Sentences with phrase «recent startup entrepreneur»

Mar 02, 2017 Over the past weekend (September 10th & 11th), I attended my first ever Hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt — an amazing experience for one such as me (a former «corporate techie» and recent startup entrepreneur).

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«Because of its family - friendly policies and a favourable political environment for startups and investment in women, Canada is an emerging hot spot for female entrepreneurs,» Aidis commented when the survey results were released at the recent Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network Summit in Berlin.

My wife and I made the decision to start our company at the height of the recent startup craze, and I joined a wider community of other aspiring entrepreneurs — and immediately felt like an outcast.

A couple of startup entrepreneurs stop by to present to the partners, enthusing over upward - trending charts and touting the merits of recent hires.

In a recent interview for Knowledge@Wharton the co-founder of microlending site Kiva talked about her new book Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least and shared stories from the early days of her paradigm - shifting startup.

One recent New York Times homage to the phenomenon compared dropping out to «lighting out for the territories to strike gold,» with one young executive describing it as «almost a badge of honor» among startup entrepreneurs.

True Wealth Ventures partner Kerry Rupp is quoted from a recent SXSW panel entitled «Female entrepreneurs offer advice to women in Austin startups at SXSW»:

The «00s also gave rise to several now - ubiquitous rocket startups backed by some of the most notable tech entrepreneurs of recent decades: Blue Origin, founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos; SpaceX, founded in 2002 by Elon Musk; and Virgin Galactic, founded in 2004 by Richard Branson.

Also advising the startup is B2B marketing authority Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions Inc., and author of Digital Relevance: Developing Marketing Content and Strategies that Drive Results, and serial entrepreneur Venkat Janapareddy, whose recent venture Goziak was acquired by Monster.

«Startups are creating new products and efficiencies that federal agencies need, so we host meetings with local entrepreneurs who have these solutions and want to enter the federal marketplace,» Jason Klumb, the administrator for GSA in the Heartland region, said in a recent phone interview.

Recent and past clients include national foundations, state departments of education, school districts, charter management organizations and entrepreneurial education non-profits — including NewSchools Venture Fund, StartUp Education, the Rainwater Foundation, the Kern Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the Broad Center, Rhode Island Department of Education, Massachusetts Department of Education, Achievement First, Denver School of Science and Technology, the Ed Entrepreneur Center, Teach for America, New Leaders and Tennessee SCORE.

At a recent journalism conference, former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson dropped a minor bombshell when she said she was working on a startup with veteran media entrepreneur Steven Brill that would pay journalists $ 100,000 to write longform investigative pieces.

If recent reports are accurate, electric car startup Faraday Future recently netted a $ 1 billion investment and, in turn, named Chinese tech entrepreneur Jia Yueting its CEO.

He pointed to the recent changes reflected in Regulation A + as a result of the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startup (JOBS) Act as a unique policy decision that can enable entrepreneurs to develop innovative solutions to address some of today's most pressing needs, concerns, or challenges.

So if you're a recent graduate working in startups and you want to reach out to and learn from successful entrepreneurs, or you're an operations manager at a large corporation and want to learn from a COO, go ahead!