Sentences with phrase «of tech founders»

Drew Houston, Dropbox's chief executive, will soon join a small club of tech founders who took their start - up all the way through to the public markets.

Not exact matches

The CEO and founder of Knixwear created a high - tech bra and underwear brand to solve the unsexy problems facing real women, without sacrificing design

As angel investor and tech - company founder Tim Berry wrote on Entrepreneur, «You can probably cover everything you need to convey in 20 to 30 pages of text plus another 10 pages of appendices for monthly projections, management resumes and other details.

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«I'd put them at $ 1 billion or $ 2 billion at best, considering their existing user base and the fact that they have a great brand,» says Ilan Nass, founder of Taktical, a tech consulting firm.

The founders of popular image - hosting service imgur on what it takes to launch a tech startup without seeking outside investors.

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Not only does this awareness allow founders to speak the language of — and better bond with — their tech teams, it also avoids costly confusion since they're able to clearly and concisely communicate what needs to be done.

A report by Digitalundivided found that black women tech founders get approximately 0.2 percent of venture capital — statistically, zero.

Part of the reason I chose to do this job is because I really care about the tech community, and I want there to be more female investors and more female founders, and I am committed to making a difference.

Mesher says Tsai's relationship with Alibaba's founder, Jack Ma, is reminiscent of some other significant tech industry pairings, notably Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and BlackBerry's Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis.

Indians were the most numerous of the immigrant tech - company founders.

There is still a staggering low number of female founders in the tech industry.

Nothing better illustrates the vibrancy of entrepreneurship than Inc.'s Rising Stars, the inspiring under - 30 founders who are blazing paths in fields ranging from diamond - making to tech to beekeeping.

The founder of Beacon explains how he's capitalizing on the vibrant VC and tech ecosystems of NYC and Boston.

Plus, plenty of tech bigwigs, including VC Brad Feld, tech reporter Mark Bittman and even, surprisingly, Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook's founder, have shared their own commitments to the idea of a digital sabbath.

Since Kimberlin's first check, Backstage Capital has collected investments from a who's who of tech investors and executives, including Marc Andreessen, Lowercase Capital founder Chris Sacca and his wife, Crystal English, Rose Tech Ventures managing partner David Rose, Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, and Swati Mylavarapu of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Bytech investors and executives, including Marc Andreessen, Lowercase Capital founder Chris Sacca and his wife, Crystal English, Rose Tech Ventures managing partner David Rose, Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, and Swati Mylavarapu of Kleiner Perkins Caufield ByTech Ventures managing partner David Rose, Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, and Swati Mylavarapu of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers.

Wood believes Tesla, with a current market value of around $ 56 billion, should be in the same league as the big four tech stocks due to Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX.

The consumer demand surprised Danielle Gould, founder and CEO of Food + Tech Connect, a community for technology and innovation.

Mayor Berke and Skuid founder and CEO Ken McElrath sat down with Fortune to discuss the economic impact of Chattanooga's city - wide tech initiative.

President's conversation with Tumblr founder ranges from student loan debt to the tech industry's lack of women.

Who is he: Founder and CEO of one of the largest Japanese tech companies.

«The conflation of STEM experience with ability to be «in tech» is something that seems to happen far more frequently (and reflexively) where women are concerned — yet it's a standard that is not similarly imposed on the many, many male entrepreneurs and VCs who participate in the industry,» wrote Rachel Sklar, founder of TheList.

«My goal has always been to give everyone at Sharethrough as much information, context and room to care as much as I do as a founder,» says Dan Greenberg, CEO of Sharethrough, an ad - tech company that creates software for publishers and brands and is considered a trailblazer in the native - advertising movement.

«For advertisers, Snapchat offers a brand marketing experience that is uniquely mobile with incredible scale and despite what Instagram has done recently, it's quite different,» said Johnny Won, founder of Hyperstop, a tech consulting firm.

Although she spends most of her time in New York, the Lebanese founder knows what's going on in the Arab tech startup world.

By June 2012 they had transitioned to the sports site full time, helped by a $ 525,000 round of funding led by Zappos founder Tony Hsieh and his Vegas Tech Fund.

«Today the tech sector is stocked with good companies,» says John Backus, founder and managing partner of New Atlantic Ventures.

Last week, in a bit of juicy tech gossip, Business Insider leaked an internal memo from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham in which he urged his incubator's start - ups to stay away from Google Ventures.

Tech entrepreneurs are following the advice of many a successful founder who came before them: Go where the money is.

«Tech has radically shifted how we think about productivity and learning, yet we're still teaching our children the same way we taught them 100 years ago,» says Geoff Ralston, founder of 2 - year - old education technology incubator Imagine K12.

Craig Newmark, a member of the Advisory team for Women Who Tech, is the founder of craigslist, the web - based platform that has fundamentally changed classified advertising.

A recent viral open letter to San Francisco city officials by startup Commando.io founder Justin Keller serves as an example of such tech bro - iness.

Startup studio Atomic Sky has named the nine businesses selected for the first edition of the new Fusion Founder startup program, which will be operating in the Tech Hub co-working space in Northbridge.

-- Scott Scherr, CEO and founder of Ultimate Software, an HR tech platform on track to hit $ 1 billion in annual revenue this year and used by companies such as Subway, First Horizon, MLB, the Phoenix Suns, Yamaha, and Nikon

I met winemakers in the foothills of the Andes, manufacturers in the country's agricultural heartland, and the founders of some of the country's biggest and most successful tech companies.

«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.

We can use the tech sector as an example: when asked why women and minorities are underrepresented in tech startups, 49 % of male founders say that there aren't enough women in the pipeline with another 8 % of male founders blaming low recruitment into college STEM programs.

Backed by a host of investors and advisors including Techstars CTO Jud Valeski and Modern Farmer founder Ann Marie Gardner, the project has plans to incubate 10 new food businesses in its first year, tackling everything from food tech to policy solutions.

Gibbs was the founder and tech lead of Google App Engine, and the creator of Google Suggest.

Jerry Cuomo, chief technology officer for IBM, and Fabien Potencier, founder of Symfony, are joining a roster that already includes Docker co-founder Solomon Hykes; Yahoo (YHOO) co-founder Jerry Yang; as well as tech experts from Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG), LinkedIn (LNKD), Microsoft (MSFT), Uber and other powerhouses.

I moderated a human resources panel last week with Shawn Riegsecker, the CEO and founder of Centro (https://www.inc.com/profile/centro) in Chicago, and two of his senior tech talent recruiters.

The founder of debt - laden tech conglomerate LeEco has defied orders from Chinese regulators to return to the country before end - 2017, saying he needed to stay in the United States as a fundraising for his electric car startup was making progress.

Unicorn If you were wondering why crazy successful tech startups — ones that are valued at more than $ 1 billion — are called unicorns, you can thank Aileen Lee, a venture capitalist and the founder of the firm Cowboy Ventures.

Early on I worked at a tech startup and in order to get that job, I kept pestering the founder of the company.

On his blog Quick Sprout, tech entrepreneur Neil Patel speaks with 10 founders of companies that are worth at least $ 50 million and asks them what was their biggest mistake in business.

Rebecca Reeve, founder and principal of tech PR firm Rsquared Communication has done it with clients including Slack, Trello, Digit, Eventbase and Zendrive.

They identify a need and do whatever it takes, including lucrative acquisitions and seven - figure compensation packages,» says Sarah Kunst, a proponent of the tech diversity movement and the founder of Proday, a fitness app.

Both of those homegrown companies built a formidable strategic advantage by being first in the Latin American market, says Alan Colmenares, who worked for Intel's venture capital arm in Mexico and Brazil and now serves as a facilitator in his native Colombia for the Founder Institute, an incubator focused on tech start - ups across the globe.

Shot at Founder's Co-op, a Seattle venture fund and tech incubator, the video shows the founders of web companies like LookStat and NearlyWeds writing code, discussing pricing, and sharing ideas about their businesses.