Sentences with phrase «of entrepreneurial companies»

Springboard accelerates the growth of entrepreneurial companies led by women through access to essential resources and a global community of experts.

In fact, a number of entrepreneurial companies have already taken advantage of the potential 3D printing brings to the space industry.

Says Pru California CEO Stephen Games, who retains a partial interest in the company: «My desire was to be part of an entrepreneurial company that has the capital to grow and prosper through good times and bad.»

Not exact matches

The Growth 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies — formerly known as the PROFIT 500 — is Canada's most prestigious celebration of entrepreneurial success.

«Preferential tax treatment of small companies is too blunt an instrument to foster entrepreneurial activity efficiently,» the IMF says in its latest Fiscal Monitor.

The PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies is the country's most prestigious celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.

America is consistently ranked as one of the top entrepreneurial countries in the world, and the average person on the street probably believes that a good company can always find financing to grow and expand.

Wherever you are on your entrepreneurial journey, you likely kicked off your career like many of us by taking a job, maybe at a large company, to gain some experience.

Though Green's own entrepreneurial roots lie in e-commerce, he's familiar with the traditional retail industry, having headed that vertical for DoubleClick, the online advertising company that now forms the basis of Google's ad serving platform.

How many entrepreneurial companies were created just because of these new global supply chains?

In each of my former positions, I assumed entrepreneurial - type roles, whether that be managing product launches or guiding brand innovation for large companies in the food, credit - card service and automotive space.

Axiom Zen, which labels itself as an «innovation studio,» is one of a new breed of company, more akin to incubators — organizations that support entrepreneurial ventures as they grow from concept to a going concern — than traditional businesses.

Not only is it true that «a full 20 percent of CEOs on Inc. magazine's 500 fastest - growing private companies list indicated that they continued to work a paying job long after founding their organization,» Raffiee explains in a write - up of the research, but many of our entrepreneurial icons actually waded into starting up slowly, keeping a corporate job for quite awhile while they tested the waters.

Examining the success of entrepreneurial hotbeds like New York, Tel Aviv and Berlin, Creating Growth Clusters recommends the establishing of start - up delivery units to encourage prospective new companies:

Jack Ma's fairytale journey from schoolteacher to China's richest man was the signature entrepreneurial storyline of 2014, an arc that culminated in his e-commerce company Alibaba completing the splashiest IPO in Wall Street history.

In a recent video interview about marketing and product design, I asked McGuinness how other entrepreneurial companies could go about creating this kind of raving fan culture.

Given the company's fast growth, it's perhaps not surprising that Connolly has suffered the entrepreneurial equivalent of «road rash,» the term cyclists use for the scrapes they sustain when they kiss the pavement.

While everyone in New Orleans knows what an amazing place to launch and grow a company it is, not everyone else in the rest of the country is convinced of that yet, and so you get the same amount of resources that you would in a larger entrepreneurial, community without all of the competition.

Opportunities for companies like Lunar have been increased by a fertile investment niche opened by a mismatch between the high degree of entrepreneurial innovation in today's economy and the changed demands of venture capital.

Speaking on the sidelines of the 19th Edition of Naseba Global WIL Economic Forum in Dubai, Sophie Le Ray, co-founder and CEO of Naseba, a business facilitation company specializing in emerging markets, looks back on her 15 - year - long entrepreneurial journey.

Small, lean, entrepreneurial companies are the future of business.

What experience does Koel Thomae, founder of $ 170 million yogurt company Noosa, credit with her entrepreneurial success?

To learn how entrepreneurial companies view cash management, Inc. interviewed a trio of financially savvy executives:

He showed early entrepreneurial promise selling candy and doing odd jobs for neighbors, eventually going on to become the founder of the Standard Oil Company.

Instead, the company's current crisis is largely the result of a common entrepreneurial mistake: too much debt and unchecked growth.

He wanted to work with smaller, more entrepreneurial companies, he says of his decision to leave.

Here are the dos and don'ts of building a company bursting with entrepreneurial spirit, as told by them.

«I believe that most of the problems in the entrepreneurial ecosystem have their origin in the philosophy of short - termism that infects our companies, our investors and our public markets,» he told the crowd at a recent event in Vancouver.

The entrepreneurial dream of selling a startup for megabucks came true for the founders of photo - sharing app Instagram when Facebook agreed to buy the company for $ 1 billion in cash and stock.

«Argentina has been all over the place,» says Marcos Galperin, the founder of the auction website Mercado Libre, which, with a $ 4 billion market capitalization on the Nasdaq, is widely regarded as the country's most successful entrepreneurial company.

«We are an entrepreneurial people,» says Carbonell, «but the quality of our companies suffers from the context.»

While the term «mompreneur» has earned its fair share of eyerolls in the business world, there's no denying the entrepreneurial savvy of women who launch their own companies on the back of unique answers to common parental problems.

Take a look at Tom Foster's fascinating profile of a founder who is most definitely not cool with another one of those entrepreneurial paradoxes — namely, to grow your company, you sometimes have to let go.

By providing quick access to a countless number of investment opportunities, the company makes it easy for everyone - including someone with no previous investment knowledge or portfolio to build on - to make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

Gates entered the entrepreneurial scene with a company called Traf - O - Data, which aimed to process and analyze the data from traffic tapes (think of it like an early version of big data).

«Most students find this experience very helpful in thinking about whether they'd like to start their own venture at some point, to join an early stage company, or to work at a firm that's further along in it's growth trajectory,» Deb Whitman, director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies explained in an email exchange with Poets & Quants.

In the entrepreneurial world of the»80s, people got rich through logical means: starting companies, working hard, and hoping their efforts would build value.

Twitter's emergence as a public company is worthy of a moment to sit back and see the magic of the free markets in this nation and the uniqueness of our American entrepreneurial experience.

That's led to a slew of calls for government intervention and new policies designed to juice startup activity: savings accounts to finance new companies; immigrant entrepreneurial visas; programs to facilitate startups» access to capital; and expanded tax incentives for new businesses.

When you hear about the successes of great companies, you often hear about the entrepreneurial leader at the helm of the organization.

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.

It's also showing up in the number of MBAs who are anxious to work for smaller companies and startups that are, by nature, more entrepreneurial.

At the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey, Daniel Lubetzky, now the CEO of Kind, a leading healthy snack food company, was working at another snack brand importing fruit - nut bars when a major change occurred.

At our recent Entrepreneur Live event, founders of well - known and well - loved consumer brands shared what helped them stay on track with their missions in the midst of the changes, challenges and opportunities every entrepreneurial company experiences.

The ideal entrepreneurial environment requires a healthy respect for established companies while still encouraging the creation of new ventures.

«There is such a robust entrepreneurial community and a real energy around starting companies at Wharton,» Klein says, who comes from a family of entrepreneurs dating back to his grandfather, who started a shoe company when he arrived in America after World War II.

Toronto - based Satish Kanwar, director of product at Shopify, an Ottawa company that offers software for creating an online store, speaks of the opportunities found by those who choose to work in a startup before taking the plunge themselves: «One of the best things someone can do is date a company first to see if you like startups and the entrepreneurial space before you commit to it,» he says.

Over lunch, Canadian Business will celebrate the entrepreneurial successes of this year's PROFIT 500 and STARTUP 50 winners, and give special recognition to companies for achievements in such areas as revenue growth, international trade and job creation.

To build a company, most must also build to team; that's both the genius of entrepreneurship and the challenge the entrepreneurial style poses to established companies.

Small companies back then were already proliferating and growing, to the point where David Birch, then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would soon announce his dramatic finding that entrepreneurial ventures were creating most of the new jobs.