Sentences with phrase «partnering with companies as»

Not satisfied with simply working at the local grocery store, they're volunteering, starting online shops and partnering with companies as ambassadors.

We partner with companies as if we'll own them forever.

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A blog post on the company's website, which previously listed Thiel as a part - time partner, now says, «Edit: Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with Y Combinator.»

The problem for Nintendo is the NX's launch is at least a year away — likely more, as the company reportedly just started talking about it with third party partners at this year's E3.

Boutique law firms Borrello Legal and Graham & Associates have joined forces, with principal partner Mark Borrello saying the merger would provide a solid platform to establish the company as a leader in property, commercial law, and dispute resolution.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

As she expands her furniture company, RockPaperRobot founder Jessica Banks walks us through her big decisions: where to manufacture, whom to partner with and what materials to use.

With Fitbit, Park is partnering with a host of companies and his gadget company is increasingly embedded in the traditional health care sector as it works with insurers, medical device companies, and employers to try to figure out how to motivate and engage individuals in behaviors that can help manage chronic conditions as well as general wellnWith Fitbit, Park is partnering with a host of companies and his gadget company is increasingly embedded in the traditional health care sector as it works with insurers, medical device companies, and employers to try to figure out how to motivate and engage individuals in behaviors that can help manage chronic conditions as well as general wellnwith a host of companies and his gadget company is increasingly embedded in the traditional health care sector as it works with insurers, medical device companies, and employers to try to figure out how to motivate and engage individuals in behaviors that can help manage chronic conditions as well as general wellnwith insurers, medical device companies, and employers to try to figure out how to motivate and engage individuals in behaviors that can help manage chronic conditions as well as general wellness.

The privately - held company is currently working on developing its application (which will run on Android) for use in a variety of other sports and is in talks with potential U.S. military partners as well.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

The lifelong eco-entrepreneur partnered with seafood industry veteran Dale Sims to found CleanFish, a San Francisco - based company which partners with non-industrial «artisan» fisheries, as O'Shea calls them, that are committed to sustainable practices, and sells their products to distributors, restaurants and supermarkets.

The company plans to list on the Nasdaq under «Dova,» with J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, and Leerink Partners as book - running managers.

The company is partnering up with a group of clinicians at Stanford, as well as telemedicine vendor American Well, to test whether Apple Watch's heart rate sensor can detect abnormal heart rhythms in a cohort of patients, according to two people familiar.

Both Microsoft and Google have traditionally been «partner» companies, meaning they simply license their software to hardware makers to do with as they please.

The company is now partnering with local artisans and experts to curate 360 - degree experiences for travelers eager to get as close as possible to local culture.

Thanks to its growing size and reputation, the company is becoming a more visible industry presence, recently opening the MDC Innovation Centre in New York, a 16,000 - square - foot office on Fifth Avenue above Bergdorf Goodman's, with a balcony overlooking Central Park for clients and partner agencies to use as a meeting and workspace.

Venture firms with a woman partner are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with women CEOs.

Likewise, compared with the figures from the list just two years ago, nearly three times as many companies, or 11 %, found a sugar daddy in strategic partners and customers.

And Senior Care companies eagerly partner with TruBlue so they can keep Seniors in their homes years longer in order to retain and serve them as clients.

Sundance Resources boss Giulio Casello has taken a big pay cut as the company seeks to cut costs, with the Perth - based explorer also locking in a $ 1.3 million investment to assist in the search for a partner for its Mbalam Nabeba iron ore project in Africa.

«Many of the companies we back start out as little features,» says Roloef Botha, a partner with Sequoia Capital who led the company's investment in YouTube, which Google bought for $ 1.65 billion last year.

The new company is being described as «a mentorship engine that partners with founders to solve core businesses challenges.»

JA: You're partnering with major companies such as Uber, Marriott, and JetBlue and they seem to be getting on board with your effort to value sleep.

So it's no surprise that Uber's Khosrowshahi told reporters this week that his company wanted to partner with other players than Toyota, as it tries to «make sure we have access to leading autonomous technology.»

Murdoch University has partnered with a Perth company which plans to use cannabis as a medicinal product, a day after scientists from the University of Western Australia said cannabis use could damage a person's DNA.

Toys «R» Us partners with many Toys for Tots programs as well as smaller companies providing similar support to communities.

In a joint venture with Enterprise Product Partners LP, the company will acquire and reverse an old ConocoPhillips pipeline from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Cushing, Okla., to go into service as soon as next summer.

The company will likely partner with cable and satellite providers, much as it did with telcos for the iPhone.

When GE did a global search four years ago for companies to partner with to build their next technology, they picked DTI as we had an excellent technology base which was proven,» he said.

Walmart first partnered with JD.com two years ago as both companies struggled to overcome the retail dominance of Alibaba, and Walmart last week announced that it would drop Alibaba's Alipay services in stores in favour of Tencent's WeChat payments.

«We really struggled with what the product would look like — we were initially putting it together as a supplemental product that we sell to schools, but then it became clear that it made more sense for us to partner directly with publishers to take advantage of their existing sales and distribution networks and help them transform their existing products into the next generation products that people would be expecting on iPads,» says Derek Lomas, CEO of Mathify, a company that partners with textbook publishers to create interactive learning material.

As Fortune noted in October, Glu Mobile (the company that partnered with Swift on the new app) said in statement, «The Swift Life provides a creative, inclusive and community - driven place for users to better connect with each other... and Taylor.»

As of last week, Cloudera had more than 1,450 partners in the form of software and consulting companies building real - world applications with its technology.

Nadella said that the most successful companies he partners with don't see technology as something that's just on the sidelines.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

«As we get further and further away from the recession, companies are more confident that they survived, that they touched the bottom and bounced back up,» says Ken Esch, a partner with the PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Company Services practice.

The company also partnered with information sources such as WebMD and the Mayo Clinic so when you search for health data «You get it from a trusted source instead of a sea of blue links from TrustMeJoe.com,» she says.

They came with nothing but each other and a lot of gratitude... Well that young man, who is not so young anymore, was joined by his life partner three days ago as they stood on the perch of the New York Stock Exchange, rang the bell and took their company public.

WHO: Scott Davis, managing partner at Prophet, an international branding consultancy based in San Francisco, and author of Brand Asset Management: Driving Profitable Growth Through Your Brands RATING: 5 «First off, most companies would die to be able to start with a brand as powerful as Dr. Spock.

«Having a ship sink as a travel company is a big deal,» says Lorrie King, a partner with Deloitte who coached G Adventures on their Best Managed Companies application process.

As Moran points out, partnering with commercial start - ups by investing in them allows Lockheed Martin to be vertically integrated in a number of areas, like satellites and autonomous technology, which in turn affects the efficiency and affordability of the technology the company can offer.

Gene Munster, a longtime Apple analyst who now serves as managing partner at venture capital firm Loup Ventures, believes Apple could acquire augmented reality startup Magic Leap and fitness - focused company Peloton with its newfound cash windfall.

Davaadorj, who is founder of an organic skin care line called LHAMOUR out of Mongolia, was partnered with reusable water bottle company S'well as part of the program.

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partnwith a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partnWith each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partnwith a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

As the CEO of Alteon WebSystems, a Silicon Valley data - networking company that was poised to go public, he spent months on the road meeting with business partners and wooing clients.

The company's media partners include Apple Inc and Yahoo, and it also works with streaming services such as Sirius XM, Spotify and Pandora.

The company is «positioning itself as a partner with traditional retailers, where as Amazon is trying to accelerate that shift away from stores.»

Last November, the company released a cup with a green and white design populated with cartoon people, which Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz said was meant to «represent the connections Starbucks has as a community with its partners (employees) and customers.

Since positioning itself as an OI partner, Bioastra has forged partnerships with some of the world's top pharmaceutical and biomedical companies.

Simon created a venture capital arm in 2014 that has invested, along with partners such as GGP, in e-commerce companies like Deliv and Shopkick, a shopping loyalty app.