Sentences with phrase «average founder of»

I bet you didn't know the average founder of a venture - backed company is a former executive between the ages of 35 and 44.

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In fact, the researchers found, the average age of a successful startup founder is about 42.

When researchers looked at the top 5 % of rapid - growth startups, they found the average founder age was 42.1.

According to research from the Kauffman Foundation, the average age of a founder with a startup with more than $ 1 million in revenue is 38.

At just over $ 7.8 million in annual revenue, Buffer was averaging closer to $ 122,000 per worker this past fall, which the company needs to improve, says Carol Coughlin, founder of BottomLine Growth Strategies, a financial adviser to small and medium - size businesses.

If the average founder is likely to scratch their own itch, then successful founders will need a diverse team - if not be part of an underrepresented group themselves - to find niches that are ripe for disruption.

The founder of a well - known PR company once told me his payables are, on average, 43 days late.

Still, Al Goldstein, chief executive and founder of Avant, which has made 300,000 loans to consumers in the past three - and - a-half years, with an average value of $ 8,000, says the portrayal of the industry as recklessly making too many loans is flawed.

According to Tawheed Kader, founder and CEO of sales success platform ToutApp, on average it takes about 30 touches across email, social, meetings and phone calls to get one deal done.

When researchers looked at the top 5 percent of rapid - growth startups, they found the average founder age was 42.1.

-- Grant Cardone, top sales expert who has built a $ 500 million real estate empire, NYT bestselling author of Be Obsessed or Be Average, and founder of 10X Growth Con 2017; follow Grant on Facebook or YouTube

Even a site like the New York Times, which is already more mobile - optimized than many other sites, loads significantly faster: Instead of taking three seconds to load the average page, the Nuzzel founder said, a page loads in less than half a second when Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages is enabled.

The idea behind 60dB, which got its name from the frequency of the average human voice, is to make audio of all kinds that are easy to consume anywhere you have a mobile device or a smart - home appliance, the founders said.

The average age of a First Round founder is 32.

When the average age of a founder team comes in under 25, the startup performed 30 percent better than First Round's investments did on average.

According to company founder and Vice Chairman Steven Neelman, the health account industry is growing at an average rate of 20 percent annually, while his own company has seen its annual revenue increase about 40 percent in recent years.

-- Grant Cardone, top sales expert who has built a $ 500 - million real estate empire, NYT - bestselling author of Be Obsessed or Be Average, and founder of 10X Growth Con 2017; follow Grant on Facebook or YouTube

If we add the unproductive days that employees appear in the office despite being ill, each company loses an average of $ 4,600 per employee every year,» Philip Pogoretschnik, founder and CEO of Humanoo, said in a statement.

In related news, John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, told Bloomberg in a separate interview he agreed with Gross that investors should expect lower long - term returns than average returns produced over the last century.

The founders bring an average 35 years of real estate investing and operating experience to the business.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

Charles Dow, one of the founders of the Wall Street Journal newspaper, started the Dow Jones Industrial Average in May of 1886.

«Most offices are the average of what works for everyone,» says Mike Del Ponte, the founder of the water filter company Soma.

We then looked at average valuations, capital raised, and value (the difference between capital raised and valuation at the time of IPO / M & A) for companies led by founders versus professional managers.

But it is historically absurd of Barton to dismiss the separation of church and state as a myth, given that the founders expressly intended to end state support for a specific church, The founders were, on the whole, less religiously orthodox than the average American.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

RED EYE - June 10 - Single guys in Chicago who signed up on WhatsYourPrice.com, are shelling out an average of $ 173 to «buy» a date, according to Brandon Wade, CEO and founder of the site.

Founder Emily Wolfe said within the first eight months of launching, approximately 5 million unique conversations were initiated, all by women, and today the average user spends about 62 minutes on the app every day.

But Markus Frind, founder of online dating site PlentyofFish.com, says the average age of his members is 37.

Timo Hannay, founder of SchoolDash, says these schools on average do seem to make greater progress in GCSE results than local authority schools with a similar intake of pupils.

In a race that cost over $ 30 million, $ 25 million from outside groups, Torlakson was backed by labor unions and progressive activists while Tuck got the support of establishment newspapers and, according to one source, «30 donors who gave on average $ 267,000 each, including real estate developer William Bloomfield, Jr., Broad Foundation founder Eli Broad, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Emerson Collective Chair Laurene Powell Jobs.»

And an unpublished analysis carried out at my request by Johns Hopkins University psychologist Robert Slaving — a co-author of a number of these studies, and the founder of Success for All — found that, on average, black males participating in Success for All gained between one month and four months of reading ability (a level of improvement comparable to that of black females).

If you think I'm being unnecessarily gloomy here, Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords says that, for most writers, the average number of e books sold per title is 100.

According to John Bogle, the founder of index fund company Vanguard and a well - known champion of index funds, the average turnover for actively managed funds increased from 65 percent in 1975 to 90 percent in 2000.

Indexed Investing: A Prosaic Way to Beat the Average Investor; William Sharpe, Nobel Prize winner — This legacy work by founder of the Sharpe ratio and stalwart of modern investing lays out the importance of an index investing approach.

Nick Clements, founder of MagnifyMoney.com and former Director of Risk Management at Citibank explains that factors such as your history with the bank's products, your income, overdrafts or average account balances, or how much money you will put down on a car may factor into custom credit scores.

Nancy Peterson, Founder and CEO of Homestars, a website that connects consumers with contractors and other home improvement professionals, says that, according to their data, the average kitchen renovation in Canada costs $ 25,593 — but, she adds, that number depends on how extensive the work is and whether you're doing an outright gut of the space and replacing everything with new stuff.

For a February 2013 article for MarketWatch.com, Mark Hulbert, founder of the newsletter Hulbert Financial Digest, looked at how you would have fared historically if you had used the 200 - day moving average to time the market.

According to Paulina Podgorska, founder of SOSsitter, while the right price depends on your sitter's age and experience, the average price nationwide is $ 11 an hour.

«On average, most dogs will need to have their nails trimmed every 1 - 2 months,» Dr. Julie Buzby, founder of ToeGrips says.

In the past year, flea season across the country has been worse than ever due to increased temperatures on average throughout the U.S., said Adelia Ritchie, Ph.D., founder and co-owner of DERMagic Skin Care for Animals in Kingston, Wash., which offers organic flea and tick treatment products.

«It's always a challenge for retailers to drive average ring and margins up,» says Debbie Guardian, founder and owner of Opie & Dixie, LCC.

Stephen Garten, CEO and founder of Charity Charge, says the average cardholder donated $ 272 to causes and charities in 2017.

«Since the passage of AB 32 in 2006,» Next 10 founder F. Noel Perry writes, «California's GDP per capita has grown by nearly $ 5,000 per person — nearly double the national average — while California emissions per capita dropped by 12 percent.»

Women make up just 13.8 percent of legaltech founders — less even than the average across industries of 17 percent women founders.

A Founding Charter Member of the industry's prestigious Top of the Table, our founder has helped take the mystery and intimidation out of life insurance, making it available for all — from corporate leaders to the average American family.

Dumas would know: he's the founder and host of the EntrepreneurOnFire podcast, which has been downloaded over 8.6 million times and averages more than 800,000 unique listens a month in more than 145 countries.

As average investors rush into the world of digital currency, scammers are popping up to fleece them with familiar tricks — such as claiming they're associated with famous figures in the industry like Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin.

«Our most optimistic group of experts projects average annual home value appreciation of almost 5 percent annually through the five - year period ending in 2022, while the most pessimistic group expects an average annual rate of just 1.4 percent,» says Terry Loebs, founder of Pulsenomics, which conducted the survey in conjunction with Zillow.