Sentences with phrase «saying startups like»

But that's akin to saying startups like us primarily need help with fundraising; to me, it's a startup founder's job to raise funds when the company needs them, just as it's a writer's task to sell his or her book.

But that's akin to saying startups like us primarily need help with fundraising; to me, it's a startup founder's job to raise funds when the company needs them, just as it's a writer's task to sell his or... read more»

Not exact matches

McKeown says another common mistake he sees is startups over-investing too early: «Inexperienced entrepreneurs, especially first - timers, often think starting a business is like a pro baseball game.

«Never has a food aisle been challenged like this and changed so quickly by a startup ever,» Chobani said.

Some of the key insights, like long - term thinking, continuous learning, and simplified company structure, all serve as building blocks for his startup's culture, he said.

«I had seen so many startups that were just like lambs to the slaughter — labels would get some payments from them and let them die,» Pärson said.

He said his experience working with tech products at companies like Product Hunt and Meerkat provided him insight into consumer - focused startups.

Setups like Jigsee's are a growing model among Canadian startups, says Benson Honig, a professor at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business.

In a South American market like Santiago, your money goes further, says John Njoku, an American whose real estate intelligence startup, Kwelia, participated in Start - Up Chile in 2012.

He says that Tyson's goal is to focus less on the startup's cost structure and what margins will look like today — benchmarks that any investor surely must consider — and instead take in consideration the brand's idea, the team behind it, and, perhaps most importantly, the entrepreneur.

«We thought we'll invest in something like 10 to 20 companies over a 12 - month period,» said 500 Startups partner Eddie Thai.

«We will continue to have access to infrastructure and resources Alphabet provides, but in this new world as Waymo we also have this feeling like we are a venture backed startup,» Krafcik said.

It's a danger for a startup to say about big, giant companies like a Microsoft or a Google, «Oh, we don't compete in their space.»

Ramarkishnan says he's benefited greatly from resources like Venture Strategy Solutions, a student - run consulting group that works with tech startups, like T - Spring and Fieldwire, to provide strategic consulting services to entrepreneurs.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

«We can sequence a phage quickly and say, this is the exact DNA sequence we want,» says Paul Grint, CEO of AmpliPhi Biosciences, a startup that is concocting combinations of phages in advance to treat bacterial infections like Staphylococcus aureus.

«I looked into it, and the startup money for a franchise like this is super cheap, so it made sense for me,» he says.

Zimmer: When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, «How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?»

«This is one of those models where it could get really big and have software - like margins,» says Y Combinator partner Dalton Caldwell, who is invested in a similar startup based in Detroit called Castle.

The networking giant said on Tuesday that it will pay $ 260 million for cloud computing startup CliQr, whose technology lets corporate software run more efficiently across internal data centers and public cloud data centers operated by the likes of Amazon (amzn), Microsoft (msft), and Google (goog).

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said the weakening technology market and its impact on startups will help big companies like Cisco that may be shopping for companies to buy.

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

While a background at a consumer tech company might seem like an odd fit for an education startup, it actually makes a lot of sense, said Modi.

But Suchter said that it can also be applied to other new, cutting - edge technologies like containers, as popularized by startups like Docker.

«The startups that I speak to feel like we're on the cusp of something much bigger, says Daly, «that is the equivalent of mobile apps of several years ago.»

Toronto - based Satish Kanwar, director of product at Shopify, an Ottawa company that offers software for creating an online store, speaks of the opportunities found by those who choose to work in a startup before taking the plunge themselves: «One of the best things someone can do is date a company first to see if you like startups and the entrepreneurial space before you commit to it,» he says.

«Like any startup in hyper - growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team,» she says.

Like many social startups, one of the hidden weapons Whistle Sports boasts is a treasure trove of user data that can say a lot about where trends are headed.

«It almost sounds like a Cinderella story, this kind of thing happening and getting noticed,» says Andy Smith, principal of Vonavona Ventures, a Lafayette, Calif. - based consulting and advisory practice focused on startups.

«Given the fact that the rulemaking process has been delayed substantially,» says Feit, «we, like any other kind of startup, were forced to pivot and focus on accredited investors only.»

Banks have to embrace technology and change their culture to be like startups, amid growing competition from tech giants, DBS CEO Piyush Gupta said.

Founding a startup «can be so incredibly lonely... and even lonelier if you look around and don't see people like you,» she says.

«We're a 145 - year - old company that's acting like a startup,» Hoberman says.

«Basically, we curate like a magazine, change like a gallery, and sell like a retail store,» says Startup Store founder Rachel Shechtman.

Noting that the San Francisco ride - sharing startup lost somewhere north of $ 1.2 billion in the first half of 2016, Bloomberg's Justin Fox says that's a problem not because Uber's in danger of running out of money — it has raised around $ 15 billion — but because it spent that money without getting anything concrete in return, on ephemeral stuff like incentives to attract new drivers.

Memphis Meats» lineup of backers «is enormous, especially for a small company like mine,» says Mike Selden, CEO of lab - grown fish - filet startup Finless Foods.

«Most five - person startups are scrambling to recruit with D.I.Y. solutions like posting on AngelList and CraigsList,» she says.

Should governments pull the plug on megaprojects like ITER, it wouldn't stop private - sector players like Burnaby, B.C. - based General Fusion Inc., a year - old startup by former Creo Inc. managers that has so far attracted about half the $ 50 million in venture capital and federal research funds it says it needs to demonstrate a kind of «magnetized target fusion» by 2013.

Part of Slack's luck was also how quickly its reputation grew thanks to word - of - mouth among tech startup employees, fueling it to spread like wildfire while earning it «increasing returns,» as Butterfield says.

«When you land you kind of feel like a celebrity,» Danzinger, who's been a big fan of the Las Vegas - based startup since it launched last year, said.

Why should someone like me apply to work there, rather than, say, at an idealistic startup?

Earlier this month, for instance, the EU introduced new guidelines that encouraged national and local authorities to ditch the patchwork of regulatory actions that apply to sharing economy startups like Uber and Airbnb, saying that the current rules have created uncertainty for companies and consumers alike.

Robinson says ICOs are like early bitcoin startups back in 2011 — many of the companies were either risky, unsustainable ideas, scams, or run by pioneers who move fast and break things.

When entrepreneur Joanna Lord mentors startups, she's said, she likes to ask them what made them take the jump.

«This investment announces HealthEngine's arrival on the global startup scene, hopefully putting us on a similar trajectory to many of Sequoia's other successes — iconic companies like Apple and Google and more recently startups like Whatsapp, Stripe and Airbnb,» said HealthEngine founder and chief executive Dr Marcus Tan.

He detests vague spin - doctor phrases like «studies say» and «scientists disagree,» and he refuses to advertise for Tesla, something most startup car companies wouldn't think twice about — because he sees advertising as manipulative and dishonest.

Having worked at mature tech companies like Google and Microsoft, and having advised several young startup founders, Dan Shapiro says that people at the tech bellwethers don't look kindly on brogrammer antics.

Lunn said: «We're also offering startups the kind of «white glove» support large companies like British Airways get, offering them a named, local contact at PayPal who will manage their account and help with their business models, plus access to startup mentors and evangelists.»

«Through our collaboration with Illumina Accelerator, we hope to provide innovative startups like MedAnswers access to Helix's team of experts in bioinformatics, applied genomics, product development and consumer marketing to help transform their ideas into compelling consumer applications and services that make genomics relevant and accessible to all,» said Justin Kao, co-founder and Senior Vice President of Helix.

With an increased number of savvy startups disrupting distinct product categories, packaging designs and distribution channels within the CPG industry, corporations like Unilever are tapping into large - scale innovation platforms, like MaRS, to say ahead of the game.