Sentences with phrase «started as a software»

Softbank, the massive Japanese conglomerate, started as a software distributor in the 1980s, grew into a telecom giant and now spans telecommunications, e-commerce, finance, technology services, semiconductor design, media and marketing, robotics and even baseball.

Starting as a software developer at HAL Laboratory in the 1980s, Mr. Iwata assisted in the development of the early Nintendo game Balloon Fight, and in the following years EarthBound and the Kirby series.

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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.

«The machine can be used both as a home console and handheld device so the higher price is understandable to some extent, but there aren't really enough software titles to justify that start price,» he said.

He started to imagine designing software that could automatically grade student assignments to provide instant feedback, as well as perform other tasks.

Dell said leading software as a service companies are starting to realize the public cloud is too expensive, which has led companies like Dropbox to pull out.

Indeed, as part of an attempt to recruit engineers for its Kinect for Windows team, the software giant recently started deploying the power of sizzled pig.

CEO Michael Dell says software as a service companies are starting to realize the public cloud is too expensive.

Woody Levin left his gig as vice president at software company DocuSign in early February to start a crypto hedge fund.

Startups to watch: Anchored by internet 1.0 titans like image - sharing service Photobucket, the scene got its start with a high concentration of work / play - oriented software developers working at facilities such as the University of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

As the New York Times pointed out just before the Consumer Electronics Show started in January, Microsoft in particular was getting rave reviews for its new Windows Phones, a trend not usually associated with the storied software maker.

As marketing communications manager for Atalasoft, a document imaging software company based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, she experienced days that started at 8 a.m. and kept going until 3 in the morning.

Diagnosing the specific problems affecting your website's conversion rate can be tricky, but many webmasters will benefit from «heat mapping» software, such as the program offered by Crazy Egg (plans start at $ 9 a month).

Most leaders start out in business with a specific skill, such as selling or accounting or designing software.

«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,» says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2 video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).

Fast forward to now, as an employer and CEO of a software company, my onboarding experience taught me the importance of employee engagement and instilling meaning in your employees from the very start.

To get things started, he had some consulting gigs («major energy companies, I think you can say») as well as a DARPA grant, his 3 - D modeling software, and «a whole bunch of other ideas in the energy space.»

When speaking about starting Amazon, Bezos explained that he did not know he was ready to leave his job as a software developer on Wall Street when he came up with concept of an online bookstore.

As Founder's Co-Op general partner Chris DeVore explains, «Start - ups are not just software and money.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen, after getting started as a services business that wrote operating system software for the then - nascent PC industry, transitioned to selling application software like MS Word and Excel in shrink - wrapped boxes.

As a strategist for Razorfish and Director of Marketing for an e-procurement software company, she spent four years in the technology start - up trenches.

As the years progressed, Amazon started to compete with more traditional software companies, some of which use its foundational infrastructure.

EShares» software makes it as easy to issue, buy or sell equity stakes in start - ups online as it is to trade stock.

And if it follows in the footsteps of another enterprise software IPO winner, Workday, an enterprise software - as - a-service provider whose stock popped from $ 28 to $ 50 on its first day of trading in early October and is now at $ 55, more such start - ups will go public in 2013.

Lei got his start in tech shortly after college when he joined Kingsoft, a Chinese software company similar to Microsoft, as an engineer.

However, when you start focusing on industry - specific accounting software, also referred to as vertical software, the costs go up and up and up.

By contrast, the price point for FiscalNote's software as a service offering starts at around $ 10,000 a year for a nonprofit, and is upward of $ 200,000 for a large private or public company.

Host Nick Loper covers all aspects of starting a business and making money, featuring topics such as passive income ideas, niche sites, self - publishing, software and app development, coaching and consulting, freelancing, affiliate marketing, and more.

Qihoo, one of China's most successful internet firms, started as a security software product that cross-subsidized the development of a new platform with products that they gave away for free, creating more value in the end for the entire platform.

For example, enterprise software started to get over valued privately, but after several companies went public at lower valuations than their last private rounds, the private markets corrected as well.

«Not so fast,» said Art Chang, CEO and Founder of Tipping Point Partners, a New York City - based «institutional entrepreneur» that serves as a seed investor and founder of software start - ups.

PagerDuty Inc. got its start as a service for companies to monitor their software and alert the programmer responsible for a particular set of code when crashes or other issues arise.

As a veteran in the high - tech industry, Jim started his career with MRI Systems, Inc., one of the original computer software companies in Austin.

Parker Conrad's start - up, Zenefits, is thought to be one of the fastest - growing companies in recent Silicon Valley history, and his investors and associates describe him as an uncommonly talented software visionary.

It is comfortably, among the top 5 robots in the world, and as soon as you start using it, you will see why: its system is well constructed, it has an excellent website, great customer service and the software itself really works.

As the software Gavin and Mike released called BitcoinXT gained support it started to be attacked.

As this software started to gain support, Blockstream organised more meetings, especially with the biggest bitcoin miners and made a pact with them.

This includes starting and managing his own software company (Microline Software — acquired by Blaze Software) and acting as a value added board member and consultant to the founders and CEO of Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai), nCircle Network Security, StepUp Commerce (acquired by Intuit), Discovery Mining (acquired by Interwoven), etc..

John McAfee (The Big Dog), Senior Strategist & Advisor John started as a programmer for NASA's Institute for Space Studies before becoming the creator of the first anti-virus software company that continues to bear his name.

He started his career in Google as an intern software engineer in 2013 and has been working on blockchain as well as mining since 2016.

Erik got his start as a computer programmer and by the age of 17, he was already an independent software development and design consultant.

The amazon.com website started as an online bookstore and later diversified to sell video downloads / streaming, MP3 downloads / streaming, audiobook downloads / streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry.

Use this sample template as a starting point to build a software licence agreement for software products.

If you are just starting out you may not have the financial capacity or required business structure to retain all the professionals that are expected to work with you, which is why you should make plans to partner with other programmers and software app developers that operate as freelancers.

Google started its program nearly eight years ago, only recently renaming the effort Waymo as it moves closer to commercializing the valuable software that it plans to license to auto manufacturers.

Specializing in educational software and technology, Ellucian offers employees three weeks of paid vacation time at their start date, as well as remote and flexible scheduling opportunities.

That means if you install this machine in the shop, restaurant or any other business location, it can start accepting Bitcoin (or other cryptocurrencies) as a payment method without need to purchase any other hardware, software or integrating with any other third - party service.

This week alone, the lending start - up Affirm said it has raised $ 275 million in debt and equity at an undisclosed valuation, while Zenefits, a software - as - a-service start - up, said it had raised $ 500 million at a valuation of $ 4 billion.

I started XXXchurch.com 8 years ago, created a software called X3watch that is keeping almost 1 million people accountable online and I am most often known as the Porn Pastor.

Telstra has signed on with fast growing US cloud software firm Workday, as it appoints a new local boss and hunts Aussie start - ups for its n...