Sentences with phrase «run by entrepreneurs»

Anecdotally, they are often run by entrepreneurs with big ideas who lack the industry knowledge to understand the dynamics of the markets they are disrupting, the network effects or the regulatory complexity that takes a seemingly simple process and buries it in compliance.

The vast majority of these are run by entrepreneurs, small business owners who have a passion for books and publishing.

Thatcherite Tories favoured scaling down the size of economic and social units: breaking up the welfare state and dismantling the corporate economy into privatized units run by entrepreneurs and business leaders operating within a smaller — but stronger — state.

CMIT Solutions, Inc., has grown into the leading provider of IT solutions for small businesses by recognizing demand, harnessing the power of local offices run by entrepreneurs, and remaining ahead of the game with the most current and most reliable technology solutions.

It's owned and run by entrepreneurs.

Not exact matches

These hires generally fail miserably, because the new person doesn't have the requisite energy and enthusiasm, isn't comfortable with the rest of the employees, starts off by criticizing the way the entrepreneurs runs the business, or is just way too focused on financial and compensation issues.

The leader in marijuana edibles in Colorado, the company is run by Nancy Whiteman, a 59 - year - old entrepreneur and mother of two.

Entrepreneurs, and especially solopreneurs, who run growing businesses are eventually shocked to realize it is impossible to do everything by themselves.

Some businesses have outsourced apsects of their HR, especially fast - moving startups run by youger entrepreneurs who haven't been trained in this area.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

A business run by one person provides no long - term value to shareholders or the entrepreneur herself.

Entrepreneurs, in particular, can maximize the success of their companies by being clear on their talents and using them while running their companies.

Digitalundivided, through a management company run by Gayle Jennings - O'Byrne, is also raising a fund to support these entrepreneurs.

It should come as no surprise then, that many of this year's winning firms are run by serial entrepreneurs with money to burn.

The Dan Price Pay Experiment will either be hailed as a stroke of genius showing that entrepreneurs have underpaid their workforces to their companies» detriment, or as proof positive that Gravity is being run by a well - intentioned fool.

The six - year - old startup is run by Elon Musk, the South African - born PayPal co-founder who was Inc.'s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007.

Investors in these start - ups run the gamut, but leading the pack are Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, DST Global (the VC firm led by Yuri Milner, the Moscow - based tech entrepreneur) and Andreessen Horowitz.

By contrast, women who raise A rounds in the Bay Area, «tend to have more technical backgrounds and many are serial entrepreneurs who have raised venture capital while running other companies.»

For entrepreneurs burned out by the slog of growing a business in a tepid economy, the temptation to take the money and run must be enormous.

While it certainly makes sense to be careful, the risks you run are vastly outweighed by the benefits of receiving advice from experienced entrepreneurs.

I have been answering the following question for myself and intrigued by the response of others: How can entrepreneurs keep a business running while suffering a tremendous loss?

A well - respected serial entrepreneur, Huffington continues to run her wellness company, but much of her time and attention has been engulfed by Uber's tumult.

23andMe is a seven - year - old company run by Anne Wojcicki, a biotech entrepreneur who is married to Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin, who is, in turn, a big investor in 23andMe.

Unlike some other pools, BitClub Network does not disclose its founders, saying only that it is «run by a team of programmers, digital mining experts and entrepreneurs who have come together with MLM experts from around the world.»

The following is the eighth in the series «Marketing Like the Big Brands,» running every other week in which marketing expert Jim Joseph shows entrepreneurs on a small - business budget how to apply marketing strategies used by big brands.

According to a thoughtful article by 50 - something entrepreneur Mohit Satyanand on Quartz recently, taking up running can teach you some incredible valuable lessons about how to start and maintain a business.

Many embark on their dream of becoming an entrepreneur by running their business out of their home.

Buck is credited for making dog - walking a professional business, according to the Times, which ran a profile of the entrepreneur in 1964 by the acclaimed writer Gay Talese.

There are 10 belief systems cultivated by highly effective people that run counter to the way most entrepreneurs are conditioned to think about their life and business.

Alice seems a logical choice for Pivotal's first private - company investment, as it's run by two prominent female entrepreneurs — Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz — and was founded as a way to integrate more women into the startup ecosystem.

To dog - eat - dog entrepreneurs like Kevin O'Leary, any startup trying to do more than serve customers and generate profits is being run by labradoodles playing among the pit bulls of commerce.

Enter New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, a seven - day festival of speeches, classes, and advising run by business incubator Idea Village.

Aspect has since closed on a $ 150 million fund and gained some notoriety for being one of an increasing number of venture firms, run by women, willing to look at women entrepreneurs and women - run companies in a new way.

It went from being owned and run by a second - time entrepreneur to a limited partnership that brought U.S. retail experience to the table — private equity funds Advent International and Highland Capital Partners acquired a 48 % stake from Wilson in 2005 — and finally a public listing that has enabled the company to accelerate the pace of expansion.

Bplans is owned and operated by Palo Alto Software, Inc., as a free resource to help entrepreneurs start and run better businesses.

On Startups: Run by Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot, this group provides insightful articles from entrepreneurs.

EKOCENTER is a modular community market that is run by a local woman entrepreneur and also provides safe water, solar power, Internet access, and more.

His article, entitled «Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale,» provides a brilliant look into the behaviours and tendencies of entrepreneurs as their companies grow from single product firms run by small teams, to multi-product organizations with a staff list that no longer fits on aEntrepreneurs Don't Scale,» provides a brilliant look into the behaviours and tendencies of entrepreneurs as their companies grow from single product firms run by small teams, to multi-product organizations with a staff list that no longer fits on aentrepreneurs as their companies grow from single product firms run by small teams, to multi-product organizations with a staff list that no longer fits on a sticky note.

And yet some family - run businesses, and entrepreneurs who were concerned about the place of workers in an economy dominated by gigantic enterprises, sought to extend the benefits of capitalism to employees.

Dropshipping has seen a huge rise in popularity recently, and many entrepreneurs have already found success by running their stores with this business model.

«A back - to - basics guide for aspiring entrepreneurs by debunking the myths around what it takes to build and run a successful company.

But ever since Edison and his kinetoscope, there have been women like Irwin and Daniels, who have emerged as entrepreneurs in an industry made for men and run by men.

However, by limiting our sample just to this «surviving» group of entrepreneurs, we run the risk of survivorship bias.

Becoming an entrepreneur or freelancer is a strategy for retirees who either don't want to return to a 9 to 5 job or who have run into ageism or other hiring barriers, according to the study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors who fund them & entrepreneurs who run them.

By the late 2000s, Mr. Green, who organized parties as a teenage entrepreneur in Scarborough and ran a personal training business during university, knew he wanted to return to his enterprising roots.

Run by FSN E-Commerce Ventures Pvt. Ltd, Nykaa was founded in 2012 by investment - banker - turned entrepreneur Nayar, who was the former managing director at Kotak Mahindra Capital.

The majority of stores are franchise locations run by independent business entrepreneurs.

AX Ventures investment opportunities will be identified through a corporate accelerator program called Xcelerate, which will be run by Mr Sullivan's team and start - up accelerator BlueChilli and which will seek applications from entrepreneurs and early - stage companies to build a pipeline of investable businesses.

An entrepreneur and expert networker by nature, Yarbrough shares with his clients the real life experience he gained from running his own businesses.