Sentences with phrase «old entrepreneur said»

Riggio, who founded Barnes & Noble, declined to say for whom he voted, but the 75 - year - old entrepreneur said he's seen a lot of presidents come and go and that none has had a profound long - term effect on the bookseller's financial performance.

In his first interview with a Western media publication since 2015, the 39 - year - old entrepreneur said he aims to double his user base, which currently offers everything from food delivery to movie tickets to wedding photography to more than 300 million Chinese consumers.

The 65 - year - old entrepreneur says he learned about risks from his parents who «liked to gamble, leaving me to fend for myself... I learned the difference between gambling, which I do little of, and risk - taking, which I do all the time.»

Not exact matches

«A diamond lasts more than a single generation, the way an urn of ashes won't,» says the 27 - year - old entrepreneur.

Jeet Banerjee, a 19 - year - old serial entrepreneur and college studentbased in Orange County, Calif., says he tries to run through each speech under «real - world» conditions at least four or five times before the main event.

Ninety - four percent of the 13 - to 34 - year - old entrepreneurs polled say they will meet their goals, compared to just 73 % of Baby Boomers and 80 % of Gen Xers.

«I think to be associated with Vogue [one of the founders of the three - year - old event] and brands like Scoop legitimizes us,» said Beauchamp, one of Inc.'s 2011 coolest entrepreneurs under 30.

«I'm a 53 - year - old entrepreneur who's always believed in building businesses with one eye on the bottom line and one eye on growth,» he says.

The old system of subsidies for Canadian companies entering international markets encouraged Canadian entrepreneurs to engage with DFAIT's agents abroad, but with that system long since dismantled, and with the Internet offering growing companies a source of market research more accessible than a visit to a consulate, said Beck, «we need to reach out to you.»

«We've had trouble with overseas buyers not paying,» says the 37 - year - old entrepreneur.

«There are startups getting funded that shouldn't be getting funded,» says the 33 - year - old New York - based entrepreneur.

But many business schools are struggling to leave old dogma behind, says Blank, an eight - time tech entrepreneur.

«If you have a startup, and you think it's highly scalable, it's a place to network, meet other entrepreneurs, engineers, programmers and investors,» says the 28 - year - old Puerto Rican who now lives in Miami.

«It is an ongoing process where the entrepreneur needs to wake up every day and put up his best game in order to secure new investments but also to make sure the older investments remain into that particular proposition,» says Zandvliet.

The chairman and co-founder of the Indian Angel Network (IAN), one of the largest and oldest angel groups in the country, says it is okay for entrepreneurs to fail as it indicates people have the confidence to take the plunge.

In an era of unsettled politics, a wealthy 30 - year - old tech entrepreneur says Chicago needs a mayor who can feel and cure its residents» pain.

According to the 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey, emerging markets (EM) millennials are more likely to say that «starting their own business» is a sign of success than Millennials in developed nations.1 Further, according to the 2016 Global Entrepreneur Report, the overall age pattern for entrepreneurship worldwide shows the highest participation rates among the 25 — 34 and 35 — 44 year olds.2

A small company in Ithaca, led by a 19 - year - old entrepreneur, has a robot they say can clean floors and will make beds.

im a single father to a 2 yr old baby girl, but i have every weekend free;) im heavily tattooed, im way into art and am a graffiti artist and entrepreneur... i want a sexy woman to take care of me while i take care of her special needs;) i love to have fun, most say i need to grow up but i...

Emily Wilkinson, a 48 - year - old entrepreneur, bet that the Junction would continue to rise last year when she bought a storefront property with an upstairs apartment, with the help of Realtor Katrina McHugh of Junction Realty Inc. «I'm going to live upstairs and am in the process of renovating the Caboose café downstairs,» Wilkinson says.

Rachel Barge, a 24 - year - old entrepreneur from San Francisco, CA who was the first young person to raise her voice at the event, said afterwards that «These climate action delayers and science deniers are stealing bold, new economic opportunities from the American public.»

Optimism abounds among entrepreneurs, and among the old guard there exists the fantasy that the world is not as bad as everyone says it is.

Instead, Gen Y entrepreneurs (55 per cent) say laptops are critical to their business while only 46 per cent of those aged 43 and older agree.