Sentences with phrase «first starting my company»

When you first start a company the CEO, of course, is Chief Everything, which includes sales, marketing, PR, product, HR and even office management and accounting.

I was living in an RV when I first started my company, my husband at the time and I were sharing a laptop computer and my blood used to boil when it was his turn to use it.

«When I first started this company with my wife, she had a rule that I couldn't go skiing for the first year that we started the business,» he said via email.

I was living in New York City when I first started my company.

«When I first started my company, I did not use accounting software for all my transactions.

Being able to offer perks is all well and good, but that should be the furthest thing from your mind when you first start a company.

«In 1996, when I first started this company, frankly, pet owners didn't know what I was talking about,» Weiss says.

Abe Geary, founder of Pet Paint, recalls having to defend the use of color on pets when he first started his company.

«When we first started the company, this was the goal — build the platform and the technology that would power a new economy for retail,» Hunsicker says.

Rich: When we first started the company Dave and I were obviously both attorneys and so when we decided to start adding brokers to the company we thought that it would be a good idea to just keep it as attorneys only and try to keep a high level of professionalism and people that... Real estate's an industry where it's good to have someone who dots the i's and crosses the t's and that's kind of what lawyers do.

Not exact matches

Ryan Drexler thought so, too, but he also saw a great opportunity — first as an investor, then as a board member, and starting last year, as the company's CEO.

The company recorded a net loss of $ 93 million in the first quarter, but Toutant believes it'll make up for the rocky start as the company continues its big push to expand in the United States.

Dunham isn't the first actor or Hollywood celebrity to start her own media company: Gwyneth Paltrow has had some success with her newsletter and site Goop, but others have not been as successful.

And starting in 2008, the majority of U.S. workers, for the first time, worked at companies with 500 or more employees.

When Davis Smith first got the entrepreneurship bug, he wanted to start a company that would change the world.

When first starting with a company as a new employee, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed when taking on board new practices and getting used to the processes in place.

When I started my first company in my 20s, I also didn't know exactly what I was getting into.

The second - richest person in China, Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma reportedly started China's first internet company in 1988: China Yellowpages.

Theranos is the first company to start using blood tests that primarily rely on microfluidics, and it says it gets unparalleled results.

Her first husband left her for her secretary, and she had to borrow $ 1,000 to start her company.

Long before they've exhausted the growth possibilities of their first company, they decide to start another one in a totally unrelated business they know nothing about, and they end up spending time and money on it that should be put into building their original business instead.

On April 27th, he is launching a campaign for Synergist to raise money for the company using their own platform, an industry - first for a socially driven company.Jared has also worked for 2 Silicon Valley start - ups and is currently writing a book about other inspiring young entrepreneurs and innovators.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

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.

Revealing why you started your business in the first place can say a lot about your company and you as an entrepreneur.

After spending all of 2016 meeting, befriending, and interviewing «top - performing» Millennials who've started companies worth billions of dollars collectively and influence hundreds of millions of people every month, Jared Kleinert wanted the readers of SBDIB to be the first to read his new book.

Two years since the company launched, the start - up is now hitting its first inflection point.

The company was founded in 1977 by Ron Ball (Eppel was an early hire, just 18 years old when he started), and it expanded quickly — first with a plant in Buffalo, then to Europe and, as the industry moved east, to China in 1996.

There were 140,430 companies created in the first quarter, better than the average (137,813) since the start of 2001, which is as far back as the data go.

What you might have missed: The company said it expects revenue between $ 46 billion and $ 48 billion in the current quarter, which will be the first to include sales of the new Apple Watch that started shipping last Friday.

This worked for me when I started my first company back in college.

Swiss company Nestlé announced plans to remove artificial flavours from its candy products, the first major firm of its kind to do so in the U.S. (A day later, Hershey said it would start using more natural ingredients in its products, too.)

Raider started his first company in 2009.

He started a B2B services company because it allowed him to start small — first with himself as the head programmer — then adding on more staff as he found more work.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

Since Facebook first started letting businesses integrate with its chat app, Messenger, at last year's conference, it has continued to give companies more ways to use it to communicate with potential customers.

While running her first company — Coutorture, a fashion and lifestyle ad network she started at age 22 and sold two years later — a typical day involved 12 hours at the office, followed by a night of schmoozing at industry events and a scant four hours of sleep.

So as the idea developed, about 6 months after doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people, industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.

Back when I first started NetCreations, I was the typical small - business owner who ran her company by the seat of her pants.

The company established an export business from the start, with its very first sauce.

«I know people are coming to Spotify to listen first, but we're starting to build something new,» Courtney Holt, the company's head of studios and video, said in an interview.

Cuban's first big startup success was an early software company called Micro Solutions, which he started for $ 500 and sold seven years later for $ 6 million.

Ari Powell started working at his father's Toronto - based fountain drink concentrate distribution company during his first summer break from law school.

In the past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55 years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002 went out of production decades ago.

When Chase first started Zipcar, the popular service which allows consumers to rent cars by the hour or the day, she says she was criticized for not making the company non-profit.

The Corporate Cupcake After a slightly uneasy night's sleep (I had overdone it that evening at Baked & Wired, a well - entrenched Georgetown cupcake establishment), I start the first full day of my trip at Crumbs Bake Shop in downtown D.C. Crumbs is the nation's largest cupcake company, with 35 locations and $ 31 million in annual revenue, and also the most corporate, with plans to trade shares on the Nasdaq starting in May.

With his boss's blessing, Cerilli quit his job at First Round, brought Matt Doumar — who had built SinglePlatform's entire product team — on board as a cofounder, and got started on a company that would eventually become known as Good Uncle.

Better yet, think of other opportunities for making great first impressions — an all - company meeting before the new hire starts, a company party or a departmental outings.

His father founded a construction company and a small hotel in Buenos Aires, and the family spent summers in New York City, where Fuks says he first got the urge to start something himself.

When I first spoke with Chris, I was fascinated to learn about the surely long list of legal issues associated with starting a company that is dealing in a space as highly regulated as alcohol.