Sentences with phrase «smaller startups like»

Razer, which has claimed smaller startups like Ouya and Nextbit and audiovisual giant THX, has teased its «biggest unveiling» with an image of a person smiling at a handheld device in a horizontal orientation.

In different ways, bigger companies like Pearson's Schoolnet Global Scholar and Compass Learning, as well as smaller startups like Kickboard and LiveSchool, promise schools improved student performance through data and analytics.

Plus, you're less likely to worry that you're going to lose your entire library because Amazon or Apple aren't going out of business while it's possible that a small startup like Comixology may.

But even Invoxia's CEO Serge Renouard is aware of the uphill battle small startups like his face against tech giants like Amazon, Google and Apple:

At least 19 companies are developing air taxi plans, including legacy manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus, big tech firms like Uber, and small startups like Kitty Hawk, owned by Google founder Larry Page.

Not exact matches

And, like all successful small - business owners, Eric concurs with the importance of planning, especially for a startup period where you're not going to make much income and what you do make is likely to be put right back into the business.

A new smartphone app from the SBA aims to equip startups like Flawless Group with a wealth of small - business information.

«But it came across to others like we were just a small startup company.»

This company - building - companies structure also lends itself well to helping large corporations behave like startups while at the same time giving smaller businesses access to resources only available to larger firms.

But sexist comments — like «How can she run a startup as a mother of three small kids?»

Y Combinator itself has put out a list of types of startups it would like to see apply to the program (many of them stunningly ambitious), my Inc.com colleague Bill Murphy, Jr. has even uncovered a truly monster list of 1,001 business ideas (though many of them, such as a toothbrush holder with actually big enough holes, are probably not going to make you billions), and I've personally rounded up even smaller business ideas that you can start without so much as a spare $ 100 in the bank.

Israel, like Canada, is producing a lot of small startups, but doesn't the country need big companies?

Sounds like a pretty tall order — especially for a startup or small business.

Mobile World Congress, the world's largest gathering for the mobile industry, was held in Barcelona in February 2017, while smaller - scale events like Barcelona Startup Week celebrate the best of Barcelona's disruptive startups.

While some companies have gone full steam ahead with establishing a design studio within their marketing departments, smaller and leaner startups and businesses might find a tool like Canva's extremely useful for creating high - quality images meeting Twitter's and other social channels» exact technical specifications.

Tech companies like Zillow and Trulia have taken small steps to open up real estate to buyers without a realtor being involved, but there are also startups emerging to automate processes for investors, brokers and property managers.

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and acted like smaller versions of large companies),

While major production companies and distributors, à la Disney, typically get most of the credit for the success of Hollywood films, there are dozens of independently run startups like Rodeo that contribute in no small part to the success of projects, and without which these films would not look as glossy as they do.

Until then investors and entrepreneurs acted like startups were simply smaller versions of large companies.

The temporary workspace is one open room, save a conference room and small workshops closed off from the main space, and the startups are all on top of each other, with workspaces fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

The fund is designed to make integrations like this easier for small companies and startups to prioritize.

The number of startups in Detroit is small compared to cities like New York or San Francisco.

But in these more cloud - y days, a startup can choose among a profusion of tools designed expressly for small companies — tools to handle process, like Slack, Basecamp, Asana, Jira, HipChat, and Trello, and productivity tools to handle operations and oversight, like 15Five, Trakstar, and BetterWorks.

Something like that may seem like too much for a small startup team to handle, but if you're an entrepreneur competing in a competitive landscape you need aggressive goals.

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.

Mills, like many other policy experts and analysts, is in favor of some financial regulatory reform, especially as regards the newer lending startups and other fintech companies targeting small businesses.

At Barclays, he treated the bank's tech department like a small startup within the larger organization, and led the launch of a slew of mobile banking apps.

In theory, delegating work sounds like a fairly easy mantra, but in reality it's a huge challenge for heads of startups and small businesses.

Like all small startups, when Twitter was founded it paid its rank and file employees in shares of the company.

As a result, he argues, we should expect to see plenty more acquisitions like Walmart's purchase of Jet.com, as the incumbents wake up to the threat that smaller startups are posing and attempt to «hedge their own public valuations by buying the very same unicorns that keep them awake at night.»

I met Evan, he sold me the vision for Snap, if you like, and don't forget this is at a point when they just turned down pretty significant offers from Google and Facebook and all of my colleagues and friends and family were telling me I was an idiot to join the small startup in Venice.

Like any new industry being flooded by startups, only a relatively small number have the right combination of quality, talent, and management acumen to make it.

A startup like FloSports can benefit from ESPN's struggles by siphoning a relatively small stream of viewers that prefer the choice of specific, narrowly - focused programming, but that doesn't mean FloSports» rise would necessarily hasten ESPN's demise.

Managers have tried to make large slow - moving companies function like small agile startups.

Now a thriving local startup, Pipeguard, which was founded by a small team of MIT students, could keep as much as 20 percent of the world's drinking water supply from getting lost — and prevent global crises like the catastrophic water shortage in South Africa.

Perhaps your partner's interest has wandered into a different industry, or maybe you like working in a smaller startup environment.

One tool that has been increasingly adopted across organisations big and small — from government bodies and multinationals like Google and Apple, to startups — is mindfulness.

If you operate a small business or startup, we'd like to enlist your help.

He set this trend via initiatives like Startup America, the JOBS Act, and moving the Small Business Administration to the cabinet - level.

If successful startups like Uber and Airbnb can follow the same policy, why not small local businesses listed in South African Business Directory.

For a company like WeWork, people working on startups or smaller companies — or even possibly larger ones — may find themselves questioning their relationships with the company in the event of a downturn.

Car companies like GM, Volkswagen, Daimler and many others are putting billions of dollars towards backing a range of startups that are building technology and services for that brave new automotive future (a small handful of examples: GM investing $ 1 billion in Lyft, Volkswagen investing $ 180 million in smart car tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving tech).

The graphic below details companies attacking bank services ranging from robo - advisor wealth management services like Wealthfront and Betterment; small business loan companies like Prosper and Kabbage; personal loan startups like LendUp and Oportun; apps that offer new models for banking like Moven and Digit; and many more.

For years we've treated startups like they are just smaller versions of a large company.

Over the past decade or so, there have been dozens of attempts to create a new kind of electronic currency that people could use for online transactions — there was CyberCash and DigiCash, and even smaller startups with bizarre names like Beenz and Flooz.

How media companies can think more like startups One of the central themes of the RoadMap conference we just finished doing in San Francisco earlier this week was the importance of design, and how companies both big and small need to think about design in an age of ubiquitous connectivity — and not just design in the sense of how something looks or feels, but how it works and the relationship users have with it.

Corporate innovation is when large companies create an environment where they can be innovative and agile like a small startup.

As owner of the five - year - old, Lancaster, Pennsylvnia - based Katerina's Finest, an olive oil importer and distributor, Zeppos says signing up with a barter network, comprised of local small business owners and companies that offer personal services, has been a godsend, particularly for financially - strapped startups like hers.

The Economist cites the economic boost from startups as the third factor boosting rust - belt cities, suggesting that things like Crowdfunding makes it easier for small businesses to get a start.

So has the growth of accelerators, like Y Combinator and TechStars and others that provide small amounts of seed funding to startups in exchange for some equity in your business.