Sentences with phrase «after selling their companies»

He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a general partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com.

A sizable number of business owners (about a third) said after selling their companies, they planned to start new businesses.

After selling the company in 2004, Moore still stayed involved in the business — this time as a franchisee.

Tina Fey's best advice came from Oprah; Ray Kurzweil got his best advice soon after selling his company; Mike Bloomberg's best advice is from his first boss (after the client says yes, stop talking).

After selling her company for $ 1 billion last year, she started her own investment fund called the Pink Ceiling.

After selling their company in 1997, the Davidsons said they spent two and a half years reading education research and looking for a way to get involved in school reform.

What made you want to stay on as Director of eLearning at eLearning Mind after selling the company?

After selling his company in 1998, he turned his attention to helping animal shelters and rescue groups with number - crunching.

Tamuz worked part time but recently came on board full time as chief technology officer after selling another company he co-founded, Nova Point of Sale, a cloud - based point - of - sale platform, which was recently acquired by Granbury Solutions.

Not exact matches

Three years after opening the Seattle Coffee Company, the couple sold it to Starbucks for around $ 90 million.

After wasting a couple million dollars, we ended up selling the line to another company just to get out of debt.

Despite returning to profit growth last year, investors sold off the company's stock after Exxon reported fourth - quarter results that fell short of Wall Street's expectations.

Under the terms of the deal with Hearst, the media company will publish content from the Lenny Letter on its sites a day after email subscribers get access to it, and Hearst will sell advertising around the content and share the revenue with Dunham and her co-founder Jenni Konner.

But increasingly farmers also sell biomass — the residue left over after crops like corn and wheat are harvested — to companies developing fuel from organic material.

After more than a decade growing the company, the Scheinbergs cashed out three years ago, selling to Amaya Gaming for $ 4.9 billion.

«The company sold more iPhones than most of the bullish analysts thought, including the X, which the community had derided endlessly,» Cramer said after he and CNBC's Josh Lipton spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Her company Alex and Ani, named after her two eldest daughters, doesn't only sell bangles and charms.

Jan Koum, co-founder of the WhatsApp messaging service that he sold to Facebook for $ 22 billion in 2014, is stepping down as CEO and leaving the company after reportedly clashing over privacy and encryption policies.

A few years later, he sold the entire company for $ 225 million to Standard & Poor's after a routine sales call.

The owners, who expect to stay on as technicians after the sale, are selling control of the company mostly to obtain funds for expansion.

Popular social - review site Yelp is making headlines after angry small - business owners are once again accusing the company of manipulating user ratings in order to sell ads, a strategy they claim equals extortion.

Shares of MuleSoft, were briefly halted on Tuesday after Reuters reported that the company was in advanced talks to sell itself to Salesforce.

-- BlackBerry shares were up in pre-market trading after Canada's flagship technology company said its board has launched a formal review of its «strategic alternatives» — including the possibility of selling the smartphone company.

When Herb Sizemore was CEO of Kansas Communications, in Lenexa, Kans. (he recently sold the company), he kept a file of all the «People on the Move» columns in his local paper and called people a year after they'd taken a new job to see if they were happy with their situation.

After selling hundreds of thousands of thermostats in 2012, the company announced Monday it has partnered with four major energy companies around the country — Reliant, Green Mountain Energy, Austin Energy, and Southern California Edison.

While Cramer wasn't sure if selling Apple amid the decline warranted a shameful Post-It — after all, the company's smartphone sales growth is slowing — he lamented about Wall Street's coverage of the stock.

After concluding that its $ 8 app was unlikely to get approved because of Apple's rules prohibiting camera applications, Snapture, a company that makes a camera - enhancing app that goes by the same name, opted to sell on Cydia instead.

After taking control of the company, Shefler reportedly sold off the rights to the Stoli brand to a shell company he had established, and continued exporting Stoli products.

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.

The company said this month that it would sell its private - label unit to TreeHouse Foods, after it came under pressure from Jana Partners, its second - biggest shareholder with about 7 % stake.

Finland's Nokia launched a new brand - licensed tablet computer on Tuesday which is designed to rival Apple's iPad Mini, just six months after the company sold its ailing phones and devices business to Microsoft for over $ 7 billion.

Nokia phones are making a comeback after Microsoft sold its mobile portion of the company and its assets to Foxconn.

Days after selling his last company Like.com to Google, he ran a half marathon.

A decade after opening, Swedish coffee maker company Hammarplast sent one of its marketing executives there to investigate why this little shop in Seattle sold more of its coffee makers than Nordstrom.

Appleby, who founded YogaForce, a company that designs and sells yoga clothing and mats, started doing doga a few years ago after she adopted a Pomeranian puppy named Madison.

After McDonald's divested in 2006, the burrito chain bought back the handful of franchises it had sold and became 100 - percent company owned.

Their dedication paid off when they sold a majority share of the company at a valuation of $ 105 million, a mere five years after they launched.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the action Tuesday against the company, which is now called Altaba after its email and other digital services were sold to Verizon Communications for $ 4.48 billion last year.

Social media company migme has cancelled plans to undertake a share placement, after being battered by volatile markets and selling by long - term shareholders who had acquired the stock when it was a mining business.

Though the fund company objected to the initial transaction price, it sold after the Phelans upped their offer by 35 cents to $ 8 per share.

The industry is made up of companies and organizations that are in the business of selling or supplying everything from shelter to medical relief after a natural or manmade disaster, from a tornado to an act of terrorism.

Shortly after buying Odeo, Williams wrote a blog post that announced his intentions to sell the podcasting part of the company — a New York start - up paid a reported $ 1 million for the service — and focus on Twitter.

Just five days after the merger closed, they divested the company's enterprise content management division (which makes software that organizes companies» internal documents), selling it to OpenText, a Canadian software company, for $ 1.62 billion.

Actress Jessica Alba has recently been under a huge amount of public scrutiny after it came out that the «natural» products her Honest Company sold may not be so natural after all.

After Pinedo Kahlo set up the Frida Kahlo Corporation alongside a firm called Casablanca Distributors, the company started selling a variety of merchandise bearing Kahlo's likeness.

Three senior executives including the company's chief financial officer sold $ 1.8 million in shares three days after the company learned on July 29 hackers had breached personal data for up to 143 million Americans.

He had joined the company's board in 2006 after selling it a controlling stake in CPI.

Not long after Berkshire Hathaway acquired Benjamin Moore in 2000, Warren Buffett appeared in a video that was sent to the company's thousands of independent dealers, who sell the vast majority of Moore paints.

The Japanese company has been in flux, after delaying its financial reports and struggling to sell its nuclear unit.

The company shifted focus to the Internet of Things, 5G and the cloud after its mobile phone business was bought and sold by Microsoft.