Sentences with phrase «of getting off the ground»

Once you have a business idea, it's time to get to the real work of getting it off the ground and running.

Jao says the law firm that counsels Retention Science provided it with discounted advice that the company didn't have to pay for during the first two years of getting off the ground.

I eagerly await your questions and look forward to the possibility of getting this off the ground.

American McGee, the creator of American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns, has been proposing a third game for a while now with Kickstarter being a way of getting it off the ground.

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Of course, a 1 million - pound plane needs greater lift to get off the ground than a great bustard.

JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

Funded by alumni from the McCombs School of Business, where it is housed, Texas Venture Labs will selectively take on projects and provide (student) labor to help the firms get off the ground.

FiberTower, a small company acquired by AT&T (t) in February, spent a decade trying to get off the ground until it filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and had many of its licenses stripped by the FCC.

If people like your small business and you put a good enough case forward, the idea of crowdfunding brings ideas and people together and could provide the money you need to get off the ground.

I've found that the very traits that make entrepreneurs capable of starting new businesses (a passion for their product, the endless energy to get it off the ground) are also the things that can limit their sustained success.

Ultimately, Lacavera has a different view of risk than his Canadian peers — the same issue he ran into when trying to get Wind off the ground.

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In his new book Smart People Should Build Things, the founder of Venture of America Andrew Yang offers up advice on how aspiring entrepreneurs can begin getting their startup dream off the ground.

But with a whole lot of perseverance Kirsch managed to find funding and get her idea off the ground.

Like any business, you shouldn't expect to be profitable right when you open your doors, so make sure you have enough money to live off of while you get off the ground.

Entrepreneurs in 2016 are fortunate to have an array of cheap (or free), web - based tools that are designed to help get startups off the ground.

Branding companies are on the cutting edge of what works and what doesn't, giving you the opportunity to really see a benefit to your bottom line by getting your brand launched and off the ground.

The NASA deal is the latest in a series of partnerships Uber has struck to get UberAir — which is what the new service is called — off the ground.

Just like when the company was getting the original Airbnb platform off the ground, there are likely to be rough spots: a refugee that doesn't assimilate well with his or her host, a bad actor who tries to sneak into the system to get free housing, or any number of routine cultural clashes.

He said its co-founders had a fair amount of luck in getting the company off the ground, stumbling unexpectedly into filling a common need.

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

If entrepreneurs sat around waiting for funding to arrive, the majority of ideas would never get off the ground.

Unlike in past years, says Stewart, most were just getting off the ground in 2005, with baseline revenues that barely surpassed the minimum requirement of $ 50,000.

Enabling a variety of investment plans to suit investors» varied risk profiles has allowed the FreshWorks Fund to catalyze projects that would not likely have gotten off the ground otherwise.

Deluce has friends in high places: the former CEO of the Port Authority who helped him get Porter off the ground, Lisa Raitt, is now the federal minister of transport.

Most of these ideas never get off the ground, however; we decide it's not really worth the time and effort to create the perfect dog toothbrush, clothes hanger or juice squeezer.

As well as money to get your company off the ground, they will provide you with access to qualified business mentors with a high level of knowledge in their industries.

«Etsy has made it possible for a lot of small businesses to get off the ground,» says Dale Dougherty, co-founder of O'Reilly Media and the publisher of Make magazine, which covers the do - it - yourself economy.

Cho is also the author of three books, the first dedicated to helping other creators and freelancers get their online businesses off the ground, and her most recent, Oh Joy!

By being aware of the opportunities right in front you - sometimes in the most unexpected places — you'll find the exact thing you need to get your business off the ground.

In fact, here are three tips to get an employee volunteer program (EVP) off the ground, so your startup can grow its impact right away and make a culture of service part of its DNA.

It offered some suggestions, saying executives and business owners have said they are afraid to expand because electricity in Canada is too expensive, big energy projects are too slow to get off the ground, the future of present and future trade agreements is iffy, and the U.S. election is too frightening.

Even though you may mean to do good, if money is mishandled, the chance of getting a corporate social responsibility program off the ground is nil.

One of the biggest obstacles that student entrepreneurs face starting out is a lack of resources and connections to get their ideas off the ground.

So what are the consequences for all those hours of snoozing you gave up to get your business off the ground?

Most startups needs at least two or three hires to get off the ground, but finding those hires in the early stages of development is a challenge, to say the least.

Nevertheless, the update continues a months - long back and forth between Samsung, which has struggled to get Bixby off the ground in the US, and hardcore Galaxy S8 owners, many of whom have expressed frustration over their devices having a dedicated physical button with limited functionality.

You don't need a fancy telecom system and an office full of equipment to get your business off the ground.

Within two months of posting their app in the appbackr marketplace, Popvox had raised the five figures needed to get its mobile project off the ground.

But the plans never got off the ground due to the collapse of the real estate market in Arizona.

They can also connect you with mentors and a network of other likeminded people who can be helpful in getting a fledgling business off the ground.

Many small businesses fail and those that do get off the ground face a lot of falling down and getting back up along the path to success,» Roark says.

Startups also have the advantage of writing off expenses that got their business off the ground.

It's exactly what Michael Dell did to get his personal computer business off the ground from his dorm room at the University of Texas.

It got here thanks to the quick thinking of its founder, who knows how to pick herself back up off the ground.

Software companies can get off the ground and grow with a slim budget, but manufacturing companies and hardware makers consume enormous amounts of capital.

Here are some examples I've learned from years of experience using freelancers - as - employees to get my business off the ground.

Seeking financing is often essential for some companies that require a high influx of capital to get off the ground, or for organizations that are looking to take advantage of fast growth in certain sectors.

While handling the back side of a campaign might not be as thrilling as dealing with the fund - raising part, these activities play a vital function in getting a fledgling business off the ground.

The most notorious fee was the debit card usage fee, which barely got off the ground before banks axed it in the face of a major consumer backlash.