum wage increase and paid family leave, other major issues like criminal justice reform, the DREAM Act and ethics reform have foundered.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

«Chinese science budgets are expanding, not static or declining like in many other major countries,» says Ben Bravery, founder of Kexue Communications, a Beijing - based science communications firm that acts as a bridge between China and the West, working with Chinese researchers, organizations, and educational institutes to transfer knowledge.

«Sometimes these formulations lead us to local ingredients like sustainably farmed kelp from the Mendocino coast and for others we have to go all of the way to China to find organic green tea oil,» explains founder Hillary Peterson.

«[Partners] like Amore work okay because a Chanel bag is a Chanel bag, but with the cost of international delivery and potential returns it just doesn't make sense for [other boutiques who stock garments of varying sizes] to bother,» says Dan Bailey, founder of Tokyo Dandy and a longtime observer of Japan's fashion landscape.

If they are accepted, a team of matchmakers interview them over the phone then set them up on a telephone date the following Monday at 10 p.m. Matches are told almost nothing about each other before the call, which is automated through a service that the Tawkify founders refer to as «Mr. Brooks,» because it seemed like a fine name for a dating butler.