Sentences with phrase «partners started a company»

Koch and his partner started the company back in 1996 and have grown it to around 900 employees.

Daniel Nathel and his partner started the company after being successful as pushcart peddlers on the Lower East Side of New York City, setting up shop in the city's Washington Market before moving up to the Huntspoint Market in the Bronx in the 1960s.

Leonard and four other partners started the company two years ago with the idea that they wanted to bring a product to market that would fit with the values they'd espoused through their careers in the natural products industry.

Me and two partners started a company earlier this year.

Not exact matches

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.

And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

(Gonzales - Black left the company shortly before Hsieh's March 2015 memo to start a Holacracy consulting firm in San Francisco, Thoughtful Org Partners.

I later started another company that required me to take on a partner.

While the partnering companies are using the shipping industry as a start, Gault and EY's Crawford have plans to expand the platform to other categories of insurance, like automotive, in due time.

During the podcast, Aiyer explained that Postmates had actually seen its retail partners increase their sales three to four times over their previous level once it — the company — started using on - demand delivery.

After starting Apple with partner Steve Wozniak, Jobs was booted out of the company after too many failed projects.

Gates and his business partner, Paul Allen, originally started a company called «Traf - O - Data,» which featured an automated way to read and organize data pulled from traffic tapes.

Klothed is the brainchild of Barry Fogarty, a serial entrepreneur who has started several software companies, and his business partner Bhupinder Randhawa.

«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.

After three years, he became fluent in the language, found a business partner, and returned to the U.S. to start Green Creative, a commercial LED lighting company.

I can't say that I started a company that partners with restaurants because of the time I spent at McDonald's, or because of the time I spent working in my mom's Chinese restaurant — the first business she worked in after we moved to this country.

RIM has also started to acquire more startups, and co-founded the BlackBerry Partners Fund in 2008 to invest in mobile computing companies globally.

In 2012, Duke Energy, Procter & Gamble and other established companies in the region joined forces to start Cintrifuse, an organization that connects Cincinnati startups with mentors, investors and strategic partners.

Although you never start a company alone and I had many partners to thank, I did feel I truly earned my success as a self - made man when we signed those contracts, and I definitely thought back to those teachers who told me I would never amount to anything.»

Electronic devices that are worn on the body and relay information are starting to receive a lot of buzz, but partnering with a big company is the key to getting the product to see the light of day.

The model, called Lean LaunchPad, is based on a method of starting new companies that has been largely championed by Steve Blank, a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who partnered with UCSF in 2013 to offer the program for students with ideas for health - related businesses.

The company also announced late last month that it would be partnering with Walgreens Boots Alliance in starting the 30,000 - store network in an attempt to reduce costs both for the company and for pharmacy benefit management (PBM) members.

Dalgaard will remain a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, staying on the boards of several companies in which he led investments, including HR software start - up Zenefits and viral image warehouse Imgur.

«Partnering with a bigger company allows us to address the long - term opportunity, and gets us out of minute - by - minute start - up roller coaster,» he told AllThingsD.

MOSCOW, April 30 - SUAL Partners, a co-owner of Russian aluminium producer Rusal, said on Monday that Rusal's board and shareholders needed to start work as soon as possible on a new strategy after the company was hit by U.S. sanctions.

«This was not Stanford, not Silicon Valley, where leaving (a prestigious university or a good job) to start your own company is a badge of honor,» said Technology Crossover Ventures partner Woody Marshall, who led his firm's early investments in Netflix, Spotify and Airbnb.

Co-founder and executive chairman Hoffman, who is also a partner at Greylock Partners, the venture capital firm that led a $ 10 million funding round in LinkedIn in 2004, started the company in 2002 in his living room.

IDEX, which last summer entered a partnership with an unnamed global payments company for biometric applications, is integrating its sensors into smart cards with partners and expects shipments to start toward the end of this year, Knudtzon said.

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.

The sleek gadget is already on sale directly from the company and, starting August 15, off the shelf at Indigo — the company's first retail partner (CEO Heather Reisman is enthusiastic about the toy, says Garten).

Spielberg, whose production company Amblin Partners started under DreamWorks, will pocket $ 187.6 million from the 4.6 million shares of the company he owns.

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.

And most CEOs didn't look too far when it came to starting their companies: 35 percent of survey respondents said partners and co-founders had been work colleagues, followed by 33 percent who said they started up with a close friend.

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 partners.

Seeking that balance inspired her and business partner Jennifer Nashmi to start Kids & Company 15 years ago.

For example, your partner may end up being very involved in your business, you may start a new company during your marriage, or your partner may leave work to stay home with the kids.

With a biotech startup, it may seem the potential is all in the science, but investor Amy Schulman, a venture capital partner at Polaris Partners, which led SQZ's $ 5 million funding round, says the main reason she decided to put money in SQZ is because of Sharei, even though he's young and had never started a company before.

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

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.

And as the early talks went nowhere, Sprint started looking for other merger partners, like cable companies Charter Communications (chtr) and Comcast (cmcsa), which are just getting into the wireless business.

«When I was a partner at WME,» he says, «I'd already started establishing myself and building relationships in other sectors as though I were the CEO of a company.»

David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners in Menlo Park, Calif., told me in an e-mail: «For garage - dwelling entrepreneurs to crack the 1 % wealth threshold in America, their path almost always involves raising venture capital and then getting their start - up to an initial public offering (IPO) or a large acquisition by another company.

In March 2014, Saverin and seven other investors, including American venture capital firm, Bessemer Venture Partners, reportedly invested about $ 6.65 million in Singapore - based cloud computing start - up company, Nitrous.

«They simply just showed up and started squatting,» said Chad Waters, one of the partners of Coco Palms Hui, the company leading the redevelopment.

Leveraging the expertise of all of the partners, the goals of this program are to better position Ameren to meet its customers» future energy needs and expectations, create new jobs through these start - up companies and provide university students opportunities to be more engaged in the energy business.

«As Google I suppose I am willing to take the risk with Anthony, but I can say, definitively, that if I was choosing a business partner to start a company with, there is no way in hell I would proceed.»

Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners was nice enough to compile some data on Start CTO Salary and Equity at Venture Backed Companies for the LA CTO Forum and present last year.

Starting as an audit technician at Touché Ross and Company, he has held senior roles in several companies including as founding partner and CEO of Barr Shelley Stuart; founder and president of Tamarack Capital Advisors Ltd.; external director and treasurer of Golder Associates Corporation; executive vice-president, Meyers Norris Penny LLP; and president and CEO of Coril Holdings Ltd..

Comparing the major three shipping companies (FedEX, UPS, and USPS) we can start comparing who would be the best shipping partner in the country for overnight, 2 - day, and 3 day delivery.

The majority of our work is commercial millwork, for contractors that want to partner with a company that guarantees its work and ensures that the custom millwork portion of their project will go smoothly from start to finish.