Sentences with phrase «other founders start»

Other founders start to increase growth and production without being clear who their customers actually are (here's a hint: it's not always your users!)

Not exact matches

In other words, 90 percent of start - ups fail because the founders get bored, discouraged, or something else, and they move on to other things, not because of some catastrophe.

When I started my company, iDoneThis, the biggest question on my mind — and I'm guessing it's top of mind for other young founders too — was: «Hmm... how do I sell this?»

«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.

Another starting point is to have an idea that very few people other than the founders can actually build.

Educators and other start - up founders who believe in the value of education obviously disagree with this view.

He's still an entrepreneur, but his venture, Reboot.io, which he started in 2014, is devoted to helping founders and C - suite executives manage the stress, anxiety, burnout and other byproducts that come with a demanding job.

His rà ‰ sumà ‰ alone attests to his idea overflow: not only is he the founder of EnviroCheck, a fast - growing $ 5 - million provider of energy - conservation services for building owners in Orlando, Fla., but he has also started or taken over some 22 other small ventures.

If you're thinking about starting a nonprofit, consider talking to other 501 (c)(3) founders to learn as much as possible about the benefits and complications of running one.

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.

The private market for shares prior to a public listing allows employees and founders of private companies such as Spotify to cash in on some of their paper wealth, while letting other investors get a head start on the listing.

The application's instructions are clear: In order to be accepted into TechStars, the prestigious accelerator program, start - up founders are asked to submit two videos — one to describe the company's product or service, and the other to introduce the team.

Suster recently took to his blog to offer lessons he learned through hard experience as a founder for others trying to balance starting a company and keeping a marriage together.

Focused around the idea of sharing home - cooked meals, the young start - up attracted famous investors including Danny Meyer, founder of Shake Shack and other popular New York restaurants, and the father of Umi Kitchen cofounder Hallie Meyer.

That's great news for Renren's founders, but it could bode ill for other start - ups if investors sour on the company:

He started out as a non-technical entrepreneur until he spoke to Drop.io's founder Sam Lessin, who said: «Idea people who can't code have to relay their vision to others, and part of the vision inevitably gets lost in translation.

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.

Amidi, who is also a co-founding partner of seed investment firm Amidzad Partners and founder of 14 other companies, says Plug and Play started the accelerator to help make Bitcoin more widespread and easier to use, and to add strong Bitcoin - related companies to its investment portfolio, which includes PayPal and Zoosk.

Now the original business founders start to seek out other team members to help grow the company.

So for every wealthy start - up founder, there are 100 other entrepreneurs who end up with only a cluttered garage.»

While other start - up founders are known for their edginess (Uber's Travis Kalanick, Tesla's Elon Musk), Chesky is unblinkingly earnest.

Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston, on the other hand, still owns 25 %, and early investor Sequoia Capital another 23 %; a founder retaining that much ownership is much more characteristic of a consumer company than an enterprise one — which is exactly how Dropbox started.

The only way for aspiring founders to get effective training was to apprentice at other start - ups — a time - consuming detour that many would just as soon skip.

Every startup founder rightfully starts out as the single leader of the startup, but as the business grows, many entrepreneurs struggle with relinquishing any control, or fail to recognize and allow other leaders to emerge.

Aligning your ducks in a row, understating a venture is a marathon with hundreds of sprints in between, and knowing how to make other people feel successful are not only applicable to founders of start ups but are values of life we should all integrate.

In other news, a crypto wallet started by an Ethereum founder was found to have major breaches in the system.

Start Here founder, Steve Rice, along with strategic advisors Dr. Tionna Jenkins, Katie Milligan, and Nate Thomas, presented the Arkansas - based Start Here Initiative as a model for other communities to increase the engagement of women and minorities in the entrepreneurial process and to raise awareness for the entrepreneurial information, resources and training available to new business owners.

ALLEN: I guess the other argument is, you can start as a founder with great instincts.

If you think about it, very few businesses start from somewhere other than the founders» homes.

I don't give two saviors what the founders of a business believe, but when they start assaulting other people with it, I have a problem.

Nele Liivlaid: founder of Nutriplanet.org She has been into healthy eating for many years, but developed a more profound interest in nutrition and related diseases when she started reading The China Study and other special books on nutrition.

It all started in 2009 when our founder, Adam Fleischman, pondered why people crave burgers and pizza more than other types of food.

Our founder started this project in 2006 when she was on maternal leave with her third child and wanted to reach out to other new parents around the globe with help to make the sometimes very tough life with a new baby just a little bit easier.

#freestylecreativeliving was started by The People Shop founder @alisonsadler and although it isn't strictly a craft hashtag (there's Alison's other hugely popular hashtag #makeitsewcial for that), we've included it here because it's about living creatively without any rules — in your own style.

Most start - up businesses will also have a subheading (often before any of the others) describing the founders of the business and a heading at the end of the management section describing the businesses» ownership structure.

Not only does FVCG provide vital pre-seed funding but it also performs all the other business transactions associated with starting a business so that company founders can concentrate on advancing their research.

This legendary musician and conceptual artist was there at the start of the transcendental meditation movement when her late husband, John Lennon, and the other Beatles met its founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Nele Liivlaid: founder of Nutriplanet.org She has been into healthy eating for many years, but developed a more profound interest in nutrition and related diseases when she started reading The China Study and other special books on nutrition.

One other, super quick way to know if you're turning up the calorie burn is if you have to start working at controlling your breathing, says Johnny Gillespie, CSCS, founder of Balanced Athlete, a training method that combines yoga, mindfulness and fitness.

When Tessler decided to start online matchmaking service The... including founders of other dating sites, and gay women we were friends with,» Tessler says.

Founders Keywood and Thompson understand that, and are just glad that so many other parents are starting to understand how important their participation is.

School incubators like those running in Dayton, Sacramento, Oakland, and other cities, and nonprofit providers of technical assistance could analyze small - school start - up lessons and train new school founders to avoid common mistakes.

The other coach starts with aquatic newbies and, after a few lessons, some are getting across but most are foundering mid-pool and a few have drowned.

«Local philanthropists, educators, judges, clergy and others around the country are starting local residential schools rather than just despair of the conditions so many youth live in, and fail in,» said Heidi Goldsmith, founder and executive director of the Washington - based Coalition for Residential Education.

As Ted Kolderie, one of the founders of chartering explained, it's a «simple yet radical idea: allowing enterprising people — including teachers and other educators — to start innovative public schools.»

Its founder, Deborah Meier, became a leader in the small - schools movement, starting several others and winning a MacArthur award in 1987.

Steve Zimmerman, founder of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, an organization representing New York City's independent charters and the conference's other co-sponsor, says he started his group in response to what he saw as too much focus on standardized testing — a trend he believes stifles innovation, collaboration, and charters» original promise.

This year's #WDE16 honored five trailblazing women who start, accelerate, fuel and steer others to excellence: Kathleen Henson, Founder of Henson Consulting, Dominique Jordan Turner, President and CEO of Chicago Scholars, Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, Dee Alexander, vocalist and songwriter, and Marilynn KellyRead More...

I started out as a single founder providing publishing assistance along with other services such as cover design, with the goal to bring on - board other professionals and build a crack team of publishing ninjas.

«They complained that if women didn't do the laundry beside the river and at the fountain they would be alone, but other things started to serve those social purposes,» said Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child program, a festival panelist, and Deborah Porter's significant other.