Sentences with phrase «build a company now»

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Since launching Raleigh Construction Company (now Raleigh Enterprises) in 1955, he has acquired, developed and managed more than 11 million square feet of real estate across the globe, reimagining dormant plots of land and run - down commercial buildings as resort hotels, residential apartments, office towers, shopping centers and film studios.

Now you have to build the human resources to frame the company.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

«We're helping [companies] use Ontario's academic and clinical infrastructure to build an incredible dossier or package of evidence that they can now use to walk into any other major player,» says Khayat.

The popular plastic building toys are now a part of many childhoods the across the world, but the company had a humble start in the 1930s.

Building diversity strategies on the human need for empathy can rally a new generation of support — and if you've already started to take these steps in your company, don't stop now.

The gathering is intended to probe what companies from Johnson & Johnson to 3M to Samsung — as well as every leading consulting firm across the globe — have already discovered: that smart, creative, and bold «design thinking» is one of the most essential (if too - often - overlooked) pathways for companies to build better products, connect with customers, improve their collaborations, and make the day - to - day corporate processes that now drive most of us crazy less crazy - making in the future.

Great companies can be built in many places now.

Those buildings now house 12,000 employees from across Gilbert's Rock Ventures business portfolio of roughly 110 affiliated companies, including Rock Gaming, the developer and owner of urban casinos in the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Baltimore markets.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

In 2011, Skype's first employee, Taavet Hinrikus, cofounded TransferWise, an online money - transfer company, which now occupies four floors of a Tallinn building and handles about $ 1 billion a month in exchanges around the world.

Many land at Haxlr8r, an accelerator that has graduated more than 50 companies using a now - familiar model: Learn the basics of manufacturing and develop a prototype; raise funds (and build buzz) in the United States through Kickstarter; manufacture the product; and drop - ship it anywhere in the world through the Pearl River Delta's unparalleled logistics networks.

«Both companies are still trying, but each are now seriously considering returning to their home countries to build their businesses.

Strategic buyers and investors are looking to buy companies who have great executive teams in place that not only deliver results in revenue and profits now, but who also have built in the upside to deliver growth into the future.

«Now they'll be working to build the company even more and building their future at the same time.»

Now, as Ko is building company No. 2, a fashion - forward sunglasses brand called Perverse, she's leaning heavily on the discipline that helped her find success the first time around.

For now, focus on building the company brand, rather than your own.

The plant's buyer, an upstart company called CS Wind, is now retooling to build windmill towers.

«Instead now we see people who are on track to build big, important companies in Canada.»

Bombardier built his invention into an international company that now makes a diverse range of products, including Ski - Doos, subway trains and jetliners.

And I wanted a new, exciting challenge, to build a new company, which I have done with ValidateIt Technologies — the business I now run.

Like, I should be building my brand right now, all the time, along with big companies...

Now, CEO Jeff Jacober — who founded the company in 1996 with bank loans and his own savings and nurtured it into a business that does $ 15 million a year in revenue — needed cash to build up enough inventory to service the big pharmacy chains.

«Gun to his head,» Scott built a new company, Infinitus, clawed his way out of debt with a «new set of beliefs,» and now projects $ 2.8 million by the end of 2016.

«It's very sad and I'm very conscious that this woman's family has suffered a tremendous loss, but if you think about the industry, it's the safest form of transportation ever built and it's done nothing but improve,» said John Cox, a former airline pilot who is now president of consulting company Safety Operating Systems.

Among many other results, he started a company from scratch in 2009 that now builds about 10 % of Americas new wind energy installations (on average over the past three years).

Though it initially slowed our growth down, by having low debt we never put the company at financial risk and built a strong foundation we can now leverage.»

Her company applied for a permit to operate in the building more than two years ago but still hasn't received an answer, so now she pays a bribe.

While the $ 10,000 bioprinters — far cheaper than most of its competitors» — remain the company's bread and butter, the company is now putting more of a focus on building software that makes printing as easy as possible for its users.

An upgraded Facebook Live experience now allows companies to live stream to groups of employees in high definition and to switch between multiple cameras powered by technology built by software company BlueJeans.

«It took me seven years working at a big company to build a clientele,» says Michael Nunziato, a now independent hair stylist in St. Charles, Illinois.

NASA has a long history of launching them, and Virgin Galactic — Richard Branson's aerospace company — is now building and testing a suborbital vehicle called SpaceShipTwo.

These companies were built on TV, and TV was built on their advertisements, and while they are propping each other up for now, the decline of one will hasten the decline of the other

A member of the Build 100 list of sustained - growth companies, nfrastructure has nearly doubled its workforce in the last five years and now employs 250 people with revenues topping $ 55 million.

Now you can't exit a building without tripping over one,» said M.G. Siegler, a general partner at GV, the venture arm of Google's parent company, in a tweet earlier this month, echoing the sentiments of many.

Now it's just hiring and building out the company and scaling it.

Musk's point was that if Tesla engaged in conventional advertising strategies — the company currently does almost no advertising — it could increase demand, but its more pressing issue now is being able to simply built its cars, and build them well.

Now, as a big - fish investor on ABC's Shark Tank, John uses everything he's learned from more than two decades of business building to size up other companies as potential investment opportunities.

A quick test to see if you did this right is to ask if these core values would be relevant 100 years from now, assuming your company is around, which frankly should be the goal when building an organization.

I've spent the past decade building a company that is now the largest patient - physician platform in the U.S., and I believe one of the reasons why it was so successful was because of the company culture we put in place from the day the company was founded.

Available now, the update allows users «to easily and reliably build, refine, preview, prepare and print 3 - D designs, setting the stage for explosive growth in the 3 - D printing market,» the company said.

Buffett would eventually build his now $ 73 billion fortune at Berkshire Hathaway, then a struggling textile company that would become a holding corporation with stakes in Coca - Cola, Wells Fargo, and Heinz.

The company paid homage to the building's history as a former automotive dealership by keeping the operable overhead door that used to lead into the building's showroom (now a space used by BP Lower 48 for meetings and events).

Infosys President Ravi Kumar said the Bangalore, India - based company will start the $ 245 million, 141 - acre campus project by building a $ 35 million training center at the now - vacant site of the former Indianapolis International Airport terminal.

But, I can say that the millennial perspective, built from growing up with technology and coming of age in a tough economy, is invaluable to any company hoping to thrive now — and in the years ahead.

Both of those homegrown companies built a formidable strategic advantage by being first in the Latin American market, says Alan Colmenares, who worked for Intel's venture capital arm in Mexico and Brazil and now serves as a facilitator in his native Colombia for the Founder Institute, an incubator focused on tech start - ups across the globe.

With Trump, «We have a guy who is going to shut down immigration, the resource we need to build our companies right now,» Sacca told the audience of several hundred entrepreneurs.

I also started building my own company, which I now run full - time.

«That conservatism has been present through my entire career,» says McNally, now the president of Laval, Que., firm Équipement d'emballage MMC (a.k.a., MMC Packaging), which designs and builds automated machinery for companies that manufacture plastic caps and lids for anything from food products, to pharmaceuticals, to agricultural chemicals.

The company needs time to build up its fleet from the two cars it has now and go through the various regulatory requirements such as getting the vehicles smog tested and registered, the spokeswoman added.