Sentences with phrase «people building things»

To do this, we don't need the government — we just need to get our smart people building things again.

Corbett Barr is the founder of Fizzle.co (previously Think Traffic), where he seeks to help people build things online and teach them how to create their online business.

«What I find interesting: Smart companies are helping people build these things,» Kotite says.

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We have no shortage of ideas, of people who want to build things, or have directions we could go.

I got legally drunk from a CVS - brand homeopathic remedy... and then I was visibly drunk and saying more ridiculous things than usual on camera, because YouTube is built on people rambling like drunken idiots.

There is an army of young people like Bosche waiting to build things.

He is also the author of Smart People Should Build Things.

In his new book Smart People Should Build Things, the founder of Venture of America Andrew Yang offers up advice on how aspiring entrepreneurs can begin getting their startup dream off the ground.

When you build a strong culture and vet for this in the recruiting process, that naturally happens - great people attract other great people, and collectively do great things.

The good news is that we all can turn our past failures and shortcomings into opportunities to grow our character, develop trust with others, and build leadership capacity to influence people to do great things.

Consumers and customers may be feckless a — holes — always looking for the next best thing and anything better or cheaper — but the people you rely on to help you build your business have to be loyal beyond reason.

A highly - focused social media and content marketing strategy intended to build a strong brand has a better chance for success than a broad strategy that attempts to be all things to all people.

While you might understand the basics of personal branding, such as building a blog or connecting with people on LinkedIn, there are a few things you're forgetting to include.

Here are six things people forget about when building a personal brand:

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

You have to break things, change people, and build some new habits yourself to be the right role model.

Among the things Tesla did to properly organize, besides having a great idea, Baum says, is to actually produce the cars it promised to buyers, hire people with a specialty in the automotive industry, build strong supplier relationships, and develop manufacturing specialty and marketing expertise, Baum says.

To get things done, you need to wrangle disparate interests, build a team and use influence to literally cajole people into your camp.

«That's the thing that people don't realize is today, as an entrepreneur, you can build a company that can impact a billion lives,» Diamandis said in the webcast that will be later featured on the Robbins» podcast.

The next thing that makes people quit on their path to building their business is not being passionate about their business idea.

I'm proud of the team environment and culture we've built: great people who make great decisions and make great things happen.

So many people are concerned with creating a site that they forget the most important thing is building a list.

Haney said in a statement to Business Insider: «We built Outdoor Voices as an inclusive, positive brand to encourage people to get active and start Doing Things.

Tons of people are building things right now, but hardly anyone is building something novel and uncomplicated — something that works and becomes integral to a target demographic.

I wanted to be a developer, make video games and websites.I always wanted to be a part of a team building things that people love.

We have a diverse group of people, and building community, building culture, understanding all things legal, and being able to develop our company mindfully have been critical.»

In Song's opinion, there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: people who build a startup because they're passionate about a specific business — a desire to create the world's largest cold - pressed juice empire, say, or a sudden insight that betting on video games is the future of fantasy sports — and people who are entrepreneurs because that's just the only thing they can imagine doing.

If they become a good corporate citizen and they invest in our city, and they're going to employ people clearly, and they're going to be building and doing new things, I think that's a win for the city.

«One thing I always look at when I'm trying to build products is that people just like to use beautiful things, so keep it as dead simple as possible and easy to understand.»

Our creative community includes a lot of people who have studied things like woodworking, metal - smithing, and furniture - building.»

«The first right move is to find a small cluster of people who love your product and the thing you're building» stresses Elman.

The beauty of building children into leaders is that it's the little things we do every day that mold them into the people they'll become.

And that is what I see people here do, pushing through challenges, building things that you want to see in the world.»

There's also entrepreneur, inventor and head of X (formerly known as Google X) Astro Teller's talk, «The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure,» where he explains how X has built a comfortable culture where people aren't afraid to take risks and try new things.

That meant selling all things to all people, and building a massive number of loyal, repeat customers — at all costs.

Homogenous work environments create what tech veteran Mitch Kapor — the guy who built Lotus 1 -2-3, among other things — calls «mirror - tocracies,» in which the people who get ahead are those who best exemplify the status quo.

This is mostly because entrepreneurs are building things that people just don't want.

One we talk about is in - app transactions (selling extra content or features within the Snapchat app) because we don't have to build a sales team to make cool things that people want to pay for.

There are certain people, such as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, that seem to have been brought to this world for one thing: to build game - changing enterprises by challenging the status quo.

Zuckerberg wrote in his February manifesto, «In times like these, the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us.»

If you are an entrepreneur or business person involved in making and closing deals, one of the best things you can do is to build trust.

Over time I've noticed a lot of people who have built a great community stop doing the things they used to do and start just using the community as a means to make money.

«People want to know where things are in relation to them when they're not at their desks,» says Michael Nova, founder and CEO of Kiyon, a La Jolla, California, company that has developed wireless network technology designed to overcome the spotty coverage of conventional wireless networks inside buildings.

I feel things, the people, the buildings, the streets, and I have something to say about them and my medium is photography.»

But when you do search for a mentor, there are several things to keep in mind, in order to make the best use of your mentor's time and build relationships with the right people who can help your startup grow.

«A lot of people start lifestyle businesses thinking they will be happy, but if you don't like doing something for someone else, you probably won't like doing the same thing for yourself unless you also have a passion for business - building.»

Zuckerberg concluded: «The biggest things that have gotten done in the world tend to be done by people who primarily believe in a mission and are not trying to build a company; by teams, not by individuals; and by people who just don't give up.»

One of the valuable things I found at Ryerson was a very underutilized budget for the debating team at the school, and with a friend and some other people at school we really strived hard to build [the team] into something, and we did.

The more relationships you build within the company, the more people can share positive things about you if your name gets brought up during a meeting.

In his keynote, Zuckerberg made an impassioned case that this is all a good thing: «The world would lose if Facebook went away,» he said, reiterating that «we're going to continue building products that connect people in new ways.»