Sentences with phrase «person at a startup»

Hiring the right person at a startup is the difference between success and failure — 46 percent of employees will fail within 18 months of being hired and only 19 percent are deemed an unequivocal success, according to a study by Leadership IQ.

Not exact matches

All the hype around startups overshadows the fact that fewer people are starting new businesses today than at any point since 1978.

At thredUP, a nine - person startup based in an 1,800 square - foot office in San Francisco, everybody is clustered together on one side of the office, and the other side is occupied by couches.

Many people agree that giving employees an ownership stake, especially at a startup, is a surefire way to motivate them to bring their very best to the company.

So you have your earliest adopters who are very hard core on the engineering side, and now we're starting to see people who have experience at later - stage startups who understand the UX and business portion of it.

The four - person startup, made up of veterans from networking company Sandvine, has a clever solution called NightShift that automatically downloads Netflix videos at night while the user is sleeping.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

Fancy tried to repurpose as many of those people into other roles as possible but at the end of the day, it's a startup and when it pivots it pivots... [Layoffs are] always unfortunate but at the end of the day, Fancy is a startup that is still young and agile.»

The report from Nested, a UK startup that helps people sell their house, looks at the cost of renting — per square foot — in 72 cities worldwide, as well as what salary is required to foot the rental bill.

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

While it can be tough to hire more people at a cash - strapped startup, it may be preferable to ending up on page 1 with a less than savory headline.

Organizers expect 1,500 people to attend the startup - focused conference at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas hotel and casino.

If they really like the knives, your giftee can return - shop at a startup that most people haven't found yet.

Lore told Re / code's Jason Del Rey at the time that the company switched business models because Jet noticed people were buying more per visit than anticipated, and dropping its membership fee could actually help widen the startup's appeal.

Because these organizations are specialists at providing the type of hands - on assistance that entrepreneurs need at the pre-seed stage, and because entrepreneurs are co-located with the accelerator directors, the people running accelerators can provide more intense help to startup companies than most angels and venture capitalists, speeding up the development of the companies.

«Startups are ultimately a collection of great people,» says Jon Sakoda, a general partner at Menlo Park venture capital firm NEA.

One sector that lagged behind was startups, as people become increasingly worried about valuations and stability at a number of firms as they either delay going public or struggle in the public market, such as Snap Inc. and Blue Apron Holdings Inc..

Separately, on September 3, the people behind Startup Phenomenon are putting on an event about female entrepreneurs at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Yet somehow many people think that startups intended to operate at massive, Internet scale can be casual affairs.

No matter what stage you're at in the entrepreneur journey, whether you just launched your first startup or have started several successful businesses, you can always use the advice of people who have «been there, done that.»»

And here's a word to the wise — if you have no intention of paying this person at some point for the value you think they can add to your startup, that says a lot about how valuable you think they really are.

The pattern and colors matched up nicely with what people wore at startups in Silicon Valley.

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.

These startups let people reserve a local scooter from a smartphone app, ride for a small fee, and, at the end of the journey, leave the scooter wherever to be claimed by the next rider.

As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, Fiance, who graduated in 2014 and now works for a startup, says that some of his best ideas came from constantly being willing to meet new people and attend social events.

«The AIC experience has left a very bad taste with a lot of people, and I think it's even more of an uphill battle than it would be for a startup, to rebuild that confidence, if it can be done at all.

For indoor video footage — say, of your startup with people sitting at their desks or a pan shot of your lobby — consider the Moment drone.

Before he joined Facebook last summer, Dellaert was the chief scientist at Skydio, a small startup that is working on an unreleased drone that can autonomously track a person while navigating through physical space.

The media startup, valued at $ 11 billion in its latest round of funding, says the number of «pinners,» or people sharing images and links, has doubled on its platform in the last 18 months and the number of searches on its service have increased by 81 % over the last year.

And the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge says

And while most startups send employees to join Y Combinator on - site, the accelerator embedded its people at ACLU headquarters in New York City.

It's more than often the direction you're pointed if you have an idea and talk to any old - school business person, corporate lifer or institutional banker — at least when it comes to getting your startup idea off the ground.

So that perfectly brilliant people won't be turned off from pursuing their dream or labor under the assumption that to be an entrepreneur, they must be all or nothing, founder or employee, I sought the perspective of some entrepreneurs, founders and staffers at startups.

The startup is working on technology that would use magnetic levitation in low - pressure tubes to transport people and goods at airplane - like speeds.

Finding the right people, the ones who have the technical skills and the desire to work at a startup, is both time - consuming and competitive.

Duo Security, a Mich. - based cybersecurity startup whose tools help companies manage people's digital identities, said it raised $ 70 million at a $ 1.17 billion valuation (including the capital raised) this week.

The California startup is good at what it does, commands an eye - popping valuation, and is led by a mercurial CEO whose aggressive tactics sometimes rub people the wrong way.

Look at the talent behind some of the most innovative tech startups and you'll often find people who have spent years training in the arts.

Just look at Kauffman's own Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, which showed the share of startup activity by people between the ages of 20 and 34 fell from 34.8 percent in 1996 to 26.2 percent in 2012.

A growing number of people are trying to prove to investors, other startups and the world at large that it's possible to build a socially - minded business without necessarily having to be a non-profit.

When your startup is just getting off the ground, leading large numbers of people isn't at the forefront of your mind — survival is.

With the help of a $ 32 million investment from Campbell Soup, Grimmer founded Habit, a San Francisco nutrition startup selling a $ 299 at - home test kit, which crunches a person's unique biological data to produce individually tailored food recommendations.

Austin - based startup Chaotic Moon Studios is showing off an iOS app at SXSW that pays people to exercise.

«Hustling,» in startup parlance, works only when you're a 10 - person company making cute Internet distractions — not when people's health and safety are at stake.

«If you look at when people are getting money, it is way past the startup phase,» says LaPan.

It's no surprise that a startup selling a brainwave - sensing headband that helps people meditate has a space at its Toronto headquarters dedicated entirely to chilling out.

I asked Dharmesh Shah, co-founder of HubSpot, a guy who has met hundreds of entrepreneurs and invested in dozens of number of startups — and is great at reading people — how he spots genuine confidence.

Pinterest Inc. the online scrapbooking company, is seeking to raise funding at a valuation of about $ 11 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, continuing the soaring values of a group of high - profile technology startups.

At a startup your business will change and what you hired a person to do may suddenly not be what you need.

This may go against the grain but let me tell you from my experience, people who have the audacity to ask for six figures have zero regard for what it's like to work at a startup.