Sentences with phrase «founders of companies like»

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The company has since raised $ 75 million from the likes of Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and General Catalyst, and has recruited top talent to its 60 - employee team, including Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai.

«The office has a really fun «community» feel, kind of like Imgur itself,» says the company's founder and CEO, Alan Schaaf, 28.

Dig Deeper: Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia, on Corporate Culture Resources: * The Ethical Leadership Group and consulting firms like it serve companies who have gone astray from their philosophies and are looking to get back on track ethically.

Torenberg says he's seen many founders like Fishkin fall into the depths of depression while in the trenches of launching and growing their own companies.

Alain Albert, founder of the online cabinetry retailer Doordoer, likes the flexibility that comes with running a «virtual company»

«I still feel like I'm behind enemy lines» as a founder turned investor, Busque said, «So I'll say this: I've learned that there are thousands of reasons why an investor won't invest in your company that have nothing to do with you.»

I feel like a Navy Seal called in to somehow covertly free the company from the shackles of it's founder.

Wildly successful technology companies like Airbnb or Pinterest, for example, wouldn't be where they are today without the creative minds of their non-tech founders Brian Chesky (BFA in design) and Ben Silbermann (BA in political science).

Watching the enormous success of companies like Facebook and Google — started by founders who were barely out of college — has dramatically altered the under - 25's sense of when it's «right» or «appropriate» to pursue a good idea.

«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.

For BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, the world of content is one where distribution through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Apple News, Snapchat, and Instagram is far more important than what gets published on a company's site.

By positioning it as the company committed to the idea of safeguarding the privacy of its users, Jobs «made the comparison between Apple and companies like Facebook and Google inevitable», as Samir Addamine, founder of mobile marketing automation platform FollowAnalytics, puts it.

Like it or not, trade and supply chains are fluid, notes Hiten Shah, founder, president and CEO of Columbus, Ohio - based manufacturing and logistics company Marketing and Engineering Solutions.

Adam Fleischman, the founder of Umami Restaurant Group, agreed, saying that the power of companies like Chipotle is that their brand often resonates with customers even more than their products do.

Commentary by Debbie Sterling, the founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, a company that makes building - block - like toys aimed at girls.

Shot at Founder's Co-op, a Seattle venture fund and tech incubator, the video shows the founders of web companies like LookStat and NearlyWeds writing code, discussing pricing, and sharing ideas about their businesses.

Candor like that is a rarity among founders of privately held companies — and, Goldberg writes, a huge mistake on his part.

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.

That's the good news, but it comes with a big caveat, the likes of which would make the fund company's founder, Jack Bogle, proud.

It's a particularly acute problem for the founders of businesses that deal in physical products, like Leota and Washington D.C. - based coffee shop chain Peregrine Espresso, though service - based companies, like Mattermark, a San Francisco - based software startup, certainly aren't immune to cash - flow issues.

Like the founders of many a young, promising venture, the CEO of Work Recovery, a $ 5 - million publicly traded Tucson company, had an appealing product.

Explains Abby Huizing, founder of Franchisology, a Calgary consulting firm: «When a company like Chicken on the Way has garnered a cult - like following and decides to franchise, one of the most important things aside from location is choosing the right franchisees.»

In a year when companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat became a part of the exclusive Billion - Dollar Startup Club, it's obvious that founders like Travis Kalanik, Brian Chesky, and Evan Spiegel have officially become inspiring success stories.

The car is meant to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of company founder Ferrucio Lamborghini, and now we might know what it looks like.

And I was part of the problem: As the founder of the company, I hardly ever took vacation - so employees felt like they shouldn't take time off either.

The start - up founder had, it seems, conceived of his postings as a way to help other company founders understand what a funding round looks like from the inside, and the effect was that the investment firms began bidding against one another.

Gabe Lozano, founder of social network LockerDome told CBS St. Louis that a prospective employee turned down an offer from Lozano's company after finding out ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft didn't operate in the city.

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.

These companies may be growing or about to be going, but the founders are spending every day just like you facing the same kinds of challenges, coming up with new and novel solutions, and suffering all the ups and downs of the startup process that we know and love so well.

«Unless you are a company that grew up on the web or mobile like Google, Facebook or Amazon, digital natives with the best internal systems and engineering talent, your data is trapped in lots of systems,» says Tasso Argyros, CEO and Co Founder of ActionIQ.

Like a child, the startup culture you create will become a reflection of you — the company's founder (or founders)-- as well as your early hires.

But when a plot of land on that road finally went up for sale, Kennedy, the founder of Noodles & Company — a $ 120 million national restaurant chain headquartered nearby — discovered it was too close to the street for his liking.

That's according to Joel Holland, founder and CEO of VideoBlocks, a company that shook up the stock footage industry when it introduced a Netflix - like subscription model that gives amateur and professional filmmakers unlimited access to video clips and digital effects for $ 99 a year.

Mark Graham, the founder of Rightsleeve, a Toronto - based promotional products company that makes custom - branded swag like Red Bull toques and Koodo action figures, started his business in 1997 with $ 3,000, a home office and zero employees.

The founders of the three - year - old dads group, Rob Lanoue and Andrew Hamer, use words like «negotiate,» and speak about an increasing «war for talent» that makes it an economic must for companies like Deloitte to accommodate parents.

Unlike more consumer - focused space exploration missions, like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — which will take passengers into sub-orbital spaceflight for $ 200,000 — Golden Spike's founder says its company's clientele will be comprised mainly of governments and corporations.

Sticking with our recent articles on Amazon private label selling and market traction, I thought I would talk with an actual million dollar private label brand, who is finding success, through methods like developing original products, and share that with you.I talked with Raj Jana, the Founder of JavaPresse Coffee Company, who is building a brand that creates meaningful products and experiences that help people make the most of the moments they love, which starts with the ritual of making and drinking one perfect cup of coffee every single day.

He's back now with League, a health services company that has attracted backing from the likes of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System and BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis's Infinite Potential Technologies.

So don't be like all those other CEOs and founders out there who relinquish to a third party 100 percent control of their company's development.

«This investment announces HealthEngine's arrival on the global startup scene, hopefully putting us on a similar trajectory to many of Sequoia's other successes — iconic companies like Apple and Google and more recently startups like Whatsapp, Stripe and Airbnb,» said HealthEngine founder and chief executive Dr Marcus Tan.

The plan, says company founder Kendall Ananyi, is to eventually wire much of sub-Saharan Africa with Tizeti's towers — and create an Xfinity - like network of wifi providers throughout Lagos that any of the company's customers can access on the go.

Talented Vietnamese - origin entrepreneurs are leaving tech centres like Silicon Valley to start and expand their companies in Vietnam, such as the founders of Klout.inc and Chopp.vn.

But the Facebook founder also seized on the opportunity to indulge in a little suggestive shade throwing which looked very much like an attempt to blame - shift responsibility for the massive data scandal embroiling his company onto, of all things, one of the UK's most prestigious universities.

When the Company seeks cash investments from outside investors, like you, the new investors typically pay a much larger sum for their shares than the founders or earlier investors, which means that the cash value of your stake is immediately diluted because each share of the same type is worth the same amount, and you paid more for your shares (or the notes convertible into shares) than earlier investors did for theirs.

As the founder of high - profile companies like Blogger, Twitter and Medium, you'd probably expect Evan Williams to be at work more than most of us.

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Tim Draper, the Founder of Draper University, is the Founding Partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a premier global venture capital firm that has funded companies like Hotmail, Skype, Baidu, Tesla, and Parametric Technology.

Steve Goran Stevanovich is currently the founder, President and CEO of SGS Global Holdings, which holds investments in a variety of tech companies in different industries like aeronautics and sustainable energy.

That might not seem like something that has immediate or obvious implications for media companies, but I think plenty of traditional players in the industry could learn a lot from the lessons that founders like David Karp of Tumblr and Evan Williams of Medium provided at RoadMap.

I really do feel like you need to see a lot of deals in order to really understand what makes a good founder or a good company.