Sentences with phrase «founders of friends of»

Chrissy Kaczynski, one of the founders of Friends of Dekalb Animals (FODA) took her home.

Leslie Milder, founder of Friends of Texas Public Schools and author of Hello!

Andy Daub, former State Theatre board president and founder of the Friends of the State Theatre, and his wife, Carolyn, are honorary chairspersons.

This includes the founder of Friends of Homacho in Dubuque, which is a non-profit organization helping meet the needs of those living in the village of Homacho in Ethiopia.

Sonya Vargas, founder of Friends of The Streets Association for dogs and animals, discusses the need for dogs to be adopted in Mexico.

Suzanne Deal Booth is the Founder of The Friends of Heritage Preservation (FOHP) http://www.fohpinfo.org and has served as Director since 1998.

-- David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth

George Divoky is the founder of Friends of Cooper Island and serves as its director.

- David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth

Not exact matches

Nomadness Travel Tribe began with 100 Facebook friends of the founder and now counts more than 10,000 members.

Founders should absolutely turn to their board members, friends, mentors and VCs in times of need.

What you don't want to do, however, is base your decision on the opinions of your friends and family, says Lolo Siderman, the founder of Gypsywing Media, a virtual ad agency based in Los Angeles.

So he put a message on the wall of Sarah Goodin, who is a college friend of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Startups are often populated with people who are friends of the founders.

Fashion designer Michael Kors, an old friend of Aerin Lauder, said he expected her firm to expand globally, but added that «times have changed» since the days of Estee Lauder, the founder of the group.

For better or worse, many startup founders take money from family and friends — not all of whom are seasoned startup investors.

In time, three of the founders were gone, replaced by «friends» of the venture capitalists.

If the answer is the founder, their friends and family, then chances are the business will be among the glut of failed startups, which the 2015 Startup Genome Report co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members estimates is as high as 90 %.

His friends call him «I.G.,» but those aren't the only initials used by Indrajit Ghosh, founder of Atlas Communications, a network - engineering consultancy based in Brooklyn, N.Y..

There's a couple reasons for this: after massive sleep deprivation and zero separation between work and personal life, taking a step back often reminds a founder of the things that they want in their personal life and gives motivation to the work life and while in a lull this can upset investors or look like avoidance, its in almost every case helped the company and lets be honest, if a company is going to die it isn't going to die in one week but be surprised at how much sleep a founder might need and you probably wouldn't want many friends around.

But if you do plan to ask family and friends for advice, at the very least make sure they have all the relevant facts, said Ryan Wibberley, an advisor and founder of CIC Wealth Management.

To most entrepreneurs and their close friends, a freebie or discount is incredibly natural, but it's an impulse the nearest and dearest of entrepreneurs need to learn to ignore, according to HubSpot founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah.

Stephen Davies, founder of U.S. Computer Group, a $ 25 - million computer - maintenance company in Farmingdale, N.Y., gave equity to a friend who invested $ 120,000 in his start - up.

Beck, one of the highest - rated conservative radio hosts in the country and founder of TheBlaze, said he's sure «there are those who believe» what they say, but pointed to numbers when asked why so many of his colleagues — many of whom he calls friends — have embraced Trump.

In late December of 2001, ImClone founder and CEO Sam Waksal tipped off family and friends that his company's new cancer drug, Erbitux, was about to be rejected by the FDA.

While most startups will be self - funded by its founders or the founder's immediate family and friends, some seek and accept third party «seed funding,» an investment at the very early stages of a company.

«Michele is a person who skips the line,» says Nicole Verkindt, founder of online aerospace marketplace OMX and one of Romanow's best friends.

«Ventures perform better — survive longer, generate greater annual profits and cash flows — when their founders locate them in their home regions where they have deep roots of family and friends.

Through a friend of the family, Spiegel was referred to Peter Wendell, founder of Sierra Ventures, who allowed him to sit in on his graduate - level class on entrepreneurship and venture capital.

They are the friends and associates of the founders of the seed and early stage companies we speak of.

My friend Brian Clark, founder of Copyblogger Media, went from «just a blog» to becoming one of the fastest - growing SaaS companies on the planet.

It was early in the spring of 2007, and my friend Saeed Amidi, the incubator's founder, was introducing me to some of the start - ups that were operating there.

Quoc and his best friend Michael did just that as founders of «Free The Apps» as well as multiple other iPhone App companies including Hipposoft, Pici App, and more.

«The stolen Yahoo data is critical because it not only leads to a single system but to users» connections to their banks, social media profiles, other financial services and users» friends and family,» said Alex Holden, the founder of Hold Security, which has been tracking the flow of stolen Yahoo credentials on the underground web.

«New managers typically rely on «friends and family» money or perhaps a key investor to launch their fund,» said Andrew Schneider, founder and president of Family Office Networks, in the statement.

The day is part of a growing series of events that was originally spearheaded by investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and moved forward by Jess Lee of Sequoia Capital, who along with their women friends in venture wanted to work more closely with the far larger — and growing — community of women founders that has begun to form in recent years.

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2017 Edison Awards nominee, Benjilock, founder Robbie Cabral, is looking to make storing your personal belongings easier and safe with the help of some unlikely but largely successful friends.

The founders, under some pressure, agreed to top up all the friends and family investors with an allocation out of their shares (and they had lots given the fact that both the high initial valuation and convertible had protected their pool) at the price point mandated by the VC.

Let us rewind to the very beginning of the story with the founder and his friend.

For these founders, the only source of outside investment has been friends and family, bank loans, or credit card debt.

Dear Friends, As Founder and President of The Ricky Martin Foundation I am honored and grateful for your unparalleled generosity towards the people of Puerto Rico.

The anti-Semites shall be our best friends» — Theodor Herzl, Founder of Zionism in 1897 Unquote: http://www.iamthewitness.com/

«It is with a heavy, but hopeful heart that I share with you that it appears our friend, brother and founder will soon be home with the Lord,» Jim Liske, CEO of Prison Fellowship Ministries, which Colson founded, said in a statement.

House speaker Paul Ryan said: «Here lies America's pastor,» gesturing to Mr Graham's casket under the eye of the dome, surrounded by family, friends, politicians and a ring of paintings of the nation's founders.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a former Muslim and friend of Louis Farrakhan, Muslim founder and President of The Nation of Islam.

I passionately believe in strangers becoming friends and becoming disciples,» says Chris Duffett, a street evangelist, Baptist minister and founder of The Light Project.

A close friend of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, he remained within the Anglican Church and promoted its evangelical wing.

A few days before his death in 1947, my philosophical master Alfred North Whitehead, the founder of process thought, had a conversation with his friend Lucien Price.

«Oh, I am no friend of the present Christianity, though its founder was sublime.»