Sentences with phrase «successful company founders»

Accustomed to the nurturing and guidance of their parents, Gen - Y entrepreneurs are receptive to the advice of older, successful company founders who were minted in droves during the»80s and»90s.

Not exact matches

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.

Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan, perhaps New York's most successful founders, have started five companies together, including DoubleClick, Gilt, and Business Insider.

-- Nick Alt, founder and CEO of VNYL, a subscription company that launched as a successful Kickstarter project and, with its three - year growth, now curates 500,000 new vinyl records annually to its members

«The single and most powerful element that any successful company can have is adaptability,» says Michael Hsu, founder and CEO of autonomous accounting firm DeepSky.

One new program called Oceans is hoping to guide startup founders in building successful companies.

And, of course, then as the founder of the hugely successful personal finance software company Intuit.

Wildly successful technology companies like Airbnb or Pinterest, for example, wouldn't be where they are today without the creative minds of their non-tech founders Brian Chesky (BFA in design) and Ben Silbermann (BA in political science).

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.

As an industry veteran and founder of TriZetto, which Cognizant bought last fall for $ 2.7 billion, I am often asked how to spot a successful company.

There are a lot of ways that one can describe Martha Stewart — cook, television personality, editor - in - chief and more — but most of us probably don't think of her as the founder of a massively successful company.

Throughout last year, the Virgin founder shared what he thinks are the keys ingredients to building a successful company with each letter of the alphabet, which he slowly revealed through the 365 days.

«Having the social goal as No. 1 is inadequate and won't make you successful,» said Robin Chase, the founder and former CEO of car - rental company Zipcar and the founder of peer - to - peer car rental company Buzzcar.

«Argentina has been all over the place,» says Marcos Galperin, the founder of the auction website Mercado Libre, which, with a $ 4 billion market capitalization on the Nasdaq, is widely regarded as the country's most successful entrepreneurial company.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

I met winemakers in the foothills of the Andes, manufacturers in the country's agricultural heartland, and the founders of some of the country's biggest and most successful tech companies.

The founder and CEO of Los Angeles sunglasses company Perverse was by then an experienced — and successful — entrepreneur, having sold her previous company, NYX Cosmetics, to L'Oréal in 2014 for an estimated $ 400 million - plus.

At Inc.'s iCONIC conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the founders of three successful startups — EventBrite, Umami, and American Giant — together offered three vital lessons on what it takes to cultivate a thriving company.

Here's Jason Fried, founder of 37signals, for example, telling a Fast Company reporter (yes, it's a little bit ironic) why he's grown his highly successful company at a slower pace than its maximum potCompany reporter (yes, it's a little bit ironic) why he's grown his highly successful company at a slower pace than its maximum potcompany at a slower pace than its maximum potential:

Although European investors have, historically, been more risk - averse than Americans, that perception may be changing as more high - profile companies see successful exits, and their founders reinvest in the local startup ecosystem.

So many successful companies start out like this: the founders were having a problem, and they found a way to solve it.

Indeed, during our tour for Main Street Entrepreneur — a road trip across the U.S. in which we interviewed founders from all walks of life — very few successful entrepreneurs mentioned money as the main motivator for starting a company.

If a company's founder has been successful before, how important is the VC?

Founder and «Chief Shoe Giver» Blake Mycoskie created a successful company that sells shoes alongside ideals.

I first heard the term «hire slow, fire fast» from Chuck Sekeres, the founder of a very successful company, Physicians Weight Loss Centers.

As an entrepreneur, feedback from your employees allows you to grow as a founder and lead your company down a successful path.

It's not totally unheard of, of course: Founders of some of the biggest and most successful tech and Internet companies survived their positions through IPO — Apple back in 1980, Amazon and Facebook, for example.

Jeffrey Brotman, founder of Costco, didn't launch that successful company until he was into his forties.

She's the founder of NextKids, an offshoot of successful co-working company NextSpace, which offers a unique model of professional workspace, supportive community, and high - quality child care — all under one roof.

You'd think that with two successful companies between them, Creative Market's founders would have leveraged their existing users to drive the new company's growth — but that wasn't the case.

While it's important to make sure your company is among the best, we learned from the founder of Kissmetrics, Neil Patel, that you don't have to be smart to be a successful entrepreneur — you just have to hire smart people.

In many ways, Palantir is like Paypal in the 1990s, a startup whose founders — Elon Musk, Max Levchin, and Peter Thiel — all went on to start other, highly successful companies.

Daymond John, a successful startup founder and Shark Tank judge, credits the success of his fashion company FUBU to his mother, who took out a mortgage on their family home to support his company.

The most successful founders I see wait to raise — they wait to demonstrate traction and hit proof - points that represent real step - change for their companies — and when they do, they ask for a lower range.

Because Hamid has seen the numbers behind a lot of successful SaaS startups, this yardstick is incredibly valuable for founders and executives of SaaS companies.

We asked five founders and CEOs who attended the Goldman Sachs Private Internet Company Conference to share their tips for crafting a successful pitch.

In their 2004 IPO letter, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin revealed that the policy of allowing employees to take time out of their core jobs to be creative and experimental had led to some of the company's most successful products.

At Goldman Sachs» annual Private Internet Company Conference, we asked five founders and CEOs to share their tips for crafting a successful pitch.

From solo entrepreneurs to startup founders, digital nomads to Amazon FBA experts, we discuss what it takes to be successful with building a SaaS company, online marketing, passive income ideas, coaching and consulting, content marketing, and starting a small business.

Today's infographic celebrates some of the most successful women in technology and business, while also highlighting workforce composition, female founders, and how companies can prioritize retention of women.

Many of the most successful ecommerce brands have come about in this way; Warby Parker, Harry's, The Honest Company and Glossier are all the brainchildren of visionary founders who, as industry outsiders, brought a fresh perspective and a new approach to markets starved for innovation.

«Location - based shopping is the future of mobile commerce, and Curbside is at the forefront of it,» said Jerry Yang, founding partner, AME Cloud Ventures, and co-founder of Yahoo! «The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

Advising the new head of the Boardroom this season will be world - class business minds, including investment guru Warren Buffett, one of the most successful businessmen in the world; former Microsoft CEO and Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer; Tyra Banks, a supermodel, actress, TV host, producer, accomplished businesswoman and CEO of the Tyra Banks Company and cosmetics brand, TYRA Beauty; actress, author and entrepreneur Jessica Alba, the founder and chief creative officer of The Honest Company and Honest Beauty; and Schwarzenegger's trusted confidante and nephew, prominent entertainment attorney Patrick Knapp Schwarzenegger.

F50 Connect: 2017 is an upgraded 3 - month program for Founders and CEOs of U.S. companies to learn how to work with investors and strategic partners from China and how to build a successful engagement strategy.

Sheena has spoken on subjects such as owning a successful tech company as a non-technical founder and diversity in tech at numerous universities, including Yale and Texas A&M.

Example of an entrepreneur that adhered to the «class of targeted customer» factor while devising a product pricing strategy and became extremely successful was Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company.

It offers in - depth, tactical advice on the key issues founders and their teams face in building a successful company.

Founder and CEO of Think Dirty Lily Tse explains how she was successful at getting the word out about her company and the importance of being authentic when telling your story.

DID runs the highly successful FOCUS Fellow program, an accelerator / incubator program for black women founders / co-founders of tech enabled companies.

I mean, how many other articles on CNN do you see citing (and quoting) John 3:16 three times and, in my opinion, honoring founders / presidents / CEOs of successful companies... who happen to be Christian?