Sentences with phrase «company first built»

When the company first built its own self - driving prototype it cost $ 75,000.

Not exact matches

The company is still billions of dollars and years away from building its first official tunnel, however.

Together, the 2 companies aim to build Mars Base Camp, the first Mars space station.

Executives from all three companies agreed that innovative Canadian startups can still find money, but unlike their American cousins — which often have such funds thrown at them — they have to work at building a proper business first.

The company didn't venture into the realm of flavors sooner because it first needed to build up its staff, he says, adding that headcount has doubled over the past year.

The top two: Jazzing up (or first building) company web sites and ramping up the showcasing of company products and services online.

Claiming to be «North America's most diversified construction company,» the Ledcor Group completed work this fall on the Enbridge Centre, the first new office tower built in Edmonton's financial district in 20 years.

That allowed companies to build large, efficient, centralized factories, and with them, came the first tycoons.

Fundraising is, first and foremost, a way to keep the lights on, make some key hires, and continue building our startup, Iodine, into something like a company.

When I first built my company, I wanted to make sure that a culture of respect and equality permeated everything we do — and not just respect for individual differences but also for larger cultural differences.

Long before they've exhausted the growth possibilities of their first company, they decide to start another one in a totally unrelated business they know nothing about, and they end up spending time and money on it that should be put into building their original business instead.

Companies focused on building and operating launch vehicles dominated first quarter investments, accounting for more than 72 percent with about $ 700 million, due to SpaceX's heavy fundraising.

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.

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.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

The legendary B.C. development family saw their president of nearly 10 years, David Negrin, leave the company for a new opportunity — building and managing residential projects on the billion dollars» worth of land owned by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil - Waututh First Nations.

For the first part of the deal, Advanced Microgrid Solutions will install Tesla batteries at 24 buildings managed by the Irvine Company.

Toni Ko built her first company, NYX Cosmetics, and sold it to L'Oreal for a reported $ 500 million.

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.

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.

One of the venture funds I work with specializes in seed investments: early - stage deals that are often made with young, bright, first - time entrepreneurs who've been working hard to get the chance to build their dream 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 company will begin delivering vehicles in 2020, partnering with Fitzgerald to build the first 5,000.

The S7, which was introduced in 2002, is the first car his company, based in Irvine, California, has built from scratch.

The company, based in Montgomery, New York, has built made - to - order bikes since 1999; the Splitback is its first production chopper.

«I know people are coming to Spotify to listen first, but we're starting to build something new,» Courtney Holt, the company's head of studios and video, said in an interview.

The pipeline, being built by a group of companies led by Energy Transfer Partners LP, would be the first to bring Bakken shale from North Dakota directly to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

With his boss's blessing, Cerilli quit his job at First Round, brought Matt Doumar — who had built SinglePlatform's entire product team — on board as a cofounder, and got started on a company that would eventually become known as Good Uncle.

You could have built a number of other «mobile - first» companies — why a word processor?

«But building a company is like building a house, so you have to make sure you build a strong foundation first.

With no paid advertising, the two - person team of Joe and Andrea Raetzer built a company that saw an average month - over-month growth rate of 37.5 percent since its first crate.

Still, Hyperloop One has probably made the most strides of any company looking to build the low pressure, high speed tubular system first proposed by Elon Musk in 2013.

Like most new entrepreneurs you might have been doing the ground work of your business by building business relationships first before actually deciding to become a fully registered company.

Serving as the aggregate component of your company identity, your brand is often responsible for formulating first impressions, building familiarity in the public, growing your reputation, and ultimately, securing the long - term loyalty of your customers.

Solace Technologies» first year of business was about what you'd expect from a startup — funds were tight and the company's founders, who didn't take a salary for 12 months, worked from a basement in an office building in downtown Los Angeles.

When Ned Golterman first thought about what options were available for financing the expansion of Golterman & Sabo, his St. Louis - based building materials company, the solution seemed simple.

The world's first great auto company, Ford, built the world's first assembly line to serve Model T demand in 1913.

The company first produced the boutique electric Roadster, then built on its success with the luxury Model S, and, in turn, the more accessible Model 3.

Breakthrough leaders are less concerned with people's personal loyalty to them and more concerned about building a place where everybody is loyal to the company first — even if that means disagreeing with the big cheese.

The company told investors in 2012 it was built to «make the world more open and connected,» and way back in 2004 Google famously said its first rule of business was «don't be evil.»

The first thing that's changed is that Consumer Internet and Genomics are Driving Innovation at scale In the 1950's and» 60's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley's first microwave devices and semiconductor components.

In the first quarter of this year, $ 1.2 billion in funding was given to companies that build or work with connected devices, according to CB Insights.

Airbnb's new Dublin headquarters, built inside an abandoned warehouse, is the first office the company has designed from scratch.

What happened, for one, was that they brought the U.N. communications platform to a 2.0 world — built our first U.N. app, made sure we were on Twitter and Facebook — everything that I think a modern company would need.

Everything a large company did, a startup should do — write a business plan; hire sales, marketing, engineering; spec all the product features on day one and build everything for a big first customer ship.

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.

«I started my first business at 13 and have built two successful, million - dollar companies by 25.

When Nike went public in 1980, the country saw for the first time that the «sneaker guys from Oregon» had built a company with annual sales of $ 270 million, net income of roughly $ 13 million, and annual production of 30 million pairs of shoes.

As much as a person may want, may NEED, the job your company is considering them for, they will not accept it unless their first interview builds confidence, trust, and knowledge.

In April, Bezos told Ars Technica that Blue Origin's first orbital vehicle would not be its last — and that it would be the smallest orbital vehicle the company ever builds.