Sentences with phrase «first business at»

Warren Buffett started his first business at age 5, and bought his first stock at age 11.

He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and started his first business at 15 while still in high school.

He started his first business at age 13, manufacturing SAD lamps out of his father's garage.

Warren Buffett started his first business at age 5, and bought his first stock at age 11.

Interested in solar power since he was a teenager, Gross» first business at age 15 was selling plans for solar - powered water heaters and ovens out of the back pages of Popular Science.

I started my first business at age 18 and slept on a floor for two years.

I started my first business at the ripe old age of 25.

«I started my first business at 13 and have built two successful, million - dollar companies by 25.

Traill started her first business at age 10 to earn pocket change for pizza.

Not exact matches

At first, I didn't think a website was necessary, but as I came up with more ideas, I grew passionate about the business I created.

Many online business owners struggle at first by not knowing which payment processor to use and how to implement one on their site.

While odd sounding at first, this single core concept can take a business from virtually non-existent and unknown to multi-million-dollar marketing machine with mass saturation, seemingly overnight.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP)-- A Korean Air heiress apologized Tuesday for causing trouble in her first public appearance as a suspect in an abuse of power case after she allegedly threw a drink at someone during a business meeting.

WHEN Ryan Stokes claimed to be launching Australia's first 4G communications network at a function of 550 business people two weeks ago it was an easy sell.

Amy Cuddy, a psychologist at the Harvard Business School, has been studying first impressions for more than a decade.

Bombardier sold the C Series to Delta at a significant discount, standard practice in the aviation business, because Delta was one of the first to place a big order.

Unetich has also been spearheading the build - out of a crypto trading platform aimed at retail traders, a move Business Insider first reported.

Small business owners are often quite reluctant at first, but taking the plunge turned out to be one of the best decisions they made for their company (and sanity).

Executives from all three companies agreed that innovative Canadian startups can still find money, but unlike their American cousins — which often have such funds thrown at them — they have to work at building a proper business first.

Madsen looked at 609 family - run companies in Norway, many of which were small, first - generation companies, to see whether a firm's family influence and dynamic capabilities hinder or promote the type of entrepreneurship the business is working towards.

(Some business models are built on breaking even on the customer's first or second purchase; then future purchases will be profitable, since the CAC is at or near zero.)

Today's appointment by Independence Group of its first female board member has taken it off the list of ASX200 companies lacking female representation on their boards, although four other Western Australian businesses remain among those still to adopt gender diversity at board level.

At first, Thompson remembers, businesses would «frogmarch» employees out of the office, with not so much as a chance for goodbyes.

Here are a few lessons I learned from my first attempt at running a business, making my second time around much smoother.

SEOUL, South Korea — A Korean Air heiress apologized Tuesday for causing trouble in her first public appearance as a suspect in an abuse of power case after she allegedly threw a drink at someone during a business meeting.

Mark Briggs has been representing businesses and their owners for nearly 20 years, first as an associate and partner at the national law firm Quarles & Brady and now with Briggs Law Group, which he founded in 2009.

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

The top CEO in the group is Merck's Ken Frazier, at No. 5, who was the first of President Trump's business advisers to step down after the president blamed «both sides» for the violence in Charlottesville.

The first part of the suggestion comprises of obliging the financial sector to write off a certain (not huge) amount of their bad debt, while also driving down the costs of doing business a little more at the same time.

Before you jump in feet first, take a closer look at the lawn care and landscaping industry and what potential businesses you could start.

At first, Al - Naji and his friends decided that they would use their own money to fund the business, but when investors like GV (formerly Google Ventures), Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Andreessen Horowitz began expressing interest, they reconsidered.

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,» says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of technology firms.

But Maoli is a big believer that hospitality — that deep, honed, customer - first attitude that the greatest hotels excel at — can work for any business.

The experience started before I even left my apartment, when a black car pulled up outside my house and the driver helped me with my luggage and unloaded me at the airport, an amenity all Emirates Business & First Class passengers can take advantage of.

The service, targeted at small business customers, lets companies cut ties with their desk phones while keeping features like auto attendant, phone number directories, and a feature that connects the caller to the next available employee if the first one isn't available.

Penny Wise Owner / Founder: Staci Dennett Website: Pennywise Budgets.com Facebook Twitter: @LifeOfStaci Staci was our first guest on the new Small Businesses Better Show (watch at Ovaleye.tv), discussing small business budgets and how to plan -LSB-...]

«The first year — or even three to four years — you aren't going to make any money at it, or if you do, it will go back into the business.

Of course, I would argue that any business starting out, especially if it is a CPG brand sold at mass retailers like mine, investing heavier in marketing the first several years is a must.

I looked over at business travelers who showed up an hour before the flight, cruised through their no - wait check - in counter, waited in a private club room, sat in comfortable seats, ate gourmet dinners, claimed their bags first, and accrued mega-miles for their travels.

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

It wasn't the first time Sirois had raised eyebrows at one of Boyko's business ideas.

Since I tend to be on the quiet, introverted side, and knowing that networking is a requirement for small business success, I committed myself mentally to overcoming this issue by attending at least one networking activity every day for the first year.

But while the numbers are certainly big enough to justify the billing, the deal is almost certainly not what it appears at first sight — and the still - murky reality of it most likely has as much to do with geopolitics as with business.

Extracurriculars are strong at Laurier — the school's team took first place in the AspenInstitute's 2011 Business & Society InternationalMBA Case Competition.

Founded just 20 years ago, Under Armour has built itself up to become a significant rival to Nike (nke) and Adidas in North America, at first by building a sizable men's apparel business.

The 85,000 - square - foot complex, home to Canada's largest independent ice cream producer, occupied an entire village block, but at its centre was a centuryold creamery, the first building that David and Penny Chapman purchased when they opened the business in 1973.

At the end of the day, reflecting back on that first job is essential to running a business.

At first, the experiments seemed like business as usual.

According to Douglas Freeman, executive vice president and director of trust services and consulting at First Foundation Bank in Irvine, Calif., an effective succession plan for a business owner requires anywhere from three to five years to play out.