Sentences with phrase «early founder of»

The U.S. Army Alpha and Beta test results garnered widespread publicity and were analyzed by Carl Brigham, a Princeton University psychologist and early founder of psychometrics, in a 1922 book A Study of American Intelligence.

One of the most interesting things to me is Andy Grove was one of the early founders of Intel.

And... also curious as to your thoughts on Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and the rest of the early founders of the Mormon religion.

The early founders of the Boy Scouts of America, who were mostly deists or liberal Protestants themselves, made this particular element of Baden - Powell's vision even more central to their organization.

«Dermal papilla cells give rise to hair follicles, and the notion of cloning hair follicles using inductive dermal papilla cells has been around for 40 years or so,» said co-study leader Colin Jahoda, PhD, professor of stem cell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the field.

One of the early founders of the Alliance was Deutsche Telekom and they continue to have a vested interest in seeing it spread all over Europe.

Three generations of English merchant adventurers — not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed — were the earliest founders of America.

It was the early founders of the town who established the tradition of dedication to the Lord of Bom Jesus.

[1][3] There was initially a strong influence from psychoanalysis (most of the early founders of the field had psychoanalytic backgrounds) and social psychiatry, and later from learning theory and behavior therapy - and significantly, these clinicians began to articulate various theories about the nature and functioning of the family as an entity that was more than a mere aggregation of individuals.

Not exact matches

After Hogan launched his lawsuit against the company, it was revealed that PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel had been bankrolling the former wrestler and others who were suing Gawker, in the hope of driving the company out of business.

In the wake of the Dollar Shave Club deal, I reached out to my own business advisers, at Commerce Business Advisers, and asked them what are the three biggest mistakes that founders make in the early days, that eventually hurt their exits.

Lockheed Martin is one of several legacy companies working to be a part of future Mars missions, while SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk are pushing to begin colonizing Marsas early as 2022.

The founder will potentially add 20 - 30 percent to the value of the exit if they have a strong team of advisers at the earliest possible stage — an experienced and professional team of business intermediaries / brokers, legal, financial strategists and tax planners who can expertly structure the business to accomplish the seller's goals, inclusive of lifestyle, philanthropy and legacy.

Thiel, an earlier investor in Facebook and creator of Founders Fund, and Y Combinator's Sam Altman are two of Silicon Valley's more outspoken voices and, when it comes to politics, they land in very different places.

Larry Harvey, the founder of the Burning Man festival, has died at the age of 70 after suffering a stroke earlier this month.

Even though we're working with early - stage founders, there's a clear indication very early on of what they've been able to build, not what they're able to talk about.

As founders of a digital agency, we were early adopters — and we only hired early adopters.

The TradingAnalysis.com founder says that the greenback has broken out of a downtrend that has been in place since the early»80s.

«I don't want to say this is a great day — because it will have a negative impact on human beings, and I want to be compassionate,» says Linkner, the founder of Detroit Venture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in the city.

In the early days of a startup, founders are generalists.

She spoke with Term Sheet about her investment strategy, the intersection of blockchain and consumer, and the top mistakes founders make early in the venture process.

In the early days of HubSpot, founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah educated hundreds of thousands of businesses about the value of inbound marketing.

Martin believes the early stages of a startup would benefit from the founder's leadership.

According to a report earlier this week by Bloomberg's Sarah Frier, the Facebook founder expressed worry that if Instagram didn't evolve, it risked losing a huge group of users.

Founders and early employees have already cashed out of $ 350 million in equity, the story points out.

«BoardPaq was an important and early customer of ours,» said Zach Tucker, founder and CEO of Good Meets World.

«Earlier this month, my good buddy, Mike Karnjanaprakorn, founder / CEO of Skillshare, stopped by our place in the Catskills for a few hours,» VC Steve Schlafman shared on Medium recently, for example.

The founder of Virgin Group is an early bird.

Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton will file for personal bankruptcy protection as early as Monday after losing a fight in a Florida court for a shield against a judgment in a breach of privacy case involving professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, according to a person familiar with the matter.

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

For example, the late Apple founder, Steve Jobs, served as a mentor to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg during the early years of the company.

Launched earlier in July this year, Esanjo is the brainchild of Omar Kassim, formely the founder and CEO of JadoPado.com, which Noon.com acquired in May 2017.

First, in early June, Lululemon (lulu) founder Chip Wilson — who is no longer involved in active management of the company but holds a sizable stake in the Canadian - based company — lamented Lululemon's financial performance.

Successful entrepreneurs, such as Peter Shankman, founder of HARO and The Geek Factory, are early risers.

Sweta Patel, founder of Silicon Valley Startup Marketing who has advised over 200 early stage startups and high - growth companies; connect with Sweta on Facebook and Instagram:

While it is easy to point fingers and shame corporations for not offering paid leave to all employees, Katie Bethell, founder and executive director of PLUS told Fortune in an interview about an earlier version of the non-profit's report that «ultimately, solving paid family leave will require a national public policy.»

Earlier this year, Paul Graham proposed creating a special work visa for founders of startup companies.

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

Amar Varma, founder of Toronto - based venture capital firm Extreme Venture Partners, says it's simply foolish to count RIM out this early in the game.

Instead of growing capital by selling franchise opportunities in the late 1990s and early 2000s, founder Steve Ells turned his professional and personal networks for financing.

He showed early entrepreneurial promise selling candy and doing odd jobs for neighbors, eventually going on to become the founder of the Standard Oil Company.

Founder and CEO Phil Roberts spent the early part of his career at Arco Petroleum Products, converting the company's standalone gas stations in California into highly profitable convenience stores.

«We are really happy with the results of the first quarter,» Steven Boal, founder and chief executive of Coupons.com, said, in a conversation after the company's first earnings call earlier this month.

This year saw First Round, a top performing early stage venture partnership, releasing the results of ten years of investing in 600 early stage founders.

Looking back to the early days of my first startup attempt, I think something that kept me going was that I continually read books about startups and entrepreneurs and watched as many interviews of founders as I could find.

After his early customers weren't paying their invoices, the founder of pizza app Slice began the long process of figuring out what (and how) people were willing to pay.

Mark Pincus, the founder of video game company Zynga Inc, must face a lawsuit alleging he unfairly benefited by selling $ 192 million of stock in 2012 when other early investors were under a lockup agreement, according to a court ruling.

Richard Branson, founder of no fewer than 400 companies and one of the world's foremost overachievers, has said of his morning exercise routine, «Getting up and at it early gives me time to get on top of things, and chart my day effectively.»

Even if you're past your very early startup days and have a marketing team, the most successful founders have a working knowledge of each aspect of the business and can provide knowledgeable oversight of digital marketing campaigns.

The PayPal mafia was a group of American business people and investors who were founders or early employees of the e-commerce company PayPal.