Sentences with phrase «by younger startups»

What followed was one of the most aggressive, and costly, expansion efforts ever undertaken by a young startup.

When we were approached by a young startup, Tilt 365, last year we were intrigued by their service.

Not exact matches

Launched by Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Council (and an Inc.com columnist), Startup Insurance isn't an exchange so much as a broker for insurance options tailored specifically to entrepreneurs and small - business owners.

By way of pay, while the average worker at a startup earns about 6 percent less than a worker at a more established firm, the youngest workers earn about 3 percent more than they do at older firms.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

Below are some of the more interesting details about the young man who just turned down billions of dollars for his startup (which, by the way, isn't generating any revenue but has raised $ 73 million from investors):

Today, that baton could easily pass to Stripe, a San Francisco - based payments startup founded by two young Irish entrepreneurs, brothers John and Patrick Collison.

Young startups are often filled by highly - creative, superstar individual contributors.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

Jooki from Belgian startup Muuselabs was inspired by CEO Théodore Marescaux's two young daughters.

Mehta was joined by Caroline Ghosn, co-founder Levo League, a networking site for young career women, Maxine Bedat, founder Zady.com, an online retailer of sustainable fashion, and Lara Galinsky, author and senior vice president of Echoing Green, which provides startup funding to socially conscious ventures.

In the case of Yelp, the robots are provided by startup Marble, and have been said to resemble over-sized fax machines on wheels, a reference that might be lost on younger people.

We rely heavily on social media to get our message out, and on Feb. 13 I took part in a Google hangout arranged by Virgin StartUp, with a group of young entrepreneurs who were launching their businesses with assistance from the Start - Up Loans Co., an initiative funded by the British government.

Some young startup teams create camaraderie, he says, by «staying up late and working hard together.

Sacks was struck by scenes of a young Jobs — played by Ashton Kutcher — making call after call but unable to convince anyone to invest in his startup.

Goldman is on the hunt for the tech companies that will bring them a windfall when they go public, so the roster of startups they invite to the Bellagio is always a window into which young companies are viewed as the creme da la creme by Wall Street.

Smaller, independent brands are seen by many consumers, especially younger ones, to be more hip and healthy and rather than compete with them many big food and drink companies have looked to buy into and learn from startup innovation, a leaf straight out of Silicon Valley's playbook.

Equity - based pay is often used by the founders of young startups who want to grow their businesses but can not offer big salaries to qualified professionals.

Their generous contribution helped make our vision a reality by helping young Greek entrepreneurs further up their startup goals:

The Startup Visa program was launched by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) in April 2013, with the participation of the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) in order to support the efforts of Angel investor groups in bringing innovative young companies and their entrepreneurs to Canada, furthering our innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Along with higher multiples, we found the greatest dispersion of multiples for companies with $ 1 - 10M in revenue, which we theorize is caused by investors investing in future potential and hype of young startups as opposed to customer / user / revenue figures.

Young said the event helps propel animal health startups from KC and around the world by allowing them to pitch for capital and partnership opportunities.

Silicon Valley, London, NYC: Startup Genome Data Reveals How The World's Top Tech Hubs Stack Up Last year, we covered an ambitious collaborative R&D project called «Startup Genome,» created by three young entrepreneurs, Bjoern Herrmann, Max Marmer, and Ertan Dogrultan.

«The majority of venture capital (VC) comes from professionally - managed public or private firms who seek a high rate of return by (typically) investing in promising startup or young businesses that have a high potential for growth but are also high risk.»

There I'm immersed in a startup frenzy, with entrepreneurs (many of them young) throwing themselves into everything from organic fast food to fashion design, all renting room by the month.

Let's not forget that behind new startups there are many years of research mostly conducted by PhD students and young scientists.

Inspired by such findings, a startup company has launched the first clinical trial in the United States to test the antiaging benefits of young blood in relatively healthy people.

Newly arrived at UC Berkeley, Townes soon learned of plans by young professor William «Jack» Welch to build a short - wavelength radio telescope, and offered some of his startup funds to build a maser amplifier and microwave spectrometer so the telescope could be used to search for evidence of complex molecules, like ammonia, in space.

Zayner, a biohacker — basically meaning he experiments with biology in a DIY lab rather than a traditional one — was giving a talk called «A Step - by - Step Guide to Genetically Modifying Yourself With CRISPR» at the SynBioBeta conference in San Francisco, where other presentations featured academics in suits and the young CEOs of typical biotech startups.

I get surprised by some startups and so many spin offs emerging from universities, because completely disruptive young people come and you give them cloud technology they can access, use it, and do everything much faster.»

So far, we can imagine a geek Millennial generation just launched into the world of startups and working surrounded by other young innovators in a coworking space.

In a recent episode of the new HBO series, Silicon Valley, which tells the story of the trials and tribulations of a young startup company called Pied Piper, we see a scene that captures the challenges faced by non-techies in a land of techies.

The Small Business Administration (SBA) hopes to help young entrepreneurs by offering the Student Startup Plan.

Kiro'o, and the ascendent African game industry as a whole, is an important part of a blooming tech startup culture, driven by young people.

Not surprisingly, this disruptive change isn't being driven by lawyers, it's driven primarily by the young tech savvy entrepreneurs behind an internet startup called Willing, a web - based company that allows users to complete their own estate planning documents online.

Enter Ambrosia, the startup that's solving the problem of old people not having young people blood, by selling them young people blood to the tune of $ 8,000.

A small Austin startup founded in 2013 by a young maverick named Blake Garrett, Aceable is one of the more recent newcomers to the online driving course arena, but they've already served over 30,000 teen and adult drivers.

Organisations like YCombinator provide a welcoming environment for talented and dynamic young Europeans in California while the EU's regulatory structure is dominated by massive incumbent multinationals like Goldman Sachs that use the Single Market to crush startup competitors.

If startups are the future of London's economy, then keeping non-native citizens out would do more than dampen the city's cosmopolitan rep — it would prevent young, eager international students from being hired by startups that can't afford high visa sponsorship costs.

Initial Coin Offerings, termed ICOs by the cryptocurrency community, are a new way for retail investors to participate in the blockchain - based companies they support, and for the young industry's startups to find funding despite scrutiny from traditional VC firms and banks.

Without much cash or enough employees, and with product - market fit still to nail down, young startups might be anchored by the weight of regulation.

OnePlus, a young Chinese mobile startup took over the world by storm couple years back when they launched OnePlus One in 2014, which was their first flagship killer handset.

Everus Technologies Sdn Bhd, a young blockchain fintech startup that took an alternate route to market without an Initial Coin Offering ICO, is looking to accelerate mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies by focusing on the development of cryptocurrency commerce CryptoCommerce and streamlining their merchant onboarding processes.

Back in 2014, a young startup by the name of Blink hit the scene with a smart home security camera that promised to be affordable, truly wireless, and filled with the most important features.

My startup has been fueled by a passion for landlording that began at a young age.