Sentences with phrase «as company founders»

This California company started out producing bicycle trailers but as the company founders grew their families, they branched out into jogging strollers, seeking to develop a product that would accommodate active families in any environment.

It used to be that entrepreneurs were strictly thought of as company founders.

This is obviously not a guarantee for a later success as a company founder.

That may not be BN's problem for too much longer though, as company founder Leonaro Riggio started openly opining on the notion of buying back the company's 689 brick - and - mortar stores (not to mention bn.com) back in February.

He's been involved in many aspects of the solar supply chain — as a company founder, developer, project manager, manufacturer, permit runner, salesman, contractor and financier, climbs mountains, played football, enjoys an IPA or scotch, needs to get away, and really loves this strange connection between politics, energy, finance, environment, etc in the energy world, and likes run on sentences.

That's one of the hardest things to do in business, as every company founder knows.»

Not exact matches

The course helps founders think of their companies as a series of experiments aimed at locating the sweet spot where enabling technology meets a receptive market.

Vice President Joseph Biden gave a shout - out to health care startup Theranos and its founder on Thursday, as he toured the company's Newark, California, facility and then made some brief remarks before an audience of about 150 Theranos employees and press.

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

«The gig economy is typified by irregularity, meaning there is no job security and instead of having a boss who trains you and helps you improve, your performance is rated on a scale of 1 - 5 stars by strangers who have no understanding of your growth as a professional,» explains Scot Wingo, founder and CEO of Spiffy, a modern on - demand company.

On Dec. 10, the company hired Laurent Potdevin as her successor and said Lululemon founder Chip Wilson would step aside as chairman of the board but remain a director of the company.

Seeing someone like Katrina, who's done an A-plus job all around on so many levels — as a startup founder, as a leader who scales her company, as a leader who takes her company public — is hugely empowering.

As the founder of The Eurich Group, she helps companies from start - ups to the Fortune 100 succeed by improving their leaders» and teams» effectiveness.

Seeing someone like Katrina [Lake], who's done an A-plus job all around on so many levels — as a startup founder, as a leader who scales her company, as a leader who takes her company public — is hugely empowering.

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.

As angel investor and tech - company founder Tim Berry wrote on Entrepreneur, «You can probably cover everything you need to convey in 20 to 30 pages of text plus another 10 pages of appendices for monthly projections, management resumes and other details.

Many company founders, she said, «think about press as a transactional thing.

As part of the CEO Project, a boot camp for entrepreneurs, Schleckser advises CEOs and company founders on the most important areas of their business to focus on.

-- Nick Alt, founder and CEO of VNYL, a subscription company that launched as a successful Kickstarter project and, with its three - year growth, now curates 500,000 new vinyl records annually to its members

Rob Ferguson has resigned as chairman of litigation funder IMF Bentham after failing in a push for the company's three executive directors, including founder Hugh McLernon, to retire from the board.

For those not familiar with the show, it's important to know in the beginning of season 3, the awkward yet assertive founder, Richard Hendrix, is replaced as CEO of his own company by Jack Barker.

Holacracy founder Robertson said he was disappointed with the way some media outlets characterized 14 % of the company leaving as a sign of failure.

In a conversation with Term Sheet, Barna talks about her transition from operator to investor, her biggest mistakes as a founder, and whether she plans to start another company.

As the founder or owner of your company, you should extrapolate your values by running through a number of hypothetical scenarios.

-- Dr. Walter S. Scott, founder, executive vice president, and CTO of satellite imagery company DigitalGlobe, which provides images and geospatial content to U.S. government defense and intelligence agencies, international governments, and major online mapping platforms such as Google.

As she expands her furniture company, RockPaperRobot founder Jessica Banks walks us through her big decisions: where to manufacture, whom to partner with and what materials to use.

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Dual stock - structure doesn't necessarily give Zuckerberg final say in every decision, but his votes carry so much weight that it makes him an incredibly powerful player in the company»» even apart from his status as founder and CEO.

Besides figuring out whether a family member can take over the company's operations, succession advisors say clans must also come up with a consensus about a transfer of ownership, as well as implement a plan that allows the founder to extract their equity from the firm.

And, of course, then as the founder of the hugely successful personal finance software company Intuit.

Talkdesk founder Tiago Paiva predicts that figure will continue to rise as companies increasingly seek to excel on customer service.

«I still feel like I'm behind enemy lines» as a founder turned investor, Busque said, «So I'll say this: I've learned that there are thousands of reasons why an investor won't invest in your company that have nothing to do with you.»

For example, the late Apple founder, Steve Jobs, served as a mentor to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg during the early years of the company.

My wardrobe reflects where I've been — as founder of three companies and part of the startup community for the past eight years.

It starts with one, two, maybe three individuals, then propagates through the organization, and is reinforced by those founders or leaders as the company scales over time.

In a New Yorker report, Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, calls on companies to reassess their values: «This includes rejecting the cult of the top performer, which tolerates otherwise unacceptable behavior, and instead building a culture that functions as the company's immune system: surfacing cases of abuse and identifying toxic elements as fast as possible, and then quickly rejecting them.»

«We offer a visible benefit that positions the company as family - friendly and concerned with education,» says «Education Today» founder Jonathan Carson.

Idan Cohen writes: As the founder of two hardware companies, I agree that building hardware is hard.

Jacob Brody, founder of Benny, says he chose the name because he wants his company to be seen as a trustworthy helper, not a faceless corporation.

I can only speak for myself as a CEO and founder of this company, but I think the rest of my team would probably say the same thing.

«My goal has always been to give everyone at Sharethrough as much information, context and room to care as much as I do as a founder,» says Dan Greenberg, CEO of Sharethrough, an ad - tech company that creates software for publishers and brands and is considered a trailblazer in the native - advertising movement.

And, as she connected founders and investors, she saw that more often than not, it was the white male founders she helped that received the most opportunities: «It became clear really fast that there were certain people who were not getting meetings, even if they had a really great company.»

Benchmark's lawsuit is a transparent attempt to deprive Travis Kalanick of his rights as a founder and shareholder and to silence his voice regarding the management of the company he helped create.

Larry Kim: As the founder of pay - per - click management - software - company WordStream, Kim's Twitter account is a great source of PPC information, naturally, but he also tweets a lot about social media and content marketing.

Nathan Gilliland was the founder of Boston - based biomass energy company Harvest Power and more recently served as an entrepreneur - in - residence with Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of the world's largest venture capital firms.

And as founder and CEO of Deliciously Sorted, a luxury Ibiza concierge company, it's Serena Cook's job to ensure that every detail is perfect during their stay.

As an industry veteran and founder of TriZetto, which Cognizant bought last fall for $ 2.7 billion, I am often asked how to spot a successful company.

Through the work I've done at Growth Everywhere, I've been lucky enough to chat with notable entrepreneurs such as Jason Lemkin (founder of Echosign, which sold to Adobe), Mark Organ (co-founder of Eloqua, which sold to Oracle) and others who are constantly pushing the boundaries of business success with their own companies.

Shortly after setting up the company, the founders moved SoundCloud to Berlin, which was developing a reputation as one of the most startup - friendly cities in Europe at the time, partly due to its cheap accommodation and its abundance of talented programmers.

There are a lot of ways that one can describe Martha Stewart — cook, television personality, editor - in - chief and more — but most of us probably don't think of her as the founder of a massively successful company.