Sentences with phrase «first companies like»

The chain has been bleeding market share, losing ground to established retailers, including the almighty Amazon, and to ascendant digital - first companies like Stitch Fix and Revolve.

Not exact matches

He likes the company's focus on first - time homebuyers, which is a segment that's growing in the markets it's operating in.

Like most VC firms, its goal is to make smart bets and earn strong returns — but that's exactly why 40 % of the portfolio companies in Aspect's first fund were led by women.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

That growth has helped convince the likes of Danhua Capital, First Cut Ventures, and Long Capital Ventures to invest $ 1.5 million in the company.

Your company About Us page is almost like an online business card; it's the first impression you're going to make with many potential customers and clients.

The experience was Bezos» first hands - on brush with retail, according to Wired, and he spent the summer «studying the company's automation improvements,» like beeps and signals for when to «scramble his eggs, flip his burgers, and pull his fries out of the boiling vat.»

Fundraising is, first and foremost, a way to keep the lights on, make some key hires, and continue building our startup, Iodine, into something like a company.

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

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.

Tencent may not be well - known to American consumers, but it recently became the first Asian tech company to be valued over $ 500 billion, on the heels of companies like Facebook and Amazon.

Although President Donald Trump has said that this new version, like the first bill that was pulled from consideration, will cover pre-existing conditions, the revised law gives states broad latitude to allow insurance companies to increase rates for consumers with an existing illness.

While Slack's work force — around 600 employees — is tiny next to the likes of Google and Facebook, the company is growing so rapidly that its hiring over the next year or two could make it one of the first major tech companies to reach, or approach, gender and ethnic parity.

Though the winners include established firms like Research In Motion, whose sustained growth has put it among Canada's fastest - growing companies every year since 1998, the top five are all rookies — a Fast 50 first.

Of course, Fossil is hardly the first company to take this approach — Swiss brands like Montblanc have felt the heat from the Apple Watch and are responding with their own hybrids of analog and tech features like notifications and activity tracking.

«The best advice I ever received was from my first accountant when I was discussing the launch of my company,» says Rotman, founder of ad agency MODCo, which has clients like Vera Wang, True Religion, and Tory Burch.

I first joined the company as the head of employee services, initially charged with running our global facilities, planning internal events like happy hours and offsites, driving our monthly all hands meeting and owning our annual company conference MeetUp.

When Olayan first sought to integrate OFC in 2001, there was no playbook for a company like hers to hire women — and plenty of obstacles to doing so, since labor law and social customs left a lot of room for interpretation and confusion.

In this case, existing laws never anticipated a company like Square in the first place — a testament to Jack Dorsey's innovation.

The developer of Facebook's video application first connected with the company when he created a worm that made Facebook profiles look like MySpace profiles.

When Canada first launched the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in 1973, it was designed to allow companies to hire skilled professionals, like engineers, from outside the country when their expertise couldn't be found in the domestic market.

The trick, he says, is to only pursue projects that potentially offer high rewards, like the ones his company hopes to reap by being one of the first exploration companies into Egypt and Sudan.

The company also has competition from companies like Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, as well as from Elon Musk, who first proposed the system four years ago and recently decided to give it a go himself.

But first the company has major hurdles to clear, like completing the design of its airlock system, which helps make the tube nearly frictionless.

«But building a company is like building a house, so you have to make sure you build a strong foundation first.

I've already talked at length about why I like Everlane so much, and the company's continued commitment to transparency and serving its customers first only furthers my affinity for the brand.

What law enforcement, politicians and some activists would really like is for Internet companies to stop banned content from being shared in the first place.

The outspoken CEO told Cramer that competitors like Verizon have been stuck in a perpetual game of catch - up with his company, which he said took an estimated 250 percent of all of the industry's post-paid phone growth in the first quarter.

If you Google «home cleaner,» or «babysitter» or «handyman» in a certain city, you'll either see ads for one (or multiple) of the aforementioned on - demand platforms on the first page of Google; or you'll find directories (like Yelp) listed high up in Google, taking you to a more curated and ratings - based search results page where those same on - demand companies are listed or have ads running.

It's hard to predict who will be the first winner in driverless cars, the barely - past - imaginary industry that companies from Google to Ford are sprinting toward like predators.

First, simply because the president - elect does not like United Technologies» business decisions does not justify his issuing of veiled threats to blackball the company for actions that are perfectly legal, and this constitutes an unwarranted exercise of government power.

Like most new entrepreneurs you might have been doing the ground work of your business by building business relationships first before actually deciding to become a fully registered company.

In the more tech - heavy segments of the industry, startups like pet toy and treat subscription service BarkBox, services platform Rover, direct - to - consumer pet pharmaceutical company Vets First Choice, and smart - collar maker Whistle Labs are some of the dominant companies.

But Zuckerberg himself has said being too «focused on the positive» for the first 10 years of Facebook's existence blinded the company to much of the abuse it was enabling as well as to emergent effects of social media like hyper - polarization.

Pivotal first filed to go public on March 23, and it will be the latest in a series of tech companies to emerge on public markets, following the likes of Dropbox, Spotify and Zuora.

If employers are looking for ways to reduce costs for things like absenteeism, prescription drug benefits or long - term disabilities, Lowe says they must take a clear - eyed look at the company's role in, well, making people sick in the first place.

Because whether you like it or not and / or choose to stick your own head in the rapidly shifting sands, your social presence is increasingly the first look at, the first impression of, and effectively the digital front door of your company.

Like the great generals of World War II (Patton, MacArthur, Montgomery, De Gaulle), these CEOs return to office at a time of crisis to revive their enterprise and lead their companies to greater glory than they did during their first tour of duty.

«Even though we're 1,200 people it still feels like it did in the early days when we first founded the company,» co-founder and CEO Jenn Hyman told Business Insider.

But like her husband, she was a talented entrepreneur — the first female star to make a fortune in television by owning her own company.

When he is hired to speak, one of his first questions to the company's event planner is «how can I make you look like a rock star?»

When I started my first company Information Experts 22 years ago, every key organizational function was siloed - and they didn't even like each other.

Toronto - based Satish Kanwar, director of product at Shopify, an Ottawa company that offers software for creating an online store, speaks of the opportunities found by those who choose to work in a startup before taking the plunge themselves: «One of the best things someone can do is date a company first to see if you like startups and the entrepreneurial space before you commit to it,» he says.

Backed by brands like MTV, Genius, and the Latino Victory Project, the tool is the first major service to offer voter registration through text messaging, a process the company hopes will boost voter registration rolls, particularly among young voters.

The company's first partner on its new AR initiative is the spirits company Beam Suntory, which makes several popular liquors like Jim Beam whiskey and Sauza and Hornitos Tequila.

When asked about regulations they'd like to see eliminated, changed or created, many of the founders of companies on the first - ever CNBC Upstart 25 list called for regulations they'd like to see created, not stripped away.

A company like Box — founded in 2005, a year before AWS launched its first cloud service — didn't have much of a choice but to provision its own data centers.

«Instagram came from a realization that people didn't like our first product,» Systrom said in an interview with Simone Baribeau of Fast Company.

Like many first - time founders still getting a handle on their company's business cycles, Carson had failed to plan for the delay from when she made her products to when she could deliver them — or, more crucially, get paid for them.

Long gone are the days when a company like Apple Computer Inc. could get venture capital only after showing a profit (and, even then, received a first round of a mere $ 250,000).