Sentences with phrase «such as founder»

Some tax lawyers in Canada, such as the founder of the firm, David J. Rotfleisch, have additional qualifications in tax law by also being chartered professional accountants or chartered accountants (CPA or CA).

The most influential minds in UK's entrepreneurial world such as founder of YO!

The cookies are not low - calorie, but they are made with «clean» ingredients such as founder Debbi Fields» proprietary chocolate chips.

Foxtrot, which was founded by two brothers from MIT and Tufts University, is currently halfway through its seed round of $ 500,000, with angel investors such as the founder of Google Shopping Express.

Websites such as Founder Dating can pair you up with other aspiring entrepreneurs.

The new investors included VCs — such as Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz — as well as corporate venture capital and strategic investors, including Mayo Clinic and BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners.

Talented Vietnamese - origin entrepreneurs are leaving tech centres like Silicon Valley to start and expand their companies in Vietnam, such as the founders of Klout.inc and Chopp.vn.

Though we're huge fans of highly hopped, low - alcohol sessionsales such as Founders All Day IPA, 21st Amendment Bitter American, and 10 Barrel ISA, there's something to be said for a more delicate beer.

Unicorn List beers will include rare favorites such as Founders Brewing Co.'s Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Firestone Walker Brewing Company's Stickee Monkee and a range of selections from The Bruery, a boutique craft brewery in Orange County, California.

Investors include renowned entrepreneurs such as the founders of XING (www.xing.com), blau Mobilfunk (www.blau.de) and zanox (www.zanox.com).

General partner interests of MLPs are typically retained by an MLP's original sponsors, such as its founders, corporate partners, entities that sell assets to the MLP and investors.

MLP subordinated units are typically issued by MLPs to their original sponsors, such as their founders, corporate general partners of MLPs, entities that sell assets to the MLP, and investors.

from interviews with significant creative forces such as founders / owners, architects, artists, critics / curators, designers, educators, historians and producers, to the discovery of front - line architecture and innovative products, DA is read by a worldwide audience.

Not exact matches

Despite the slow start, the team managed to cobble together $ 720,000 in seed funding from angel investors including Naval Ravikant, CEO and founder of the startup network AngelList, and investment firms such as Pantera Capital and Shanghai's Fenbushi Capital.

These individuals include freelancers already on Fiverr, as well as more renowned individuals such as Elliot Tebele, the man behind the Instagram account @FuckJerry and founder of JerryMedia.

The founders decided to play up the blog and their PR because they didn't want visitors to think they sold existing apparel labels such as Polo or Levi's.

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

-- Dr. Walter S. Scott, founder, executive vice president, and CTO of satellite imagery company DigitalGlobe, which provides images and geospatial content to U.S. government defense and intelligence agencies, international governments, and major online mapping platforms such as Google.

But founder Jim Koch is also playing against beer titans such as MillerCoors and Anheuser - Busch InBev.

Another Stanford Graduate School of Business alumna is Mariam Naficy, founder and CEO of Minted, a design marketplace that sells crowdsourced creations (such as greeting cards) from independent artists.

-- Eric Frankel, founder and CEO of AdGreetz, a cloud - based SaaS platform that empowers brands such as Intel, NBC, and Toyota to deploy relevant, personalized video messages that build stronger customer relationships and increase engagement, activation, and revenue.

Gibeau — who replaced founder Mark Pincus — has a track record of managing EA's mobile franchises such as Plants vs. Zombies and getting games shipped on time.

Founders who were once in a race to get to a liquidity event such as a buyout or IPO now have viable options for continuing to add value beyond a Series B or C. Private investors also offer a more efficient transaction than going public and are more likely to offer lucrative valuations based on potential, vs. actual, performance.

«Solutions» include pre-emptive activities such as building long - term relationships with future founders or mentoring at incubators to meet teams pre-seed, plus getting really good at reference diligence, but we still rely upon accelerating the «would we work well together» discussion during fast - moving investments.

Successful entrepreneurs, such as Peter Shankman, founder of HARO and The Geek Factory, are early risers.

I spend a ton of time with founders discussing personal issues such founder fighting, the fear of failure, the rejection of investors as well as dealing with real failure and figuring out the aftermath.

20/20 Vision Speakers In these 20 - minute sessions, speakers such as digital analyst Brian Solis and Seed & Spark founder Emily Best will cover topics like funding, business development, and creativity and inspiration.

He also is one of the founders of FWD.us, a lobbying group of powerful silicon valley entrepreneurs focused on many political matters, such as immigration and education reform.

Through the work I've done at Growth Everywhere, I've been lucky enough to chat with notable entrepreneurs such as Jason Lemkin (founder of Echosign, which sold to Adobe), Mark Organ (co-founder of Eloqua, which sold to Oracle) and others who are constantly pushing the boundaries of business success with their own companies.

Experts such as Jonathan Citrin, founder of investment advisory CitrinGroup and an adjunct professor of finance at Wayne State University, see trouble for small business owners in what he expects will be the rising costs of borrowing.

«I heard 99 nos,» she says — which, of course, is typical for many a founder — before she gained investors such as Blumberg Capital and TMT Investments (she bought them out after the IPO).

A recent viral open letter to San Francisco city officials by startup Commando.io founder Justin Keller serves as an example of such tech bro - iness.

All told, Stripe has raised nearly $ 300 million from prominent investors, including PayPal founders Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, as well as gold - plated VC firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.

-- Scott Scherr, CEO and founder of Ultimate Software, an HR tech platform on track to hit $ 1 billion in annual revenue this year and used by companies such as Subway, First Horizon, MLB, the Phoenix Suns, Yamaha, and Nikon

A surge in the value of Bezos's stake in Amazon has allowed the company founder to personally invest in such projects as his $ 250 million purchase of the Washington Post in 2013.

That's anathema to many entrepreneurs, such as Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, who has mounted a very public campaign against overturning Net neutrality.

Friedman notes that leading investors such as Ray Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater, called Bitcoin a «bubble,» while Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has criticized non-flat cryptocurrency, which is currency not backed by a government.

The startup's founder, Miles Penn, has been making the rounds on numerous television programs such as Jim Cramer's Mad Money in order to drum up interest.

Guests such as Blogilates founder Cassey Ho keep this podcast focused on all aspects of life, from business to health.

Musk, best known as the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has also launched The Boring Company, whose mission is to dig tunnels under traffic - clogged cities (such as his hometown of Los Angeles) where underground conveyer belts will whisk cars from one side of town to the other.

Her pep talks are filled with counterintuitive advice such as, «slow down time» and «gain your power by letting go,» but these directives don't seem idealistic when coming from Harder, founder of the Bliss Project; they seem downright fun.

Thanks to bold self - revelations from some top names in the industry, greater media coverage (such as this award - winning story from Inc. magazine by Jessica Bruder) and, sadly, the tragic loss of several members of the startup community to suicide, the curtain that once completely walled off founders» mental health struggles is starting to crack open.

Its only potential competitors were regional wireless providers such as Eastlink, MTS and Sasktel, plus Vancouver - based internet provider Novus and Feenix, a Toronto - based operation started by entrepreneur Mobilicity founder John Bitove.

The Microsoft founder's organization focuses on addressing issues such as global health, poverty and education, and the new gift from Buffett will likely be spent on those causes.

«First of all, if there's any debt to pay off, pay off debt --[such as] credit card bills or any high - interest credit,» said Harvey Bezozi, CPA, and founder of YourFinancialWizard.com.

Prime examples: Rupert Murdoch and Fred Smith, who were preceded by such historic figures as Occidental Petroleum's Armand Hammer and Boston Consulting Group Founder Bruce Henderson

Although Periscope has attracted a certain number of passionate users — and has been cited in the past by influential users such as Deray McKesson, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement — it hasn't really achieved anything close to mainstream acceptance.

If the Alibaba founder does acquire the Morning Post — which at one time was the most profitable newspaper in the world — he would be following in the footsteps of other billionaire tech moguls such as Jeff Bezos, the Amazon (AMZN) founder and CEO who acquired The Washington Post for $ 250 million in 2013.

Analysts say the transition at Donki is a litmus test for other retailers in Japan with similarly charismatic founders such as Fast Retailing, the operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, and Nitori, a discount furniture retailer.

Likening critical CEO capabilities, such as giving difficult feedback, to learning the unnatural motion of lifting your back foot first in boxing, he claims «it generally takes years for a founder to develop the CEO skill set.»