Sentences with phrase «company founders put»

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This past month, our reporting staff has been consumed with putting together the Inc. 500 list, which requires over 500 conversations with founders and CEOs of the fastest growing companies from coast to shining sea.

«The whole reason for this company is to protect children in schools,» says the founder of Amulet Protective Technologies, which makes ballistic material that can be put into walls, doors, cubicle dividers, and office furniture to create bullet - stopping barriers in public spaces.

By positioning it as the company committed to the idea of safeguarding the privacy of its users, Jobs «made the comparison between Apple and companies like Facebook and Google inevitable», as Samir Addamine, founder of mobile marketing automation platform FollowAnalytics, puts it.

As CEO, I am focused on building a company around the vision of our founder and the talent of the people we put around him.

When BambooHR started, the founders had the idea of a company where people might get a good work - life balance while still occasionally putting in extra time when a new release of the software is about to hit.

The company's visionary founder and CEO Josh Boger tells his staff at one point, «If you give me 20 years and a half - trillion dollars, I guarantee I can put people on Mars and bring them back.

Founder Michael Dubin knew a well - coordinated PR blitz could put his company on the map.

Home espresso machines are subject to derision from some coffee snobs, That's because most models «do a half - assed job,» in the words of 30 - shots - a-day drinker Danny O'Neill, founder of Kansas City - based coffee company The Roasterie (That's why he put professional grade machines in his kitchen and tree house.)

Michael Greeley, a general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, says that founders should follow one dictum that applies to all aspects of a company's self - presentation, no matter what the medium: «Be very judicious about what you put out.»

A month ago, I sat on a panel at Inc.'s Grow Your Company conference in Orlando, along with T3 founder Gay Gaddis, who puts together digital - marketing campaigns for large companies, and Dr. Christos Cotsakos, founder of Pennington Ventures and the former CEO of E-Trade.

But as Zach Ware, who started the (now - defunct) transportation startup Shift, so poignantly put it: «It is often difficult for founders to remember that the world is not a better place if you build a billion - dollar company that kills you.»

«It's a sad tale that former friends are seeking to take the company from its founder and 50 percent owner and put it on the block.

They are not putting themselves in the position of the founders and are not going to fight for the company the way someone who relies on its growth will.

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs)-- are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself.

«This investment announces HealthEngine's arrival on the global startup scene, hopefully putting us on a similar trajectory to many of Sequoia's other successes — iconic companies like Apple and Google and more recently startups like Whatsapp, Stripe and Airbnb,» said HealthEngine founder and chief executive Dr Marcus Tan.

In order to succeed, startup founders need overachievers on their team who will agree to put in 200 % and be fully dedicated to the company.

Product Hunt's founder Ryan Hoover says that the Philz in San Francisco's Civic Center neighborhood was his defacto office in the early days of building his company (and he still puts down a few cups of Philz every day.)

An early - stage company typically sells its shares (or grants options over its shares) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the Ccompany typically sells its shares (or grants options over its shares) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the CompanyCompany.

An early - stage company typically sells its units (or grants options over its units) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the Ccompany typically sells its units (or grants options over its units) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the CompanyCompany.

We'll look at financials and projections, and we'll look at valuation, and we'll put all that together in a summary, and then we'll allow the investors to do their own due diligence, and they can ask questions of the company, and the founders will answer.

Founder and self - described mining headhunter Andrew Pollard says, «I put together management teams for companies, I connect people with opportunities and opportunities with people.»

Founder and self - described mining headhunter Andrew Pollard says, «I put together management teams for companies, I connect people -LSB-...]

When the company put out a call for Ph.D. researchers who were both smart and photogenic, company founder Chris Lindland told Adweek, «sixty women from around the world applied.»

California - based hedge - fund Osmium — who own 14 % of the company — have been calling for new management, including putting their founder John Lewis on the board.

The company has no other outside investment, though the founders have put some of their own money in.

According to founder Tyrone Rodriguez, the company is putting the final touches on a patch for next month that will add the ability to play the game on the Wii U GamePad only.

It's a forward - looking stance coming from the company that put the world on wheels with the Model T, from a founder who grew up on a farm and generally eschewed urban life.

«Growing up in Southern California in the»70s, I've always been connected with the local car culture, and after all the time and hard work put into the E-Z UP Corvette, I can honestly say I'm proud to show it at the upcoming SEMA show,» said Mark Carter, chairman and founder of the company that makes Instant Shelter products.

«JOSS Developments has spent the last few years working on the business: building investment, working with our technical suppliers, and putting in place the right people so that when we launch JP1 the company will be geared up to deliver a great product to the market,» says founder and technical direct of JOSS Developments, Matt Thomas.

All of this has been put to rest with company founder Stan Shih stating that the company is going to go ahead with its tablet devices notwithstanding their lackluster performance.

The kingpin of vanity presses (as Smashwords» founder Mark Coker states in his blog that Author Solutions makes more money from selling services to authors than selling authors» books, «Author Solutions is one of the companies that put the «V» in vanity.

Other new companies, like the just - announced Read Petite (reported on by paidContent's Laura Hazard Owen in Waterstones founder to help launch new e-singles subscription site, Read Petite) need to find their places on the troubled terrain of publishing, prove they have legs, and make some headway, maybe, before being put into these start - up - o-rama bids for best guess.

Barnes and Noble put itself up for sale, and New York Magazine just ran a touching profile of the company's founder, 69 - year - old Leonard Riggio.

Tim Nash, founder of GoodInvesting.com, a website that helps investors «put their money where their heart is», believes it's the stigma and denormalization of some company holdings that has the most social impact.

«Simply put, a brand partnership — or co-marketing — is the alliance of two companies working together to create a mutually beneficial marketing and sales synergy, combining strengths to reach the loyalists of the other,» says Leslie May, founder of Pawsible Marketing, a niche marketing company that helps pet businesses with brand development, public and media relations, cause - related marketing, social media and more.

Jane Dale Owen, granddaughter of one of the founders of Humble Oil, the parent company of ExxonMobil, made a strong appeal to shareholders to put more pressure on corporate leadership to divert its resources to cleaner more renewable forms of energy.

In the Guardian, Nick Hussey writes Why my cycling clothing company uses models without helmets, with a subhead «The debate about helmet use is too often toxic, puts off new riders and obscures more important issues, argues the founder of Vulpine» (a cycling clothing manufacturer)

If you don't have disability insurance, whether you're a company founder or employee, you're putting yourself at risk of not being able to make ends meet and potentially forcing yourself to have to go back to the corporate grind to get yourself on stable ground.

Hunch founder Chris Dixon said Twitter was «acting like a drunk guy with an Uzi» by telling developers not to bother developing Twitter apps, and a number of companies and investors that had been putting money and time into the Twitter ecosystem stopped doing so.

Traditionally investors need to put down tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest in property, but ProsperiProp wants to give the man on the street a chance to invest in property The startup's founder and CEO Llew Morkel said the first ICO will be aimed largely at international investors, using a cryptocurrency created by the company, called «PROPX».

More than just putting money into those companies, Goodlatte says he's tried to help founders improve their own designs and website flows when possible.

Not to mention that the company founder, Lei Jun, been dubbed several times as the «Steve Jobs of China», said at Beijing launch event for the new Mi tablet: «we hope to put pressure on Apple.»

«Fan reaction to this vehicle has been extraordinary, as we have nearly 50,000 people who have put down their hard earned money for a place in line and said «I want one»,» said company founder Paul Elio.

Much greater than a mission statement, the Manifesto was created by three founders of a t - shirt company who not only wanted to put their definition of success and happiness in print, but wanted to share their positive intentions with the world.