Sentences with phrase «dealing with founders»

They were used to dealing with founders who couldn't bring themselves to let go.

There's another way to deal with founder's boredom: Keep it from appearing in the first place.

Some Microsoft shareholders — institutional and otherwise — had advocated that Gates leave the board so that the new CEO wouldn't have to deal with a founder looking over his shoulder.

Not exact matches

CNBC - TV18, citing unnamed sources, said Amazon's new bid was likely to be on a par with Walmart's, but that Flipkart's investors and founders continue to favor the deal with Walmart, with founder Sachin Bansal overseeing final negotiations.

It got enough attention to the point where founders who were starting to deal with regulatory problems started coming to us, and that allowed us to create a new approach to venture.

Founders need to be dealing directly with customers during the startup stage, because the feedback they get out of those interactions typically leads to major product improvements.

«Employers right now are dealing with the constant ebb and flow of client work,» explains Angie Kramer, founder of Toronto - based freelance facilitator JobBliss.

Cherae Robinson, founder and CEO of travel app Tastemakers Africa, talks about dealing with investors and what she learned when her company's capital was quickly dwindling.

«The way we deal with mortality is through some strange combination of acceptance and mortality,» Thiel told me during a long interview at Founders Fund's offices in San Francisco.

Jonathan Mak, founder of Toronto - based Queasy Games, which currently has a development deal with Sony, says he doesn't see the point.

I spend a ton of time with founders discussing personal issues such founder fighting, the fear of failure, the rejection of investors as well as dealing with real failure and figuring out the aftermath.

But there is an identity crisis festering at the heart of the company, despite its success, and that's something its founder will eventually have to deal with.

«One of the things most founders deal with today that they didn't deal with five years ago is navigating the major platforms — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,» he said.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

In March, there was a $ 40,000 licensing deal with Trellix, a business software start - up whose founder, a Blogger admirer, read about Williams's plight on his blog and decided he wanted to help save the company.

A wave of insider trading cases brought by Manhattan federal prosecutors, meanwhile, resulted in Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam's conviction in 2011 and a $ 1.8 billion settlement and plea deal in 2013 with hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP.

As Search Engine Land founder Danny Sullivan notes, Google has been dealing with this kind of problem for some time.

In addition, Delta would have to deal with the twin threats of increased government scrutiny on one hand, and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson's larger - than - life ego on the other, outweighing any benefit that could come from such a deal.

Discussing the antitrust concerns around the current possible media deals like Comcast linking up with Twentieth - Century Fox, with Craig Moffett, MoffettNathanson founder, and Laura Martin, Needham & Co. analyst.

Advice on how best to deal with lawsuits from Kay Koplovitz, founder of USA Network, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

The deal will keep Kendra Scott's eponymous founder as the majority owner of the business which she started in 2002 with just $ 500, designing jewelry out of her spare bedroom.

Who knows, but the founders definitely found success amid a consumer lack of tech savviness specific to the late»90s, along with a healthy dislike of dealing with mailing checks.

The «pretty explicit» tweet seems «atypical» for an employer dealing with a disgruntled former employee, says Jane Kow, founder of Bay Area law firm HR Law Consultants.

But convincing founders not to take those deals may be at odds with the desires of a company's earliest investors.

Founders have to be ready to deal with whatever challenge may arise, Bradberry says, because — no matter how well - prepared the founder is — his or her company will almost certainly take an unexpected turn.

In most deals with convertible notes or value - added co-investors who «want into the round» the negotiation re-opens after the term sheet and this is a source of frustration at a point where the founder and the lead investor should be feeling great about each other.

Oliver Chen, an analyst with Cowen & Company, said at the time of the announced merger that a key risk to the deal was «culture issues», including the fact that «both founders expected to remain involved».

Discussing the environment for future deals in the telecom space following the FCC's loosening industry restrictions, with Craig Moffett, MoffettNathanson founder and senior analyst, and Jonathan Chaplin, New Street Research managing partner.

Michael Kitces, a certified financial planner and a founder of the new XY Planning Network, said the group has struck a deal with Betterment Institutional to bring the latter's technology to its roughly 75 advisors.

What a difference from the traditional state of affairs that most growing businesses have been forced to deal with: no money at all for start - ups or companies that were too small or too old or too dependent on their founders or even too needy for cash (that is, unless they happened to fit onto the investment community's shortlist of sexy companies du jour).

The company is now under federal investigation while its founder deals with a two - year ban by regulators from operating a lab.

At 2009's event the company — inspired by a pair of flip flops founder Kyle Berner bought in Thailand in 2007 — picked up advice from Stanford University business students about how to ramp up its distribution to handle a deal it had just signed with Whole Foods.

The Dell Technologies founder and CEO purchased the duplex in 2014, two sources familiar with the deal told The Wall Street Journal.

Since the founders are all experienced professionals as well as full - time moms, they understand how other parents could really use some help in dealing with the hectic work of being a parent.

So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.»

The percentage of global VC deals for companies with at least one female founder sits at about 17 %, per PitchBook data.

With angel deals, this amount should generally not exceed the original investment amount, and founders should negotiate any term sheet that proposes a different formula.

Preferred share deals can be complex and founders / management must calculate and consider the potential impact of the preferred share rights in combination with the price per share (valuation).

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

Three years ago, Apollo Global Capital — with its own plans to more rapidly transform the print business to digital — almost bought DFM, but that deal foundered at its end over price.

Tron founder Justin Sun took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce a new partnership deal with Baofeng, which is listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange.

Schembri dealt with the bureaucratic printed material as well as specialists, an undertaking that drove him to meet «CZ», Binance CEO and Founder, Zhao Changpeng who was excited about the nation's vision:

A female founder separately reported that after meeting with Caldbeck to discuss a business deal, he suggested they go to a hotel room.

With offices in Toronto and Vancouver, Lauren was responsible for evaluating deal flow, portfolio management, overseeing national programming and driving new platform initiatives to better support portfolio founders.

True Wealth Ventures General Founding Partner Sara Brand spoke at the Dallas Startup Week along with other investors, talking about deal points of early stage venture deals with knowledgeable founders.

Michael Dell, the company's multi-billionaire founder and CEO, clearly believes going private is in Dell's interest; he would help finance the deal, along with several banks.

Gabe Wilcox, founder of MineralSoft, an automated revenue management system for mineral rights, not only had to deal with bringing his idea to life but the nitty gritty details of -LSB-...]

Starting off, instead of dealing with stacks of business plans and research, Lean Startup founders develop a set of untested hypotheses.

Don't deal with individuals who claim to be project admins or founders until you have verified the authenticity of their claims.