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When that news turned out not to be an album but a pre-recorded monologue about a plant - based diet that the starlet occasionally favors — a barely - veiled shill for her forthcoming meal - delivery company — the Beyhive started swarming in furor.

«I think it's real tough for anybody to go out and start a business in a world he knows nothing about,» says Tom Golisano, the founder and CEO of Paychex Inc., an $ 870 - million payroll - processing and human - resource - services company based in Rochester, N.Y. «My advice to Mike would be to find a job in a dynamic industry and then to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities within that industry.

WeWork, the New York City - based company that provides shared work spaces for entrepreneurs, freelancers and small start - ups, is now attracting Fortune 500 companies.

As marketing communications manager for Atalasoft, a document imaging software company based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, she experienced days that started at 8 a.m. and kept going until 3 in the morning.

Perhaps for this reason, many people who invest in start - ups tend to favor companies that are based on small, executable ideas over grand strategies like Martian colonization or the resurrection of the electric car.

Debt relief, or income - based repayment plans, offer a safety net for individuals who want to start new companies, which sounds ideal for those coming out of school or those looking to turn over a new leaf later in life.

Those skills have taken her to Montreal - based cosmetic company Lise Watier, where after graduating she started a job this summer as a project manager for an in - store campaign that launched in October.

Recently, I started emailing with Steven McConnell, the head of digital marketing for Arielle Careers, an executive branding company based in Australia.

The model, called Lean LaunchPad, is based on a method of starting new companies that has been largely championed by Steve Blank, a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who partnered with UCSF in 2013 to offer the program for students with ideas for health - related businesses.

Forty - eight - year - old Paul Dresch has worked at Canada's Research - Based Pharmaceutical Companies, an industry association, for 23 years, starting as a financial officer and working his way up to a VP.

Toronto - based Entrepreneur Jason Greenspan started his company thinking it would make cleaning products for cars.

And of course, Craigslist has a massive head start on the company with a huge base of users and wide selection of items for sales, services, and job listings.

Omada negotiates prices for its program directly with them and has a «bill - based - on - results» policy, so anyone who starts the program but fails won't cost the company or insurer.

According to The New York Times, American Express led a $ 19 million strategic funding round, along with two other companies, for Payfone, a mobile payment start - up based in New York City.

«When we first started Fairy Tales Hair Care for Children, a salon - only line of organic products created to deep clean and condition as well as prevent head lice, we spent thousands of dollars on a direct - mail piece bundled with other salon - only products,» says Barash, 43, who started her NYC - based company in 1999.

Take a hypothetical Web - based start - up that sells a digital design for an object to a person or small company.

Mobipocket Two years before launching its first hardware device — the Kindle — Amazon started making investments in the e-reader's underlying technology, which included buying this Paris - based software company that developed an e-file format for physical books.

CrowdBouncer, a Buffalo, N.Y. - based company that launched in October 2012, was started by a lawyer who read the JOBS Act, and preemptively anticipated the regulatory pain points the new legislation would create for both entrepreneurs and investors.

The bottom line for Westheimer is if you have ambitions to start a software - based company and think you can't or shouldn't learn to code, think again.

GTCR acquires GreatCall — In June, GreatCall, the San Diego company that started out making smartphones for seniors in 2006 but now offers a suite of connected safety products for aging in place individuals, was acquired by Chicago - based private equity firm GTCR.

That was the case, when, for example, in September 2010, major broadcasters including CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and PBS sued a small and little - known start - up called ivi, a Seattle - based company that retransmitted broadcasters» signals over the Internet, allowing its consumers to watch live TV over the Web for a small fee.

Even though Facebook hasn't revealed the country-wise revenue figures, it is evident that India is one of the key markets in the consumer and enterprise space for the Menlo Park, California - based company, which started as a college social network at Harvard University in 2003.

Mr. Price, who started the Seattle - based credit - card payment processing firm in 2004 at the age of 19, said he would pay for the wage increases by cutting his own salary from nearly $ 1 million to $ 70,000 and using 75 to 80 percent of the company's anticipated $ 2.2 million in profit this year.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

The Toronto - based company on Monday announced it will air more than 100 live events in 4K — so called for its 4,000 pixels of horizontal resolution, amounting to about four times the sharpness of regular HD — starting in 2016.

Although the divestiture process for land - based drilling rigs has gone on longer than the company had hoped, Weatherford said it has started two other sets of divestitures to raise capital.

Offering total flexibility for home - based businesses, companies looking to create UK or regional office addresses, or for new start - ups wanting a more professional «business front», a virtual office is a good investment.

«People aren't necessarily looking at making a move for any personal reasons... they're just looking to get the process started and cover their bases if their company should go under or if there should be layoffs.»

Tim Romero is a Tokyo - based entrepreneur, podcaster, author and teacher who has started four companies and led Japan market entry for others since coming to Japan more than 25 years ago.

Stelios started his career working for his father's shipping company until the age of 25 when he created his first own venture Stelmar Shipping based in Athens.

The next set of metrics defines mission - level goals for each of our departments: number of companies started, number of top 100 restaurants carrying plant - based entrees, number of scientific grant dollars moved to plant - based and clean meat research, etc..

These strategies are expected to benefit from the preservation of the tax treatment of equity - based compensation, which is key to early - stage growth companies — and also from the tax law's provisions that make it easier for employees of start - up companies to exercise their stock options.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

Based in Richmond, Rawness is a company that started making 100 % raw desserts for local consumption.

The Berkeley - based company started baking its artisan bread for restaurants, grocery stores and hotels in a small space using traditional baking techniques and processes that had been on the wane in the industry for years.

«For a company the size of ours that started with 133 stores at the beginning of 2013, doing 48 contracts was a pretty aggressive target,» says Michael McFall, president of the East Lansing, Mich. - based gourmet coffee retailer.

The company already has 2011 plans for eight new units in 2011 as well a project with the Ohio based Mickey Mart chain of gasoline and convenience stores - starting with a new co-branding unit in Sandusky.

eos co-founders Jonathan Teller and Sanjiv Mehra started the company, based in Manhattan, NY, to «improve everyday beauty rituals for women.»

The successful experiment was to form the basis for Schultz to start his own company in 1985, Il Giornale, offering brewed coffee and espresso beverages made from Starbucks coffee beans.

The company started outsourcing for an investment partner that could further complement the brand, as well as increase capital base for expansion.

Short's Brewing Company's Key Lime Pie Capturing the main components of the dessert this limited - release beer is named for, Short's starts with a golden ale with specialty malts as a base, then builds the flavor from graham cracker crumbs, a small hop bill, lime juice, lactose, and marshmallow creme.

The next set of metrics defines mission - level goals for each of our departments: number of companies started, number of top 100 restaurants carrying plant - based entrees, number of scientific grant dollars moved to plant - based and clean meat research, etc..

It started, «In light of your very focused blog content around breastfeeding I wanted to touch base with some news from a company that is offering a unique solution and unrivaled support for breastfeeding moms.»

The endorsement from the group, based in Rochester, comes as Serino's re-election is being targeted by Airbnb, the online rental company that has started running ads opposing her bid for a second term against Democrat Terry Gipson.

Upon graduation, he hopes to start a business based around helping others, in addition to working for his family's automotive company in South Korea.

Positions for engineers also exist in niche companies like Calypso Medical Technologies Inc., a Seattle - based start - up that is working on cancer surgery technology.

Graduate roles in small start - ups also tend to involve more responsibility, says Christoph Roessner, managing director and co-founder of Süssen - based company Eight, which develops solar - powered charging stations for electric cars.

Israel - based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment — water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.

Davy and Loo have started a new company, called Andluca Technologies, based on the technology described in the paper, and are already exploring other applications for the transparent solar cells.