Sentences with phrase «as founders in»

I think we are still in a pretty good position as founders in terms of equity.

Jack - of - all - trades is probably more important to have around you as a founder in the early stages.

This movie is based on the life of Alan Turing — who is now credited as a founder in the field of computer science.

Having established itself as a founder in the electrified green car movement — and soon outdistancing Honda's hybrid efforts launched also in 2000 — the Prius has since just - qualified for the definition of «mainstream» product.

I decided to try again as a founder in 2011 and formed Tribal City Interactive.

Not exact matches

Its founder and CEO, Travis Kalanick, intoned as much at a Wall Street Journal conference last month in Laguna Beach, California, saying we all need to stop thinking of it as some fully mature corporation.

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Orascom's founder, said publicly a year ago he regretted starting a carrier in Canada, partly owing to Ottawa's failure to amend what he regarded as archaic foreign - ownership restrictions.

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.

In keeping with what has been a familiar theme for the founder at Glenview Capital Management, Robbins picked Express Scripts - Cigna, CVS - Aetna and McKesson as his winners in the fielIn keeping with what has been a familiar theme for the founder at Glenview Capital Management, Robbins picked Express Scripts - Cigna, CVS - Aetna and McKesson as his winners in the fielin the field.

John Khoury, founder and managing partner of the $ 2.7 billion Long Pond Capital hedge fund, revealed a long position in U.S. homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc, which he said should rise as more millennials age into the first - time home buyer market.

Despite the slow start, the team managed to cobble together $ 720,000 in seed funding from angel investors including Naval Ravikant, CEO and founder of the startup network AngelList, and investment firms such as Pantera Capital and Shanghai's Fenbushi Capital.

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.

As a first - time founder slugging it out in the ultra-competitive world of startups, the path isn't exactly a walk in the park.

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

As Vijay Chittoor, a marketing thought leader and the founder and CEO of Blueshift wrote:» «Marketing Automation 1.0» was all about reacting to simple «events» in a user's journey with a brand, with simple rules set up by marketers.

The founder of Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker, shared with «Managing Asia» in 2016 the leadership qualities that helped him champion China's rise as an economic powerhouse.

A founder returning in glory — as did Huffman and Ohanian — usually some years after first departing, is nothing unusual.

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.

Ricky's NYC founder and chairman Todd Kenig says Halloween sales account for about 20 percent of the firm's annual $ 50 million revenue, but Sandy forced to shutter all of its stores, as well as its corporate office, in the two days leading up to the holiday.

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.

-- Richard Lorenzen, founder and CEO of the PR firm Fifth Avenue Brands who was named by LinkedIn as one of the top millennial influencers of 2016 and included on Inc.'s list of 25 Inspiring Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017

Many venture investors have shared that, when a founder fails in their portfolio, they work to re-patriate that founder into a new business, project or concept as quickly as possible, so to not lose them to their own self - shame.

«Without strong relationships, it is impossible to have success as a business owner,» says Michael Denisoff, who is the founder and CEO of Denisoff Consulting Group in Redondo Beach, California.

«Because a relationship is only as strong as the reality we have it, I'm a firm believer of letting our partners in on the realities that we feel we are up against in life,» breakup expert and founder of Breakupward Chelsea Leigh Trescott told INSIDER.

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

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.

Today's Dell is a behemoth by every definition: $ 74 billion in annual revenue, 140,000 employees, and worlds away from the design - your - own - PC shop that its founder established as a teenager in 1984.

The statement was retweeted by Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, who is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

In June 2007 the founders of what was then known as Twttr entertained a buyout offer from Yahoo.

Founder and CEO Rob Rhinehart invented the first iteration of Soylent in 2013 as part of an experiment to swap food for raw ingredients to save time and money.

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

Investors will be slower to back high - risk organizations that may not perform as expected in the market, and founders need to align their strategies with this shifting landscape.

This is why investors invest in people, as they want to be sure the founders are capable of executing on their promises.

As writer Jeff Bercovici describes him in «Gim me Some Slack,» CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield is a serial founder, a guy with entrepreneurship in his bones.

In general, founders don't seem to worry about failure at the hands of their competition — only 5 percent cited this as a concern.

Although the FiveThirtyEight founder doesn't mention it (at least not yet), the media's desire for false equivalence or false balance likely played a role in the election's outcome as well.

Dig Deeper: Tips on Building Your Company Culture From a Blue - collar Millionaire How to Create a Company Philosophy: Practice What You Preach The principles in a company's philosophy have to come from, and be true to, the founder or CEO as a person.

The Gawker founder has reportedly had talks in the past with billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban as well as eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, who already funds his own independent media entity, First Look Media.

Out of all of the aforementioned brands, Huda Beauty is the most interesting to me as its founders (who are globally recognized influencers) did not come from a celebrity or cosmetics background - they started in finance.

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.

They're much more interested in speaking with a founder than a PR firm, because they want to hear your story just as much as they want to hear about your actual startup.

In addition to serving as the chair of Virgin Unite, she is also the founder and trustee of her own non-profit, Big Change, and the co-chair of We Day UK, an annual event that celebrates young people making a difference in the worlIn addition to serving as the chair of Virgin Unite, she is also the founder and trustee of her own non-profit, Big Change, and the co-chair of We Day UK, an annual event that celebrates young people making a difference in the worlin the world.

While walking in with lots of questions for those on the sales floor is totally acceptable, customers who don't realize it's the busiest shopping day of the year may feel let down when it's impossible for you to spend as much time catering to their requests, says Mike Wittenstein, founder of Storyminers, an Atlanta - based customer experience and service design consultancy.

Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton will file for personal bankruptcy protection as early as Monday after losing a fight in a Florida court for a shield against a judgment in a breach of privacy case involving professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, according to a person familiar with the matter.

But she'd grown up knocking on strangers» doors as a Jehovah's Witness (she no longer practices), and had no qualms about randomly reaching out to founders and investors and offering to help in any way she could.

The ace card that drove their popularity: Baker had spent six years as founder and CEO of another mobile ad startup, Enpocket, which Nokia bought for an undisclosed sum in 2007.

In 2015, Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square, announced his multi-billion dollar bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); he proceeded to lose nearly his entire investment, or $ 7.7 million every day for about two years, as Valeant stock sank 95 %.

Most founders use their time in Santiago as a sabbatical, during which they learn the startup ropes from previous participants who have stayed put in Chile — 132 graduates so far, according to Start - Up Chile's executive director, Sebastian Vidal.

Complex Sale founder and author Rick Page described these last few yards of a sales cycle as the crucible; like its chemistry analog, the sales cycle crucible represents a confined, pressure - packed space where explosive reactions rooted in emotion, politics, risk, uncertainty, and fear can occur.

Wood believes Tesla, with a current market value of around $ 56 billion, should be in the same league as the big four tech stocks due to Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX.