Sentences with phrase «of startup team»

My second experience was shortly after law school, as part of the startup team of a fintech company in Silicon Valley.

As some of you may know, I was part of the startup team at the company when it launched, and got to see a lot of what goes into each product.

Startups can apply to EVP's accelerator and if accepted, up to five members of the startup team and their families will be immigrated to the Canadian city of their choice and started on the path to Canadian citizenship.

NYU recently launched its 10 - week accelerator program Launchpad for a select number of startup teams within the university's student pool.

Not exact matches

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The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

You are the inventor of the idea, the creative holder of that startup passion, the business development team, the marketing team, the human resources department, the IT department, therapist for your employees and the one who has to put out any spontaneous fire that might come up.

Despite the slow start, the team managed to cobble together $ 720,000 in seed funding from angel investors including Naval Ravikant, CEO and founder of the startup network AngelList, and investment firms such as Pantera Capital and Shanghai's Fenbushi Capital.

When the application process opened, more than 100 startups expressed interest, with teams coming from all walks of life — from engineers to designers and MBA students applied.

Earlier this year, his Toronto - based startup was one of 20 selected for C100's 48 Hours in the Valley program, which introduces teams to successful Canadian entrepreneurs as well as influential Valley VCs.

The «lean startup» movement heads to South America, where teams of entrepreneurs in Bogota are learning how to build scalable business models, writes serial entrepreneur Bob Dorf.

From how their brands (HALL Wines and WALT Wines) rose to success, winning them two perfect scores from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, to balancing a passion for the product with entrepreneurial savvy, the two exhibit the qualities of a startup dream team.

The six - member investment team has examined nearly every type of MI startup — more than 2,000 companies in the enterprise, agriculture, healthcare, transportation and logistics sectors — but Zilis is picky about where she puts her money.

Are you leading the next great startup, or are you a part of an executive team at a well - established corporation?

The team is the foundation of any successful startup, the fixed point from which all ideas and developments originate.

The NCWIT team analyzed datasets that my research team had gathered on the founders of 549 successful technology startups.

If you work for a small company or startup, you may have a direct line - of - sight to the CEO and the executive team.

O'Reilly and her team invited speakers to come to the event from every corner of the globe, inviting investors and startups from 20 different countries, all with positive responses — surely a strong indication of early success.

He states that the collective strength areas of Finzy's in - house team coupled with the startup's approach to business got the investors interested in pumping equity.

However, the good news is that I can definitely tell you (with some degree of confidence and certainty) when it's definitely too soon for a startup to add dedicated sales talent to the team.

Or as Ben Hsieh, program manager of Nest, bottom lines, startups fail when «(the) team lacked skills to execute.»

We tried outsourcing some functions which is, I guess, one of the options startups have, because it's cost - effective and saves time when you are building a team, but we didn't like the quality that we would get, so we stopped that and hired full - time toptier talent.

After Boulder - based startup Simple Energy moved out of its incubator space in 2011, the team of six, who wanted a downtown location, selected a massive 5,000 - square - foot space with a three - year lease.

Entrepreneur.com has teamed with two prominent organizations in the startup community, Techstars and AlleyNYC, to co-host Pitch Night NYC, a bi-monthly pitch event designed to highlight the best of the startup world.

Joseph Bush, executive director of Worcester CleanTech Incubator, thinks «inability to recruit, build and manage a team of people smarter than oneself» is a big factor in startup failure.

Jim Jen, director of Pittsburgh startup accelerator AlphaLab, says the capabilities of the team need to come out during the application process.

Startups, which generally tend to have lean teams, can sometimes face the brunt of employees quitting their jobs very early due to number reasons.

Startup success is still overwhelmingly a function of your team's ability to execute — and proper execution more than likely requires the resources and time that outside investment can bring.

Even if you're past your very early startup days and have a marketing team, the most successful founders have a working knowledge of each aspect of the business and can provide knowledgeable oversight of digital marketing campaigns.

Understandably, most startups place emphasis on having a brilliant technical team that can make slick, innovative products on par with thousands of other startups.

When it's time for one leader to step up to the plate: Over the years, I've worked with lots of management teams of companies big and small, from startups to large enterprises.

Tesla filed a lawsuit in January against Sterling Anderson, its former director of Autopilot, as well as Chris Urmson, the previous director of the Google self - driving project, and their startup Aurora Innovation — a new venture the men launched with Drew Bagnell, the former head of the autonomy and perception team at Uber's Advanced Technology Center in Pittsburgh.

If you don't want to lose the talent you've worked so hard to find, here are a few tricks to help you navigate the delicate world of managing a startup team this holiday season.

Despite these controversies, the 1st and Future contest invited nine finalists to Minneapolis to pitch their startups to a team of judges including medical professionals and co-founders.

If you work in marketing for a startup, then you're part of a content team.

Before joining Village Capital, Ross worked for a venture capital firm and was on the founding team of four different startups.

In reality, the team will consult with startup founders to create a plan of execution based on a company's needs.

Run through the venture capital firm First Round Capital, the Dorm Room Fund has teams of college entrepreneurs in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston that scout for other promising student - founded startups.

The government teamed up in April with the EIF to launch Equifund, the 400 million euro fund - of - funds aimed at startups and other small companies.

To build a successful new startup, with new challenges and new competitors every day, it's important to be the model for your team of how to think outside the box.

The challenge for startups is three-fold: one, most don't have access to big data; two, most haven't built relational databases from which data can be easily pulled; and three, most haven't yet hired a data scientist and a team of analysts.

After bringing these people on, you still aren't going to have additional dollars in your startup's pocket, but you'll be well - on - your - way to a solid team that's dedicated to gaining your product traction, which is about 80 percent of what most early - stage investors look for in the first place.

Pincus said Superlabs will be operate similar to an accelerator, fostering app startups while Pincus and his team «maintain control of all the ideas hatched at the group,» the FT reports.

The best startups teams support each other, embrace a common purpose, feel that they are in it together... and in the process, transform what was a collection of individuals into a real team.

At the end, rather than pitching their business plans to venture capitalists in a «demo day» — the standard model of startup incubators — the teams made «lessons learned» presentations, during which they explain how the customer feedback helped them shape their plans.

Last year, a team of four students from New York University's Abu Dhabi campus and I presented in front of a panel of judges at the Hult Prize, which awards $ 1 million in seed funding to innovative startup ideas that address a global social challenge.

Graduates from the first - ever City University of New York Startup Incubator Program, the Advyzr team has on - boarded advisers from firms such as IBM Worldwide, Credit Suisse Financial, and Google.

The Los Angeles startup marries an expense - tracking app with a team of tax professionals, helping users segregate expenses and maximize deductions.

I'm glad to have been part of the team inventing the Lean Startup methodology.

Thanks to the efforts of their global team of designers, engineers and thinkers, Rootstrap alumni have a 2,600 percent increase in their chances of getting funded compared to the average startup.