Sentences with phrase «other company founders»

The start - up founder had, it seems, conceived of his postings as a way to help other company founders understand what a funding round looks like from the inside, and the effect was that the investment firms began bidding against one another.

Since having time for life outside the office is an increasingly high priority to workers in every industry, other company founders would be wise to take a page from the vacation non-policy book of Branson and other pioneers of this approach (which according to Businessweek comprise only around 1 percent of all companies).

Not exact matches

«What this has done is really allowed for more pools of money to be available to entrepreneurs, so that's the really big news about all of this,» says Geri Stengel, founder and president of Ventureneer, a digital media and market research company that, among other issues, specializes in crowdfunding.

After Hogan launched his lawsuit against the company, it was revealed that PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel had been bankrolling the former wrestler and others who were suing Gawker, in the hope of driving the company out of business.

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.

Melody Biringer, founder of the CRAVE company appeared on the Small Businesses Do It Better Show, episode 3 (watch the show on Ovaleye.tv) on Connecting with Other Businesses to Grow Your Own.

Joe Gebbia, co-founder and CPO of Airbnb, talks about working with the company's two other founders and the management structure at the home - sharing platform.

OSCAR HEALTH SURPASSES $ 3 BILLION VALUATION, DRIVEN BY EMPHASIS ON DIGITAL SOLUTIONS: US - based insurtech Oscar Health secured a $ 165 million funding round led by Brian Singerman and Founders Fund, with participation from 8VC, Google's health - focused sister company Verily Life Sciences, and Fidelity, among others.

However, the rule comes with a caveat: A company must be structured so the company's board could fire the founder, just like any other employee.

Donning a long - sleeved pullover and jeans, Dorsey was joined by other prominent entrepreneurs, most notably Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City and founder of financial information company Bloomberg.

Business is booming — SBI's founder says that his company sells half a million pogo sticks a year — and competitors have sprung up with other extreme pogo models.

Moreover, co-location with other entrepreneurs breeds competition among business founders, which pushes the companies forward more quickly.

If the company isn't «blowing up,» when the founder goes out to raise more money and the original VCs / Angels who invested don't lead or participate in the new round, it sends an very bad signal to other potential new investors.

Here's her advice for other female founders who also think venture capital might be the best source of funds for their companies.

«There is major uncertainty in the market and federal agencies are not sure until the budget is passed and sequestration is resolved that they will continue, and they have really reduced the scale of work,» says Zia Islam, founder of Zantech IT Services, a McLean, Virginia - based company that has worked for NASA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and other federal agencies.

When I started my company, iDoneThis, the biggest question on my mind — and I'm guessing it's top of mind for other young founders too — was: «Hmm... how do I sell this?»

Through the work I've done at Growth Everywhere, I've been lucky enough to chat with notable entrepreneurs such as Jason Lemkin (founder of Echosign, which sold to Adobe), Mark Organ (co-founder of Eloqua, which sold to Oracle) and others who are constantly pushing the boundaries of business success with their own companies.

Some others just shift for that immediate jump in their salary without understanding how this compares vs. staying in the same company over a three to five - year timeframe, Srividya Kannan, Founder, Director — Avaali Solutions said.

Mark Pincus, the founder of video game company Zynga Inc, must face a lawsuit alleging he unfairly benefited by selling $ 192 million of stock in 2012 when other early investors were under a lockup agreement, according to a court ruling.

We must continue to foster an ecosystem where founders of any gender of startups and established companies alike can confront unconscious bias, develop the skills necessary to navigate and disarm the biases of others and become the role models necessary to dismantle systemic bias.

It's particularly important as your company makes the transition from a small startup, where founders take calls from customers and can shout to each other across the garage, to a mid-size business employing hundreds.

Other lessons were «Be Tiny,» «Be Picky,» and «Be Self - Centered,» which discussed the importance of company founders using their own products.

Musk, best known as the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has also launched The Boring Company, whose mission is to dig tunnels under traffic - clogged cities (such as his hometown of Los Angeles) where underground conveyer belts will whisk cars from one side of town to the other.

The CEOs of each were significantly more powerful than other company executives in terms of equity stake, compensation and whether they were the founder.

After revenues surpassed $ 100 million, the company was sold to British Telecom in 1985, and its founders turned their attention to other ventures, including Corel Systems and Newbridge Networks.

-- Jasper Nathaniel, founder of the nutrition company Revere, which has raised $ 3.5 million in funding from Lerer Hippeau Ventures and others and has been driving five figures in monthly sales with zero paid advertising

Of course, these founders also wanted to build their companies with other people's money, just without the usual strings attached.

«People who should be joining other companies are now becoming founders, and it creates a talent shortage,» he says.

Other notable Thiel investments, either individually or through Founders Fund, have included LinkedIn; Spotify; a $ 120 million stake in Musk's rocket - ship company, SpaceX; and more recently Airbnb.

Note: A Structure Capital spokesperson declined to share the number publicly, clarifying that each partner gives out their number to portfolio company founders who can then share it with colleagues or others in the industry.

It's a result, she adds, of the image the company has projected, which «is particularly influenced by the organization's founder, executives, and other managerial staff because of their role in decision - making and strategic direction.

Customers who rank themselves as «completely satisfied» are worth three to six times more than those who say they are just «satisfied» or «dissatisfied,» says Jeffrey Henning, founder and vice president of strategy of Vovici, an online survey management company that has worked with Marriot, Cisco, and many other large companies.

By simply observing others, Intuit founder and CEO Scott Cook built one of America's biggest companies.

However, Gliimpse had early investment from Anil Sethi, the company's founder and CEO, who has a long history in medicine while working for Johns Hopkins, among others.

That concern persists: Many said the hardest part of being a founder was maintaining others» jobs — even while providing jobs was often cited as one rewarding aspect of having a company.

The private market for shares prior to a public listing allows employees and founders of private companies such as Spotify to cash in on some of their paper wealth, while letting other investors get a head start on the listing.

The application's instructions are clear: In order to be accepted into TechStars, the prestigious accelerator program, start - up founders are asked to submit two videos — one to describe the company's product or service, and the other to introduce the team.

Suster recently took to his blog to offer lessons he learned through hard experience as a founder for others trying to balance starting a company and keeping a marriage together.

Among other things, eShares lets company founders issue share certificates to angel and venture investors, employees, and others who qualify for stock options.

«All the other guys did comments; they were really ubiquitous, but they never really turned into something that exciting,» Karp, Tumblr's founder and chief executive, said onstage at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in Manhattan on Wednesday.

(Bleszinksi now serves as an adviser, while the other two founders are no longer involved with the company.)

Avis Car Rental this week announced the launch of a new marketing campaign, which once again features the famed founder, along with a few other familiar faces including: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank, the co-founders of online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe and Baratunde Thurston, the comedian co-founder of Cultivated Wit, a digital content and product development company.

A million of that will go to company growth, the other $ 2.5 million will provide a bit of liquidity to the founders and early team members, who can sell their stock options as part of the investment round.

Find out how its team manages day - to - day operations, and who has decision - making power (sometimes it is the founder, and sometimes others in the company).

To the four founders quoted below, company culture means more than exposed brick walls and other trappings of coolness.

That's great news for Renren's founders, but it could bode ill for other start - ups if investors sour on the company:

In many ways, Palantir is like Paypal in the 1990s, a startup whose founders — Elon Musk, Max Levchin, and Peter Thiel — all went on to start other, highly successful companies.

Amidi, who is also a co-founding partner of seed investment firm Amidzad Partners and founder of 14 other companies, says Plug and Play started the accelerator to help make Bitcoin more widespread and easier to use, and to add strong Bitcoin - related companies to its investment portfolio, which includes PayPal and Zoosk.

Now, a founder of a company can indicate on their Facebook page, Twitter feed and any other personal networks that their company is raising money.

Other signatories included Hans - Holger Albrecht CEO of Deezer, a music streaming service out of Germany; Oliver Samwer, CEO and founder of e-commerce company Rocket Internet; and Ralph Dommermuth, CEO and founder of Internet service provider United Internet.