Sentences with phrase «first startup company»

NewSci is the first startup company to receive funding from members of the Tallahassee chapter of the Florida Angel Nexus, a statewide network of angel investors seeking to invest in high - growth ventures.

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The Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley startup, valued at $ 1.1 billion, became the first company allowed to sell genetic tests (and accompanying health - risk reports) for 10 different diseases directly to consumers without a prescription.

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.

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.

While Kiwi Crate and other startups have already launched subscription - based concepts for toys, Hasbro's (has) effort is the first for a large toy company.

Bloomberg attributes this boost to a recent surge in tech companies acquiring funding for the first time, indicating that investors are more willing than ever to take chances on startups.

Business Rockstars is the first integrated, multi-platform media company featuring entrepreneurs, startups and CEOs.

Mobli was also famous for being one of the first startups to use NASDAQ's private market, allowing early employees to cash out their shares in the company by selling them to other private investors.

The D.C. WeWork was initially filled with tiny companies drunk on the startup lifestyle (and free beer — legend has it that of WeWork's first - generation locations, it consumed the most).

Lebda's startup initially prospered as the first company ever to provide online comparison shopping for financial services.

Fu first encountered musical.ly when the young company won a competition for startups.

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.

The first the mayor of Santa Monica heard of Bird's scooters was when VanderZanden sent him a message on LinkedIn after the company launched, The Washington Post previously reported, and the city has since filed a criminal complaint against the startup over its failure to obtain a permit.

-- Melissa A. Vitale, founder of Melissa A Vitale PR, a PR firm specializing in top - tier media placements that hit six - figure revenue in its first six months, with clients including Fortune 500 companies and startups across A.I., sexual wellness, and legal cannabis

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.

A startup failure — something that happens to 90 percent of companies — is only the first milestone towards success.

Solace Technologies» first year of business was about what you'd expect from a startup — funds were tight and the company's founders, who didn't take a salary for 12 months, worked from a basement in an office building in downtown Los Angeles.

Startups that thrive manage to eke out the first profits that convince investors to put in the money that grows the company.

While Terminus is not my first startup, this was the earliest I have ever been at a company that has grown at this pace.

While outsourcing can still be a viable solution for some companies looking to cut costs, it's important to first consider whether a function falls within your startup's core competency.

Nick Devane, the CEO of PilotWorks, a co-working space and commercial kitchen rental company that caters to food entrepreneurs and startups, learned first hand how to evaluate risks and through his experience, developed his own strategies for risk - taking.

Elio Motors was the first startup to become a publicly traded company using the updated Regulation A + crowdfunding rules.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

Paypal was one of the first major fintech companies, and their CEO, Dan Schulman, has echoed similar sentiments about startups leading the charge to democratize financial freedom: «The simplest transaction - receiving a paycheck, paying bills or sending money to a loved one - can be distressingly inconvenient and disproportionately expensive.

The 70 - person startup's first partners include several luxury consumer - product companies, which plan to debut Modern Meadow's first commercially available products later this year.

«Even for the patriotic, diehard Canadian who insists on their startup being in Canada, in many cases the company gets to a point where it's forced to sell to a U.S. big tech firm,» said Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

Everything a large company did, a startup should do — write a business plan; hire sales, marketing, engineering; spec all the product features on day one and build everything for a big first customer ship.

The fourth thing that's changed is that you can start a company on your laptop For Thousands Rather than Millions of Dollars Startups traditionally required millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product to customers.

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.

In June of 2012, I launched my first Kickstarter campaign for a previous startup I was involved in — iPad - case company Origami Slate.

LP Maurice, the CEO and co-founder of Montreal - based bus travel company Busbud, tells me he thinks that first working at a startup is helpful for those hoping for eventual new - business launches.

As its retail footprint expands, first in major North American markets, then in Asia and Europe, the company will also defray showroom startup costs through distribution partnerships and perhaps co-branded stores.

A prototype is at work in Cambridge, where the company recently won first place at an MIT startup accelerator contest.

CALGARY — The first phase of Imperial Oil Ltd.'s Kearl oilsands mine will cost $ 2 billion more than its most recent estimate as the company faced issues transporting Korean - made modules to the mine site in northern Alberta and contended with harsh weather during startup.

Smith is an outlier in the vast sea of startup companies in that she survived the first three years, and that's because she learned to bootstrap, market wisely and listen to what her customers wanted.

Honest Company, a startup co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, will start to sell the company's diapers, body wash, and other consumer - products goods on Amazon.com for the first time later thisCompany, a startup co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, will start to sell the company's diapers, body wash, and other consumer - products goods on Amazon.com for the first time later thiscompany's diapers, body wash, and other consumer - products goods on Amazon.com for the first time later this month.

The startup's shares opened at 60 percent above IPO price on the company's first day of trading.

Along with building a set of resources, the group plans to work with a first group of up to 18 startups, with 25 to 1,000 employees per company, according to the Times.

While the impact on the R&D tax credit would mostly impact large public companies at first, those changes will over time play a role in how future startups spend money on innovation.

In fact, nearly half of startup companies fail within the first four years.

Moving up a rank since last year, the southern city has a 95.6 percent startup growth rate: The number of employees at a Nashville company grows an average of 95.6 percent in the company's first five years.

He told them, «When you're in a startup, the first 10 people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.»

When a larger company acquires a startup, the deal can often spell the end (or at least the neglect) of the products, licensing deals, and other assets that made the startup successful in the first place.

Alice seems a logical choice for Pivotal's first private - company investment, as it's run by two prominent female entrepreneurs — Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz — and was founded as a way to integrate more women into the startup ecosystem.

The duo fixed and sold old computers in high school, ran a web development company out of their dorm rooms in college, and worked together at O'Kelley's first advertising startup Right Media post-grad.

Before the doors were shut on my first big - time venture, I had already begun a new business plan, joined as an adviser to a growing startup and invested in a media company.

For companies in the new program, called Startup Blueprint, PayPal will waive up to $ 50,000 in transaction fees for the first 18 months.

The sale was a milestone for Israel's young but huge startup community: The first Israeli consumer - app company to be bought for over $ 1 billion.

Indeed, Atlanta now has 11 innovation centers, where startups and enterprise companies can connect and engage, as well as conferences like Venture Atlanta and SuperNova South, where investors, founders and corporations can come together to network and be the first to see the newest, hottest technologies.

Based on 6,000 interview requests and 3,000 first - round interviews with 250 companies, Hired recently worked up a ranking of the most attractive startups for the tech talent with several years of experience that the company targets.