Sentences with phrase «building my company after»

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).

That was the feedback I got when I started exploring the idea of building my company after leaving the corporate world to be with my kids.

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And Gillam notes that he's mostly avoided chasing after large - scale public - sector or tendered projects, although the company is part of a consortium that's signed on to build a $ 90 - million central campus for Barrie, Ont.

After 15 years of building companies such as Hotbar.com and SmartShopper.com, Oren Dobronsky checked out of technology and into... hummus.

Limestone Building Blocks Company has been handed a $ 65,000 fine after a worker at its Nowergup manufacturing plant was seriously injured when he became trapped in a block - making machine last year.

Those disparate pieces include File Keepers, an archival business records and information management company founded in 1974 after Rosenthal accepted a sweetheart deal to lease a vacant, 500,000 - square - foot building in downtown Los Angeles.

In 2016, after building out the business and its middle - and back - office infrastructure, he became head of trading operations for the entire company.

The company's update on April 10 came after Trump criticized Toyota and threatened the automaker with a «big border tax» if it followed through on plans to build a plant in Mexico.

It cost Lucara $ 150 million to build its sophisticated mine (known as Karowe), and the company found its first diamond soon after the opening in 2012.

But rather than start up any old publishing company — after all, times and technology have changed in the last century — Gao would build an e-book empire that didn't rely on authors to pump out blockbuster ideas.

Gerdes's success in building such sought - after services in just three years is a sure sign that in today's breakneck economy, strategic partnerships are becoming an increasingly critical part of growing a company.

Rather than naming the company after its first product, they suggested building an overall brand identity and then using the power of the superbrand to launch subsequent products.

After polling its full - time employees, SurveyMonkey found that although the employees were satisfied with their own benefits, they felt the company wasn't doing enough for contractors in the building.

Five years ago, after being a year or so in business, the three co-founders of Indiegogo, the second largest crowdfunding platform in the U.S, were brainstorming about why they were passionate about their business and how they would build the company.

So as the idea developed, about 6 months after doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people, industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.

The site has continued to build its audience after a $ 175 million to $ 200 million sale to Turner in 2012, and recently snagged a promised $ 100 million cash infusion from its parent company.

After mentioning at the company's worldwide developers conference on Monday that outside developers would be able to build their own services inside Apple's messaging app, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, reaffirmed the company's commitment to respecting users» privacy above all else.

Last fall, after buying a second plantation, he asked the company to invest $ 150,000, which he used to build 10 solar - powered houses and an apartment complex for workers.

Chen Tianqiao, who built game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment into what was once China's biggest internet company (big enough to rival Alibaba and Tencent), disappeared after leaving China and taking his company private in 2012.

The Building Commission's Building Services Board has imposed conditions on two Diploma Group subsidiaries, limiting their ability to carry out work, after the parent company fell into the hands of administrators just before Christmas.

Belmont - based property developer and construction company Diploma Group plans to build a $ 35 million, nine - storey residential apartment building in Scarborough, after buying two adjoining blocks of land along West Coast Highway.

After spending a dozen years building an export - minded pharmaceutical company that makes products geared at the booming cosmetic surgery industry, Ario Khoshbin has learned that the quintessentially human desire to look a bit better, and a bit younger, knows no geographical boundaries.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Volkswagen's new CEO, Herbert Diess, has vowed to build a more ethical culture after the company's diesel emissions scandal and outlined a new structure aimed at streamlining decision - making at the sprawling company.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP)-- Volkswagen's new CEO, Herbert Diess, has vowed to build a more ethical culture after the company's diesel emissions scandal and outlined a new structure aimed at streamlining decision - making at the sprawling company.

With a term sheet in hand, Yeom left his company after three - and - a-half years to build one of his own.

After all, if you are going down the road of raising money from venture capitalists, the basic contract is that you are going to build something great, and that your product has a chance of being a massive multi-billion-dollar company.

He has, after all, built a world - changing online payments company, revolutionized the auto industry, and dared the world to dream of putting boots on Mars in the next decade.

In 2011, Oregon enlisted Oracle (orcl) to build a healthcare exchange website related to Obamacare after being impressed by the company's sales pitch, according to a previous legal filing.

The news comes about two weeks after Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/2qYzgnh that Elliott, the New York hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, had built a position in Micro Focus and plans to push for changes at the company.

After the two designed their breakthrough invention — a router that connects computer networks — and spent six years building the company, Lerner was fired by its board of directors in 1990, the same year Cisco went public.

But after she found a business partner and perfected her pitch — adding community - building events to her strategy for promoting the line — she says she received incredible support from the company.

After building their proof of concept, the company was able to get early - stage funding from the MaRS incubator.

The company makes software to manage medical records but expanded into the business of building and managing health care clinics after rising health care costs prompted Cerner (CERN) to build its own in - house clinic in 2006.

COPENHAGEN / LONDON, Dec 13 - Activist hedge fund Primestone Capital on Wednesday urged U.S. cleaning equipment company Tennant and Danish peer Nilfisk to consider merging after building up minority stakes in both firms.

After exiting the apparel business, Rosenblum formed a multimedia and advertising company built around branded entertainment, advertising, and mobile application development.

LONDON, Feb 6 - After nearly a century building a company worth $ 125 billion based on injectable drugs, Denmark's Novo Nordisk - the world's biggest insulin maker - wants to prove this year it can transform the diabetes market with a pill.

I lean toward a system in which each new member of the board agrees to hand in their resignation every six to eight years, with the idea being that some directors will be asked to serve multiple terms it they are uniquely qualified to help the CEO and company build value, but most will be thanked for their service and move on after that time frame.

I lost a lot of sleep after making those buys, so, I set out to build a software product and a company to solve this purchasing problem.

Davis now sits on BlueRock's board, after spending the better part of 2016 helping to build the company.

After Amazon announced in September that it would build a second headquarters in an undetermined location, more than 50 North American cities concocted bids to persuade the company to choose it.

The company building the Dakota Access Pipeline turned to a federal judge late on Monday for a permit to finish the job after the federal government ruled against the controversial pipeline.

Not long after founding Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stopped talking about the company as a social site and started telling people he was building a digital phone book for the new millennium, and he never wavered from that grandiose vision.

After licking his wounds, Joe re-assembled the best managers he'd worked with and set out to build a new telecom company.

That said, CEO Ryan Holmes was a bit cagey; he promised he would build a billion - dollar company north of the 49th parallel, not that he wouldn't sell after that.

«Content can build a brand for you and can also help you scale that brand,» says Shaikh, who launched the company in June 2014 after receiving $ 1 million in seed funding from the E.W. Scripps Ccompany in June 2014 after receiving $ 1 million in seed funding from the E.W. Scripps CompanyCompany.

Even mighty Novartis, the No. 2 pharma company in the world after Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), trimmed four divisions as it built up its cancer portfolio.

And so, after six years of building his own nest egg as a salesman for Syncor International Corp., a publicly traded pharmaceuticals company, Romer launched the magazine that he'd longed for since boyhood.

Hey, Inc., the company behind the app had an interesting backstory: After building a few successful gaming apps, they had tried, for four years, to make their social media app take off.

Indeed, that attitude explains how, nearly seven years after their fateful game of catch, the former dorm mates — RAM not only stands for «Randy and Mike» but also is the nickname (Rams) of sports teams at Colorado State University, their alma mater — have built a $ 4.6 - million company that competes against the likes of Wilson, Spalding, and Nike.

«After we acquire enough companies and build up three years of audited financial statements from them,» Busch explains, «the public shell will sell stock, and we'll use the proceeds to pay off the original owners.»