Sentences with phrase «of entrepreneurial ventures»

Roger is a unique and visionary leader with a broad background in corporate and nonprofit leadership and a lifelong history of entrepreneurial ventures.

It's widely known that 90 percent of entrepreneurial ventures fail.

This man's ground breaking expedition had nothing to do with business at all, but it illustrates the true essence of an entrepreneurial venture perfectly.

Employees of an entrepreneurial venture can work more effectively with a company's founder or founding team and make better judgments about the firm's future.

These presentations answered many of Paul's questions, and he began to feel like he had a sense of the scope and direction of his entrepreneurial venture.

The key problem historically has been that when funding is scarce, the leaders of an entrepreneurial venture have to spend too much time fundraising and not enough time leading their organizations.

Project applications were reviewed and judged by a committee of HGSE faculty and administrators based on demonstrated leadership and effectiveness, interest in education entrepreneurship, viability of the entrepreneurial venture, and potential impact of venture.

Hi Raushan, Yes, any sort of entrepreneurial venture or job that doesn't involve clocking in at the office requires a mammoth amount of discipline to get things done!

Save an explanation of the whys, hows and backstory of your entrepreneurial venture for the interview.

Not exact matches

AMU offers bachelor and master's of arts degrees in entrepreneurship designed for those interested in pursuing a business venture or managing an entrepreneurial enterprise.

This drawing contains 30 hidden clues that represent the names of some of the greatest entrepreneurial ventures of the past three decades.

She sees her role on the panel of judges as one of mutual benefit, bringing her research and experiences in entrepreneurial and philanthropic ventures to the event while meeting other promising social entrepreneurs from around the world.

Longoria is honored to be a part of this space and be a champion social entrepreneurial ventures.

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.

Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.

Term Sheet typically focuses on one very specific kind of entrepreneurial success study: The kind where startup founders raise giant piles of venture capital to fuel hypergrowth, and then ride said hypergrowth to an IPO or sale.

The popularity of the «Xoogler» network has popped in recent years, marking an interesting symbiosis between Alphabet, which has increasingly tried to keep its entrepreneurial talent on board, and ex-employees who feel pulled to venture out on their own while still relying on its extensive network.

Secondarily, of that same 59 percent, those who go on to create and execute their own entrepreneurial ventures may in fact say that their degree in Art History (or Psychology or Political Science) helped.

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.

Your entrepreneurial skills will face their greatest test when the winds of change are swirling — and whether it's starting a new venture or pivoting an existing one, the ability to grow and change is what separates the Blockbusters of the world from the Netflixes, the Toys «R» Us's from the Amazons, and the AltaVistas from the Googles.

What's more, the ubiquity of tech startups — and the decreased financial barrier to entry — has prompted Philadelphia and Detroit, among other cities, to begin offering venture capital in an effort to boost economic development, create jobs and attract young people, says Archna Sahay, Philadelphia's manager of entrepreneurial investment.

According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 2011 saw «an across - the - board increase in the rate of entrepreneurial activity has not been seen in the U.S. in the last ten years,» and «the majority of entrepreneurs were motivated by improvement - driven opportunities to start new ventures.»

«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.

And each one is set up like a joint venture between OSTA and that office's rainmakers — the entrepreneurial spirits that OSTA has lured away from larger competitors with the promise of greater control, bigger upside, and fewer hoops.

«People tend to view entrepreneurial ventures like scaling a mountain,» author of The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Everyday Kristi Hedges told me.

Every entrepreneurial venture starts with a good idea, evolves to a bunch of amazing ideas, and with any luck, ends up as a successful business.

DiCostanzo notes that he and Sherry, now in their 60s, are tackling the most ambitious entrepreneurial venture of their lives, one they believe can hit $ 100 million in five years.

«It feels like there is a conflict of knowing that as entrepreneurial ventures grow and succeed, jobs are created, which in turn stimulates the economy.

As founder of Lighthouse Consulting, he has for over 25 years guided entrepreneurial ventures and their leaders through growth to lasting success.

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

Everybody believes that running a lean start - up, pivoting when the time is right and raising venture capital are the trifecta of today's entrepreneurial world, right?

The relationships that work best in the entrepreneurial context are ones that are close, but not too close, according to a recent study in the Journal of Business Venturing.

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.

Since 2014 James has served as president of the Hawaiian Venture Capital Association, a professional organization designed to bring together members from the local entrepreneurial, investor and business communities to interact through educational and networking events.

Whether you're part of a company like Hartsock, an individual who volunteers or mentors in your community, represent a university that hosts on - campus events geared toward boosting entrepreneurship, or involved with an entrepreneurial financing firm that's expanding to include more entrepreneurial ventures, there are many ways to get involved.

Marshal says he had little experience with eBay then, but having already started and sold two of his own entrepreneurial ventures, he recognized an opportunity when he saw it.

«Venture Lab is a program that sometimes goes far beyond the academic program,» saysJuan José Güemes Barrios, chairman of the university's International Center for Entrepreneurial Management.

Bringing all of your internal resources to your entrepreneurial venture is critical to increasing performance, resilience and innovation.

Investor Dany Farha addresses the business model of venture capital, and what it takes to for VCs to take calculated risks investing in startups: a strong entrepreneurial team that is mission - driven.

The Millennial generation is ambitious and independent (with entrepreneurial spirit coming out of their ears), but student loans loom above, casting shadows on those potential ventures.

The more difficult you are to replace, the easier it is to negotiate raises, start entrepreneurial ventures within the company and gain the respect of both your subordinates, bosses and clients.

Linnea Geiss, vice president of corporate development for NCR Corporation, and a board member for Venture Atlanta, describes this as a city where the entrepreneurial community invests in the most important things, which she lists as: «Revenue, finding real solutions to big problems and creating products that people really want.»

The other day I read an interesting book called Entrepreneurial DNA, by Joe Abraham, the founder of BOSI Global, an operating partner to venture - backed and owner - operated companies.

The Rotman One - Year Executive MBA program attracts high achievers from a range of industries, including traditional for - profit businesses, not - for - profit enterprises, research institutes and entrepreneurial ventures.

One of China's top ranked and most successful venture capital investors (and a serial entrepreneur himself) shares his take on the challenges and opportunities for Chinese innovation and entrepreneurial culture.

In our forthcoming article «Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures», published in Organization Science, we find that for female founders, highlighting the social impact of their ventures leads to more positive perceptions.

Ben Burke, Arch Grants» director of entrepreneurship, said in an email that the UMSL initiative «has the potential to be very impactful on the attraction and retention of entrepreneurial talent in our region, and could help to differentiate St. Louis as a destination for new venture development.»

So in what would have been her senior year, she eschewed conventional education in favor of her first entrepreneurial venture: helping her parents start their first company.

«Venture North showcases the depth and breadth of Ontario's entrepreneurial ecosystem,» says Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development and Growth.

The proof that this structured process works is the number of successful ventures that have emerged from my Entrepreneurial Process courses at Brown, Yale and Tel Aviv University, from my coaching of successful entrepreneurs, and from my corporate workshops.