Sentences with phrase «while founders of companies»

It is worth noting that while the founders of these companies were lawyers, their teams were comprised of diverse professionals — engineers, developers and other technologists that are critical to the development of sound solutions.

Not exact matches

Lockheed Martin is one of several legacy companies working to be a part of future Mars missions, while SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk are pushing to begin colonizing Marsas early as 2022.

While yoga was a passion of Lululemon founder Chip Wilson, the company's website also emphasizes the use of its men's apparel for running, biking, and playing golf.

While roughly a third of its portfolio companies are in St. Louis, the fund also invests in startups located in places where founders face a similar lack of access to venture capital.

Torenberg says he's seen many founders like Fishkin fall into the depths of depression while in the trenches of launching and growing their own companies.

That is, you want to be a founder or CEO of either a company or non-profit while you're still young.

Founder and CEO of Thrive Global, Arianna Huffington, talks about the mistake she made while interviewing people for her company.

While we don't know exactly when the company will become public and what price the shares will be when it begins trading, we know some of the founders and earliest investors stand to get very rich.

It's called Founder's Syndrome: an originator maintaining disproportionate control of the company they started while someone else is nominally in charge.

«It's a way to say just how much commitment there is from a founder to his company,» he says, while (of course) wearing leopard - print pants.

And while the company already cites a few hundred users for its app, the founders are in the midst of an app relaunch.

When BambooHR started, the founders had the idea of a company where people might get a good work - life balance while still occasionally putting in extra time when a new release of the software is about to hit.

Founder William Santana - Li told Jim Cramer the host of CNBC's Mad Money that an off - duty, armed security guard can cost up to $ 90 per hour, while Knightscope costs a company just $ 7.

Most venture - capital firms — Sequoia included — are used to the old equity model in which investors purchase private shares of a company, often while mentoring the founders to help the company reach its full potential.

In the end, while you may disagree with my narrow subjectivity, I chose CEOs and founders who I felt depicted a cross-representation of leaders from larger companies and various industries that would appeal to multi-generations.

But top - down policies won't bring about meaningful change, warns Yost, founder and president of the Work + Life Fit Inc. consulting firm based in Madison, N.J. Instead, she recommends that companies adopt a «partnership» approach, encouraging employees to suggest arrangements that fit their own needs while still ensuring that work gets done — and gets done well.

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.

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.

There's a couple reasons for this: after massive sleep deprivation and zero separation between work and personal life, taking a step back often reminds a founder of the things that they want in their personal life and gives motivation to the work life and while in a lull this can upset investors or look like avoidance, its in almost every case helped the company and lets be honest, if a company is going to die it isn't going to die in one week but be surprised at how much sleep a founder might need and you probably wouldn't want many friends around.

During a panel centering on issues of privacy and user data at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, California, last week, Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick described Facebook, Amazon, and Google as examples of an entirely new breed of global company that, while offering products and services users love, fill those same users with reservations about how the companies operate.

In this next installment of AskJZ, Zimmerman Advertising Founder Jordan Zimmerman explores how to retain and grow your client base while making your company stand out from the pack.

While it's important to make sure your company is among the best, we learned from the founder of Kissmetrics, Neil Patel, that you don't have to be smart to be a successful entrepreneur — you just have to hire smart people.

2016 saw female founders launch innovative companies and raise millions to help them grow, while startups in their second or third year of life began gaining ground.

According to company founder and Vice Chairman Steven Neelman, the health account industry is growing at an average rate of 20 percent annually, while his own company has seen its annual revenue increase about 40 percent in recent years.

While most startups will be self - funded by its founders or the founder's immediate family and friends, some seek and accept third party «seed funding,» an investment at the very early stages of a company.

While only a few knew of the company or its founder, one on - campus eatery manger said that he had been in talks with Clinkle about implementing the payment system at his restaurant last year.

Today's infographic celebrates some of the most successful women in technology and business, while also highlighting workforce composition, female founders, and how companies can prioritize retention of women.

Note the use of plurals: a venture capitalist will invest in tens if not hundreds of companies over their career, while most founders will only ever start one company; that means that for the venture capitalist investing is an iterated game.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

Example of an entrepreneur that adhered to the «class of targeted customer» factor while devising a product pricing strategy and became extremely successful was Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company.

Agrawal is the founder and chairman of event management company Red Events while Goenka is former joint managing director of Hemlines, a textile export company and founder of Blynk, hotel concierge app.

Women Investors: While only 4 % of venture capital partners are women, women VC's are 2x as likely to invest in a company with women founders, and 3x more likely to invest in a woman CEO.

With the help of the right advisors and tools, founders can easily manage shareholder communication while focusing on building their companies.

As the controversy over Chick - fil - A's founder publicly opposing same - sex marriage continues - Mike Huckabee is pushing for a Chick - fil - A day, while the Jim Henson Co. is cutting ties to the chain - we're republishing our list of 10 other religious companies.

Additionally, the company has been ranked on Fast Casual's Top 100 «Movers and Shakers» for the last four consecutive years, while Burger 21 Founder and President Mark Johnston was acknowledged as one of Fast Casual's «Top 25 People» of 2014 for his strategic leadership in the brand's growth and development.

In 1988, while working at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., Dr. Peter Praeger — cardiac surgeon and president, CEO and founder of his namesake company — performed surgery to repair a patient's ruptured aorta.

Ethan Brown, the founder and chief executive of Beyond Meat, said that while the relationship with Tyson Foods may cause some jaw - dropping for die - hard vegan and vegetarian supporters of the company, he's confident they'll see the bigger picture as well.

Some are rooted in the history and heritage of our company founders, while others are centered on the collective heritage and history we all long to create and share.

Sasha Silberberg, founder of Bay Area matchmaking company OkSasha, began filling up her «match book» catalogue of singles while working as a Lyft driver.

Dobbie, who was a founder of the Edinburgh - based dating company, was paid # 597,000 in 2012 while chief executive.

Its development is true to the belief of Kiichiro Toyoda, founder of the car company, that participation in motorsport provides the challenges of performance and durability that can directly help develop better cars, while at the same time generating interest and excitement among motoring fans.

The Lamborghini Centenario LP770 - 4 seems to be the perfect car to celebrate the founder of the company, Ferruccio Lamborghini wanted to build an uncompromising GT car back in the Sixties but he became really famous by building icons in automotive art like the Miura... the Countach was unlike anything else on the road back in the days... now the Centenario continues that legacy... a legacy of custom built, limited edition cars that started with the Reventón back in 2007 (20 built) and continued with the Sesto Elemento in 2010 (15 would be built in the end) and the Aventador J in 2012 (only 1 built) while the impressive Veneno from 2013 (3 sold) was the ultimate special edition.

Zagato CEO Andrea Zagato, grandson of company founder Ugo Zagato, is nostalgic about his company's generational partnership with Aston Martin, and while Zagato works with other car companies to produce limited - production specials, it's apparent that Andrea has a soft spot for the British marque.

While exact sales details are yet to come by, Notion Ink founder Rohan Shravan has dropped hints in the company blog of a hundred thousand units of the Pixel Qi versions of the Adam already being booked.

Also, while we wait for that big bang of a news, in the meantime here is some aspects of the Adam that company founder Rohan Sharavan has shared with us via the weekly special blog entries that he has been doing for some time now which in turn happens to be the only official insight that we get of what's going on at the other end.

Although Maugham's first sexual experiences were with men (starting with an affair while he was in Germany) he had many relationships with both men and women, including one with Syrie Wellcome, who became his wife in 1917 after her husband, Henry Wellcome (founder of the Wellcome pharmaceutical company), divorced her - two years after Syrie and Maugham's daughter, Liza, had been born.

Indie Navigator founder Mary Shafer believes that starting a publishing company can create plenty of value for self - publishing authors, whether you're about to publish your first book or you've been at this for a while.

In the case of a private company, assets are transferred at current fair market value for shares of equal value in the private company; the heirs become shareholders and their wealth rises as the shares rise, while the founder's shares no longer rise in value.

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

While EdgePoint will be an interesting fund company to watch, not least because of the pedigree of its founders and the promise to focus on investment returns rather than shareholder returns, it is not the focus of this post.