Sentences with phrase «policy entrepreneur who»

She is a policy entrepreneur who developed motor vehicle feebates while at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Spulber, who is completing The Innovative Entrepreneur, a book slated for publication next year, notes that his work has public policy implications.

When Jessica Jackley, founder of the micro-loan business Kiva and author of Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration From Entrepreneurs Who Do The Most With The Least, was asked to leave the TED conference due to the event organizer's no children policy, she did the natural thing: Jackley took her complaint to Twitter:

«It's pretty clear that caring for children is a barrier for women entrepreneurs,» says Jason Wiens, policy director for the Kauffman Foundation, citing a study that looked at men and women who had a PhD in a scientific field.

Brad Close, the NFIB's director of public policy in the House, said it was a straightforward piece of legislation to address the needs of entrepreneurs who use their personal credit cards for business.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debby Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

A 236 - page compendium of insightful commentary and sound advice for the entrepreneur and small business owner With real world practicality, readers will learn how to significantly reduce their marketing costs and while increasing their profit margins by employing environmentally sound and ethically founded policies and practices; convert their vendors, customers, and competitors into a kind of auxiliary sales resource; successfully persuading business acquaintances to become joint - venture partners; utilizing social media, traditional media, and their own imagination to reduce advertising costs while employing alternative marketing practices The distilled and effective wisdom of two of the most successful yet frugal entrepreneurs who have combined their many years of experience and expertise in a single volume that should be considered mandatory reading strongly recommended.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debbie Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

In addition to professionals wanting to enter the venture capital field and entrepreneurs looking to raise venture capital funding, this course also benefits anyone who wants to learn more about financing, including lawyers, accountants, angel investors, bankers, policy makers, regulators and educators.

Entrepreneurs will find all the information they need to design their stock option plans and policies: ready - to - use allocation models, advice from fellow startup founders who've been through it, plus our own perspective as investors.

The Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit presents the singular opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors to meet the payers, providers and policy makers who are changing how healthcare is delivered.

Kemmerer, a tech entrepreneur and executive - committee member of the Bay Ridge Democrats, is challenging 12 - year incumbent Marty Golden, who's been a frequent obstacle to safe - streets policies in the State Senate.

The lefty Center for Constitutional Rights said the funding by Brooklyn - based Israeli entrepreneur Baruch Eliezer Gross «marginalizes the perspectives of those who suffer from Israeli policies.»

Liberal policies try to prop up the weak, who in most cases have little intention of bettering themselves, at the expense of impeding the progress of natural entrepreneurs.

(For more on efforts to grow and process more food in New York, read Nevin Cohen's article on what a food policy for New York City should do and Julia Vitullo - Martin's look at the young entrepreneurs who are remaking food manufacturing in the city.)

«There are a lot of entrepreneurs I run into in Silicon Valley and not exclusively Silicon Valley, who have no interest in policy, but disdain for government.

This year, we've got Andrew Coy, senior advisor for making in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, sharing why making is critical in schools today; Alixandra Klein, a Vermont - based entrepreneur who makes jewelry using a laser cutter and upcycled materials, talking about the importance of art and creativity; and Dr. Jorge Valdes of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (and also a high school science teacher here in New Jersey) discussing intellectual property, patents, and the inventor's mindset.

Cohorts consist of 25 students from diverse professional backgrounds — including entrepreneurs, nonprofit directors, principals, teachers, and policy researchers — who progress through the program together.

building a movement of teachers, school leaders, social entrepreneurs, policy makers and business people who are committed to ending educational inequality.

Marc Dean Millot, a writer on education policy and someone who has not been overly critical of charter schools and their «education entrepreneurs» in the past, was contracted for 6 months to write on the Scholastic blog, «This Week in Education.»

Meanwhile policy debates center around who can prepare teachers best — the colleges and universities, the districts themselves, or the educational entrepreneurs who have received enormous amounts of money to replace the current system instead of improving it.

Parry notes how successful entrepreneur Ray Kroc, the American businessman who joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food corporation in the world, used the savings component of a whole life policy to fund some of the startup costs.

The family foundation — the work of the entrepreneur who created Bankers Life and Trust — is a co-founder of the Energy Foundation, and a vocal supporter of non-profit organizations that focus on combating man - caused climate change, with a focus on establishing a global energy policy that eschews cheap fossil fuels for more - costly «renewable» energy sources.

The team of people appointed was chaired by a former policy adviser to Tony Blair (Mr Taylor) and consisted of an employment lawyer from a City practice, a successful entrepreneur (and former investor in Deliveroo) and an ex-policeman who is the current chief executive of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority.

Cambridge PhD Alan Gutterman, who has been a lawyer, COO, and entrepreneur, explains the importance of companies implementing policies and procedures to comply with the laws and regulations applicable to their business activities.

Legal Hackers is a global grassroots movement of designers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, policy advocates, researchers, students, teachers, and technologists who explore and develop creative solutions to issues at the intersection of law and technology.

Suresh, aged 35, is a successful entrepreneur who opts for Reliance Nippon Life Premier Wealth Insurance Plan with annual premium of Rs. 2,50,000 under regular pay option with a policy term of 20 years along with a life cover of Rs 25,00,000.

If you are among the entrepreneurs who have a business based in this vibrant South Carolina city, talk to a local agent about protecting your commercial enterprise with a solid Hanahan business insurance policy.

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who own a business in this state, you may already have a commercial insurance policy in place to protect your company from undue financial losses.

The conservative media entrepreneur, who liked to denounce the mainstream press as the Democrats» «dominant partner in crime,» was arguing at the time that government policies could not be changed until conservatives seized control of the media narrative.

Others in the group include Julie Daniluk, host of The Healthy Gourmet; social entrepreneur Kelly Drennan, who is dedicated to greening the fashion industry; Rob Grand, owner of Canada's largest green lifestyle retailer, Grassroots Environmental Products; Ryan Wiseman, who has been active in the green / environment movement for 15 years; and Wayne Roberts, who manages the Toronto Food Policy and is a member of Toronto's Environmental Task Force.

As a former loan originator, coupled with in - depth industry knowledge, Ken is an entrepreneur who developed The Knowledge Coop, a place to train, document policies, answer employee questions, and grow the knowledge and wisdom of organizations and revolutionizing the way clients communicate.

It does nothing to help the entrepreneurs who lost their businesses three years ago as a result of CREA's new policies.