Sentences with phrase «launching first company»

When I launched my first company, at age 19, I had a dedicated phone next to my bed for customer calls.

Merck has had local postdoc programs before, but in the coming weeks it plans to launch its first company - wide program, which will accept between 15 and 20 postdocs for 3 - year stints at Merck's various U.S. campuses.

In May 2004, after three years with Pfizer, Jeff quit a successful career to launch his first company in Louisville, KY..

I launched my first company, a strategy consulting firm to help to U.S. - based technology firms gain entry into international markets.

Not exact matches

Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.

Disney launched ESPN + in April, the company's first ever direct - to - consumer service in the United States.

It's true, Apple wasn't first to launch a smart watch, but it has done something other companies have failed to do: make us realize just how useful a smart watch can be.

The company first launched in 2013 with a powdered nutritional formula for mixing into liquids.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

PERTH company aCure Technology has launched the city's first CBD - wide free WiFi service - beating competitors and the City of Perth.

Still, the company met its sales goals for the first year within three weeks of launch, Blumenthal said.

But because it was the first smartphone Samsung launched after discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 — some of which were found to have a battery defect that could cause it to explode or catch on fire — the company delayed the launch to implement a new safety - testing protocol to ensure the phones» batteries were safe, it said.

The two companies brainstorm ideas, and P.L.A.Y. produces the product which is first launched exclusively in BarkBox subscriptions, then makes its way onto P.L.A.Y.'s website.

Gilliland notes private company Solara bested the government - funded Human Genome Project by hitting important milestones first, and Elon Musk's SpaceX found a way to send rockets into space for a fifth the cost of a NASA launch.

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.

On April 27th, he is launching a campaign for Synergist to raise money for the company using their own platform, an industry - first for a socially driven company.Jared has also worked for 2 Silicon Valley start - ups and is currently writing a book about other inspiring young entrepreneurs and innovators.

-- Scott and Missy Tannen, founders of Boll & Branch, a New York - based company with a line of accessibly priced luxury bed linens that launched in January 2014 with first - year revenue topping $ 2 million and more than a $ 10 million run rate in its second year in business.

Companies focused on building and operating launch vehicles dominated first quarter investments, accounting for more than 72 percent with about $ 700 million, due to SpaceX's heavy fundraising.

Launching your company is only the first step.

Western Australia has proved a breeding ground for the online rental model, with DVD Direct establishing one of the first online DVD rental companies in Australia when it launched in August 2002.

Two years since the company launched, the start - up is now hitting its first inflection point.

When the company launched its first high - definition video camera, in November 2009, sales hockey - sticked — and the flood of user - generated videos online wasn't far behind.

As the holiday acquired nation - wide popularity, Alibaba became the first major company in 2009 to monetize the holiday by launching a special online sale and effectively transforming the day into the world's biggest 24 - hour online shopping event, one that reflects the growing wealth of China's middle - class.

In October 2012, «Spirit» launched, becoming the company's first ship to sail through Australian waters, as well as the largest ship to cruise to Australia year - round.

In 2010, Fadell, who grew up in Michigan, founded Nest, a consumer - tech company that in October launched its first product — the world's first «learning thermostat» — that can figure out the temperature you prefer.

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time Tuesday, a major milestone in the company's quest to grow its customer base and fund its vision of making life multiplanetary.

Nest Cam marks the first new product the company has launched since Google bought Nest for $ 3.2 billion in January 2014 and the first major integration we've seen between Nest and Dropcam.

The aerospace company says the launch vehicle, the first of its kind for SpaceX, is the most powerful rocket in the world today.

Rather than naming the company after its first product, they suggested building an overall brand identity and then using the power of the superbrand to launch subsequent products.

«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.

If your company is operating the same way today as it did when it was first launched, then you are stagnant, which means you are losing business.

In December 2015, SpaceX did something no commercial aerospace company had done before: It launched a satellite into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, then safely landed the rocket's lower half, called a first - stage booster, on a launchpad.

When Canada first launched the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in 1973, it was designed to allow companies to hire skilled professionals, like engineers, from outside the country when their expertise couldn't be found in the domestic market.

The company launched its first dedicated e-reader in May 2010, a month after the original iPad.

The Air Force said that Thursday's launch was the X-37B program's fifth space flight and the first to be sent aloft on a rocket by Elon Musk's private space cargo company SpaceX.

After SpaceX's first launch back in 2006, Elon Musk spoke with CNBC about the future of his rocket company.

If the launch is successful, it will be the first time a private company, not a government agency, has accomplished such a feat.

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.

(However, TIAA — which offered its first SRI product in 1991 and described itself as «a pioneer» in the field — launched its TIAA Personal Portfolio account last June «with the Gen Y audience in mind,» according to a company spokesperson.

The company also recently completed the first flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket, which the Air Force is utilizing for future launches.

The first battle starts at launch when companies vie for consumer attention.

The first standalone app from the company since the launch of the general Uber app, UberEats will be live in the Apple App Store and the Google Play store by the end of March.

When I first launched User Insight, I didn't tell anyone anything about the company's financials.

A newly launched engineering design, manufacturing and distribution company had fewer than 30 employees and had never done more than $ 825,000 in sales in any of its first three years.

This fall, the company launched its first womenswear line.

Loblaw Companies Ltd., which launched home delivery services in its first market late last year, will expand the offering to five more areas this year.

At the end of the first week of the company's launch, Instagram had been downloaded 100,000 times.

After all, the company, which launched in February 2011 as a spinoff from Justin.tv, Justin Kan's live broadcasting start - up, raised its first round in April of 2012.

To be fair to those team members, if their company were the first to launch it on campus and it worked well, odds are good that it would gain popularity, making it harder for copycats to enter the market and steal its customers.

The company, which was co-founded by entrepreneur Wade Eyerly two years ago, launched its first flight in June with a fleet of half a dozen six - passenger crafts.