Sentences with phrase «many epiphanies»

This produced a design epiphany: Existing drones were so hard to manoeuvre that only a kid weaned on video games could use them; Aeryon needed a design that would fly itself.

For Sale by Owner Leslie Vander Baan had her entrepreneurial epiphany while navigating the difficult task of selling a car on her own.

They used to work for Tradiv, a once - promising marijuana tech company that collapsed amid bad decisions, sexual harassment allegations, and a co-founder's psychedelic epiphany.

This smoothie was, in fact, a fruit - flavored epiphany: I had no liquid assets, had maxed out my credit cards, and had put everything I had into the new company.

It sometimes takes a terrible event to spark a life - changing epiphany.

After working on that set, O'Brien had an epiphany that she needed a business model for her work, so she started crunching numbers, looking at market research, and talking to clients.

Gravity was flooded with stories from ecstatic workers elsewhere who suddenly got raises from converted bosses who tossed them out like Scrooge after his epiphany — even, in one case, at an apparel factory in Vietnam.

One night, Och had another epiphany.

«One day I had an epiphany — what if you married ballistic tech with furniture to make shields in the public space?»

The epiphany, as McClurg described it, was that Dell not only had to transform the company from a traditional computer seller into an IT services company, but that security would play a key role in that metamorphosis.

In recent years, the broader business world has experienced a similar epiphany about the power of design to enrich products and experiences, connect with customers, and help companies accelerate growth.

«What a lot of my peers don't know is that in that process, Michael woke up one night and had an epiphany.»

It's 2011, and I'm in Los Angeles sitting in the living room of a mentor of mine, actor Andy McPhee, and I have an epiphany --

His epiphany?

Shortly after his buffet - table epiphany, Blake hit the library and did some research.

But before all that came his pot - shop epiphany, and before the epiphany he was just a California dude with a brand - new medical marijuana card burning a hole in his pocket.

One winter day in 2010, the Montreal couple were watching hockey and chatting with friends on Facebook about the game, when suddenly Maisonnave had an epiphany.

You said you had an epiphany in interviewing some of these former steel workers — that as a woman of color, you could empathize with middle - aged white men.

Every entrepreneur has that moment — an experience, an epiphany, getting fired, getting desperate, getting fed up; getting lucky enough to have the right mentor — that inspired them to someday become an entrepreneur.

Many hours spent in front of the console led to an epiphany that turned into a career: «Someone makes this, so this must be a job.»

For every triumphant epiphany they enjoyed, they endured a humbling moment that reminded them how far they still had to go.

Schultz then had what he calls his entrepreneurial «epiphany.»

That's why their epiphanies and visions often sound so simple, in a «Why didn't I think of that?»

A CEO's epiphany: In 1979, de Soto started a company to exploit alluvial gold deposits in Peru.

Looking back on it, it would be tempting to dismiss Mike Stephenson's epiphany as the by - product of what can happen when entrepreneurs and alcohol mix.

The Fix: In early 2012, Spinak had «an epiphany» for how to improve the company's financials: Downsize to a core staff of four employees to oversee the business structure, and then rely on a stable of independent contractors to fill other roles that were needed less consistently, such as account executives, Web designers, graphic designers, copywriters and videographers.

Thus spawned his concept for Freshii, which now occupies a spot on 39th Street and Broadway — a block from the deli where he first had his epiphany.

His epiphany was that students with great earnings potential paid the same high rates on their school loans as everyone else.

Okay, so it wasn't exactly an all - at - once epiphany.

The epiphany I had was simple: play the «long game» by adding value to my readers, month after month, year after year.

New management cancels a position, a company goes bankrupt or you have an epiphany on the bus home one night, and all of a sudden, you know it's time for you to switch careers.

That's not because of some religious epiphany.

Refresh is the result of an epiphany Bhavin Shah had 10 years ago, when he was director of new business for LeapFrog Enterprises.

«The biggest epiphany I've had this year is that what really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory,» Musk said during an interview with Y Combinator's Sam Altman in September 2016.

But the epiphany for me at William Morris was realizing, «They bullshit on the phone!

It was the year 2000, and David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos and one of the most influential American artists of the past 50 years, had had an epiphany.

Together, says Battaglia, «we had the epiphany this was possible.»

But basically the epiphany for entering the photo business came from my acquisition about nine years ago of a company called Successories.

Explain an epiphany you had or something you learned recently.

In the middle of my sophomore year of college, I had a life - altering epiphany: I had spent the majority of my life thus far pursuing a career as a performer.

After months of prototyping different key holders — I had an epiphany!

Epiphanies can feel like they drop into us via divine intervention.

Among the principles born of Conley's epiphany were the following, any (or all) of which might apply to your company:

This swimming pool CEO describes his content «epiphany»: not to set out to become his industry's most trafficked site but to become «thought leaders on all things aquatic.»

When Elon Musk shares his vision for space flight or an electric car; or Steve Jobs shuns a CD - happy world for an iPod / iTunes business plan, or Jeff Bezos creates an online book store that will be «the world's most consumer - centric company, where customers can come to find anything they want to buy online,» they are honoring their epiphanies.

The conviction to share his epiphany was emboldened by his intellect and understanding of scientific possibilities.

Most people define epiphany as an «ah - ha» or «eureka» moment, a discovery, of sorts, that somehow «clicks» and makes perfect sense, bringing into focus the blur you had been pondering.

Stubborn visionaries are guided by their epiphanies even when they have no contemporary application, or frame of reference.

But «Beauty Patch» chases the moment of epiphany so single - mindedly that it forgets to be sensitive about how it's accomplished.

They do not wait for epiphanies to move forward, nor do they ignore them.