Sentences with phrase «since selling my company»

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus Rift, has been keeping busy since he sold the company to Facebook in 2014.

She has since sold that company and now heads the Publishing Division for eWomenNetwork.

Since selling a company often involves partnership interests, corporation interests, investors and the liquidation of assets, it is highly recommended that you acquire experienced, professional assistance from a lawyer rather than trying to do it on your own.

I have been a stay - at - home - parent since selling my company and since my children are now more independent I am able to devote time towards event management activities.

Not exact matches

The company, which has been looking to sell the business since April, said it would return 245 million pounds ($ 371.6 million) of proceeds to shareholders through a special dividend, and use the rest for bolt - on acquisitions.

The company began, in part, when Herman Hollerith sold his first tabulating machine to the US Census and ever since, its success has been based its ability to develop some of the world's most sophisticated technology to solve big problems.

In order to pay back creditors, Kobayashi has sold 35,841 Bitcoin and 34,008 Bitcoin cash on behalf of the company since September of last year.

So when her research revealed there wasn't yet much demand for loose - leaf tea among consumers, she didn't see it as a drawback but rather as an opportunity to establish first - mover advantage — especially since there were no major companies devoted to selling the stuff.

But Persis, the Khosrowshahi family holding company, has long since moved from selling things to licencing them.

Since the start of this year, the company has sold 50 million pints, making it the best - selling pint of ice cream in the U.S., surpassing long - time industry leaders like Häagen - Dazs and Ben & Jerry's.

Since Kaspersky first began selling its product in the United States, the company has been dogged by rumors about connections to Russian intelligence and the military.

However, since it hosted copyrighted music, Napster ran into legal troubles and eventually shut down and sold to software company Roxio in 2001.

In the years since selling the label he founded, Branson, who is currently attempting to make commercial space travel a reality, would go on to launch some of the world's most innovative companies.

Following a brief return to growth, the losses resumed, and in 1979, the Hartford Foundation, which had held a majority stake since the company went public in 1957, sold to West Germany - based Tengelmann Group.

To do so, Fisker has sold off large parts of the company to raise $ 1 billion of equity investment, since it only drew down a portion of the loan.

Some of Midwest Tactical's best - selling models have climbed in value by tens of thousands of dollars since Goepfert and his wife Joy, 45, started the company.

If all shares are sold, the IPO will raise $ 2.09 billion, making it the biggest IPO for an Internet company since Facebook raised $ 16 billion last year.

Selling yourself should be easy, especially since you know so much about the company and how you can make an immediate impact.

The company has had a web presence since 1992, and it now offers online components to their training clinics, and sells roughly 20 % of its product through e-commerce.

Since that time, Dunn has gone on to create a $ 3 million pot empire, operating a business that sells seeds for marijuana growers, a hemp clothing company, and a brick - and - mortar store that sells pot - related accessories.

That increases the shares outstanding and dilutes the stake of existing shareholders, since shares issued by the company through the exercise of options are not sold in exchange for cash at fair market value but are exercised at a discount.

(MakerBot won't disclose how many of their printers they sell per year, but did say that more than 80,000 MakerBot printers have been manufactured since the company's founding in 2009.)

Since 2008 we've seen a dramatic shift in the way SaaS tools and services are sold, and how growing SaaS companies are positioning themselves in the market.

It's the company's first new console since 2012's Wii U — a console best known for being Nintendo's worst - selling of all time.

Berkshire paid $ 1.7 billion in 2003 for Clayton, and the Marysville, Tennessee - based company has since tripled its market share, selling more than 34,000 homes last year.

The idea that small companies should be able to sell small amounts of stocks and bonds to investors — which they've been prohibited from doing since the Depression — has exploded over the past few years.

-- Coral Chung, co-founder and CEO of Senreve, a direct - to - consumer handbag company which has sold out of its bags five times since launching in 2016 with sales in the multi-millions

Plus, because the company's wires are made of metal, the prices it can sell them for are also tied to the market price of copper and aluminum, which have fallen steeply since 2011.

Natale, who helms Canada's largest wireless carrier network, didn't say exactly how many units his company has sold since the iPhone 8's release last month.

If «We've been selling Christian educational software since 1984» is the language they typically use to describe the company in other spots (on the website, in marketing materials, in jobs posted on their website, etc.) your Google search is likely to bring you back to the company's website, where the same phrase appears.»

Many millions of shares in Chinese companies have since been bought and sold by foreigners, but none of those stocks changed hands in mainland China.

One bank exec who oversees US IPOs said this was «not a replacement for an IPO» since Spotify wasn't raising any money, one of the traditional purposes of an offering — to sell a portion of the company to the public to finance more growth.

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

Since taking over Pennzoil, Pate has sold the company's gold - mining and sulfur - gas divisions, and acquired Quaker State.

«Since their companies will probably have to be sold upon their premature death, I ask them to fax me a list of anyone — competitors, former colleagues, suppliers — who might be a potential purchaser.

The share price surge of the Internet - based retailer and cloud services company since the market sell - off at the beginning of the year has far outpaced the other so - called FANG stocks of Facebook (fb), Netflix (nflx), and Google - parent Alphabet (googl) that led the broad U.S. market in 2015.

Since then the company says it has «shipped» 500,000 units, but no word on how many of those have actually been sold.

And since his company was a C corporation, he could defer capital gains taxes by using proceeds from the sale to buy securities of U.S. companies, a permissible practice when a business sells at least 30 percent of its stock to its employees.

They've since sold more than 600,000 copies of Microsoft BASIC, and the company, which they moved first to Albuquerque, N.Mex., and then to Seattle, had revenues of $ 15.8 million last year.

«I sold my last company about two and a half years ago, and 2016 is the first time I've been back at it as an entrepreneur since then.

Matthew Strauss, vice-president of portfolio management with Toronto's Signature Global Advisors, adds that, since the recession, the focus has changed from buying export - focused companies to businesses that sell to the domestic consumer.

Since then, Patti has reunited with her estranged father, was investigated herself for possible illegal kickbacks, got fired from her job at a nonprofit, ate a tarantula on a reality TV show in her husband's place, got her insurance licenses and started her own company selling coverage to business owners, and saw a number of friends desert her.

The company, which had been around since 1872, started to step away from legal books and began using the internet to publish their legal materials online in the mid-1990s, eventually selling the company for over $ 3 billion (back when a billion was a lot of money).

Tozer has since sold his shares back to Wilson, but the company has undergone a rapid expansion — now employing 75 people, increasing sales by 50 % and adding new equipment and processes, including a digital printer capable of putting a picture on a piece of glass as big as 283 by 130 inches.

But the company has struggled to grow fast — and profitably — at the same time, since acquiring new subscribers is expensive at Birchbox's size, and the company's model focuses on selling brands from other companies, which squeezes margins.

The country, which hasn't sold bonds abroad since the default, has settled arbitration cases at the World Bank, paid Spanish oil company Repsol SA for the expropriation of YPF SA and negotiated with the Paris Club of creditor nations.

Since I'm in it for the long haul and intend to hold forever or until something changes with the company, if it's selling for a price I'm comfortable with through my research then I go on and purchase.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

She sold the company for $ 66 million in 2001, and has since embarked on another chapter that's made her a household name: as one of the sharks on ABC's hit «Shark Tank,» recently renewed for its eighth season.

As noted, for ESOPs in closely held companies this is not an issue since, typically, the entire company is being sold to the employees, and managers and the exiting owner are not focused on the dilution of the majority shareholder since that shareholder desires to cash out its majority equity.