Sentences with phrase «at entrepreneurial companies»

CIOs at entrepreneurial companies face a delicate balancing act.

Ideally, you're looking for someone with prior experience at an entrepreneurial company.

Not exact matches

Wherever you are on your entrepreneurial journey, you likely kicked off your career like many of us by taking a job, maybe at a large company, to gain some experience.

«I believe that most of the problems in the entrepreneurial ecosystem have their origin in the philosophy of short - termism that infects our companies, our investors and our public markets,» he told the crowd at a recent event in Vancouver.

Take a look at Tom Foster's fascinating profile of a founder who is most definitely not cool with another one of those entrepreneurial paradoxes — namely, to grow your company, you sometimes have to let go.

«Most students find this experience very helpful in thinking about whether they'd like to start their own venture at some point, to join an early stage company, or to work at a firm that's further along in it's growth trajectory,» Deb Whitman, director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies explained in an email exchange with Poets & Quants.

When you hear about the successes of great companies, you often hear about the entrepreneurial leader at the helm of the organization.

At the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey, Daniel Lubetzky, now the CEO of Kind, a leading healthy snack food company, was working at another snack brand importing fruit - nut bars when a major change occurreAt the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey, Daniel Lubetzky, now the CEO of Kind, a leading healthy snack food company, was working at another snack brand importing fruit - nut bars when a major change occurreat another snack brand importing fruit - nut bars when a major change occurred.

At our recent Entrepreneur Live event, founders of well - known and well - loved consumer brands shared what helped them stay on track with their missions in the midst of the changes, challenges and opportunities every entrepreneurial company experiences.

New York, NY — «In a shocking rebrand, Alley, New York City's most beloved entrepreneurial ecosystem, will no longer be accepting human applications,» a company representative said this morning at a board meeting in their Chelsea headquarters.

«There is such a robust entrepreneurial community and a real energy around starting companies at Wharton,» Klein says, who comes from a family of entrepreneurs dating back to his grandfather, who started a shoe company when he arrived in America after World War II.

Toronto - based Satish Kanwar, director of product at Shopify, an Ottawa company that offers software for creating an online store, speaks of the opportunities found by those who choose to work in a startup before taking the plunge themselves: «One of the best things someone can do is date a company first to see if you like startups and the entrepreneurial space before you commit to it,» he says.

Small companies back then were already proliferating and growing, to the point where David Birch, then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would soon announce his dramatic finding that entrepreneurial ventures were creating most of the new jobs.

«But there's potential,» adds Cuban, who was speaking with OZY Media's CEO and co-founder Carlos Watson at his company's OZY Fest 2017, an annual event in New York City, which pairs entrepreneurial luminaries with politicians and entertainment personalities.

In the assessment of Mendy Kwestel, a partner and director of entrepreneurial service at accounting and management - consulting firm Grant Thornton LLP, in New York City, «there is a ton of money — so much liquidity throughout the marketplace — that there is now private - equity money available for companies at every stage of development.»

Fox, who generally looks at companies only in New England, says that despite the benefits it bestows on investors and entrepreneurs alike, royalty financing has not reached the mainstream of entrepreneurial finance.

At the time, Millennial Branding's managing partner Dan Schawbel told Inc.com that he believes the entrepreneurial life appeals to younger workers because, «they can have an impact on Day 1, whereas in a large company, they would have to go through months of training only to be stuck in a single role.»

«A lot of entrepreneurial people want more entrepreneurial opportunities than life at a company with a value of $ 9 billion can offer,» Litan says.

About one - fourth of the engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one key founder who was an immigrant, according to the Kauffman Foundation, a research group that advocates for entrepreneurial policy.

At a time when U.S. unemployment is running at 9.1 percent, and Washington is desperate to encourage the creation of new companies (and jobs), the absurdity of turning away a rich source of entrepreneurial talent is plaiAt a time when U.S. unemployment is running at 9.1 percent, and Washington is desperate to encourage the creation of new companies (and jobs), the absurdity of turning away a rich source of entrepreneurial talent is plaiat 9.1 percent, and Washington is desperate to encourage the creation of new companies (and jobs), the absurdity of turning away a rich source of entrepreneurial talent is plain.

I have earned my entrepreneurial stripes over the preceding fifteen years, having started my first company at the age of twelve.

Thus, while it initially appeared that the bill was designed to foster entrepreneurial development of decentralized systems, such as the Ethereum network, to allow individuals to reclaim some power from large companies, the bill does not accomplish that aim as it treats public and private blockchains (and possibly even legacy payment systems) equally.By opening this loophole in the definition of blockchain, Nevada does not appear to be showing any more support for the blockchain upstart community than it shows for multinational financial institutions and banks at large.

Follows Kevin Simpson, a second - year Harvard Business School 1990 student, through his job search to his final decision between two very attractive but different job offers: a job as an international marketing manager at Eli Lilly and Co., a leading multinational health product corporation; and a position as the assistant to the president of Haemonetics, an entrepreneurial company in the biomedical equipment field.

But perhaps the classic entrepreneurial company is a pure technology play: Tonbo Imaging, a Bangalore - based company launched by Arvind Lakshmikumar, an engineer who studied at India's Birla Institute of Technology and at Carnegie Mellon.

The Build Accelerator is a startup accelerator program focused on early revenue startups, those who have progressed beyond the idea phase with initial market traction, and are developing the entrepreneurial skills required to grow the company with a strong emphasis on sales and marketing at scale.

The entrepreneurial spirit that lives at Grand River Foods has helped the company grow to produce more than 200 private - label food products for the top grocery, restaurant and foodservice companies in Canada.

At the core of our company is an entrepreneurial passion and agility that brings curiosity and a can - do ethic to customer collaborations.

The Trust wants established companies to donate at least # 250 to fund new entrepreneurial projects and is aiming to raise # 1 million from 4,000 firms.

During his tenure, ECIDA's affiliate lending company made some 396 loans for over $ 61 Million, established an innovative loan program which allowed for structured participation loans with local commercial lenders, initiated the ECIDA's participation in the SBA Micro Lending program, and launched a minority entrepreneur loan / scholarship program aimed at creating entrepreneurial opportunity in the minority community.

This curious hermit happens to have had a former life as both a professor at Harvard and an entrepreneurial CEO at a successful biotech company that made millions for its investors.

With 108,000 employees worldwide, the Germany - based company (# 20; reappearing on the list since being # 19 in 2006) looks for versatility and the kind of entrepreneurial thinking encouraged at Bayer's «innovation centers» in China, Europe, and California.

«Over the past five years, our faculty has increasingly engaged in entrepreneurial and technology transfer activity — with significant increases in the number of U.S. and foreign patents issued, technology inventions licensed and start - up companies formed,» says UMSOM Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor.

This couple is beyond brains: Paul was an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, became a software entrepreneur during the Internet boom, and now provides strategic advice to entrepreneurial companies while pursuing research in economics.

Klein will leave at the end of the year to work for Rupert Murdoch's media company, to pursue, he says, «entrepreneurial ventures» in the education marketplace.

My favorite presenter at the recent Inc. 500/5000 conference was Guy Kawasaki, who offered an informative session about cultivating and maintaining «enchantment» in your customers or clients, so perhaps this series of posts in which I summarize those points and discuss how they are applicable for us at Outskirts Press will also help you apply the information to your own entrepreneurial efforts (starting a business, running a company or yes, even marketing a published book).

These would be entrepreneurs often end up taking jobs at other companies and hoping to someday be able to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.

At company A, everything was thin and entrepreneurial.

My studied opinion, at this point, is that, with all the subsidiaries in the various countries, the sheer number of companies acquired and Raina's entrepreneurial approach to business, the company has probably played a bit fast and loose with its accounting.

«My experience as a money manager suggests that the entrepreneurial instinct equates with sizable equity ownership... If management and the board have no meaningful stake in the company — at least 10 - 20 % of the stock — throw away the proxy and look elsewhere.»

Alcide Leali After his graduation at the prestigious University of Bocconi in Business Administration and a successfully completed Master of Science in International Management in 2008, Mr Leali joins Lefay Resorts as Marketing Director, in charge for the Corporate sales and marketing strategy and in 2011 he is appointed Managing Director of the company giving a top contribution to the new entrepreneurial project of the Leali Family in luxury and wellness first class tourism.

Renuka spent ten years at the Fairmont Waterfront in Vancouver before taking on her entrepreneurial spirit, creating and then selling her own company of beautifully designed social stationary and an aromatherapy line.

«These companies have all traded at a very high premium almost reflecting it will be the last time they will be sold because now they are in a big strategic company and no longer a smaller entrepreneurial company,» says Scott.

Our lawyers have 25 years or more experience as partners at leading US law firms, general counsels to private and public companies, and entrepreneurial founders of companies and law firms.

«We thought this accelerator needed a corporate business law firm because they are strong on the art product side and we thought because we are mid-market and entrepreneurial it was a good fit,» says Jamie Firsten, partner at Cassels Brock who focuses on early stage financing for emerging tech companies.

Rogers» strong entrepreneurial spirit and commercial drive pushed her to leave her law firm at the time, Borden Ladner Gervais, and join Global Relay, a Vancouver based IT company that only had three employees.

Byun said that the BitLicense proposal needs to have a bit more appetite for risk - taking since many companies in the virtual currency space are, at heart, entrepreneurial firms:

Bid Writer — Proposal Writer West London 28k to 32k DOE This is an opportunity to join one of the UK's highest potential and most entrepreneurial Ofsted grade 1 rated education and training companies at a turning point in the industry, a market leader.

Entrepreneurial executive with more than 20 years experience managing sales, marketing, operations, and personnel at the district and regional level for both start up and established companies.

SUMMARY MBA * International marketing, media, and advertisement experience between China and the U.S. * Associate / trainer at Goldman Sachs * Seven years of work experience in Investment Banking, Wealth Management Operations, Auditing and Accounting * International logistics company owner (U.S. to China) * Entrepreneurial Spirit

«At the same time, we are creating a company that has a global perspective and is entrepreneurial and ambitious.