Sentences with phrase «startup like someone»

Those happen to be the kind of startups I like.

They are investing $ 77 million in clean technology startups like solar.

Most of it's targeted at acute care, so you'll see startups like that targeted at cardiovascular issues or diabetes or things like that.

For a little startup like ours, this is an all - too - common phenomenon.

That's part of the growth phase of any company, and part of the reason why startups like this need to raise additional capital.

For years we've treated startups like they are just smaller versions of a large company.

What problems out there would you like to see startups like us try to address?

That's made room for startups like Stripe Inc. and Adyen BV, which have garnered high valuations for doing just that.

The effort is also being explored in the industry itself, and follows recent announcements from blockchain startups like Gem and healthcare providers such as Philips.

CBS News reported this bitcoin exchange is eyeing a $ 1 billion valuation, putting it on the same tier with startups like Uber and Pinterest.

It's been buying up massive stakes in promising startups like Uber, WeWork, and even dog - walking app company Wag.

Companies like PayPal have been enabling P2P payments for years and other big names like American Express (s axp) and Visa (s v) along with smaller startups like Square and Dwolla are also in the same space.

From startups like Barkbox, which regularly broadcasts the canines that lounge around its New York headquarters, to multinational conglomerates like General Electric, which piloted a camera drone behind the scenes at a jet engine production facility, brands are embracing the platform in fascinating ways.

Its new Vanguard Personal Advisor Services — low - cost financial guidance provided by an online «robo» platform and a pool of 450 human certified financial planners — launched in May 2015 and, with $ 47 billion in assets, has easily surpassed trendy fintech startups like Betterment and Wealthfront.

Groceries have proven to be one of the toughest sectors for technology companies to manage, and Amazon faces competition from established companies like FreshDirect as well as fast - growing startups like Instacart.

As an angel investor, he has invested in startups like Square (SQ), Docker, AngelList and Uber.

With Xiaomi's success in India, many Chinese smartphone companies including Startups like OnePlus started entering the fiercely competitive smartphone market.

While Amazon, Google and a number of startups like Instacart, Postmates, Shipt and others are focused on quick, same - day deliveries of groceries and household items, Walmart has been taking a different approach.

That could be a bad sign for other unicorn startups looking to one day go public — billion dollar startups like Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, Snapchat and Uber.

Bitspark will join other startups like Bitwala, BitPesa, and Remitano that are carving out their niche in the African payments space.

The new entrepreneurial fever is in part due to the heightened attention to tech startups like Facebook (FB) and LinkedIn (lnkd) to Twitter and Zynga (ZNGA), and the ascension of the late Steve Jobs as one of the great entrepreneurial geniuses of our time.

Dell Ventures, headed by Jim Lussier invested from specifically created funds — a $ 60 million fund aimed at storage startups launched in 2012 and a broader $ 300 million fund aimed at later - stage startups like Dropbox in 2013 — in which the parent company was the only limited partner.

To meet that demand, derivatives startups like LedgerX are already conducting increasingly complicated contracts using bitcoin, and the DTCC is using a private blockchain developed by Axoni to move its own derivatives to a blockchain.

That's where startups like GiveMini become interesting.

If successful startups like Uber and Airbnb can follow the same policy, why not small local businesses listed in South African Business Directory.

She helped fund startups like Blockchain, Blockstream and BitPesa years before they all became industry incumbents.

While startups like Impossible Foods are focused on developing plant - based alternatives to the proteins that give meat its flavor, Future Meat Technologies and Memphis Meats are trying to use animal cells themselves to grow meat, rather than basically harvesting it from dead animals.

He works with both hot startups like Sumall and big brands like Dell focused on their content marketing, social media and search engine optimization efforts.

Believe it or not, the above vehicle with a solar panel built into its roof wasn't designed by an ambitious startup like Tesla or Aptera; no, the above vehicle was designed by the friendly folks over at General Motors as part of their «From Gas Friendly to Gas Free» ad campaign.

Even a fledgling auto startup like Faraday Future may rely on hundreds of other companies for parts and services to put its car together.

The global cryptocurrency market cap has now blown through that of famous startups like Uber, Didi Chuxing, Airbnb, Xiaomi, and many others.

He's worked with a range of clients from growing startups like Sumall and Amerisleep to established brands like Dell, HubSpot and Marc Ecko.

But that's akin to saying startups like us primarily need help with fundraising; to me, it's a startup founder's job to raise funds when the company needs them, just as it's a writer's task to sell his or... read more»

There are also startups like Voysis and SoundHound aiming to serve business users in similar use cases.

And in an agency - model world, booksellers like Amazon can't adjust pricing as they see fit, only the publisher can (which is why I have my doubts about startups like 24Symbols).

Therefore, content publishing startups like Pratilipi, Matrubharti or Juggernaut have a significant advantage.

Furthermore, the Galaxy S8 features an aesthetic that's much more refined to that of the iPhone X which is Apple's first real attempt at a new smartphone design in the last decade and seemingly requires a lot more polish, as even startups like Essential managed to come up with a more efficient take on an edge - to - edge screen that the iPhone maker is now trying to accomplish.

When it comes to smartphone cameras, no one should expect a 4 - year - old startup like OnePlus to realistically take on a tech behemoth like Samsung, but OnePlus puts up a seriously good fight.

While getting Canadian companies to Asia is a challenge, a prior challenge is helping startups like Jose's set up shop in Canada.

You've heard of Milner because he's the guy who put hundreds of millions of dollars into fast - growing, late - stage startups like Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

If startups like EnerVault are able to get more storage projects like this on the grid, they can show how clean energy — paired with energy storage — is a lot more robust than critics want to admit.

What it is: Angel investor David Tisch has funded startups like Harry's, Kitchensurfing, and Flatiron Health, but he took a stab at cofounding a startup this year with Spring.

That's why when it comes to a new problem, like easily enabling an individual or small business to be a merchant, PayPal is markedly inferior to what is on offer from startups like Stripe (for e-commerce) and Square (for offline purchases).