Sentences with phrase «handful of employees»

Still, as in the past, it was well over a year before the 2001 Inc 500 companies that were started at home finally flew the coop, often with handful of employees in tow.

A good handful of employees who were former Iguana Entertainment employees, however, did.

Founded by Dr. Diane Chen, CEO, the company had humble beginnings in Fayetteville, NC, with a small handful of employees.

Informality may work fine when you have only a handful of employees, but as your business grows your need for established procedures does as well.

In my observation however, there is a greater appeal among startups with a handful of employees rather than self - employed and freelancing professionals.

It may seem unnecessary to hire a human resources specialist when you only have a handful of employees and limited funds.

They don't own or operate mines and usually have only a handful of employees, meaning they have little overhead and (usually) no debt.

Even if they founded the company, CEO is a pompous title for somebody supervising a handful of employees.

The San Francisco - based company has grown from a handful of employees to approximately 1,600 today.

Noah Kagan hits the gym with a handful of his employees three times a week.

When I started my company, I had a handful of employees.

Along with his co-founder, McLemore had to shut the company down, which meant letting go of a handful of employees and telling early backers their investment was effectively worthless.

Most employers can only coach and train a handful of employees at one time.

During a conference call to discuss first - quarter results for his hedge fund firm Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman described an «intensive» process over the past few weeks as he and a handful of his employees have worked with the embattled drugmaker in its search for a new leader.

Meg Whitman led eBay for 10 years, building what was essentially a startup with a handful of employees into a multibillion - dollar corporation by the time she left in 2008.

Lyft, for example, found out about One Medical because a handful of employees were using it on their own anyway.

Neither of us «came from money,» so when we started a new company in 1999, we did it with high hopes, a handful of employees and a raft of credit cards we routinely pushed to the limits, another American privilege.

Google gave Inc. access to a handful of its employees.

Along with a handful of employees and dozens of freelance writers, Hoover and Spain wrote their first guide, a profile of 546 large corporations.

Back when Starbucks announced the program, the company put out a powerful video featuring a handful of its employees.

But the more ambitious ones dream of one day expanding beyond one location and a handful of employees.

There were only a handful of employees at that time and the funds had total assets under management of US$ 2.5 million.

For months, managers called in a handful of employees each week and fired them.

Last week, Instagram, which has just a handful of employees, closed a financing round worth more than $ 50 million with several prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, an early backer of Google, Thrive Capital, the firm run by Joshua Kushner, and Greylock Capital, an early investor of LinkedIn.

But Camp eventually wore Kalanick down, and the service launched in San Francisco in the summer of 2010, with only a few cars, a handful of employees, and a small seed round.

What began as a challenge between a handful of employees in 2004 is now one of our most beloved traditions.

Ben Golub most recently served as CEO of Docker, an open - source software giant that he led from a handful of employees to unicorn status.

The tax incentive contract, which was finalized Sept. 28, was actually initiated in April, when the company had less than a handful of employees.

EMERGING MARKETS M - PAYMENTS BOOM Mobile payment applications can be particularly valuable in emerging markets, and especially among microbusinesses, or those with just a handful of employees.

Madoff and a handful of his employees and associates went to prison for their part in the fraud.

Prior to forming Real Matters, Mr. Smith was a founder, director and executive of Basis100, which he built from a handful of employees into one of the largest publicly - traded technology providers within the mortgage banking industry worldwide.

Still, even a small bed - and - breakfast can have a handful of employees and should consider policies for these types of leave.

In the early days of the company, with a little rope sizer, a single cooler and a handful of employees, Rainbow Valley Orchards focused on product diversification.

Well 10 years later, when I finally had my son, I found myself not only trying to manage new motherhood, but also a handful of employees.

At the old Pfizer building on Flushing Avenue, roughly 60 small businesses have set up shop inside the old headquarters, each with a handful of employees.

The company has hired a handful of employees and expects to have 200 on hand by the end of the year.

At a manufacturing roundtable at Revere Copper Products in Rome, the companies represented ranged from having a handful of employees to around 2,000.

Founded in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts, Genzyme evolved from a tiny start - up with just a handful of employees to one of the world's leading biotech companies.

A smaller business, for example, might operate from a single location, with only a handful of employees, while a larger enterprise might have multiple branches within the same building, or even multiple facilities all around the world.

A handful of employees in the shop that houses the cars for Johnson and Earnhardt banged on bodies and measured shells with templates, likely working on cars for soon - to - come races in Atlanta and Las Vegas.

The rest of the midway — so recently writhing with people — was empty but for a handful of employees and a small group of men waiting to be led to the cooch tent.

Unfortunately, business owners, especially ones with a handful of employees, do not take advantage of the basic retirement plans that are available because of the misconception that they are complicated.

There were only a handful of employees at that time and the funds had total assets under management of US$ 2.5 million.

That's a lot for an individual cardholder or a very small business with a handful of employees.

Just as our visitors return year after year, we have the good fortune of retaining a long time staff with a handful of employees at 20 + years of service.

Arriving to Koro Sun, we were greeted by a handful of employees singing and playing guitar as we drove up.

So, as far as I understand you were around World Nomads when there were only a handful of employees - how have things changed since then other than your continued disdain for suits?

With less than a handful of employees under him, Galvez is practically a one man wonder.