Sentences with phrase «as startups became»

And given that in the past, founders as a group were rarely in charge as startups became large companies, it's no surprise.

I explained that we at Virgin often worry about the same things as our startups become established.

As startups become a more popular form of employment, more people will find themselves with jobs that may not provide the financial safety net they need.

And what took off as a startup became one of the top three smartphone makers in 2014.

Not exact matches

It's also a natural deep water port and houses the largest naval fleet in the world, as well as the only major submarine and ship building yards in the U.S.. On top of that, it's becoming a center for the biotech industry and has a growing startup scene.

To illustrate that point, the report cites data that suggests the U.S. has become less entrepreneurial over the past 40 years as startups have struggled to compete in increasingly consolidating industries.

That last point is something I'm very familiar with, as the St. Louis area (where I call home) has become home to three fast - growing startup competitions: placeholderArch Grants, the Ameren Accelerator Demo Day, and the St. Charles County Demo Day.

As fashion becomes more reliant on content marketing, startups focused on sophisticated analytics, 3D printing and other emerging technologies come to the industry's forefront.

Of course, St. Louis isn't the only city to host startup competitions or demo days, as the events have become an important building block of entrepreneurial ecosystems across the country.

In 2014, Kaz Nejatian persuaded former Visa CEO Joseph Saunders to invest in and become the chairman of the board of his credit card payments startup: «Joe kept telling us to worry about scale — to worry about how this would work when we're running hundreds of thousands of transactions per second as opposed to one or two.

As I strive to build my startup I become more and more self - aware.

Since leaving Burberry, she has become a serial entrepreneur who most recently held the CMO job at Hone, a social intelligence and curation startup for marketing and communications groups, and the music discovery app Stagedom (as well as approximately 20 other entrepreneurial ventures).

Always the riskiest level on the funding food chain, venture capital experienced its own mini-boom, as fund - raising became easier and more ideas and innovation could be supported at startups.

However, it becomes more tiresome for a startup as it takes them a lot of time hiring and hunting for the right people.

But as software to run these chips becomes easier to program thanks to startups such as BitFusion and the chips themselves require less of a performance hit thanks to companies such as Flex Logic (which recently raised $ 7.8 million from Eclipse Ventures), more people can afford to use them.

One sector that lagged behind was startups, as people become increasingly worried about valuations and stability at a number of firms as they either delay going public or struggle in the public market, such as Snap Inc. and Blue Apron Holdings Inc..

This will become harder to navigate as the startup experiences ups and downs.

As Europe's startup ecosystem becomes decentralized, some of the coolest offices in the region can be found in remote cities from Zagreb, Croatia, to Gilwice, Poland.

What these people know — and what more Canadians need to understand — is that truly innovative companies tend to create more value as time goes on, as they shed the hype and tumult of the startup phase and gain the customers, experiences and processes needed to become global businesses.

As the startup ecosystem continually gets flooded with new ventures, getting media attention is becoming more and more difficult.

It's easier if you're a startup with just a handful of customers, but as you ramp up, it becomes important to «make your millions of customers individually feel like they are one in a million,» as Leyden puts it.

In the past four years, influencer marketing has become a reliable customer acquisition channel for software - as - a-service startups, app developers and more.

As VR becomes increasingly mainstream, real estate startups like Matterport are taking off.

With the world of startups becoming more competitive than ever, it's important that a business leader be as proactive as possible in getting his great idea out there to avoid the competition sweeping in and capturing his intended customer base.

Prior to becoming a TV host and entrepreneur, Deanne designed opto - mechanics for military aircraft sensors and worked as a senior application engineer for a CAD software startup.

The consumer market will benefit as a result, but industries will become much more competitive as innovative startups take on corporate giants.

I've adopted many of the tools in this book to realign my time management and become even more productive while still answering to the many demands I face daily as president of a startup.»

Talk of using the MBA experience as a place to fine - tune an idea, recruit partners, gain access to seed capital, and finally launch a startup is becoming as ubiquitous as discussions about forthcoming job interviews at McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs.

As The Information notes, Kalanick and two people close to him control a majority of shareholder votes, an approach that has become frequently used in tech startups.

It's marketed as being an easy way to become a business owner — it takes relatively little startup capital, etc. — but Rose knows more people who have been burned by this investment strategy than people who have had a positive outcome.

As to whether today's drone startups will become big publicly traded companies and whether big airliners may eventually get into the drone business themselves, Ayer said «the crystal ball isn't clear — it never is.»

Chicago, which has the second - highest number of startups on the 2015 Inc. 5000, is fast becoming a manufacturing hub, thanks to the advent of 3 - D printing, as Inc. columnist Howard Tullman notes.

And they're also stepping up to invest in and buy more and more startups as M&A is rapidly becoming the new R&D.

Like a child, the startup culture you create will become a reflection of you — the company's founder (or founders)-- as well as your early hires.

Jeff Anders, CEO of the Toronto - based online media startup the Mark, says if Flattr wants to become a viable model for content creators to make money, they need to partner with big websites such as the Huffington Post or the CBC.

In my current role as a talk - show host for a new online venture, Ora TV, I've become more aware of the challenges faced by startups.

You will become so used to failure as a startup that you should be able to brush it away without any problems whatsoever.

The reality is that nearly all startups «pivot» as part of their natural evolution, says Serbinis, who is quickly becoming one of Canada's most respected serial entrepreneurs.

The U.S. has become rich with new incubators and accelerators aimed at startups in such categories as agriculture, art and design, biotech, food and clean energy.

Ultimately this all shows us something about how SaaS companies change over time namely that the KPIs SaaS startups must track become more numerous and nuanced as companies scale.

As more established tech hubs become saturated, making it harder to find talent and raise funding, and protectionist governments continue to build walls, sign Brexits, and reduce startup VISAs, startups are inevitably going to start looking further afield in search of their potential launch pads.

(Autonomy is a myth as an entrepreneur because your entire life gets consumed with your startup, and your clients, users, team and investors all become your new bosses sucking up all of that «freedom» you've been dreaming of.)

As reported by Forbes the institute which was spearheaded by startup Finova Financial along with 60 other interested parties in order to «envision and design guard rails for the blockchain and cryptocurrency industries as they mature and become more mainstream.&raquAs reported by Forbes the institute which was spearheaded by startup Finova Financial along with 60 other interested parties in order to «envision and design guard rails for the blockchain and cryptocurrency industries as they mature and become more mainstream.&raquas they mature and become more mainstream.»

And in the larger context of the sharing economy that Uber had become the poster child for, the shakeup at the top levels raises questions about the health and sustainability of the growing community of younger, smaller startups as well.

It's standard practice for tech startups, and only recently has it become available for non-tech businesses as well.

Other events such as Swift's Innotribe Startup Challenge have become an established fixture in New York, London and Singapore every year.

As is becoming increasingly clear, investment is the life blood of the startup world.

Connecting local entrepreneurs with investors grows the region's long - term wealth, as every startup has the potential to become a major asset to the community.

More recently, as a startup, our dissatisfaction with software such as Nexonia has become a painful topic.

Noam Bardin has served as CEO of Waze since March 2009, building the company to become one of the world's most talked - about startups through its acquisition by Google in June 2013.