Gouw and Fonstad, both longtime VCs who worked
at firms like Accel and DFJ, didn't set out to create a «female - focused» fund when they launched Aspect in 2014.
Another manager
at the firm liked and replied to a Facebook post by one of Mr. Greenberg's ex-wives in which she described his abuse.
The fund comes during a tumultuous year for the venture capital and tech industries as they deal with sexism scandals that have resulted in the ouster of notable investors and executives
at firms like Ignition Partners and startups like Uber and SoFi.
10 The lab - accident rate in schools and colleges is 100 to 1,000 times greater than
at firms like Dow or DuPont.
We have said that you need to watch the changes taking place
at firms like Third Avenue and FPA.
As pointed out in an article by Anna - Louise Jackson, Steve Mathews, and Anthony Feld in Bloomberg Finance, «Temporary Work Demand Rises as Companies Avoid Commitments: Jobs,» the number of workers needed
at firms like Kelly Services (NASDAQ: KELYA) and other temp agencies has increased due to market demand, now almost $ 30 billion, for on - demand labor, both blue collar and executive.
Schedule Events
at your firm like in - house seminars or outside speaking engagements by lawyers.
When it starts happening even
at a firm like Skadden, you know, notwithstanding comforting noises by law firm managers, and deep in your heart, that I'm right.
There's a lot of opportunity
at a firm like Latham.
As for Facebook, I get that deleting your account may sound like you are doing something, but you aren't the customer
at firms like Facebook and Google — you are the product.
Back when I worked
at firms like Noyes & Mercer in New Haven, Connecticut, I had a much different preparation strategy than I do now.
There are good, experienced agents out there, but they are dwarfed in numbers by the masses, the majority of which have parked their licensed
at firms like yours trying to just survive.
Now, experts
at firms like CoStar put the odds of another interest rate increase in December at just roughly 33 percent.
Not exact matches
ROSS, for example, helps small law
firms pour through documents, much
like the armies of lawyers do
at big
firms.
Interns
at this nerdy Shangri - La earn more than $ 7,000 a month, according to a study by salary - tracking
firm Glassdoor — and that's not counting perks
like flexible schedules, on - site haircuts and a company retreat known as «HobbitCon.»
Designed to look
like a doll's house, the multicolored meeting rooms
at architecture
firm MVRDV each serve a different purpose — a dark blue room is used for more serious board room meetings, while a bright green room houses table tennis.
On the third floor of Fidelity Investments» Boston - based headquarters is a room that looks more
like something you'd see
at Apple or Google than
at a 70 - year - old mutual fund
firm.
The most recent Global Green Economy Index (GGEI), produced by the US consulting
firm Dual Citizen, looked
at 60 countries and 70 cities and ranked them based on their overall green economic performance, which includes energy efficiency, climate leadership, and investment in clean technologies
like recycling, renewable energy, and green chemistry.
And
firms like Mojio, a Vancouver startup whose products are in pre-market testing, is one of several
firms that are targeting the vast base of cars that don't have touchscreens
at all, but whose owners would
like to reap the benefits of constant connectivity.
This company - building - companies structure also lends itself well to helping large corporations behave
like startups while
at the same time giving smaller businesses access to resources only available to larger
firms.
I along with two colleagues Johanna Blakley (Managing Director
at the Norman Lear Center), and Valerie Jacobs (Vice President of Trends
at LPK) have dug into this phenomenon and developed a framework where we consult non-fashion
firms to think, behave and strategize much more
like fashion
firms.
As e-commerce has gained a foothold in Canada,
firms like Mastermind have seen online shopping revenues grow
at double - digit rates.
With the benefit of hindsight, Novolker points out that for a business - to - business
firm like his, many larger potential customers in the States may balk
at the prospect of being the first customer, even if the supplier has a solid reputation in Canada.
«It's
like a venture capital
firm without a profit motive,» says Russell Shilling, a former Darpa program manager who now develops educational tech
at a nonprofit called Digital Promise.
Long - term care insurance, which covers expenses
like nursing home care,
at - home nursing care and other late - life needs, is fast becoming too costly for many retirees to afford, according to a recent study from LifePlans, an industry research
firm.
And rates of new
firm creation — potential high - growth startups
like Spotify — are
at historic lows.
Moro explained that traditional banks and brokerage
firms have been reluctant to act as custodians because of know - your - customer laws, and because any such
firms that carry bitcoin must back it with dollar - based reserves
at a one - to - one level — a formula that ties up capital, and is an unattractive proposition for the
likes of Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan.
Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, a hedge fund that specializes in cryptocurrencies, says his
firm trades on all the major online exchanges, but will turn to a trading outfit,
like Circle's, when the desk posts prices «
at a discount to the market.»
«People looked
at us
like we were buying real estate in Cleveland — it could be a good thing but is hard to understand,» Durban says in an interview
at the
firm's posh, marble - floored offices on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif..
When I told this story to Alan Tecktiel, Global HR Director
at the law
firm Baker & McKenzie, he noted that Jill was able to go to the lengths she did because companies
like FedEx (FDX) their employees to do these kinds of things.
«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.
«My group and
firm management are committed to ensuring that I deliver excellent client service
at all times, but they are also very committed to making sure associates
like me have a healthy work - life balance.
«Businesses and enterprises are letting employees use the latest smartphones and access things
like corporate emails and suddenly the mobile device is as convenient as on working on a larger device,» Vinod Banerjee, partner and data protection specialist
at law
firm Taylor Wessing, told CNBC by phone.
His four years
at the white - shoe law
firm Latham & Watkins had crushed the notion that his career would ever measure up to his childhood dreams of strutting across a courtroom
like the lead attorney in a John Grisham novel.
So while a
firm like NEA may not have a woman
at the table when the big decisions are being made, there is an argument that it can afford the infrastructure needed to stem bad behavior, both
at its portfolio companies and within its own ranks.
«The compliance bar for companies to go public is much higher than in previous years, so things
like pending litigation and accounting irregularities need to be clean,» says David Zilberman, partner
at venture capital
firm Comcast Ventures.
The Vancouver company,
like other Canadian tech companies, is competing with San Francisco's Silicon Valley which regularly draws software engineers to work
at heavyweights Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and LinkedIn, and startup
firms.
It's something
like adding more boxcars to a train without adding any locomotives, said Eric Burgener, a director
at the market research
firm IDC.
At the time, the only companies that were making athletic shoes anything
like today's models were the West German
firms Adidas and Puma.
Ning and Slide were very young businesses
at the time they raised tens of millions of dollars (
like $ 50m) from these
firms at valuations in the half billion dollar range.
A provision included in a regulatory relief bill would require
firms like Equifax to let you freeze your credit report
at no cost.
Elite MBA talent is being heavily recruited by tech
firms, especially
at a few target schools,
like Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business and MIT's Sloan School of Management, according to new analysis from Poets and Quants, a news website that covers business schools.
«The key is not to trap gains in a C corporation,» says Steve Wiltse, partner
at accounting
firm Argy, Wiltse & Robinson PC, in McLean, Va. «You want some flexibility by doing the deals in a pass - through entity
like an S corporation or an LLC.»
The Mountain View, Calif., company has pioneered the use of bar - coded vouchers, which any desktop imaging device can produce and which can be used to pay for anything from goods
at 7 - Eleven stores to rental cars from
firms like Avis.
At the same time, tech
firms like Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet's Google have looked to play a bigger role in the $ 3 trillion health market, with mixed success.
In the 1990s, when you mentioned Stratton Oakmont to people
at white - shoe
firms, they rolled their eyes, or tsk - tsked about how over-the-counter
firms like that would give finance a bad name.
The study, which surveyed senior individuals
at 10 major London - based national and international executive search
firms, found that recruiters relied on «more observable factors»
like the quality of their references, the progression of their career path and their personality.
At $ 30 - $ 75 per month, which includes other benefits
like syncing, sharing and cloud storage, this instantly makes such apps affordable for more than just professional designers employed by enterprise or big media and advertising
firms.
Examples include on - site libraries, self - paced video courses and virtual learning events
like those
at Big Four audit
firm KPMG.
At the time, American
firms like Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and Lockheed were growing in strength and influence around the world.