Sentences with phrase «started with a founder»

Every single success story I encountered started with a founder who recognized that the success or failure of the business rested with him or her.

In all four examples, the businesses started with the founder realizing that he / she was deeply passionate about a specific topic.

For PetRageous Designs, this transfer of trends forms the very foundation of the business, starting with founder Gretchen George's own career.

Not exact matches

Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder I refer to most when I'm advising start - ups.

But it comes with a big caveat: The SEC commissioners also voted 3 - 2 for new regulations that would force start - up founders to file documents with the SEC before raising cash.

When the company started, the founders had a personal link to customers — they wrote each card dispatched with every order.

In 1999 Forbes article titled «Disc Drive,» Jurvetson recounted playing Ultimate with the founders of Four11, a pre-bubble start - up.

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

Bäckerhaus Veit founder Sabine Veit started her company with one goal: simple survival.

The founder of small, start - up carrier OneJet is banking that a decade of megamergers among U.S. airlines has left it with perfect conditions to compete.

Plenty of start - up founders I spoke with say the event is an effective place to network, recruit, meet VCs, and make partnerships.

Backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, preparing for his talk with the founder of Frontback — an app that lets you take pictures with both of your iPhone cameras at the same time — Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, is reflecting on the six - year history of this start - up launch conference.

It got enough attention to the point where founders who were starting to deal with regulatory problems started coming to us, and that allowed us to create a new approach to venture.

In a conversation with Term Sheet, Barna talks about her transition from operator to investor, her biggest mistakes as a founder, and whether she plans to start another company.

Sabri Suby, founder of King Kong says, «The decision to rebrand usually starts with the intention of fixing a problem or creating a solution for your customers.

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.

You might remember in 2010 when Amy Jo Martin, the founder of Digital Royalty, worked with NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal to start «Random Acts of Shaqness» on Twitter.

The 33 - year - old founder started with no restaurant experience but has grown the chain to 100 - plus locations in 12 countries

Zappos founder Tony Hsieh started a worm farm at the age of nine, with the goal of becoming «the number one worm farmer in the world.»

Everyone's familiar with the distracted or non-responsive customer service rep.. One start - up founder aims to make that phone call more pleasant.

Citadel founder Griffen started trading in 1987 from his Harvard University dorm room, with $ 265,000 raised from friends and family.

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.

Kev Onell, founder of 29 Studios tweeted that his wife and he started their entrepreneurial business 27 years ago with 4 core values.

The start - up has amassed a loyal following, with many repeat customers, the founders say.

With this Series C investment — Founders Fund invested $ 15 million in its Series B in 2012 — Lyft becomes the most well - funded transportation alternative start - up in this increasingly competitive space.

«Airlines have started to charge for more things, but with an airline rewards credit card, you can get things like your first bag checked free and priority boarding,» says Erik Larson, president and founder of NextAdvisor.com, which provides consumer - oriented research on credit cards and other products.

«We are becoming scared of boredom, scared of solitude, scared of conversations with ourself [sic],» Light's founders wrote in a blog post about how the company got its start.

The game started with 100 «Founder Kitties,» and the blockchain will churn out a new «Gen 0» kitty every fifteen minutes until November 2018.

In contrast, before the company founders of the»80s started their businesses, they were generally involved with activities removed from their companies - to - be — Anita Roddick owned a small hotel in Littlehampton, England, and was raising two young daughters; Yvon Chouinard saw mountain climbing as a calling.

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.)

The next month, he, Wolowitz, and Reisman started Founders Entertainment, with Russell's childhood bedroom serving as the unofficial company headquarters.

In March, there was a $ 40,000 licensing deal with Trellix, a business software start - up whose founder, a Blogger admirer, read about Williams's plight on his blog and decided he wanted to help save the company.

As a startup founder you want to move fast to get your vision up and running but not taking the time to hire correctly from the start could leave you with the wrong people for the job at hand.

Started Founders Fund less than 12 months later with Thiel and Nosek.

You've heard it from Simon Sinek (author of Start With Why) and TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie.

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?»

The company's 33 - year - old founder, who started with no restaurant experience, explains what he gleaned from his early days as a serial intern.

Founders may start with good intentions, but once the business expands, they (or their boards) often must put fiduciary duty to shareholders ahead of the social mission.

In a candid conversation with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Wilson, the founder of one of New York City's most prolific VC firms, offered a few tips to start - up founders looking to raise early capital.

With the reckless and naïve abandon of founders who had no clue what they were about to tackle, we had just started Ardent, a supercomputer company.

Scott Duffy and Alan Taylor sit down with the founder of The Bluefish, Steve Sims, to chat about how he started his career.

And we have a lot of relationships there: partly friendships, like with [Alibaba founder] Jack Ma, but also with Edward Tian, who's starting a vast cloud operation in Beijing.

The founder and self - described «SHE - E-O» of Thinx has built a company around breaking taboos, starting with her very product — an underwear designed to replace feminine hygiene supplies.

Educators and other start - up founders who believe in the value of education obviously disagree with this view.

Even years later, when a successful founder has cleared all the hurdles and is puffing on a stout Macanudo, he or she probably couldn't describe starting a business with $ 0 — or even $ 10,000 — as easy.

As a former tech startup founder who started Eleven Eleven PR after my own frustration with the PR industry, this really spoke to me.

The founders of CWPA, Tom Sullam and Paul Joynson - Hicks, started the competition to raise awareness of wildlife conservation issues in partnership with the Born Free Foundation.

He's still an entrepreneur, but his venture, Reboot.io, which he started in 2014, is devoted to helping founders and C - suite executives manage the stress, anxiety, burnout and other byproducts that come with a demanding job.

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

The deal will keep Kendra Scott's eponymous founder as the majority owner of the business which she started in 2002 with just $ 500, designing jewelry out of her spare bedroom.