Sentences with phrase «startup on company time»

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Today, each of the startup's farms features vertically stacked trays where the company grows carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, and, its main product high - end baby greens, which it sells to grocers on the East Coast including Whole Foods, ShopRite, and Fresh Direct, as well as to dining halls at businesses like Goldman Sachs and The New York Times.

We're embarking on a month - long experiment with Plasticity Labs, a Waterloo - based company that's one of a growing number of startups aiming to help employers track — and boost — workers» moods and motivation in real time.

Bloomberg attributes this boost to a recent surge in tech companies acquiring funding for the first time, indicating that investors are more willing than ever to take chances on startups.

The Roku 1 and Streaming Stick will stay unchanged, but all of the devices will benefit from a software update (also on Apr. 13 in Canada) that will cut their startup times in half, the company says.

At the same time, says Mark McQueen, president and CEO of VC firm Wellington Financial, the «push to reduce the amount of money required to find out if a company can succeed» has placed more of an onus on tech startups to prove that their products have what it takes.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

Just because larger companies spend thousands of dollars on sales lead services doesn't mean there aren't options available for cash - and time - strapped startups.

Mysterious electric car startup Faraday Future has been the topic of several news reports lately relating to the company's financial and intellectual property issues, as well as its relationship with Chinese internet company LeEco, which has fallen on hard times recently as well.

Zimmer explained that when motivating employees of Lyft to work hard against Uber — which has six times the funding of Lyft, and is the highest - valued private startup in the world — he focuses on the company's «humanity:» the fact that it values person - to - person interaction.

What these people know — and what more Canadians need to understand — is that truly innovative companies tend to create more value as time goes on, as they shed the hype and tumult of the startup phase and gain the customers, experiences and processes needed to become global businesses.

Honest Company, a startup co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, will start to sell the company's diapers, body wash, and other consumer - products goods on Amazon.com for the first time later thisCompany, a startup co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, will start to sell the company's diapers, body wash, and other consumer - products goods on Amazon.com for the first time later thiscompany's diapers, body wash, and other consumer - products goods on Amazon.com for the first time later this month.

While the impact on the R&D tax credit would mostly impact large public companies at first, those changes will over time play a role in how future startups spend money on innovation.

In November, BuzzFeed reported that an Uber executive, Emil Michael, had suggested using the company's customer data to dig up dirt on long - time tech reporter, Sarah Lacy, who is known for being critical of the startup.

Before the doors were shut on my first big - time venture, I had already begun a new business plan, joined as an adviser to a growing startup and invested in a media company.

Over time, open source software, the rise of the next wave of web startups, and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software — they could start a company on their credit cards.

This week, The Harvard Business Review released data based on 140 VCs and 189 entrepreneurs that found male - led companies raised five times more funding than the female - led startups.

Smaller companies, including many entrepreneurs and startups, spend a disproportionately larger amount of time on social media due to smaller staffs and lower budgets.

StartEngine aims to revolutionize the startup business model by helping individuals invest in private companies on a public platform, now viable for the first time in history, thereby helping entrepreneurs achieve their dreams.

There was a startup company demanding more time than I had available, as well as my dad who was depending on me for things.

Quadrilateral Cowboy follows a tech startup company that has fallen on hard times and turned to hacking to pay the bills.

Nintendo hit the big time in the home video game console space thirty years ago with the beloved Nintendo Entertainment System and while the company has been re-releasing its greatest hits such as Super Mario Bros. 3 and The Legend of Zelda on the Virtual Console service for the Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS, there's a large startup cost involved if all you really want to do is play Mega Man 2.

Finman told International Business Times he recently sold his first startup, Botangle, to focus on founding a new augmented reality company based in Los Angeles.

A startup company can benefit immensely from the Ark Deployer script and begin to build their own blockchain network, one that offers a single truth source, reduces the reliance on costly intermediaries that tend to increase business costs and generate time wasting inefficiencies.

During his time at R3, Tim assessed several hundred entities — companies, startups and universities — working on some type of blockchain initiative.

The company recently acquired Nextbit, the smartphone startup that put an emphasis on unlimited storage by using integrated cloud backup and syncing and, although Nextbit at the time confirmed it would continue to develop in the mobile sphere, it's likely that this will have some influence on the direction that a Razer phone will take.

Tax Reform [At press time,] NAR is engaged on multiple fronts, including testimony at a Senate Finance hearing on individual tax reform, ongoing Hill meetings, new advocacy ads, a new coalition to preserve state and local tax deductions (Americans Against Double Taxation), and working with OpenDoor and REach ® accelerator companies to create a group «startup» letter supporting NAR's position on tax reform.