Sentences with phrase «make as a founder»

A smaller VC versus a larger VC is one of the most important decisions you'll make as a founder.

Not exact matches

Vice President Joseph Biden gave a shout - out to health care startup Theranos and its founder on Thursday, as he toured the company's Newark, California, facility and then made some brief remarks before an audience of about 150 Theranos employees and press.

But just because founders won't need as much cash doesn't necessarily mean that investors will make less.

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

As more than one founder told us, getting the right people is just as important as having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payrolAs more than one founder told us, getting the right people is just as important as having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payrolas important as having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payrolas having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payroll.

Dual stock - structure doesn't necessarily give Zuckerberg final say in every decision, but his votes carry so much weight that it makes him an incredibly powerful player in the company»» even apart from his status as founder and CEO.

In addition to serving as the chair of Virgin Unite, she is also the founder and trustee of her own non-profit, Big Change, and the co-chair of We Day UK, an annual event that celebrates young people making a difference in the world.

As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

(Trump did take a shot at the news media, as did World Economic Founder Klaus Schwab, but that won't make headlines.)

Rather than carving out new markets — or, as Real Matters founder Smith puts it, «knocking on doors and trying to sell a brand new widget that [nobody] has the budget for» — the fastest - growing tech firms are making inroads by finding better solutions to existing needs.

As CEO and founder of LifeDojo, an online health platform for employees, I made sure all of our programs focused their first two weeks on motivation and learning.

As CD Baby founder Derek Sivers once said, «The single most important thing is to make people happy.

TechCrunch reports that SoundCloud's founders told staff during one of the post-redundancy all - hands meetings that investors had asked them in March to make the job cuts as part of a $ 70 million (# 54 million) debt funding deal that was first reported by Business Insider.

«Having the social goal as No. 1 is inadequate and won't make you successful,» said Robin Chase, the founder and former CEO of car - rental company Zipcar and the founder of peer - to - peer car rental company Buzzcar.

«Zuckerberg is basically saying, «I'll back him as a senator because he's valuable as a senator, but I haven't made my presidential decision yet,»» Schmitt surmises from the Facebook founder's recent contribution record.

We all make mistakes, but not too many of us have made a $ 100 million blunder, as AppSumo founder Noah Kagan claims to have done when he got fired from Facebook.

It's particularly important as your company makes the transition from a small startup, where founders take calls from customers and can shout to each other across the garage, to a mid-size business employing hundreds.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

Still, Al Goldstein, chief executive and founder of Avant, which has made 300,000 loans to consumers in the past three - and - a-half years, with an average value of $ 8,000, says the portrayal of the industry as recklessly making too many loans is flawed.

First, founders Elad Benjamin, Eyal Toledano and Eyal Gura want to make their anonymized, indexed database of clinical records available to scientists as an open research tool.

Even though you have made a name for yourself as an entrepreneur, I'm betting you face the same challenges as other founders.

Dick Leinenkugel, current president and great - great - grandson of founder Jacob Leinenkugel, says his family has no regrets: «My point of view is that we are all brewers, and you need to be united as an industry, because our battle is really about making beer interesting again and taking share from wine and spirits.»

Codruta said she made the connection earlier this year between Drobota and Expunere on Facebook, where he identified himself in one of his Facebook profiles as the founder of the 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.

The founder of debt - laden tech conglomerate LeEco has defied orders from Chinese regulators to return to the country before end - 2017, saying he needed to stay in the United States as a fundraising for his electric car startup was making progress.

The startup's founder, Miles Penn, has been making the rounds on numerous television programs such as Jim Cramer's Mad Money in order to drum up interest.

Giustra, who made his fortune as a Vancouver - based mining financier and a founder of Lions Gate Entertainment, set up the Radcliffe Foundation in 1997 to enhance children's welfare, health and education, among other causes.

As GoPro celebrates its IPO today, its founder explains how he got the idea to make mountable, action video cameras.

In a way, Elite SEM was conceived as rebuttal to everything its founder and CEO Ben Kirshner found lacking in corporate America, where he met managers and executives more than happy to «slash and burn people left and right» in a bid to make more money for themselves.

As the summer of 2016 approached, the founders looked for ways to make more ice cream.

As founder and CEO, you have to make sure there's a tomorrow, but you also have to make sure there is a today.

Instead, the best lessons come from experience, and only by adopting beneficial habits on a daily basis can you gradually attain the excellent leadership, decision - making and adaptability necessary to assure your success as a startup founder.

Alyssa Gelbard, founder of career consulting and personal branding firm Resume Strategists, sees the LinkedIn acquisition as «an amazing opportunity to grow Cortana... it could really enrich prep for meetings and interviews and make it all easier and faster and have a lot of helpful / useful information.»

The founders of HubSpot had a radical approach to making their company stand out in an increasingly crowded software - as - a-service (SaaS) landscape.

As a founder, hearing how shitty things have gone for people who have become incredibly successful is inspiring because it makes you believe in yourself.

As the Moscow - born founder of Digital Sky Technologies, he's made a name for himself in Silicon Valley as an investor willing to make huge betAs the Moscow - born founder of Digital Sky Technologies, he's made a name for himself in Silicon Valley as an investor willing to make huge betas an investor willing to make huge bets.

As a founder or CEO, you can make decisions at your startup quickly and unilaterally.

Dasilva has stuck to his goal of making transactions better for both customers and retailers — an important trait, Arsenault says, since a founder's vision can often get diluted as the board and investors exert more control.

It also gives new nonprofit founders the support they need as they make tough early decisions.

Icahn has billions as the founder of Icahn Enterprises and makes the bulk of his riches via savvy investment strategies.

Maren Kate Donovan, founder and CEO of San Francisco - based dedicated virtual assistant company Zirtual, continued to make a name for herself as in 2012.

«The Adap.tv founders and team are on a mission to make advertising as easy as e-commerce, and the two companies together will aggressively pursue that vision.»

GoPro Founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman said he expects 2017 to be an important year for the company, as he expects to start making money again.

As the founder of a startup development studio, Coplex, there's one major mistake I see inexperienced entrepreneurs make time and time again: moving too slowly.

The founders also made it clear that they would not use an offer from one firm to drum up higher offers from others, as some Internet entrepreneurs do.

Yet that complexity, fueled by new technologies such as social networks, is exactly what makes this a great time to be a marketing chief, says Peter Krainik, founder of the CMO Club, an industry group.

By doing so, the young founder made a gesture clearly showing how serious he is about Facebook's development as a company.

«It's important to have the space where we all feel comfortable and that this is ours, that we have ownership as well,» Rachel Kelly, Make Lemonade's founder and owner, says of her inspiration.

Recently on LinkedIn he risked coming across as the world's grumpiest entrepreneur in order to make the case that the next time a founder friend offers you a cut price deal, you should politely turn her down.

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