Sentences with phrase «life as a startup»

While every business begins its life as a startup, here's how to determine that you're on the growth path.

Indeed, Jet.com's ambitions and positioning have in some ways far outstripped what the company has actually achieved in its relatively short life as a startup, with early investor interest, it seems, largely based on the strength and vision of the founding team.

Not exact matches

Thanks to Barcelona's many attractions as a place to live, including its healthy economy, cosmopolitan vibe, and rich cultural life, the city's startup scene has been impressively successful at attracting and retaining talent.

Some companies have work - life balance as a core value, although it tends to be difficult for early startups.

«You can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years.

One challenge is the light - speed evolution of broadcast media as we know it: live streaming, startup media outlets, as well as the cornerstone networks and cable partners.

The Internet, by his estimation, «is the best tool we've ever developed as humans,» and while most for - profit startups realize this, «the nonprofits that are solving some of the most important problems in the world — that are trying to save lives and provide education — are not adopting it fast enough.

For example, at Enplug, 12 of the startup's 37 employees (including the CEO), actually live full - time in the six - bedroom Bel Air house the company uses as an office, reports Rachel Emma Silverman in the Wall Street Journal.

Be careful about overvaluing your startup with faulty assumptions; it will only make your life more difficult - particularly if your investors have governance rights, such as positions on the company's board.

As the co-founder and CEO of SOLS, a startup that manufactures custom 3 - D printed insoles using scans of customers» feet, Schouwenburg is more than a little personally invested in redefining 3 - D printing as an affordable way to create products that don't just look cool, but actually improve the way we livAs the co-founder and CEO of SOLS, a startup that manufactures custom 3 - D printed insoles using scans of customers» feet, Schouwenburg is more than a little personally invested in redefining 3 - D printing as an affordable way to create products that don't just look cool, but actually improve the way we livas an affordable way to create products that don't just look cool, but actually improve the way we live.

As a startup you should know what pain points your product or service fixes in peoples» lives and why they should be compelled to use your company's product.

Living in Silicon Valley, the center of the startup universe, and working as a journalist, I am asked by many entrepreneurs how can they get press coverage.

Not having an MBA, the first year of leading my startup was the most hectic as well as the biggest ego buster of my life.

She had been self - financing her company Flytographer (2017 STARTUP 50: No. 16) up until then with her life savings accrued from her former (and lucrative) job as a marketing manager with Microsoft.

Over the past year, Fortune Live sat down with the visionaries leading some of the country's hottest startups as well as the CEOs of many Fortune 500 companies.

The life of a startup is a fun and exhilarating one, full of good moments and challenging ones as well.

Transitioning into civilian life, Ryan is making a career promoting startups that develop the powerful and specialized software he wishes he'd had as an intelligence officer in Iraq — programs that can map and visualize useful information like casualties from IEDs, the market price of flour at a local bazaar, or the tribal affiliations of local townspeople.

Reading «Disrupted» strictly as a memoir of career transition — rather than as some sort of exposé of life at HubSpot or life «in the startup bubble,» as the title provocatively puts it — will open your eyes to many of of the book's finer points.

In fact, Moskovitz — who now runs a startup called Asana, where he encourages his employees to have a better work - life balance — not only argues that he personally would have been better off if he hadn't worked so hard, but that Facebook (FB) itself would have been better off as well.

The right time to demonstrate your interest in startup life isn't when you're interviewing for your first startup job, according to Brewster Stanislaw of Inside Social: «It's quite easy these days to expose yourself to entrepreneurship as a student.

As a startup advisor and investor, living in an area with several local universities, I'm continually surprised by how little many entrepreneurs know about the resources available from these institutions.

It boasts both low living costs and a high quality of life — with popular developments, such as the Atlanta Beltline Trail and Ponce City Market — attracting a new generation of talent to the startup community.

Held in English and a part of a series of similar events held in other cities, such as Hamburg and Copenhagen, the Athens version of Startup Live aims to tie Greek entrepreneurs to the rest of the start - up community in Europe.

Well, HBO hit another home run with their new Silicon Valley show that depicts the startup life and follows a group as they bring their compression software to market.

(Autonomy is a myth as an entrepreneur because your entire life gets consumed with your startup, and your clients, users, team and investors all become your new bosses sucking up all of that «freedom» you've been dreaming of.)

Entrepreneurs should work with advisors to determine these thresholds as early as possible in life of their startups.

As a team of repeat entrepreneurs, we understand the good and bad of startup life.

With the mean time from funding to exit for a startup increasing from 2 - 5 years in the early 2000s to an average of 6 - 10 years today, an employee may hold illiquid stock for quite some time while undergoing major life events such as marriage, birth of a child, home purchase, or graduate education.

As is becoming increasingly clear, investment is the life blood of the startup world.

A journalist by trade, an entrepreneur and adventurer at heart, Kastelein's professional career has ranged from political publishing to TV technology, boatbuilding to judging startups, skippering yachts to marketing and more as he's travelled for nearly 30 years as a Canadian expatriate living around the world.

High - ranking cryptocurrency Dash has been integrated into Living Room of Satoshi, often touted as one of Australia's leading startups.

As in most high - risk businesses, tax losses are an important consideration for life science startups.

The event combined informative, strategic, and regulatory updates for entrepreneurs interested in the space as well as a live pitching competition for startups.

As a part of this program, we work closely with corporate innovation teams to bring new technology, products, and services to life through startup partnerships and collaborative industry accelerators.

Unlike more youthful entrepreneurs, older startup founders have the advantage of being able to take their time getting their businesses off the ground, as the pressures to earn a living or survive on limited financial resources are typically not there.

As life science and technology startups are coming off an unprecedented boon in growth and investment, professors are tapping consulting allowances, participating in entrepreneurial training, and negotiating leaves of absence to create and manage commercial ventures — and experimenting with new methods to make it all work.

Coon has served as a co-founder, executive management, and strategic partner for numerous healthcare and biotech startup companies, including roles as President of RxGen, President and CEO of BCS, Inc., President and CEO of HepatoTech, Inc., Executive Vice-President of CellzDirect (acquired by Invitrogen - Life Technologies), and the Senior Director of Business Development for RTI International.

First, because one of the things I'm doing in my new life as a freelance nutrition consultant is working with a startup that provides recipes and meal plans within an app, and, unlike the meal plans I typically provide to my clients, these one are revolving around calorie counts.

I think it's important to analyze the data — if on the first date your guy (or gal) talks about some time consuming passion in their life such as a startup business, a planned bicycle trip across Europe, renovating a house, etc. there's a pretty good chance that he's going to be too busy for anything other than a «friends with benefits» type of scenario.

As conservatives, we seek to conserve that which history has revealed to be noble, just, and true this side of eternity, in all walks of life, including Below you will find the first Do's and Don'ts every startup and established business coming to the USA should know.

I know about how young people learn and grow from my graduate work on adolescent development and learning, as an Outward Bound instructor, classroom teacher, school leader, nonprofit founder, edtech startup life, and as a passionate soccer coach.

One of the most energetically expanding startups in publishing, Vancouver - based Shelfie — which began life in 2013 as BitLit Media — has some 1,400 participating publishers now in its ebook bundling scheme, which uses smart phone apps (Android and iSO) to capture the interests of print - book owners and offer them ebook editions of those print books.

Think of all the favors you might need: A job referral from an old boss A friend to teach you how to cook a meal to impress your girlfriend An introduction to the founder of a startup you want to freelance for Favors like these can act as turning points in our life.

The truth is, if you're resourceful in your personal life, you'll be resourceful with your startup and probably be a success as well.

I'm incredibly grateful to all those who have supported us along the way and who continue support our growth and development as a team - Linda Barter as matchmaker and puppy raising mentor; Kim Wurster as breeder of the best dog ever; Nancy Haverstock Abplanalp and Donna Hill as our primary professional training support; Sandra Walther as public access training buddy; Christy Corp - Minamiji and clan as second family who gave him stability when I was in the hospital for weeks; the UCD vet behavior team (I think Michelle Borchardt was the first one who told me I could do it); my online training mentors in crime, I mean, um, um (Patty Aguirre, Cheryl Bloom, Karen Johnson Lawrence, Jo Butler, Carol Hall, Micha Michlewicz, Lynn Shrove and many more); my family, who financially backed this questionable startup and took him on countless walks and dog park trips; all of the local people who helped socialize and puppy sit him; and of course his entire online fan club, who made me laugh and supported me when I was feeling down about training and life in general.

Prior to Blastworks, David spent five years as a Director of Business Operations for Xbox Live and Microsoft, as well as being a founding member of two game development startups (Flashlight Creations & Tenacious Games).

«RENT A HERO tells the story of a reluctant slacker genius who joins a high - tech startup pitched as an «Uber for heroes,» aimed to improve people's daily lives at an affordable price.

Though the post is humorous, it contains plenty of spot - on observations such as: You are anti-authoritarian; you have the uncanny ability to get others to do all the work; you are always seeing economic opportunity in everything; you would happily invest your home's equity and life savings in a startup; and you don't see lack of money, knowledge or experience as barriers.

But as discussed above, to get the full - time attention of those lawyers, even with great work - life balance, you still have to pony up in amounts virtually no true startup can afford.

Every startup starts life as a loss - making venture.