Sentences with phrase «for younger founders»

Advice for younger founders can be just as relevant no matter what your age.

Entrepreneurship is a solitary life, and for the young founders who pack up and move to the desert with the promise of funding, one's life and one's company are very tightly intertwined.

Anthony Lacavera finds out why Henry Ford's quote «Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right» resonates with the entrepreneur and how she uses it to help inspire and #movethedial for young founders.

This is quite common at startups, where you might find yourself working for a young founder in her early twenties or a young manager who worked his way up as an early employee.

Not exact matches

Launched by Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Council (and an Inc.com columnist), Startup Insurance isn't an exchange so much as a broker for insurance options tailored specifically to entrepreneurs and small - business owners.

Heather Payne, founder of Ladies Learning Code and Hacker You, talks with Rhiannon Traill of the Economic Club of Canada about how to help young workers build their technical skills for the jobs of the future.

I won't reveal yet who my favorites are, but I will say that these young scientist - founders came up with very creative solutions for preventing infections in some common surgeries, tackling resistance in targeted antibody drugs, improving gene vectors for cell therapies, helping the vision - impaired «see» faces and better read their environments, imaging hard - to - see spots in the lungs and other organs, improving genetic risk analysis, and expediting the logistical operations of hospitals.

The youngest Dragon in the Den (and serial entrepreneur herself) has a message for aspiring founders: don't wait

James Hong and Jim Young, the original founders of Hot or Not, reportedly sold the site for $ 20 million.

Raising an Entrepreneur: 10 Rules for Nurturing Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers is a fun approach to parenting young innovators by sharing the stories of 60 entrepreneurs, including Blake Mycoskie, founder and «Chief Shoe Giver» of TOMS; Kevin Plank, founder, CEO and Chairman of Under Armour; Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad; Michael Chasen, co-founder of Blackboard, and more.

When I started my company, iDoneThis, the biggest question on my mind — and I'm guessing it's top of mind for other young founders too — was: «Hmm... how do I sell this?»

Plus, the young founders seem to be brimming with energy and ambition for the company.

Millennial Trains Project arranges cross-country trips for young innovators so they can discuss key issues impacting society, explains founder Patrick Dowd.

Mehta was joined by Caroline Ghosn, co-founder Levo League, a networking site for young career women, Maxine Bedat, founder Zady.com, an online retailer of sustainable fashion, and Lara Galinsky, author and senior vice president of Echoing Green, which provides startup funding to socially conscious ventures.

Almost without exception, exemplars are scrappy young businesses whose brands were born on the same clean sheets of paper as their products were, whose history is measured in months or years rather than decades, and whose founders still show up for work in the morning.

«Internships should serve as educational experiences that train young adults for their careers,» says Heather Huhman, founder of Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for organizations with products that target job seekers and employers.

Below, five successful founders and members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC)-- all under the age of 35 — weigh in on the survey's findings and its implications for the entrepreneurial ecosystem as we know it.

In this video, Young Entrepreneur Council Founder Scott Gerber discusses his two favorite task management apps for wrangling competing projects and priorities.

Thuzio Executive Club co-founder Tiki Barber interviews Daymond John to seek the FUBU founder's best advice for young entrepreneurs.

For our series The Grind, young entrepreneur and founder of eco-healthy restaurant Green Bean Sarah Haselkorn discusses the importance of implementing systems at businesses.

I've covered one or two before, such as WayUp founder Liz Wessel's dictum that young people should always default to «yes,» but if you're in the market for this sort of bite - sized but actionable advice, a recent Psychology Today piece from UConn professor and author Gina Barreca is the real mother lode.

Cristi Young is a New York City - based writer and the founder of No. 2 Creative, a branding firm that offers editorial content and strategies for companies looking to grow and refine their brands.

If you're in the rarefied position of being able to attract investor dollars, these three young founders have some advice for you.

The three women on the stage — Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments; Gisele Ruiz, EVP and COO at Wal - Mart North America; and Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America — are young women themselves, although Generation Xers rather than millennials.

Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invitation - only networking group for entrepreneurs that Entrepreneur magazine called «one of America's most successful communities for business.

Just when we thought Daniel Gross was the youngest founder Paul Graham tapped for YC, a game - design duo proves us wrong.

Experienced female founders, what's your best advice for young women just getting into entrepreneurship?

In the course of an interesting discussion jam - packed with advice from the young founder, including tips on successfully bootstrapping and recommendations for some of her favorite tools for entrepreneurs, she offers young women like herself some advice on how to face their well - founded anxieties about the additional challenges that female founders still face.

So if you're looking for inspiration on how to be productive when business drops off in the summer, check out Young Entrepreneurs Council's round up of 12 founders» responses to the question, «What odd jobs and tasks do you work on for your business during a slow season to keep busy and prepare for a busy time ahead?»

Rich founders are being profiled as eligible bachelors in the New York Times, young people increasingly claim they aspire to be entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial mindset is being hailed as the cure for many of the social ills that ail us.

«As a result of the mentoring that I do — especially with women startup founders or young women professionals — I do get asked for coffee more than I ask.

Atlassian, bootstrapped by its founders and co-chief executives Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon - Brookes, using a $ 10,000 credit card advance, is one of a handful of young companies that operate in the cloud and online marketplace for workplace collaboration tools.

Many business people — from founders to established executives to onlookers — misunderstand the role of boards and corporate governance, particularly for young companies.

A new SEC initiative that will pave the way for individual investors to participate in crowdfunding — Internet - based fundraising for young companies — may also expose investors to potential frauds, according to Randy Shain, founder of BackTrack Reports and an expert in investigative due diligence for the investment community.

On Labor Day, Scott Gerber, president and founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), hopes to tap into precisely this brand of technology, scale and openness to change the way startup mentorship is done, with the launch of StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program for young entreprenYoung Entrepreneur Council (YEC), hopes to tap into precisely this brand of technology, scale and openness to change the way startup mentorship is done, with the launch of StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program for young entreprenyoung entrepreneurs.

Young Entrepreneur has since become a must - visit resource for startup CEOs, founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, mentors, and investors worldwide, reaching an audience that very few can match.

He is the founder of YEC, an invitation - only organization comprised of the world's most successful young entrepreneurs, and Forbes Councils, a collective of invitation - only organizations for world - class executives.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

First emerging as a haven for developers and techpreneurs in Ilorin, Kwara state, Founders Hub has transited into a tech entrepreneurship development centre providing co-working space and incubation services to young businesses within the state.

NEXT Canada, a program dedicated to accelerating the growth of young entrepreneurs in Canada, is seeking applications to fill 20 spots for the Next Founders 2017 cohort.

The Next Founders is a transformative program for Canada's most promising young entrepreneurs.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKennzie, have donated $ 33 million to a college scholarship program for young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

«It would be naive to think that this won't be front - of - mind for many founders raising in the very near future,» said Shayan Mohanty, a young founder.

Interestingly, the young founder of Tetras Capital argued that the crypto space needs to stop falling for the commonly misunderstood decentralisation hype.

It's refreshing to be reminded that not everyone who met the zealous young advocate for life in community and the Sermon on the Mount was equally impressed — Hardy Arnold, son of the founder of the pacifist Bruderhof near Frankfurt, thought Bonhoeffer a bit of a dandy and a romantic when Bonhoeffer visited there in 1934.

«The aim is to accompany young people in their journey of faith — and for that, we need spirit - filled evangelists, who are really in love with God» said Curtis Martin, founder of the movement, which began in America and is now in its 20th year.

I was appointed to a parish in Appalachia half time, and taught half time at a local church junior college, named for its founder, Young Harris.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

Randall Bourquin, founder and president of the UGAtheists at the University of Georgia, says it's important for young people to have a group among whom they can share beliefs - or lack of them.

The founder of the movement, Rachel Eyitayo, told Premier the group was birthed by a group of young Christians who saw a need for love «among fear, darkness and confusion.»