Sentences with phrase «do as a founder»

«My goal has always been to give everyone at Sharethrough as much information, context and room to care as much as I do as a founder,» says Dan Greenberg, CEO of Sharethrough, an ad - tech company that creates software for publishers and brands and is considered a trailblazer in the native - advertising movement.

(Surprise: to mangle the saying, in investing, the days fly by but the years drag on... it's a game where you make many fewer moves than you do as a founder.)

TASSC did as its founders at APCO suggested, and sought funding from other sources.

Not exact matches

Seeing someone like Katrina, who's done an A-plus job all around on so many levels — as a startup founder, as a leader who scales her company, as a leader who takes her company public — is hugely empowering.

Seeing someone like Katrina [Lake], who's done an A-plus job all around on so many levels — as a startup founder, as a leader who scales her company, as a leader who takes her company public — is hugely empowering.

But just because founders won't need as much cash doesn't necessarily mean that investors will make less.

A founder returning in glory — as did Huffman and Ohanian — usually some years after first departing, is nothing unusual.

The founders decided to play up the blog and their PR because they didn't want visitors to think they sold existing apparel labels such as Polo or Levi's.

In general, founders don't seem to worry about failure at the hands of their competition — only 5 percent cited this as a concern.

Although the FiveThirtyEight founder doesn't mention it (at least not yet), the media's desire for false equivalence or false balance likely played a role in the election's outcome as well.

Out of all of the aforementioned brands, Huda Beauty is the most interesting to me as its founders (who are globally recognized influencers) did not come from a celebrity or cosmetics background - they started in finance.

Dual stock - structure doesn't necessarily give Zuckerberg final say in every decision, but his votes carry so much weight that it makes him an incredibly powerful player in the company»» even apart from his status as founder and CEO.

While walking in with lots of questions for those on the sales floor is totally acceptable, customers who don't realize it's the busiest shopping day of the year may feel let down when it's impossible for you to spend as much time catering to their requests, says Mike Wittenstein, founder of Storyminers, an Atlanta - based customer experience and service design consultancy.

«As an investor at a large VC firm, I meet many founders who don't have a great handle on their numbers,» says Jeff Richards, partner at GGV Capital.

(Trump did take a shot at the news media, as did World Economic Founder Klaus Schwab, but that won't make headlines.)

«I still feel like I'm behind enemy lines» as a founder turned investor, Busque said, «So I'll say this: I've learned that there are thousands of reasons why an investor won't invest in your company that have nothing to do with you.»

Does this mean that a technical founder can not be successful as a CEO?

«When new clients say they eat clean, I know that what they are doing is elevating certain types of food (e.g. organic, locally - sourced) as «good» and «clean» while demonizing all other food as «bad,»» Brittany Markides, dietitian and founder of the Choose Food nutrition counseling service, told INSIDER.

That's been a huge lesson for our team as we move from being a founder - led organization to one that isn't, but still needs to keep our values at the heart of everything we do.»

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

As the founder, how do you ensure all systems are secure?

But as the founder of her own consulting firm and a longtime blogger, she is also a practitioner, which means she knows not only what is supposed to work but also what actually does.

She really didn't think in gendered terms, she says; she was «more concerned about being the daughter of the founder and therefore needing to perform better than others so as not to give the impression of nepotism.»

Startup founders wear lots of hats in the beginning, but as the business grows, you'll need to bring on employees with specialized talents and relinquish control over the tasks you hired them to do.

Through the work I've done at Growth Everywhere, I've been lucky enough to chat with notable entrepreneurs such as Jason Lemkin (founder of Echosign, which sold to Adobe), Mark Organ (co-founder of Eloqua, which sold to Oracle) and others who are constantly pushing the boundaries of business success with their own companies.

There are a lot of ways that one can describe Martha Stewart — cook, television personality, editor - in - chief and more — but most of us probably don't think of her as the founder of a massively successful company.

«As the parents of young children, we know what it means to want to do everything you can to give them the healthiest start possible,» Honest Co.'s founders said in a blog post published over the weekend.

«Obviously, you have to balance it, because you don't want to dilute yourself as a founder too much, but it could be a really, really great way to motivate people,» Humphrey says.

I only hope you do not take this opportunity to present yourself as being the founder of Seventh Generation... It just isn't so and can only lead to embarrassment for both of us.»

Already, farsighted zealots are pouring newfound riches into the cryptocurrency economy, creating blockchain - oriented businesses, like the Winklevoss twins» Gemini, or starting cryptocurrency - specific hedge funds, as AngelList founder Naval Ravikant is doing.

We all make mistakes, but not too many of us have made a $ 100 million blunder, as AppSumo founder Noah Kagan claims to have done when he got fired from Facebook.

«Because we don't get to spend as much time as the founders and devolve our conversations into hour - long epitaphs about cream cheese and whatever.»

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.

As a founder or leader in your company, how do you ensure that you are constantly pushing yourself to be better and more competitive?

As the founder of Watsi, a nonprofit that allows people to donate small amounts of money to crowdfund medical treatments for individuals in 20 developing countries, Adam, 29, is doing his part to remedy this imbalance.

And indeed, in my experience as a two - time successful founder / CEO, the No. 1 most important thing you can do is put together a great team.

Her pep talks are filled with counterintuitive advice such as, «slow down time» and «gain your power by letting go,» but these directives don't seem idealistic when coming from Harder, founder of the Bliss Project; they seem downright fun.

I heard a startup founder once say «sell before you build» which really resonated with me at the time, as my company had very recently done the exact opposite.

«They do it as a customer service,» said George Hobica, founder of fare - tracking website Airfarewatchdog.com.

Three executives from Google's self - driving - car unit left in August, as did Bill Maris, founder and head of Google's venture arm.

As a founder, you probably think everything your company does is newsworthy, which is why an outside perspective is so needed.

After identifying a founder as a constant learner, Elman looks for «a step I call «Deliberate Action,» which is they don't sit around and deliberate that much.

«As long as someone apologizes well, it doesn't mean they're taking responsibility,» says Lynn Gaertner - Johnston, founder and business - writing specialist at Syntax Training who has worked with REI, Microsoft, and Russell InvestmentAs long as someone apologizes well, it doesn't mean they're taking responsibility,» says Lynn Gaertner - Johnston, founder and business - writing specialist at Syntax Training who has worked with REI, Microsoft, and Russell Investmentas someone apologizes well, it doesn't mean they're taking responsibility,» says Lynn Gaertner - Johnston, founder and business - writing specialist at Syntax Training who has worked with REI, Microsoft, and Russell Investments.

As a busy Manhattan executive and workout guru, founder of the DB Method Erika Rayman wanted to create a product for women who were frustrated with doing boring exercises and never seeing any results.

As he puts it, «Founders inevitably will have to overcome rough patches and patches where they don't know what the right answer is.

If the Alibaba founder does acquire the Morning Post — which at one time was the most profitable newspaper in the world — he would be following in the footsteps of other billionaire tech moguls such as Jeff Bezos, the Amazon (AMZN) founder and CEO who acquired The Washington Post for $ 250 million in 2013.

«Don't quit your day job,» Daymond John, founder of FUBU and one of the most iconic Sharks on Shark Tank, told Inc.com recently, recounting that for the first five years he ran his company, he was supporting himself by working full - time as a waiter at Red Lobster.

As a startup grows, founders can't do all the work themselves.

As a rule, Milner has said he doesn't take board seats in his later - stage investments, and rarely requires founders to hand over voting shares when issuing company stock.

«We decided to do a milk stout as the base,» says Sean Nook, founder of Black Bottle.