Sentences with phrase «by starting new ventures»

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His daughter, Melinda Rogers, is a senior VP who was instrumental in starting the company's newest publishing venture by bringing subscription digital magazine service Next Issue to Canada.

According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 2011 saw «an across - the - board increase in the rate of entrepreneurial activity has not been seen in the U.S. in the last ten years,» and «the majority of entrepreneurs were motivated by improvement - driven opportunities to start new ventures.»

Dan Gilbert, CEO of Quicken Loans, for example, moved his company's headquarters to downtown Detroit to bolster the population numbers and help jumpstart the local economy, then provided further sustenance to the commercial ecosystem by opening a new start - up incubator and venture capital firm.

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

Several months after he left ESPN, Simmons announced that he was starting a new venture called The Ringer, and that it would be hosted by Medium, the blogging platform founded by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams.

Yet the fact that older, established businesses are getting by without a web presence does not mean you should try it — especially if you're an entrepreneur starting a new venture.

We are primarily co-investors alongside the venture capital and angel communities in Techstars accelerator program graduates, new companies started by Techstars alumni, and companies formed by Techstars mentors.

In the global venture capital industry, business and demand are moved primarily by the speed of technological innovation and the number of businesses that start to commercialize new technologies.

He is also a Member of the Dean's Council of Lerner College of Business of the University of Delaware, a Member of the Editorial Board of the Museum of American Finance in New York and a Member of the Advisory Board of MobileNerd, a start - up venture seeking to bridge the digital divide by making access to STEM training content cheap and easy for every person in the world.

Founded by angel and venture investor Russ Shaw, Tech London Advocates (TLA) is an advocacy group that aims to support technology start - ups in finding new investment, new talent and achieving high growth.

To learn how the God of the Christian heritage is addressing us in the new world, calling us, as he ever does, to venture into the unknown by faith alone, let us start at the very beginning and examine the nature of faith itself.

Today I am somewhat honoring these old beliefs by cleaning my house and starting new ventures and challenges.

As the co-founder of Sprout Organic Baby Food — among many other ventures celebrity chef Tyler Florence has a mission for new moms: Tackle the nation's food crisis in your own kitchen by starting your little one on fresh, healthy purées.

The venture, licensed by the New York State Department of Health, was started by a volunteer group of lactation experts that included physicians, nurses, and lactation professionals.

The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership's strategic plan, The Saratoga Strategy, outlines our efforts to secure new jobs and capital investment by engaging existing business owners, fostering the growth of early stage companies and planting the seeds and providing resources for new start - up ventures in Saratoga County.

The investment is led by New York - based $ 20M + venture fund Social Starts, alongside a group of private investors, and comes after a recent surge in users and revenue for the dating app.

Learning Through Libraries, a nonprofit started by Harvard Graduate School of Education students, has been selected as semifinalists in the Pitch for Change contest, which awards individuals and teams for their new social enterprise venture.

If you are so inclined, you may also want to read the recent Washington Post (10.24.16) article, entitled «The big problem with the Obama administration's new teacher - education regulations», in which the chair of Connecticut College's Education Department co-wrote that the «academy provisions» which were incorporated into ESSA (after initially being developed by the two charter lobbyist organizations New Schools Venture Fund and Relay Graduate School of Education) would exempt «entrepreneurial «start - up programs» (i.e. teacher preparation «academies»)... from many of the requirements that states will enforce for other programs — such as hiring faculty who hold advanced degrees or conduct research, holding students to certain credit hours or course sequences, or securing accreditation from the field's accrediting bodies.&raqnew teacher - education regulations», in which the chair of Connecticut College's Education Department co-wrote that the «academy provisions» which were incorporated into ESSA (after initially being developed by the two charter lobbyist organizations New Schools Venture Fund and Relay Graduate School of Education) would exempt «entrepreneurial «start - up programs» (i.e. teacher preparation «academies»)... from many of the requirements that states will enforce for other programs — such as hiring faculty who hold advanced degrees or conduct research, holding students to certain credit hours or course sequences, or securing accreditation from the field's accrediting bodies.&raqNew Schools Venture Fund and Relay Graduate School of Education) would exempt «entrepreneurial «start - up programs» (i.e. teacher preparation «academies»)... from many of the requirements that states will enforce for other programs — such as hiring faculty who hold advanced degrees or conduct research, holding students to certain credit hours or course sequences, or securing accreditation from the field's accrediting bodies.»

She has been a make - up artist for years, but has spent most of her working years in corporate America helping business owners get started in their new ventures by consulting with them in marketing, sales and business management.

Van Lancker is one of a trio involved in new ebook venture Oyster (good description and round up of the issues the start up will face by Martyn Daniels here).

Business plan help is sought not only by students who have no idea how to organize their ideas but also by inspired individuals who strive to start up a new venture.

He is also a Member of the Dean's Council of Lerner College of Business of the University of Delaware, a Member of the Editorial Board of the Museum of American Finance in New York and a Member of the Advisory Board of MobileNerd, a start - up venture seeking to bridge the digital divide by making access to STEM training content cheap and easy for every person in the world.

When you decide to start a new venture, always remember one of the best and valuable quotes by industry

When you decide to start a new venture, always remember one of the best and valuable quotes by industry veteran Steve jobs quoting «You «ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology.

The trouble is that, by stopping around the end of the 50s, the British Museum's collection misses out on the remarkable boost in ambition and quality of American printmaking that came from such ventures as June Wayne's Tamarind Lithography Workshop, which started in 1960, followed by the entrepreneurial ambitions of master printmakers such as Tanya Grossman in New York and Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles.

Given the current state of the global economy, many start - up businesses are finding it difficult to secure capital by way of a bank loan to fund new ventures.

People who are at the start of new careers or business ventures can save on costs by buying term insurance instead of a cash value policy so that they can utilize their balance income or capital to develop their career or business.

Most brand - new venture funds don't start life with $ 180 million in capital commitments, especially if they are launched by people who have not worked as venture capitalists before, and particula

Most brand - new venture funds don't start life with $ 180 million in capital commitments, especially if they are launched by people who have not worked as venture capitalists before, and particularly not if those people want to focus narrowly on the global interactive entertainment industry.

The investment was led by Insignia Ventures, the new firm started by ex-Sequoia venture partner Yinglan Tan.

And by the time it does, that would only be the start of its venture to other applications of the new feature.

Whenever I start a new venture, I write down my goals and reasons for making the change, and I keep that document close by for reassurance on the hard days.

«Construction has started on Fifty Five Hudson Yards, a 51 - story, 1.3 million - square - foot office tower being developed by Related Cos. and Oxford Properties Group along with its newest joint venture partner — Mitsui Fudosan America Inc.» -LRB-

Japan's largest public insurer is the backer behind the new venture Acore Capital, started by four ex-Starwood Property Trust executives, Commercial Observer has learned.

Many investors are lured by the promise of getting in on the next hot start - up, but most new businesses fail; if they do succeed, early micro-investors stand a good chance of being diluted out when real venture capital comes in.