Sentences with phrase «teaming partners in»

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The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

Technology, the team and timing are key factors in early - stage funding, says Shalini Prakash, venture partner at 500 Startups.

It was then, in 2006, that Laberge persuaded Richardson, his team leader and partner on a number of projects at Creo, to join the venture.

In 2016, Roosegaarde's team partnered with the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection to take the giant air purifier on a tour of four Chinese cities to help clean up the air.

«As a key partner of Twitter in this country, we look forward to working closely with the Rogers team as they expand and enhance their online customer service experience.»

Real - world learning comes via the Advanced Program for Experiential Consulting, in which teams of five or six students tackle two projects with one of the school's corporate partners.

Armed with that viewpoint, she whittled her management team down to a well - chosen few, parted company with her partner, and bid her existing business farewell, and — in what amounts to overnight in company - evolution terms — McCann's new company, International Product Options, was born.

Some 54 senior - level partners from law firms across the U.S. worked in virtual teams of six, with two expert advisors and assistance from a Stanford Law student, for six months.

Our global philanthropy team is engaged with our community and non-profit partners in the Charlottesville area to identify the most meaningful way for our company to reinforce these core values and provide assistance.

Then, with team spirit in mind, she created a commission - like incentive structure for client - services employees, who partner with outside salespeople.

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

«As content consumption continues to evolve, Daniel Ek and his team are well - positioned to build the leading marketplace for consumers, artists, and the music industry at large,» TPG partner David Trujillo said in a statement.

The partners at Hulse & Durrell had worked together as part of the in - house design team for the Vancouver 2010 Games but, soon after the closing ceremonies, the brand they'd spent years developing effectively ceased to exist.

If you really don't want to learn how to code and would rather focus on getting the business off the ground, look for a team or a development partner that has experience in working with first - time non-technical entrepreneurs.

They add that Project Titan has been «re-focused on developing an autonomous driving system that gives Apple flexibility to either partner with existing carmakers, or return to designing its own vehicle in the future» and that «executives have given the car team a deadline of late next year to prove the feasibility of the self - driving system and decide on a final direction.»

PHIL Willox, a partner in Freehill's national Employee Relations» team, has rejoined the Perth office after a secondment in the Brisbane office.

But she ran into a problem that many CMOs and innovators face, especially those that are in a legacy business: getting the founding partners and the sales team to understand that many outbound marketing tactics are in decline.

Says ABS managing general partner Phil Clough: «What we saw in Accurate was a technology platform that allows a relatively small centralized team to manage activity, whether it's the size it is now or will be in 2017.»

We definitely have an unfair advantage over other teams in attracting corporate partners because we have the Kyle Larson brand.

In the email, Deep Nishar, senior managing partner at SoftBank Vision Fund, characterized Slack as «the operating system» for businesses in which teams need to collaborate «effectively.&raquIn the email, Deep Nishar, senior managing partner at SoftBank Vision Fund, characterized Slack as «the operating system» for businesses in which teams need to collaborate «effectively.&raquin which teams need to collaborate «effectively.»

The authors used the example of the NBA and the Golden State Warriors, which partnered with NextVR to broadcast the team's season opener in full 360 - degree video (viewers needed a specific Samsung headset to watch).

Michele Miller, a partner in the Austin - based Wizard of Ads marketing firm, believes in the power of teaming up with other businesses to increase word of mouth.

For example, the partner who runs my global team invests a great amount of time in his people; his door is open to everyone regardless of seniority.

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

Says Wong, «The earlier challenges were sort of partner buy - in and getting our name out there and things like bonus structures for our sales team, structuring our revenue share model and putting together all the default paperwork for how we would build out our streams of relationships, so to speak.

In collaboration with nine international industrial partners, which include Greece - based INASCO, Belgium's Nanocyl and Chinese - owned Volvo Cars, the research team is in the midst of a three - year, $ 5 - million materials - development projecIn collaboration with nine international industrial partners, which include Greece - based INASCO, Belgium's Nanocyl and Chinese - owned Volvo Cars, the research team is in the midst of a three - year, $ 5 - million materials - development projecin the midst of a three - year, $ 5 - million materials - development project.

In 2018, the team will continue to build its ecosystem of clients and partners within EMEA through engagement at local events, such as AWS Paris, Transformation Day London and Transformation Day Cologne.

Add to that the feelings of frustration and resentment that people working in teams often feel about carrying more weight than their partners, and a team presentation is often a recipe for disaster.

«There was no significant difference in failure rates between women and men, between highly educated and less educated creators, between teams and individual projects, between single or partnered creators, or between creators with children and those without,» wrote Mollick in his paper analyzing the results.

Walk around any floor of the company's plus - sized headquarters in Seattle, and you'll see blackboards and posters touting the number of volunteer hours a particular team of employee volunteers has put in on a particular project, or the current level of the Partner (employee) Cup Fund, an employee initiative whose value is in financially helping partners in need, including this formerly homeless barista, whose story I tell here.

«The partners have sales teams to reinforce your message,» said Levie in reference to how the IBM and Microsoft's more experienced sales staff is helping them land more deals and expand overseas to Europe and Asia.

«We are extremely excited to be acquiring Qdoba and look forward to working with the management team, employees and franchisees to continue building the Qdoba brand,» Lance Milken, senior partner at Apollo, said in a statement.

JOHNSON & JOHNSON PARTNERS TO SPEED ALZHEIMER»S DRUG DEVELOPMENT The drug development arm of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has teamed up with an medical research facility called the Sanford - Burnham Institute in the hopes that the partnership will shorten the path to getting new Alzheimer's treatments FDA approval.

«We've had the pleasure of consulting with both the SAIL Capital Partners team and the investment banking team at Stifel Nicolaus in the U.S. on various deals,» says Rob Peterman, Head of Business Development for the technology sector for TSX and TSX Venture.

At the 2011 TED Conference, Erik Charlton and I huddled in a corner with Sergey Brin to show him a video and an early model of the Nest Learning Thermostat — he instantly got what we were doing and so did the rest of the Google team when we showed them... I know that joining Google will be an easy transition because we're partnering with a company that gets what we do and who we are at Nest — and wants us to stay that way.»

«MLSE and our teams are thrilled to partner with Canadian Tire Corporation,» Tim Leiweke, president and CEO of MLSE, said Monday in a statement.

Instead, they start businesses with partners — in some cases with entire teams.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

I decided in 2008 that I didn't need partners and decided that if I took care of my leadership team, I could expect less and get more.

Whether it's bringing in a partner, seeking out a mentor or coach, or polling your team, don't let your ego prevent you from asking for help when you need it.

Instead, Microsoft is focused on working with companies in its freshly rebranded ScaleUp accelerators and partner organizations like Y Combinator on pushing their services through the tech titan's sales team and partner network.

Peter Dent, a partner at Deloitte in Toronto, recalls investigating a European company doing business in Indonesia during his four - year stint as head of the World Bank's fraud and corruption team.

Bell, a partner at Highland, says that by this time in mid-July, some of the Summer@Highland teams are preparing beta versions of their products to present to consumers, and that he and other Highland mentors make themselves available to teams that may need a word of advice.

Rehmus agreed to back the Guru.com team and gave the Slavets entrà ‰ e to two other heavy hitters: former McKinsey partner and managing director Gluck and CitySearch cofounder Layton, who has invested in a total of 32 companies so far.

Consider Chan Zuckerberg's Biohub, which is embracing big hairy audacious projects like mapping every cell in the human body (with university partners Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF) and developing a «universal diagnostic test» and rapid - response team for emerging pathogens.

Once the offices were operational, instead of letting our partners drive our business, we took charge in both cases and built teams that were true extensions of our local [Canadian] teams.»

In addition to practicing internal medicine, Yeshwant is a general partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), where he heads the Life Sciences team.

For example, Lyft teamed up with Acuity Link to expand its NEMT footprint in March, and in February partnered with Hitch Health.

When asked about his most effective selling tactic, Osgouei explains, «One selling tactic that's extremely undervalued is telling a story that can create a powerful perception of value by showing both the before story and the after story in a way that gets the customer excited to partner with your team, and excited about your offering.»

The group is sending teams to work with local partners and FEMA to distribute emergency supplies in Puerto Rico.