Sentences with phrase «started by its founder»

Watching the enormous success of companies like Facebook and Google — started by founders who were barely out of college — has dramatically altered the under - 25's sense of when it's «right» or «appropriate» to pursue a good idea.

Roughly 10,000 subscribers along the East Coast receive weekly boxes of recovered produce from the Baltimore - based company (which was started by the founders of Food Recovery Network).

Started by founder Carrie Rocha after paying off and vowing to stay out of debt, this Twin Cities mom is the go - to consumer and money - saving expert in the Minneapolis area.

Much like his contemporaries in Germany, Ritthausen was part of a growing field, started by a founder of organic chemistry (and inventor of nitrogen - based fertilizers), Justus von Liebig, to look at the chemical basis for naturally occurring substances.

The Associated Press reports (via MSNBC) that CivilBeat, which has just launched, was started by the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar.

In fact, Kyjen was specifically created to feed a pet product distribution business that was started by founders Kyle and Jennifer Hansen in 1992.

through May 21, which draws 250 works from the diverse 30,000 - piece collection started by founders Charles W. Leslie and the late Fritz Lohman.

Giving potent voice to those objectives is the museum's inaugural exhibition, «Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting,» through May 21, which draws 250 works from the diverse 30,000 - piece collection started by founders Charles W. Leslie and the late Fritz Lohman.

The exhibition is part of the second phase of GRAB BACK: PES Feminist Incubator Space, an initiative started by the Founders and Co-Directors of Project Empty Space, Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Jampol.

[7] IER has also received donations from the Brown Foundation, which was started by the founders of the construction and energy company Brown & Root; the Searle Freedom Trust, funded by the late conservative philanthropist Daniel Searle; and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, which is run by executives of Koch Industries, a major company in the petroleum refining industry and one of the main funders of Americans for Prosperity.

It is building a closely watched AI - driven voice assistant and was started by the founders of Siri — Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham.

Not exact matches

As the founder of The Eurich Group, she helps companies from start - ups to the Fortune 100 succeed by improving their leaders» and teams» effectiveness.

So you might logically think that the most successful fast - growth companies are started by very young founders who are unfettered by convention and unwritten rules, able to take risks, and unafraid to shake up the old order.

If, as an self - employed individual or start - up founder, you constitute a state - recognized business, you could benefit from the SHOP Exchanges, and qualify by 2014 to enter into the buying pool for state run insurance programs.

By launching at TechCrunch Disrupt, a popular route for many early - stage start - ups, the founders hope to raise awareness for the new brand and potentially find new sponsors.

A VC firm started by OpenTable founder Chuck Templeton has closed its second fund at $ 180 million to invest in food tech startups.

Oftentimes, simply being heard, particularly by someone who can relate to what you're going through or has been through something similar, is enough to start the healing process, says Glen Moriarty, 38, licensed psychologist and founder of 7 Cups of Tea.

Ankur Jain, Kairos founder and CEO, discusses how his start - up, Rhino, plans to revolutionize the rental market by replacing one - time security deposits with affordable monthly fees.

Alok Bhardwaj, the founder of Hidden Reflex, a software and web application product start - up, says he starts his day by doing the least desirable task first.

Madrona Venture Group led the round, and was joined by investors including X Factor Ventures, Brilliant Ventures, The Helm, PLG Ventures, Portland Seed Fund, Founders» Co-Op, and Start It Labs.

Take a look at the infographic below generated by San Francisco - based startup organization Funders and Founders for more stories of how many of the most successful entrepreneurs got started by looking at their own problems and finding a solution.

If the Bank of Canada ultimately raises its benchmark rate by 50 basis points from the start of the year, that could increase borrowers» monthly payments by approximately 5 per cent, according to Rob McLister, founder of comparison site RateSpy.com.

Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, started by the Tesla founder Elon Musk, is already a contractor for NASA, running supply missions to the International Space Station.

It starts with one, two, maybe three individuals, then propagates through the organization, and is reinforced by those founders or leaders as the company scales over time.

Then, he was hired by Jason Richelson, founder and CEO of ShopKeep, a start - up Web - based cash - register company, to do Web - design work.

Says Whitney Wolfe, founder and CEO of Bumble, a dating app: «Start off by telling them their strong points and acknowledging their efforts and talents.

One year ago ExactTarget, an interactive marketing software company, went public with a market cap of over $ 1 billion (and I wrote about the mental journey from start - up to IPO taken by the company's founders.)

Tabatha Turman, the owner and founder of government contractor IFAS, started her business by herself, and it remains 100 percent woman - owned.

On Monday, the Oracle of Omaha announced that Cool will become the CEO of Pampered Chef on November 1, replacing founder and current chief Doris Christopher, a home economics teacher who started the Pampered Chef in 1980 by selling kitchen tools from her basement.

Working with family is a personal decision that you start by asking yourself, «Will it bother me if someone thinks I got this job because I'm the son or daughter of the founder?»

In a post laying out several tips for start - ups in the new year, Blumenthal separates the big data hype from the reality on the ground for many small businesses, and offers sensible - sounding advice on how founders can avoid being overwhelmed by walking a middle way.

The hijab protests were started by Masih Alinejad, the founder of My Stealthy Freedom, an online movement that opposes the dress code.

Thanks to bold self - revelations from some top names in the industry, greater media coverage (such as this award - winning story from Inc. magazine by Jessica Bruder) and, sadly, the tragic loss of several members of the startup community to suicide, the curtain that once completely walled off founders» mental health struggles is starting to crack open.

Its only potential competitors were regional wireless providers such as Eastlink, MTS and Sasktel, plus Vancouver - based internet provider Novus and Feenix, a Toronto - based operation started by entrepreneur Mobilicity founder John Bitove.

Both of those homegrown companies built a formidable strategic advantage by being first in the Latin American market, says Alan Colmenares, who worked for Intel's venture capital arm in Mexico and Brazil and now serves as a facilitator in his native Colombia for the Founder Institute, an incubator focused on tech start - ups across the globe.

The company, started by Elon Musk (founder of electric - car company Tesla), designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

The founder and CEO of Facebook has often been characterized as a wunderkind, earning his first billion at just 23 years old, and his college - sweetheart wife, Priscilla Chan, has been by his side since the start.

Thanks to pioneering journalism and stigma - busting public discussion of mental health issues by members of the entrepreneurship community, the toll starting a business can take on your mental health and the seemingly high prevalence of struggles with depression among founders are starting to come out in the open.

The company behind the app was started just 18 months ago in London by a sextet of founders: three cabbies and three financiers and tech experts.

Jeff Edelman, founder of start - up catalog house SoHo Design, in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., quickly found he couldn't grow by renting mailing lists alone.

By that time, communication among the Twitter founders, especially Dorsey and Williams, had started to fray.

It's a very European attitude the founder takes versus the often high «burn rates» shown by U.S. start - ups.

Startup organization Funders and Founders pulled back the veil on the startup lifecycle in this infographic, which was inspired by legendary investor Paul Graham's famous essay, «How to Start a Startu...

Savvy investors assess a start - up as much by its founders» connections as by the founders themselves.

An on - demand food delivery start - up bankrolled in part by the founder of Shake Shack has ended its New York City operations, just four months after its seed funding round.

This was the latest turn in a take - over battle that started on April 15 when Dish - led by its chairman and founder, Charlie Ergen - offered to buy Sprint for $ 25.5 billion in a challenge to SoftBank.

Venture capitalist Mark Suster explains that the cost of starting a company has fallen by 90 % in the past decade, one reason investors — who also have heard of Zuckerberg and Mason — are more willing to fund more companies, with younger founders, ever earlier in their life cycle.

«We started out by basically asking how does meat do what it does — how does meat work,» explains Pat Brown, CEO and founder of Impossible Foods (and no relation to plant - based - meat rival Ethan Brown).

Because, according to the study by professors Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management and Michael Dahl of Aalborg University, the best place for any founder to start a venture is probably his or her own hometown.

The Founder Institute was started by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi, who wanted to improve the rate of start - up success by providing high - potential entrepreneurs with «expert training, critical objective feedback, and peer support in the early stages of building a company.»