Sentences with phrase «even company founders»

Just like many employees and even company founders, they didn't have the right incentives.

Not exact matches

According to its founder, who periodically makes announcements about his company's financial health even though he isn't required to do so, the company has been profitable in some quarters but prefers to reinvest in growth.

Lean manufacturing specialist Matt Girvan, founder of MAG Consulting, said: «Even during what is considered «launch» mode, if a company is selling its cars to customers, it should not be experiencing large amounts of rework.

«Gawker Media Group has agreed this evening to sell our business and popular brands to Univision, one of America's largest media companies,» Gawker founder Nick Denton said in an emailed statement.

Canadian companies even have a new resource to turn to in their quest for female candidates: a recruiting firm launched last year by Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women's Executive Network.

These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.

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.

Etsy's prior CEO, founder Rob Kalin, wasn't even mentioned on the company's S - 1 filing.)

In a letter of support, they complained that «it is often impossible» for immigrant entrepreneurs to get a visa to stay in the U.S. «Even in cases where the founders already have a visa of some sort, they typically can't use this visa to start a company.

According to her motion for preliminary injunction, her staff was let go, and she was shut out of discussions regarding her company's fate, even though she was the brand's founder and artistic director.

He says that most Silicon Valley founders are lucky to keep 10 %, or even 5 %, of the stock — and that's if they stay with the company.

And, as she connected founders and investors, she saw that more often than not, it was the white male founders she helped that received the most opportunities: «It became clear really fast that there were certain people who were not getting meetings, even if they had a really great company.»

Founder and CEO Dov Charney even alluded to his company's checkered financial history in a conference call that day.

Even after Thursday's rally, Norwegian's founder and top owner, CEO Kjos who controls a quarter of the company's shares, is expected to demand a significantly higher price before selling, said Korsvold.

In most cases, it's not even the best option — not for founders, not for investors and not for our national economy (especially since many early - stage Canadian companies benefit from generous government incentives issued with the assumption that they'll stick around).

Marvin Gralnick, the founder of the company, really believed in Pazo, a new hip, low - cost apparel chain, even though it was losing money.

Millennials would rather support small, local brewers, even if they have to spend a little more money, according to Jason Wilson, founder of Alabama - based craft brewery Back Forty Beer Company, which grew annual revenue to $ 2.2 million in 2014 from $ 52,000 in 2010.

Adam Fleischman, the founder of Umami Restaurant Group, agreed, saying that the power of companies like Chipotle is that their brand often resonates with customers even more than their products do.

It should start even before the company does and, done right, it creates something that survives even the departure of the founders.

His admission that even the company's tech - savvy founder was unable to protect his own information underscored the problem Facebook has in persuading skeptical lawmakers that users can easily safeguard their own information and that further legislation governing Facebook is unnecessary.

Dig Deeper: How to Build Your Personal Brand How to Manage Your Company's Brand: Utilizing New Media Ed Roach, founder of The Brand Experts, a brand management consultancy in West Leamington, Ontario, goes further to suggests that even if you're not 100 percent comfortable with social media you should make an effort to learn it.

This meant that disposing of the founder, and the startup culture responsible for the initial innovation, didn't hurt a company's short - term or even mid-term prospects.

But even as the company scaled, and the company's financing gave Systrom the opportunity to hire more employees, the founders kept the company super-lean.

If you read media reports and even look on Stitch Fix's «How We Got Here» section, Lake appears to be the company's sole founder.

The Hootsuite founder has maintained headquarters in Vancouver even though many large corporate customers are based in the U.S. With 10 million users (including many of the world's biggest companies) deploying Hootsuite to manage social media marketing, the company has proven it's possible to grow a global client base from Gastown.

Billionaire and founder of Virgin Group, Richard Branson, encourages and even celebrates failure at his many companies.

That concern persists: Many said the hardest part of being a founder was maintaining others» jobs — even while providing jobs was often cited as one rewarding aspect of having a company.

And you will have the opportunity to earn more — whether you own the best food truck in Austin, Texas, or you're the top salesperson at your company or even the founder of Instagram.

Yet at some point something changes: the founder gets bored, the company starts making money in a pivot that wasn't part of the original vision or even funds run low but not low enough to justify shutting the doors - especially when there's revenue involved.

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).

Even if they become part of the founding team, it's not a given that the founder, having come up with the idea has a «guaranteed» leadership role (CEO or VP) in the new company.

«Just because the attacks original from China doesn't mean the people behind the attacks are Chinese or even physically in China,» Gideon Lenkey, founder of protection company Ra Security, told Internetevolution.com.

Even in the absence of explicit expectations that you will check email or monitor social media on weekends, people will «fall into that because of their own desire,» says Dorothy Kudla, founder of a training and development company, Full Circle Connections, who has worked with hundreds of managers at companies from BlackBerry to Cineplex Odeon.

This will mean that Lei Jun, Xiaomi's founder, chairman and chief executive, will have the ultimate say over the company's operations, rather than investors who buy its shares, even if they end up owning more stock than he decides to hold on to.

Some investors will try to keep shares of Constellation Brands (STZ) down, even though the company reported strong quarterly results on Thursday, according to TheStreet's founder and Action Alerts PLUS Portfolio Manager Jim Cramer.

Ironically, there will then be a greater and greater need for dual class share structures, even when they are not being used to protect the «idiosyncratic vision» of a company's founders.

The launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket provoked wonder as it streaked across the early evening sky but also caused confusion, leading the company's founder Elon Musk to joke that the people had really seen a North Korean UFO.

In an Entrepreneur article written by FlexJobs» Founder and CEO Sara Sutton Fell, «How a Business With No Office Has One of the Best Company Cultures in America,» find out how remote employers can build a great culture, regardless of where your workers live — or even if you've never met them face - to - face!

«Norwest knows what it takes to build businesses and the team possesses a true passion for helping founders create great companies, even during the toughest of times,» said Sean Jacobsohn, principal at Norwest Venture Partners.

Jess Lee, CEO and co-founder of style and social commerce platform, Polyvore, explains this familiar mental trap, where founders often fall into «moments of extreme unhappiness» and stress — even when your company is doing well.

Founder and CEO Nikolay Storonsky has his eye on expanding into APAC, targeting the US, Singapore, and Australia specifically, even though the company has only just broken even.

Even though it is good to always get training or education, especially when it involves the fiscal health of your company, not many founders or business owners take the time to supplement their working knowledge.

Even when a business outlives its founder, his or her story should remain woven into the company's culture.

Tim's unwavering support and staying in my corner even when I felt down and out has not only helped get my company to where it is now, but has helped me to grow so very much as not only a founder; but as a person.

Lonsdale clearly attributes both successes to getting to know the companies» founders before many other investors, which is why 8VC opted to managed a seed - stage program, even at its size.

Understandably, it's not only the company's founders but also the existing investors who prefer to avoid a down round, even when they know the last valuation was too high.

Garrett Camp, mostly known as the billionaire founder of Uber, was well on the tech scene before he even started the rideshare company.

Some investors will try to keep shares of Constellation Brands down, even though the company reported strong quarterly results on Thursday, according to TheStreet's founder Jim Cramer.

Even the tone of the article is looking down on and questioning the veracity of the religious faith of the founders of the companies.

I don't mind the personal religious beliefs of company founders, or even the religious tone set for their business.