Sentences with phrase «other startups like»

Bitspark will join other startups like Bitwala, BitPesa, and Remitano that are carving out their niche in the African payments space.

Other startups like Dodgeball, which is now owned by Google, Loopt and Socialight use location - based software, which takes advantage of mobile phones» ubiquity.

Not exact matches

The startup, like so many other on - demand companies from Postmates to Uber, needed to introduce surge pricing.

More than 6,000 other startups call the city home, and for budding businesses, accelerators like 8200 EISP and The Junction are also there to welcome you.

Other startups, like Arivale and Habit, are using similar screening methods to help customers optimize their diets.

Now, BuzzFeed is chasing the holy grail of «social commerce,» an area that has eluded social platforms like Facebook for years and killed many other startups tackling the category along the way.

Others, like Avatar director James Cameron and Interstellar «s Christopher Nolan, have argued that the startup threatens the health of the movie industry, which turned in a record year in 2015 in terms of overall box office gross.

«But it came across to others like we were just a small startup company.»

Founded by David Tedman, Ryan Holmes and Dario Meli as a design and development agency, Invoke evolved into a startup generation engine, spawning one of the country's most promising tech firms in Hootsuite (of which Holmes is CEO), as well as other buzzy names in the sector, like Foodee, Quietly (of which Meli is CEO) and Memelabs.

Having the opportunity to work for companies like Deloitte, working at Pardot when we were acquired by Salesforce, and now launching my own startup with 75 employees and growing, I don't think I could have been this fortunate in any other country.

If your startup is like most others, you have experienced a pivot of one kind or another.

But Area 51's approach will differ from that of other prominent incubators, like Y Combinator, where startups trade a stake in their company's equity for a modern workspace and mentorship.

Dozens of other companies, from truckmakers like Daimler, Navistar, and Volkswagen to startups like Peloton and Embark as well as Uber's Otto and Waymo, the erstwhile Google self - driving project, are pursuing what they believe is the next generation of trucking.

Other large startups in need to big chunks of money, like Uber and DraftKings, have also gone the way of convertible debt over the past year.

In other words, while many gyms enjoy a mutual beneficial relationship with ClassPass, it's changed the nature of the boutique fitness business, at least in markets like New York where the startup is well established.

My wife and I made the decision to start our company at the height of the recent startup craze, and I joined a wider community of other aspiring entrepreneurs — and immediately felt like an outcast.

Like any other co-founder or investor relationship, startups need to realize that conflicts will arise.

Startups to watch: It's a big bet in a city that wagers more than any other, but startups like Lucine Biotechnology, which focuses on women's healthcare, and password management app Launch Key improve the odds that Las Vegas will be a successful entrepreneurStartups to watch: It's a big bet in a city that wagers more than any other, but startups like Lucine Biotechnology, which focuses on women's healthcare, and password management app Launch Key improve the odds that Las Vegas will be a successful entrepreneurstartups like Lucine Biotechnology, which focuses on women's healthcare, and password management app Launch Key improve the odds that Las Vegas will be a successful entrepreneurial hub.

Programs like Microsoft for Startups and Google Launchpad have put hundreds of millions of dollars into accelerators and other resources for new firms.

(Other startups, like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, are trying to achieve similar ends by landing on asteroids.)

While some companies have gone full steam ahead with establishing a design studio within their marketing departments, smaller and leaner startups and businesses might find a tool like Canva's extremely useful for creating high - quality images meeting Twitter's and other social channels» exact technical specifications.

In other words, like the startups they are trying to support, cities like St. Louis (and Kansas City, Columbus, Pittsburgh, and pretty much every community in the middle) must pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Operating outside of the Bay Area, we've never had to compete with the likes of Facebook, Google, and Palantir Technologies for technical talent, or hundreds of other highly funded startups.

Some, like Goldman Sachs, are competing directly with them, while others, like JPMorgan, are stamping their approval and investing heavy amounts of money into the startups, believing they can benefit the personal finance ecosystem.

A little known Seattle startup could do for metal what 3D printing is doing for other materials like plastic.

Now, he is using his company's star power to give other like - minded startups a leg up.

The temporary workspace is one open room, save a conference room and small workshops closed off from the main space, and the startups are all on top of each other, with workspaces fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

The Vancouver company, like other Canadian tech companies, is competing with San Francisco's Silicon Valley which regularly draws software engineers to work at heavyweights Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and LinkedIn, and startup firms.

On the other end of the spectrum, Big Food companies like PepsiCo and Campbell Soup are cleaning up their ingredient lists, launching new healthier products, and investing in food startups to participate in the trend away from big brands.

But Suchter said that it can also be applied to other new, cutting - edge technologies like containers, as popularized by startups like Docker.

«Given the fact that the rulemaking process has been delayed substantially,» says Feit, «we, like any other kind of startup, were forced to pivot and focus on accredited investors only.»

By pitching its revamped enterprise chat service, Facebook joins the list of companies like Google, Cisco, Microsoft, and others that have recently debuted similar chatting features in light of the popularity of the startup Slack.

Like any other market, pot now has an industry association, trade publications, women's entrepreneurship conferences, vocational schools (for growers), and a 13 - week startup accelerator program called CanopyBoulder.

Israeli startup Prospera recently attracted $ 7 million to fund its approach, which is to install cameras along with other sensors in fields and compare crops «leaf by leaf» with its database of thousands of plants to identify problems like pests, parasites and nutrient deficiencies.

What other response is there to stories like that of David Glickman, whose startup Ultra Mobile tops the 2015 list with growth of 100,849 percent over three years?

But like many others who have begun their own startup companies, it soon becomes apparent how daunting it can be to make the company a success, or even just to keep it going.

As a startup leader you're typically telling others what to do, not in a dictatorial - rule sort of way but because you have a clear vision of what success looks like in your head.

Mills, like many other policy experts and analysts, is in favor of some financial regulatory reform, especially as regards the newer lending startups and other fintech companies targeting small businesses.

On the other hand, if Dorsey is right and managing a startup is indeed like managing a theatrical company, it probably is a good idea to give the performers and stagehands a little love.

There's also a cautionary tale in the form of Munchery, a California startup that, like Maple, also runs the «full stack,» but has reportedly suffered from food waste and other issues despite raising more than three times the amount in Maple's coffers.

As an entrepreneur, he now hopes to cut through the bureaucratic morass that prevents his and other talent - filled startups from competing for government work against entrenched clients like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

Similar to other online direct - to - consumer companies, like razor startup Harry's, which now sells in Target, ThirdLove is using offline retail as a tool for brand exposure.

From those archetypal startup perks, free food and a foosball table, to more outlandish experiments like company - wide international travel or unlimited vacation, tech companies often blaze the way for others, experimenting with ideas that later spread to larger, more established businesses.

Businesses, from startups to Fortune 500s, need to adopt a similar mindset when it comes to their own commanders - in - chief, because cyber attacks are a low - cost, low - risk way to steal intellectual property, business intelligence and ultimately the company's money — and the C - suite (along with other key figures, like a head engineer or programmer) is definitely a focal point for criminals.

IBM does not prohibit these organizations from working with other companies like Google or quantum computing startup D - Wave on their rival quantum experiments, Gil explained.

The company acquired a Google Glass - like startup called Vergence Labs back in 2014 and has since hired a bunch of other eyewear and wearable technology experts.

Startups are usually tight on cash and offer other incentives like flexible hours, profit - sharing, or remote working abilities.

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.

If Palantir is shaping up to be another Paypal, specifically for its ability to beget a host of other hot Silicon Valley startups, Lonsdale is akin to its Peter Thiel - like figurehead.

«This investment announces HealthEngine's arrival on the global startup scene, hopefully putting us on a similar trajectory to many of Sequoia's other successes — iconic companies like Apple and Google and more recently startups like Whatsapp, Stripe and Airbnb,» said HealthEngine founder and chief executive Dr Marcus Tan.