Sentences with phrase «owned by founders»

This home is owned by the founders of a furniture emporium, so their home is sparkle and glitz all year round — but extra glittering at this time of year.

Both Avonmore and its Singapore office (opened in 2013) are owned by founders Simon and Michael Blakey and are interlinked, making direct investments in both the UK and Asian markets.

It is perhaps no coincidence that both funds are independently - owned by their founders and small enough to be called «boutiques», meaning they are able to make independent decisions without the dilutive interference which arises from large board meetings at larger companies.

The $ 180 - million company, founded in 1917, is still owned by its founders, the Simon family.

Centerstone is entirely owned by its founder and employees, so its culture is less at - risk.

It is owned by the founder and CEO of HomeLife Realty Services, Andrew Cimermann.

is now owned by its founder's son.

«A renovated Laurentian chalet — partly owned by a founder of a major Canadian for - sale - by - owner network — is about to be sold by a real - estate broker charging a five - per - cent commission.

Not exact matches

Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, whose company is owned by AOL (which was itself acquired by Verizon last year), sent out a memo to employees on Friday saying the company is shifting its approach to video.

For those not familiar with the show, it's important to know in the beginning of season 3, the awkward yet assertive founder, Richard Hendrix, is replaced as CEO of his own company by Jack Barker.

The announcement comes the day after Lending Club's founder and chief executive Renaud LaPlanche was forced to step down by his own board, following alleged improprieties around some of his company's marketplace loans to businesses and individuals.

Today's Dell is a behemoth by every definition: $ 74 billion in annual revenue, 140,000 employees, and worlds away from the design - your - own - PC shop that its founder established as a teenager in 1984.

Take a look at the infographic below generated by San Francisco - based startup organization Funders and Founders for more stories of how many of the most successful entrepreneurs got started by looking at their own problems and finding a solution.

The news organization owned by Bloomberg LP has an unusual, self - imposed policy preventing itself from writing about its founder.

Trump has criticized Amazon for well more than a year, often tying the company to The Washington Post, owned by Amazon's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos.

That's according to Thatcher Spring, founder and CEO of San Francisco - based GearLaunch, a $ 100 million e-commerce platform that enables people around the world to own and operate their own online merchandise business by providing tools for design, production, storefronts, marketing and customer service.

Tabatha Turman, the owner and founder of government contractor IFAS, started her business by herself, and it remains 100 percent woman - owned.

They are mostly owned by venture investors, including Sequoia, Flybridge, and NEA, and company executives and founders.

Like the late Sam Walton, the founder of Wal - Mart and for a time the richest man in America, who drove around Bentonville, Arkansas, in his old pickup, demonstrating he didn't need a Bentley — but of course, he did have his own private fleet of jets standing by.

He was more careful in buying his new house, which is owned by an LLC whose registered agent is Audrey Scott, a lawyer at Cooley LLP who specializes in counseling company founders on wealth management and estate planning.

The newly - independent company will be led by CEO Bill Coleman, the founder and former chairman and CEO of BEA Systems (now owned by Oracle).

Georgette Pascale, founder and CEO of Pascale Communications, a healthcare communications company, grew her company by considering market need, market demand, and her own business's unique value proposition.

Mark Mastrov, 24 Hour Fitness founder What began as a single fitness club in Northern California is now, by membership, the largest privately owned fitness chain in the world.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin company in Washington state received NASA funding in the early rounds of competition, then said it would continue working on its own, unfunded by the government.

Giuliana Maravelle, founder and CEO of New Haven - based Gelato Giuliana (# 22) owns a gelato shop frequented by local Yale University students.

His LinkedIn currently lists him as «Founder» of Oculus VR, which is owned by Facebook.

Kim pointed to one of his own posts on Medium about multitasking, which was shared by Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and syndicated by the New York Observer, Time Magazine and Mental Floss because he created a custom audience of Medium users on Twitter who are more likely to share and heart the post.

Because, according to the study by professors Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management and Michael Dahl of Aalborg University, the best place for any founder to start a venture is probably his or her own hometown.

Or taking a different route entirely: In Silicon Valley, bootstrapping is typically underrated and undervalued, but it it gives founders the freedom to operate by their own rules — and protection from compromising their personal values (and health) in the name of appeasing investors.

Founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, SpaceX is a private company owned by management and employees, with minority investments from Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Valor Equity Partners.

This is why Box's losses were so large, and why founder and CEO Aaron Levie was so diluted by the time the company finally IPO'd (Levie owned just over 5 % of Box at the time of IPO).

Winton Churchill is founder of the Barefoot Consultants, an international training and consulting company that helps clients make a living from anywhere in the world by tapping into their own skills and career experience.

They figured that «hedonistic» candidates would be highly influenced by things like office location (which turned out not to be true); that «self - directed» candidates would be greatly concerned with a start - up's perceived innovativeness and with their own ability to have an impact (both true); and that people who are especially worried about job security would focus on the qualifications of the founders and the commitment of prominent investors (both true).

Blue Origin, the aerospace company owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has announced it is working on the New Glenn — the company's first rocket capable of going beyond LEO.

Brian Acton, the founder of messaging service WhatsApp which is owned by Facebook, has supported this action.

Winton Churchill, who lives in Mexico and splits his time between San Miguel de Allende and Huatulco, is founder of the Barefoot Consultant an international training and consulting company that can help you make a living from anywhere in the world by tapping into your own skills and career experience.

Forbes profiles founder, Kathy Giusti, highlighting her own personal journey and the extraordinary results made possible by the MMRF and the entire myeloma community.

This includes starting and managing his own software company (Microline Software — acquired by Blaze Software) and acting as a value added board member and consultant to the founders and CEO of Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai), nCircle Network Security, StepUp Commerce (acquired by Intuit), Discovery Mining (acquired by Interwoven), etc..

Southeastern Asset Management, which owns 8.5 percent of U.S. computer maker Dell, filed a statement with regulators on Feb. 8 opposing the $ 24.4 billion buyout proposed by Michael Dell, the company's founder and chief executive, and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.

Founders wind up with punishingly low stakes in their own venture and growth stunted by lack of capital to scale — this causes death by atrophy or ugly exits that likely bring no treasure to founders and typically involve the company and / or technology disappearing or being assimilated into a better financed comFounders wind up with punishingly low stakes in their own venture and growth stunted by lack of capital to scale — this causes death by atrophy or ugly exits that likely bring no treasure to founders and typically involve the company and / or technology disappearing or being assimilated into a better financed comfounders and typically involve the company and / or technology disappearing or being assimilated into a better financed competitor.

In the process of filing, we specified an initial number of issued shares (1000), and in the S - corp election, we had to specify either a % ownership or a number of shared owned by the company founders.

The New York - based company — which evolved out of the popular blog Into the Gloss by founder and CEO Emily Weiss — began selling its own make - up at the outset but has more recently added body and fragrance products, too, bringing its total number of offerings to 22.

«The key challenges faced by Cathay Pacific are stiff competition from well - funded, state - owned Chinese carriers, as well as Hong Kong Airlines and HK Express, which have aggressive fleet - expansion plans in the next two years,» said Corrine Png, the founder of Crucial Perspective, an Asian aviation industry consultant.

After exercising his right of first offer, the company would be 20 % owned by each of the Series A and Series B investor, and the founders will own 60 %.

They tend to be founder - led, by entrepreneurs who grow their own management skills as their organizations expand, supplemented by high - level hires.

Alwaleed, the chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company, is one of the faces of Saudi tech investing: As of last year he owned 35 million shares of Twitter and with his company owned 5.3 percent of the ride - hail startup Lyft, a stake he acquired in part by purchasing existing shares from Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund.

The firm has links to Trump's former chief strategist and Breitbart founder Steve Bannon and is partially - owned by billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.

Our revolutionary founders fought for the right to elect their own representatives to make laws by democratic means.

For it is not merely that at that privileged point all the external springs of the world are co-ordinated and harmonized: there is the further, complementary marvel that the man who surrenders himself to the divine milieu feels his own inward powers directed and enlarged by it with a sureness which enables him effortlessly to avoid the all too numerous reefs on which mystical quests have so often foundered.

Dynasties succeeded each other at a great pace because of the Zaidi doctrine that the Imam had to be a warrior who seized power by his own strength as did Imam Zaid their founder.