Sentences with phrase «of building a great company»

Be willing to kill failed business ideas, even to shutter big operations you've been in for a long time, but never give up on the idea of building a great company.

If we do our job, we will also succeed in helping to build companies that are «teamworthy», that is, companies made up of entrepreneurial teams that are fit and ready for the long and often demanding voyage of building a great company.

EF: Fundraising is a mile - post, not a milestone, on your much more important journey of building a great company, so have that perspective in mind.

But through it all, CEO Darian Shirazi understands the importance of building a great company and expressed great pride in a recent CNBC interview in the team that makes up Radius.

Not exact matches

I kept having the experience of building companies that had great technology, but no customers.

«Tom's is a great example of a business build with social responsibility in mind from the onset,» Longoria states, «To create a full - circle social business plan, social consciousness needs to be in the DNA of your company.»

Building a great company is just as hard as building a sh — ty company, which is just as hard as sitting on your couch all day — in the sense that it all costs roughly the same number of hours of consciousness, the same number of heartbeats, the same number of synapsesBuilding a great company is just as hard as building a sh — ty company, which is just as hard as sitting on your couch all day — in the sense that it all costs roughly the same number of hours of consciousness, the same number of heartbeats, the same number of synapsesbuilding a sh — ty company, which is just as hard as sitting on your couch all day — in the sense that it all costs roughly the same number of hours of consciousness, the same number of heartbeats, the same number of synapses firing.

The name of the game is to create great products and services and to build a company that will last.

I'm just trying to build a great company that challenges the status quo of B2B marketing.

We wanted not just their capital to invest, but also the credibility they could bring that would shine a spotlight on entrepreneurs in the middle of the country who are building great companies.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

The best companies have always known that it takes just short of forever to build a great brand and only a few highly - visible boo boos to jeopardize the crown jewels.

Some of their other projections feel less futuristic and more like a return to some of the practices (promoting strong values and building smart partnerships) that have made companies great in the past.

The problem is that, in the scramble to create the requisite impeccable customer experiences needed, these same companies run the risk of building on long - established myths promising, but failing to deliver, great business returns.

I actually believe that the investments that they've made in terms of things like the iFund where if you're a startup and you want to build a really great new Internet company that's going to leverage what apple is doing with mobile, Kleiner is it, they are it.

Profitable companies are built upon thousands of subsequent great ideas and implementations.

She'd also provide greater protections for contract workers in the «gig» economy, while supporting the innovations of companies such as Airbnb and Uber, which have built that new sector.

«We're igniting a movement of social good within tech and helping great companies connect with passionatecoderswho've built open portfolios of their work,» says Vanessa Hurst, founder of the event.

The company is launching a platform for developers to build bots for Messenger, allowing greater ease of communication with businesses over the messaging tool.

Twelve years, two companies, 100 employees, and three times on the Inc. 500 list of fastest - growing companies later, I've learned that the only way to build a company with great success and scale is to build a great team.

After all, if you are going down the road of raising money from venture capitalists, the basic contract is that you are going to build something great, and that your product has a chance of being a massive multi-billion-dollar company.

Editor's Note: Othr is a winner of Inc.'s 2017 Design Awards, our annual recognition of entrepreneurs using design to build great companies, in the «Most Entrepreneurial Design Studio» category.

Dig Deeper: How to Build a Corporate Culture of Trust How to Run an Effective Meeting: The Meeting Strategies of Great CEOs There are as many styles of running meetings as there are companies and CEOs but these three entrepreneurs have particularly interesting approaches to communicating with their staffs:

I am immensely proud of the achievements of everyone who has helped build the world's greatest game changing luxury fashion company, and I thank them all for helping me realise and surpass our dreams.

Great employees make a great company and we believe our company, and the culture we've built, is nothing short of amaGreat employees make a great company and we believe our company, and the culture we've built, is nothing short of amagreat company and we believe our company, and the culture we've built, is nothing short of amazing.

«That way, companies can see the great potential of our product and benefit from the reputation we're building in the U.K.»

Collins is the author of the best - selling business books Built to Last and Good to Great, both of which address this simple but vexing question: Why do some companies become great while others flouGreat, both of which address this simple but vexing question: Why do some companies become great while others flougreat while others flounder?

Startup America will use these goods and services to train and mentor entrepreneurs, increase the number of high - growth firms that create quality jobs and economic growth, and inspire the greater public to go out and «build great American companies.»

For far too many fellow entrepreneurs, maximization occurs on the «front side» and the financial vector only: A great company has been built and genuine wealth created but at the clear expense of the «back end.»

(If your company goes out of business, who cares that you built a great brand?)

Over the past two decades, this has amounted to a trove of data on what employees experience when their company is a Great Place to Work for All — and how leaders can build one.

«It would be great for a Los Angeles - based tech company to really build a meaningful business and Snapchat continues to prove that they're willing to and have the technical ability to do it,» said Dana Settle, founding partner of venture capital firm Greycroft in Los Angeles.

For those uninitiated, Startup America is a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and the Case Foundations, with the aim to increase «the number of new, high - growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower an ever - greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.»

L.L. Bean is great because of Leon Bean's actions when his tiny company operated out of a single building in Freeport, Maine.

Many large companies - EY, for example - have built a great deal of hype around blockchain support, garnering them clients and new work.

We met plenty of smart young people straight out of great business schools, but they lacked the breadth of experience — actually building companies, developing technology and operations, taking products to market — that the team at Carrick had.

By combining the expertise of its numerous partners in the creative arts, design and technology sectors with MaRS» business - building experience, JOLT provides the selected companies with business validation, streamlined market entry and a greater opportunity for success.

In an Entrepreneur article written by FlexJobs» Founder and CEO Sara Sutton Fell, «How a Business With No Office Has One of the Best Company Cultures in America,» find out how remote employers can build a great culture, regardless of where your workers live — or even if you've never met them face - to - face!

The TGap team is a mix of successful venture capitalists, managers and entrepreneurs with the aptitudes, experience, empathy, realism and patience required to build great businesses from, and add value to, developing companies.

«Norwest knows what it takes to build businesses and the team possesses a true passion for helping founders create great companies, even during the toughest of times,» said Sean Jacobsohn, principal at Norwest Venture Partners.

We have a duty to our next generation of entrepreneurs — those with the potential to build great companies and employ vast numbers of Canadians — to build a commercialization ecosystem that will help them grow and scale up.

Oren is the founder of Zeev Ventures, a non institutional VC, and in this capacity backs passionate founders building great companies.

EVP has built a for - profit technology ecosystem to help grow and develop the next - generation of great Canadian companies.

The Brand Mapping Strategy: Design, Build and Accelerate Your Brand (Entrepreneur Press, June 2016) helps entrepreneurs, business owners, CEOs and executives create a brand (business or personal) by design instead of default, gain greater influence in their industries and companies and become thought / industry leaders in their field.

BUILDING ON BEDROCK: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self - Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies For founders and investors — based upon research, and told through the stories of famous and not - so - famous American entrepreneurs.

However, while you may have a great idea, there's a lot of risk involved with trying to build a brand and company if you have little past experience.

«An enormous advantage of the investment world is that knowledge builds up, and throughout the years we have studied in great depth many companies that we monitor closely» Álvaro Guzmán

If you missed it, I also recently wrote a guest post on Marketing Pilgrim on marketing companies in the INC 500 — I think the INC 500 is great resource for evaluating the state of the industry and also as inspiration for building our own businesses.

But in early 2016 Wesfarmers had a great history of building wealth for shareholders — an investment in the company's shares in 2000 returned nearly 17 % per year while the Australian market, including dividends, returned 8 % a year over the same period.

She makes a great case that by seeking to create a «continuum experience» where regardless of where the interaction is coming from, whether marketing or sales, companies should build on a foundation of consistent messaging and storytelling across all channels, cross-functionally.