Sentences with phrase «few company founders»

And few company founders come from such meager beginnings.

Not exact matches

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.

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, had said her company could accurately perform a wide range of tests using a only a few drops of blood.

To John Warrillow, the founder of the Sellability Score and author of the book Built to Sell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a company.

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.»

After all, it's usually the Founder who took the company from nothing more than an idea with a few thousand dollars in cash to where it is today.

When startup founders drive the marketing campaign, companies tend to run into a few problems, especially when pitching enterprise - level clients.

And while the company already cites a few hundred users for its app, the founders are in the midst of an app relaunch.

Indeed, during our tour for Main Street Entrepreneur — a road trip across the U.S. in which we interviewed founders from all walks of life — very few successful entrepreneurs mentioned money as the main motivator for starting a company.

Veteran entrepreneur Celeste Hilling, CEO and founder of 10 - year - old lifestyle company Skin Authority, stumped me with this question a few weeks ago, but she definitely left me with something to think about.

So with such an innovative and potentially cost - reducing scheme in place, how is it that Better Place has only managed to sell 500 cars in nine months, a fact that led the company's board to fire founder Agassi just a few weeks ago?

Far too many company founders think people want to know about their company when in fact very few people do or you actually only reach a niche market.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, is just a few billion dollars away from dethroning Bill Gates to become the world's richest person.

Mark Babbitt, the CEO and founder of internship site Youtern, has a few tips for employers when it comes to ensuring that your interns will add something to your company.

For the founders of Uniqul, the goal is to speed up the check - out process from approximately 30 seconds to fewer than five seconds, the company says on its website.

The Entrepreneurs» Organization founder recently authored a new book, Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It... and Why the Rest Don't.

He's been criticized for being ruthless, ambitious, and single - minded in his quest to build Facebook — a common knock on the few founders who stay atop their companies.

And it would not be until they questioned their own most basic assumptions about «the way Magellan's was managed» — the company's dependence on them, the heroic - leader model they'd brought into the company from day one — that they would have a shot at doing what few founders can when the wall confronts them: getting through it.

Most founders get fewer at - bats, so to speak, since they're the ones actually building and running the companies.

Speaking at the Post.Seed Conference on Tuesday, the PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund principal offered what amounted to a critique of the generally accepted model for funding startups, wherein seed and venture investors make lots of small investments in early - stage companies in the hopes that a few will yield big payoffs.

«Though we essentially quadrupled in size in a few years, profits did not,» says Paul Spinak, company founder and chief executive officer.

In the early days of Amy's Kitchen, founder Andy Berliner got a few calls a year from large companies looking to purchase the budding maker of natural frozen foods.

Avis Car Rental this week announced the launch of a new marketing campaign, which once again features the famed founder, along with a few other familiar faces including: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank, the co-founders of online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe and Baratunde Thurston, the comedian co-founder of Cultivated Wit, a digital content and product development company.

While only a few knew of the company or its founder, one on - campus eatery manger said that he had been in talks with Clinkle about implementing the payment system at his restaurant last year.

Company founder Mike Lazaridis was baffled by the first iPhone, unsure why anyone would want a device that needed to be recharged every few hours.

Founding Team — the rock on which to build the company The founding team includes the founder and a few other co-founders with complementary skills to the founder.

The sad truth of the matter is that unless a company is an extraordinary 1 - in - 10,000 success, few teammates beyond the founders or very first employees stand to gain a life - changing windfall.

The founders of a startup generally purchase shares at the time of incorporating the company at a nominal price per share, such as $ 0.0001 per share, paid in cash, since at that time the company will have no operating history, few assets and thus little value.

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.)

I had the chance to interview a few CEOs and venture capitalist, and discussed with Quanergy founder Louay Eldada his 3 - year without salary and then 50 % salary cut in paycheck in year 3 when he started his company, despite a recent closing on a $ 30 million dollar - round.

With respect to Thiel's other companies, I have found 14 Review alumni who have worked for Thiel Capital Management and Clarium Capital Management, including several vice presidents; five who have worked for Founders Fund, including a cofounder, Howery; two at Valar Ventures; and three more who worked at PayPal who joined after the first few years.

A few years back, JetBlue Airways founder David Neeleman left his company and launched a new airline in Brazil.

After a few minutes, Sergey Brin, the other founder of the world's biggest internet company, joined them.

Gawker founder Nick Denton has offered a few clues about his next act following the shuttering of the website and his departure from the company last summer.

Building a business that can survive and prosper beyond the life of its founder is a hurdle very few funds management companies manage to navigate.

Ward admits the founders had a lot to learn about who makes the best franchisee for its company, so it has parted ways with a few of its franchisees.

««««World Marmalade Competition: Orange, Lime & Ginger Marmalade wins award at the World Marmalade Competition in England» Within the past few years, Blake Hill's founders Vicky Allard and Joe Hanglin have started this company completely from scratch, and they continue to make every single jar of jam, chutney and marmalade by hand using local, seasonal fruit that they hand - pick and prep themselves.»

Bummis went through an ownership change in the last few years, but the company is still led by it's founder and remains committed to making cloth diapers in North America using Canadian and USA - sourced materials.

Maya Shalev and I have a few things in common: we're both moms of 3, mompreneurs, and founders of companies dedicated to making the feeding process EASYer (yes, I know that's a typo.

The company's founder said that a small commission of 1 - 2 % will be applied to large campaigns beginning in a few months.

Zipline was one of the many companies with cutting - edge technology who met and held discussions with the Vice President and the founders and leaders of a number of Ghanaian ICT firms a few weeks ago during Dr Bawumia's working visit to Silicon Valley, California, USA.

Merrilea Mayo, founder of the science consulting firm Mayo Enterprises in Washington, D.C., and former director of the U.S. National Academies» Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable, was one of the few keynote speakers to call on companies to change their approach to hiring.

I have a few friends who are familiar with the company, and they all spoke very highly of the founder, Robin Berzin, and of the quality of care, so I decided to give it a go myself.

In just a few years, Karina Dresses has grown from humble beginnings in our founder's sewing room to the company known for our signature Frockstar ™ brand story & lifestyle.

Happiness Boutique came into creation when the company's founders looked around and realized that very few brands out there have a strong sense of purpose behind them.

Name: Sarah Beeny Position & Company: Founder, MySingleFriend.com Twitter ID: @mysinglefriend How do you think the dating industry has changed over the past few years?

OPW - Dec 4 - We've noticed quite a few dating company founders are foraying into the daily deals space.

«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.

How It Works: When founder Andrew Booth learned how few tourism dollars from foreign - owned companies stay in Cambodia, he resolved to mend a broken system.

Despite the company and its partners making some incredibly impressive showcases over the past few years with its Unreal Engine 4 middleware, founder Tim Sweeney believes that the industry is still «two decades» away from videogames that are identical to the real world.