Sentences with phrase «people as founders»

According to one Redditor, «We try very hard to not stick to specific people as founders / leaders, otherwise, we run the risk of centralizing around specific people.

, «We try very hard to not stick to specific people as founders / leaders, otherwise, we run the risk of centralizing around specific people.

Herschel Bentley, a 27 - year mortgage veteran who segued into real estate investing in the early 2000s, faced his own personal financial crisis — but instead of giving into despair, ultimately found a way to help thousands of people as the Founder and Executive Director of the Tampa based company National Credit Federation.

Not exact matches

«As a first - time, young female founder who quickly grew from three people on a couch to a team of ten, we love how this book clearly outlines so many tactical approaches to communication, being a good leader, and building trust on the team.»

The founders also identified their ideal customers as people with homes for sale who would be trading up to larger houses.

Founder and CEO Alain Bouchard has ridden Couche - Tard's success into the record books as one of the country's richest people.

As more than one founder told us, getting the right people is just as important as having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payrolAs more than one founder told us, getting the right people is just as important as having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payrolas important as having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payrolas having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payroll.

This is why investors invest in people, as they want to be sure the founders are capable of executing on their promises.

As the founder, you're most likely to have connections with people who've developed deep and robust professional networks.

Dig Deeper: Tips on Building Your Company Culture From a Blue - collar Millionaire How to Create a Company Philosophy: Practice What You Preach The principles in a company's philosophy have to come from, and be true to, the founder or CEO as a person.

In addition to serving as the chair of Virgin Unite, she is also the founder and trustee of her own non-profit, Big Change, and the co-chair of We Day UK, an annual event that celebrates young people making a difference in the world.

Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton will file for personal bankruptcy protection as early as Monday after losing a fight in a Florida court for a shield against a judgment in a breach of privacy case involving professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Related: Following Death Threats, Peeple Founder Says She Was Wrong to Position App as «Yelp for People»

Blekko founder Rich Skrenta is hoping the infusion of cash eventually will bring more people to choose Blekko over Bing and Yahoo as a Google alternative.

And, as she connected founders and investors, she saw that more often than not, it was the white male founders she helped that received the most opportunities: «It became clear really fast that there were certain people who were not getting meetings, even if they had a really great company.»

Tomorrow's business leaders and startup founders will be today's young kids whose parents have raised them with an entrepreneurial spirit — a skill that is increasingly important as young people flood the startup world and the freelance economy grows.

«We post the video or the handwritten note onto our social media feed as well as contact our network of volunteer detectives who are 40 or 50 people across the country who have said that they want to help individuals experiencing homelessness locate their long lost loved ones,» explains Kevin F. Adler, the organization's founder.

As CD Baby founder Derek Sivers once said, «The single most important thing is to make people happy.

«Obviously, you have to balance it, because you don't want to dilute yourself as a founder too much, but it could be a really, really great way to motivate people,» Humphrey says.

«We created a way to let people use their mobile phone as a remote control for their existing credit and debit cards,» said Vaduvur Bharghavan, Ondot's CEO and founder.

Dharmesh Shah: As the founder of HubSpot, pioneers of inbound marketing, Shah is a great person to follow on Twitter because he's at the forefront of an industry that is constantly evolving.

Other people initially listed as founders of the project were apparently fictional.

Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, believes that over time, as the hardware resolution and software capabilities of virtual reality platforms and headsets improve, people will spend less time out of virtual reality, and eventually none.

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, explains to CNBC that there could be benefits from artificial intelligence, as people are freed to work less and travel more.

As a startup founder you want to move fast to get your vision up and running but not taking the time to hire correctly from the start could leave you with the wrong people for the job at hand.

As the founder of Watsi, a nonprofit that allows people to donate small amounts of money to crowdfund medical treatments for individuals in 20 developing countries, Adam, 29, is doing his part to remedy this imbalance.

As the gym - dwelling founder of a bootstrapped shot company, these are my people.

As CEO, I am focused on building a company around the vision of our founder and the talent of the people we put around him.

In a way, Elite SEM was conceived as rebuttal to everything its founder and CEO Ben Kirshner found lacking in corporate America, where he met managers and executives more than happy to «slash and burn people left and right» in a bid to make more money for themselves.

Sure, we tend to look at entrepreneurs as company owners or founders, not the people who might work for them.

As the founder of Codecademy, an education company that teaches users technical skills, including how to code, Sims is looking to help people take their career to the next level.

Your mission as founder is to organize — and, if necessary, reorganize — people to test it until you get it right.

The Forbes list cites Gates, the Microsoft founder, as the richest person in America with $ 89 billion, Amazon's Bezos as second richest with $ 81.5 billion, and investor Warren Buffett at third - richest with $ 78 billion.

As a founder who also bootstrapped my way, it has acted as an excellent reminder that if your product is helping people, then it is worth it to stay the coursAs a founder who also bootstrapped my way, it has acted as an excellent reminder that if your product is helping people, then it is worth it to stay the coursas an excellent reminder that if your product is helping people, then it is worth it to stay the course.

Later, Graham responded to the backlash on his blog, writing, «A lot of the people you encounter as a founder will initially be indifferent, if not skeptical.

As BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti has pointed out, the main reason people share things on social networks isn't because they are true or false.

As a founder, hearing how shitty things have gone for people who have become incredibly successful is inspiring because it makes you believe in yourself.

I've covered one or two before, such as WayUp founder Liz Wessel's dictum that young people should always default to «yes,» but if you're in the market for this sort of bite - sized but actionable advice, a recent Psychology Today piece from UConn professor and author Gina Barreca is the real mother lode.

«A lot of the things we do in the sprint are meant to help people who are introverted — people who aren't as comfortable or as capable of pitching their ideas — to be on a level playing field with the founder or with anyone on the team,» says Knapp.

It's very well known in the startup community as a kind of Reddit for new products, featuring Q&A's with founders, videos and a front page where people can upvote products they like the most.

One of the quickest way to lose a viewer's interest, especially in the team video, is by ignoring the obvious: Film allows founders to show off their personality, and offer a slice of who they are as person.

Andersen should know: As the founder of Startup Grind, a 200 - chapter community for entrepreneurs, he has approached thousands of people for intel.

As founder and CEO of Solamar Agency, I've received hundreds of emails from people looking for a job.

My hunch is that for us to grow collectively as a team, giving people access to all the same information that we have as founders is crucial.

He started out as a non-technical entrepreneur until he spoke to Drop.io's founder Sam Lessin, who said: «Idea people who can't code have to relay their vision to others, and part of the vision inevitably gets lost in translation.

Rich founders are being profiled as eligible bachelors in the New York Times, young people increasingly claim they aspire to be entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial mindset is being hailed as the cure for many of the social ills that ail us.

Jonathan Mohan, founder of BitcoinNYC, a volunteer organization based in New York that unites Bitcoin enthusiasts, says the Fed's takedown of Liberty Reserve was downright good for Bitcoin — and that many people in the Bitcoin community see the Liberty takedown as a «benefit» for virtual currencies.

In December, Musk was selected to join the 16 - member advisory council along with business leaders such as IBM chairman, president and CEO Ginni Rometty and Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger, and until last night, Uber founder Travis Kalanick, who stepped down stating that an «implicit assumption that Uber (or I) was somehow endorsing the Administration's agenda has created a perception - reality gap between who people think we are, and who we actually are.»

Dharmesh Shah, a serial entrepreneur and founder of OnStartups.com, says an ideal board member posesses two main qualities: Advisory Value («The person you are inviting has experience and knowledge and can act as an advisor to your start - up») and Brand Value («The person you are inviting has «brand» and credibility.

Though Jurvetson left DFJ as he was being investigated by the firm for harassment, the one person who had complained about DFJ publicly, at least, a founder named Keri Kukral, later made clear that her relationship to the firm was not in a professional context.