Sentences with phrase «starting as»

Spencer has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley, starting as an investment banker and then becoming a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur, a manager of a venture capital fund of funds, and eventually a CFO / COO of venture - backed enterprise SaaS companies.

Mr. Saud Al Nowais has spent the past 12 years in public service starting as a research analyst and later promoted to a managerial position at the Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi (EAA) in the Economic Department.

Starting as an audit technician at Touché Ross and Company, he has held senior roles in several companies including as founding partner and CEO of Barr Shelley Stuart; founder and president of Tamarack Capital Advisors Ltd.; external director and treasurer of Golder Associates Corporation; executive vice-president, Meyers Norris Penny LLP; and president and CEO of Coril Holdings Ltd..

TimePayment is an award - winning equipment leasing company that specializes in transactions with a selling price starting as low as $ 500, and up to $ 100,000.

Starting as novel curiosity that only a few on the vanguard even knew about (let alone implemented), to hype that everyone talked about.

For example, almost all non-profit organizations are founded as conventional corporations and then converted after the fact, so starting as an LLC may not be an indicator of future purpose.

The Southwest and Southern states, as well as Alaska and Hawaii, will have «above - normal significant wildland fire potential,» with the risk starting as early as this month in some places, according to a wildfire outlook issued May 1 by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho.

However, Zoomer would be aimed at a slightly younger boys group — starting as young as 4 — and targeted at girls 5 to 8.

Fifty - three of the top 100 also started working in a non-family owned business, with 19 % starting in a salesperson role and 17 % starting as a stock trader.

Sueing worked throughout his high school years, starting as a janitor his sophomore year, to put food on the table for him, his four siblings, and his parents.

Her campaign website tells the story of how she worked her way through the ranks in only 15 years, starting as an entry - level employee at AT&T to launching Lucent Technologies, a spin - off of the company.

She'd undergone a decade - long apprenticeship at Linamar, the auto - parts manufacturing company Frank founded in Guelph, Ont., in the 1960s, starting as a lathe operator and moving through accounting, quality control and factory management, among other functions.

The future television host and comedian joined the US Navy in 1943, starting as an apprentice shipman and eventually a midshipman assigned to the USS Pennsylvania in the Pacific Ocean.

The future television host and comedian joined the US Navy in 1943, starting as an apprentice shipman and eventually becoming a midshipman assigned to the USS Pennsylvania in the Pacific Ocean.

Starting as the company's very first sales development representative back in 2009, Julianne Gsell is now the director of sales on the enterprise team at Box.

Starting as a free service can work, he says, if the addition of paid plans is done correctly.

Forty - eight - year - old Paul Dresch has worked at Canada's Research - Based Pharmaceutical Companies, an industry association, for 23 years, starting as a financial officer and working his way up to a VP.

The pitch promoted services ranging from market research to direct mail at prices starting as low as $ 500 per month.

The first is coming quickly, and will be seen starting as early as next year when Amazon launches its mammoth X1 instance with 2 terabytes of memory.

Starting as a modest, 10 - person operation, Sussex quickly grew, expanding into a 300 - plus - employee business accounting for more than $ 1 billion in annual sales.

If BuzzFeed started as Peretti's viral - content hobby, it has grown up using some hard science.

The company recorded a net loss of $ 93 million in the first quarter, but Toutant believes it'll make up for the rocky start as the company continues its big push to expand in the United States.

Liquidation sales at some of the affected stores will start as soon as Thursday, according to Toys R Us store employees reached by phone on Monday.

He adds, «If your excuse for not getting started as an angel is you don't think you know what you're doing — congratulations, you're in good company.

«The media made a mistake by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort of joke or media prank,» Harvard political scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.

Toys R Us is preparing to close all its stores, and liquidation sales will start as soon as Thursday in some locations.

For example, if I started as an online marketing professional by facing a traffic challenge on a small - time ecommerce site, I can tell that story, while providing a lot of great advice.

It starts as false bravado — you're acting like you're cool and confident even when you're not — but if you're convincing enough, people start to believe it.

He got his start as an engineer at Archipelago, which is now NYSE Arca.

County Fabricators was started as a side business in 2004 by my father and my uncle.

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.

What started as a mortgage brokerage in 1969 has since ballooned into a complicated mass of direct - to - consumer mortgage brokers in B.C., Alberta and Ontario, as well as a mortgage investment corporation (MIC) that raises capital from private investors to issue loans.

Nonetheless Smith was adamant that he needed to start as a B Corp regardless of how investors or banks would respond.

You might be tempted to say yes to everything, especially when you're just getting started as an entrepreneur.

«Workplace technology that started as handy (but still optional) business tools in the 1980s evolved into a high - priority requirement in the 1990s,» summarized Stanley Zarowin in Journal of Accountancy.

What started as a simple «buy one, give one» concept where eyeglasses were donated to those in need has morphed into proof that corporate social responsibility can truly make a difference in the world and that the motives are far beyond income goals.

It started as a way for Axiom Zen to solve the problems created by a team dispersed across continents and time zones.

The 30 - year - old has risen through seven promotions to become director of preconstruction; he started as a budget analyst in 2008 and earned his MBA with the company's assistance.

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 journal may have started as a class requirement, but Stilley reports it soon became a useful career tool that helps her identify problems, notice patterns, and brainstorm solutions.

«All great ideas start as weird ideas.

PeopleSense started as a three - person operation servicing the local market, but has grown into a large organisational consultancy firm with 100 - plus staff and a national presence.

Your job starts as soon as your customer calls.

But the truth is I started as a research analyst where you have to motivate yourself every day because no one is going to do it for you.

«We got started as soon as we could,» Richetta told Business Insider.

Even if it starts as a side hustle, identify what you want to succeed at and get going, LaCola says: «Remember, Wu Tang started selling their album out of the trunk of a car on Staten Island.»

Even McDonald's started as a new brand.

Sosnoff says that you might not need much motivation to start as long as your passion is strong for it.

The creation of Lisa Delorme and Kristy Wieber, both formerly involved in sales, Rent Frock Repeat started as a strictly online operation.

What started as a personal dissatisfaction with an old boys» club mentality in venture capital led Pocket Sun to co-found what she calls the first female - led millennial venture capital firm.