Sentences with phrase «start companies at»

Actually, a wealth of foreign - born founders in a publication devoted to entrepreneurs shouldn't be all that surprising, given the well - known tendency for immigrants to start companies at a much higher rate than native - born Americans.

Holmes dropped out of Stanford University during her sophomore year to start the company at the age of 19.

Women are starting companies at a faster rate than men, as they have been for years.

With young Americans starting companies at multi-decade lows, it's a call to action we can't ignore.

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.

Answer: Starting a company at the right time in the right industry is a skill.

«There is such a robust entrepreneurial community and a real energy around starting companies at Wharton,» Klein says, who comes from a family of entrepreneurs dating back to his grandfather, who started a shoe company when he arrived in America after World War II.

«People are starting companies at young ages.

Whether we publish indie or traditionally, we may want to start a company at some point in our writing career, either for our pen name or for a publishing imprint or author services business.

This group was named to recognize the heritage of the company founders, Colbert Coldwell and Arthur Banker, who started their company at 24 and 28 years old, respectively.

Not exact matches

She held various senior positions at Petro - Canada until she left the company in 1991, going on to serve on numerous corporate boards and start a governance consulting firm.

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

Shares started to dip Monday after the company said it would not renew an agreement with cable network Epix, which means a long list of popular movies, including The Hunger Games, will disappear from the site at the end of this month.

Some of you reading this right now might be wondering — am I doing well at my hobby, or am I starting to operate a company?

He met Mike Peasgood and Steffen Lindner, both U of W alumni, during early work stints at local technology companies, and they decided to start a robotics business.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

The problem for Nintendo is the NX's launch is at least a year away — likely more, as the company reportedly just started talking about it with third party partners at this year's E3.

Because the company was at a different place from when he started he needed greatness.

The move comes at the start of the time of year known as the annual upfront marketplace, between March and May, when many major U.S. media companies sell the bulk of their ad inventory for the next year.

On the flip side, women who find themselves at the helm of surging companies may repeatedly put off starting families because their obligations are too great.

At some point each of these companies — Wistia, Southwest, Patagonia — learned to stop thinking about themselves and started caring about the problems that their customers and the world around them are facing.

The one virtue of startups that these big companies do seem to value and appreciate above all (and one that makes acquisitions so attractive rather than internal R&D efforts) is the freedom we have to embrace rapid change, the ability to adapt and pivot, and the understanding that things may never be perfect at the start, but that you'll never get started at all if you wait until they are.

At SXSW, the tech visionary provides a pulse check on the three companies he recently helped start.

And starting in 2008, the majority of U.S. workers, for the first time, worked at companies with 500 or more employees.

«You have got this 10 - year vision and you know where you want to go... that's why you started a company,» said Tilenius, speaking at the Vanity Fair Founders Fair in New York City recently.

Did you really start your own business, or did you join a company at the right time before it got funded?

For guest posting opportunities you can start off by Googling topics you'd like to cover plus the term guest post or look at where other companies in your field may have provided articles.

Last year, Lee said, the city experienced a 30 % annual growth in technology jobs, which now number some 32,000 positions at 1,600 tech or start - up companies.

Other writers, including at Inc., have recounted his remarkable rise from his family nearly being killed in war - torn Nigeria to a multiple - award - winning online writer, despite lacking internet connectivity, to starting his own distributed content marketing company.

That includes his Avant co-founders Paul Zhang, 28, and John Sun, 30, both of whom started out as college interns at Enova, then transitioned into full - time employees, before striking out on their own to start Debteye, a personal financial management software company in 2011.

«I was extremely lucky,» says Curin, whose wake - up call prompted him to start a campaign, The Heart to Sole: Creating a Stress - Free America, to lobby for stress - testing at all companies and to support the American Heart Association's My Heart.

S&P said in March a rupiah exchange rate of 15,000 a dollar is «the psychological level» at which companies with weak balance - sheets could struggle with repayments and those with good cashflow might start to proactively restructure their debt.

The company also announced on Monday one of the biggest consumer 3 - D printers on the market, the Z18, which starts at $ 6,499.

If you look at the most successful companies — Google, Facebook, Amazon, places that started as engineering culture or star culture have moved towards commitment culture.

Companies with traction or ones that are started by a previously successful entrepreneur often get money thrown at them.

While in town earlier this month to deliver a keynote at the Toronto stop on the Salesforce World Tour, Harris spoke with Canadian Business about cloud computing, innovation and what he's learned about leadership since starting the company in 1999.

It's an important resource for entrepreneurs and a quick way for us to share what we're learning every day at 1871 from the hundreds of companies and thousands of people who are going through the very same (and sometimes scary) process of starting and building businesses.

Her 11 - month tenure as the co-founder of Asteria Propulsion, a company started from her work on micro-rocket engines as a graduate student at Duke, had been humbling.

Anytime Fitness is a global business with 2,308 U.S. and 1,309 international franchises at the start of 2017, along with 38 company - owned locations.

BKEG was acquired in 2003 by New Wave Entertainment, a producer of marketing solutions and trailers for the movie industry that's owned by Paul Apel, who started as an editor at the company and worked his way up to owner and CEO, a spot he's had for 23 years.

The hardware can identify the location of the car at all times, and enables the company to prevent a car from being started.

And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

We're really good at starting up companies.

Every project at the company starts with a narrative.

And the company pays staffers more than rivals do: Experienced cashiers earn more than $ 40,000, while full - time clerks receive salaries that start above the minimum wage at $ 12 an hour, according to the Globe.

Jonathan Allen's company used its Arch Grant and subsequent relocation to gain a foothold and momentum in the ultra-competitive field of content marketing — and if you take the application seriously, prepare yourself, and come ready to engage with judges in a thoughtful way, you may be able to use a win at a startup competition to start building your own momentum.

Before I started Shortlist — a workforce management technology company — I spent nearly 15 years at various companies in the role of sourcing and hiring external vendors and freelancers.

Many who are new to email marketing start off on the wrong foot, says Dennis Dayman, chief security and privacy officer at Eloqua, a Vienna, Va., marketing software and services company.

Commentary by Bill Hafker, a former Exxon Mobil executive who started at the company in 1980 and retired in 2016 as a senior engineering advisor and environmental global technology sponsor.

While the company got its start building bomb - sniffing robots for the military before pivoting into vacuums in 2002, Dyson stresses that it's coming at the product category from the other direction.