Sentences with phrase «many fledgling companies»

PivotDesk wants to play matchmaker for office space, helping fledgling companies find the right digs by connecting them with other businesses that are locked into long - term leases and have floor space...

More than 12,000 backers later, the fledgling company had pulled in $ 3.4 million.

Google is secretly building a social - gaming startup, part of its effort to create fledgling companies within the internet - search giant.

PartnerHero is a startup dedicated to finding fledgling companies the talent they need — they're on a mission to make the talent acquisition process even more accessible and seamless.

Each week two fledgling companies pitch their ideas to their mentors before embarking on a trip to manufacturing giant China to source their products.

The Next Web has uncovered a June 2005 informal video interview Zuckerberg gave to System Seminar TV, where he refers to his fledgling company as «The Facebook.»

Oftentimes, they are too close to their fledgling company to maintain an objective viewpoint.

You're ready to take your fledgling company to the next level, but it will mean you need an influx of investment capital.

Above all else, this is the inspiration behind Bolt Threads, a fledgling company in Emeryville, Calif., that has leveraged technology to crack the mysteries of spider silk and replicate the recipe commercially.

Hiring from abroad often means navigating Byzantine processes, paying costs fledgling companies can ill afford and enduring long delays — during which foreign competitors could easily snap up a promising candidate.

Making inroads with American customers as a fledgling company turned out to be easier than with Canadians, says Powell — but having U.S. clients makes it easier to close sales at home.

So the fledgling company, which today has five employees and $ 1 million in funding, switched its focus to gift marketing.

The fledgling company's next big bet was producing an electric rice cooker that was widely panned as being capable of little more than ruining a bowl of rice and leaving you with a wooden tub to clean.

The fledgling company pushed past other troubles by raising money, although Hindy told of a period of time when he had to pick up a second job, editing stories at Newsday, to get by.

That's the nature of the beast, as many fledgling companies are run on a wing and prayer until they get their financial footing.

Not only can working for a startup you admire help you learn what it's like to run a fledgling company, it can also help you forge invaluable professional connections.

Asked by Facebook to paint its Palo Alto offices in 2005, Choe was offered several thousand dollars or a bunch of shares in the fledgling company in exchange for his work.

You're going to take your impressive talents to start - up land and help build a fledgling company.

Thanks to half a dozen colleges minting tech - savvy graduates, several incubators protecting fledgling companies until they're ready to go out on their own and an impressive roster of angel investors and venture capitalists, the city is officially a start - up hub.

Tilman Fertitta meets with two fledgling companies hoping to make their mark: Mar - Tea - Na and Eat.Drink.Host.

«These pioneers laid the groundwork for our start» up economy, providing not just capital but guidance to help fledgling companies grow into global powerhouses,» noted the filmmakers in a description of the film posted on their website.

But if companies like Microsoft are able to combine their enormous pools of capital, people and technology with the agility of a startup, they could force fledgling companies to rethink how to maintain their competitive advantage.

But knowing when to scale, how to scale, and who to scale with can make all the difference in the long term success of a fledgling company.

It's pretty difficult to nurture leads, especially as a fledgling company, when your well - known competitor is using the exact same method.

Tilman Fertitta meets with two fledgling companies hoping to make their mark.

Faced with the crucible of his mother's accidental death and the crisis at his company, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick wisely decided to accept his investors» advice to turn the fledgling company's leadership over to a new CEO.

Hoff financed his start - up with personal funds, loans from his mother and brother, and a Small Business Administration loan, but the fledgling company still needed more capital.

But let's be realistic: you don't really have many assets, except a fledgling company that probably can't survive without you.

For a fledgling company like SkiMall, attempting to staff a 24 - 7 live - help operation seems brashly ambitious, if not a sure path to wipeout.

For the research, the two companies combed through half a million job ads and surveyed more than 160 British startups to get a detailed picture of whom fledgling companies are looking to hire and at what sort of salaries compared with 2013.

Dancap signed a rental agreement for that stage, but the fledgling company still lacked a theatre to call its own full time.

The university was also instrumental in helping the fledgling company find its first investor, Robert Barnes of Alchemy Partners.

The process after funding of hand's on mentoring, strategy development, networking, and follow on fundraising is what will enable these fledgling companies to become successful.

In the ensuing decades, most infomercials came from the Vita - Mixes of the world: fledgling companies, often founded by former door - to - door salesmen and garage inventors, trying their hand at pitching viewers through TV.

By all means, exchanges should give fledgling companies the time they need to mature — by limiting dual classes to the first five years of public ownership, say, or capping the percentage of nonvoting stock.

«We also believe that if you are an entrepreneur with a fledgling company in 2016, you are an idiot if you don't consider building it in the Midwest.»

These fledgling companies ran wild until a combination of ill - conceived strategies, speculative gambles, and a slowing economy burst the dot - com bubble.

And after both the dot - com crash in 2000 - 2001 and the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009, investors in new, fledgling companies are exercising more due diligence than ever before.

So, you go out to find a veteran entrepreneur, ask her to be an advisor in your fledgling company... and then what?

Tencent Holdings, the rapidly growing Chinese internet giant, is proving a welcome source of capital to America's fledgling companies, with Snap the latest focus of its deep pockets.

I've been involved in a number of start - ups, growing fledgling companies into multinational operations, and achieving their exit strategies.

That's why they left their respective venture capital firms last month to start Aspect Ventures, a fund that aims not only to invest in early - stage mobile startups but to infuse these fledgling companies with some added gender and cultural diversity.

Costolo, who invested $ 25,000 in the fledgling company in 2007, holds a 1.4 percent stake worth about $ 360 million.

Today's startup world is fast - paced and competitive, and many fledgling companies feel like they need to gain sizeable investments early on in order to succeed.

Merrick, sometimes called «the social capitalist,» recognized it would take guts to garner support for a fledgling company that gives away half of the profits grossed from an odd family of products.

Best got involved merely as an investor at first, but by 2002 he took the reins as president and CEO to help bring the fledgling company back on track.

Upstarts Grown Up - Check up on five promising, fledgling companies we introduced to you in the last decade.

In 1985 Olson sold 95 % of his fledgling company to investor Robert Naegele for $ 100,000.

Among the recommendations is one for «satellite sites «that could include so - called incubator buildings for fledgling companies on the South and West Sides.

As a result of this scouting expedition, Mass Audubon and the fledgling company Nomadic Expeditions offers the first broad - based natural history tours to sample the major ecosystems of Mongolia.