Sentences with phrase «never started the company»

Although you never start a company alone and I had many partners to thank, I did feel I truly earned my success as a self - made man when we signed those contracts, and I definitely thought back to those teachers who told me I would never amount to anything.»

Suranga Chandratillake had never started a company but got the entrepreneurial itch in 2004 when Google was preparing its IPO.

With a biotech startup, it may seem the potential is all in the science, but investor Amy Schulman, a venture capital partner at Polaris Partners, which led SQZ's $ 5 million funding round, says the main reason she decided to put money in SQZ is because of Sharei, even though he's young and had never started a company before.

I did and had I not, I would've never started the company that led to all of this.

Quest, a product designer by trade, had never started a company before.

Not exact matches

The one virtue of startups that these big companies do seem to value and appreciate above all (and one that makes acquisitions so attractive rather than internal R&D efforts) is the freedom we have to embrace rapid change, the ability to adapt and pivot, and the understanding that things may never be perfect at the start, but that you'll never get started at all if you wait until they are.

Whether you are just starting out and handling multiple roles within your company or an experienced business owner — enrolling in an online course is always a good way to improve your knowledge and has never been easier or more affordable.

Richard Branson never attended university but he has started and run some of the most unorthodox and successful companies in the world.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

For example, Mike Mendiburu, CEO of the # 1 ranked company, High Point Solutions, says he never would have started his own business if his previous employers had treated him right.

Interestingly, Wills points out that Air Start has never tried to maximize its return on these deals; he admits the company leaves «a lot on the table» because the point of differentiation is service quality.

«I never planned to start my own company,» he says.

«When I was starting the business, I never looked at HR as a revenue - generating department,» says Jay Klein, founder of the aspartame - free gum maker the Pur Company.

He says the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

In doing so, the company has helped kick - start the economy of a small Mexican state most Canadians have never heard of.

McMillan never completely shuts down during slow periods, but the company started offering an unpaid - leave option during quieter months.

If you have never done any consulting work for a company, start locally.

All these things I never even thought about because when you start a company, you don't think about the business, you don't think about the company, you think about the product.

Not long after founding Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stopped talking about the company as a social site and started telling people he was building a digital phone book for the new millennium, and he never wavered from that grandiose vision.

«We bootstrapped for the first two and half years, and we didn't actually pay ourselves anything,» says Austin, adding that the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

Serial entrepreneur Michael Paolucci learned three valuable lessons while hunting for funding for his new venture, temporary tech - help 2.0 company Solvate: Never neglect your contact database, don't be afraid to go up to bat again where you've previously struck out, and be ready to start on the farm team.

There's never a bad time to start a health care company, and billions of VC dollars were already flowing into clean - tech before this recession.

As venture capitalist David Lee once said, «It's never been easier to start a company and never harder to build one.»

But the inventor who had first caught Fortune's eye more than two decades earlier was someone else: a rebellious physics genius, not yet 30, who «never took the trouble to graduate from Harvard» and who had started a small company in a cellar on Boston's Dartmouth Street.

According to reports, he never signed a non-compete agreement with the company (he was its boss for 33 years) and is therefore free to start a new advertising venture anytime he liked.

Before Taylor McLemore, 31, started his own company in 2010, he had never experienced depression.

Many companies have yet to make the necessary investments in customer service, but it's better to start late than never.

I get frustrated and annoyed with things just like anyone else, but I've never felt the sentiment of these sentences - yet I've heard them from entrepreneurs looking to start their own companies, from consultants working on projects, and from people trying their best to orbit the giant hairball that is a Fortune company...

If your workers feel like they'll never be able to move up in the company — and, even worse, that you don't care — they'll start looking elsewhere for growth opportunities.

«It's never too soon for young people to start thinking about managing their finances — no matter how difficult that is to contemplate when they've just graduated,» says Krista Neeley, a regional vice president of Appreciation Financial a financial services company.

A little background: I had no business starting a tech company — I'm not technical.I had no business designing our first product — I'm not a designer by trade.I had no business raising money — I've never taken a finance class.

Buying life insurance for the baby: I never knew people buy life insurance for babies until I started receiving at least one brochure a week from companies selling whole life insurance.

In time, Buffett realized he was never going to make a profit again in the textile industry, so whatever excess funds Berkshire did produce, he started buying other companies.

He started looking around, but one thing was clear to him: «I thought I'd never work at a big company,» he recalls.

Now, a start - up company is applying this science to create a water bottle you never have to actually fill.

Its commitment to quality has never wavered since German immigrant Gustav Krug started the company as the Hudson Milling Co. in 1905.

When I became enthralled with the study of medicinal herbs, it was never my intention to start a company.

The company started selling their stroller in the U.S. and Canada in 2009 and has received numerous awards The iCandy Peach stroller (iCandy Peach pram in the UK) has earned the «Best Stroller 2011 ″ from Babble.com in the U.S. iCandy has never had any product recalls.

In fact we're predicting 1,200 jobs in western New York alone through Start - Up NY, because of companies that never would have come here but for Start - Up NY.»

While I had a deep knowledge of foraging, mushrooms, and health, I never imagined starting a global health and wellness company.

I've never been a huge fan of goat cheese, but I am trying to expand my pallette... this might me a great place to start, plus they look perfect for company!

Julie's story is an unconventional one as she never intended to start a jewerly company... she was once a music teacher for 20 years!

Extras: «Night of Anubis,» a never - before - presented work - print edit of the film; new program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez; never - before - seen 16 mm dailies reel; new piece featuring Russo about the commercial and industrial - film production company where key «Night of the Living Dead» filmmakers got their start; audio commentaries from 1994, featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O'Dea, and more; archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley; new programs about the editing, the score, and directing ghouls; new interviews with Gary R. Streiner and Russel W. Streiner; trailer, radio spots, and TV spots; an essay by critic Stuart Klawans.

While the starting price for the entry - level Volvo S90 Momentum puts it in pretty exalted company, the amount of standard equipment you get means you'll never feel short - changed.

If I didn't, I never would have started this company.

--(Briefly) started a book recommendation site with a fellow author — Launched a movie review blog with a friend (still going)-- Launched a t - shirt company with a couple other friends (sucked a bunch of time and never amount to much of anything)-- Found a publicity company for indie authors called Book Review 22 (the second best venture)

The company never got the agreements that it needed to start selling Kindles and hit a snafu when it came to their cloud storage technology with regulators.

This never happened, although LG started to mass produce the screens for companies that never bought them.

He covers the importance of professional editing, why he started his own company, book promotion tips, and the art of embracing the now - or - never mentality!

With the recent price reduction from $ 999 to $ 799, likely will will start to see a broader adoption rate as companies start to realize that leaks and data theft will never go away and something has to be done to mitigate a potential disaster.