Sentences with phrase «tech company founder»

Understandably he takes a lawyer's risk averse approach, (regulation will be important, there are lots of things that could wrong...) rather than taking the more optimistic view of a legal tech company founder.

Cian O'Sullivan's web camera is not working when Artificial Lawyer calls for a video conference and so is treated to a picture of a soccer pitch in Colombia that the legal tech company founder took on his travels.

A discussion with Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell about how he coaches tech company founders and executives to great success.

The tech companies partnered with Mark Lemley who ran the Law and Technology program at Stanford (pictured above), the West Coast alma mater of so many tech company founders.

Not exact matches

As angel investor and tech - company founder Tim Berry wrote on Entrepreneur, «You can probably cover everything you need to convey in 20 to 30 pages of text plus another 10 pages of appendices for monthly projections, management resumes and other details.

Of course I fund people outside of that age range but statistically startup founders of VC - backed tech companies are more likely in that range.

Indians were the most numerous of the immigrant tech - company founders.

Who is he: Founder and CEO of one of the largest Japanese tech companies.

«My goal has always been to give everyone at Sharethrough as much information, context and room to care as much as I do as a founder,» says Dan Greenberg, CEO of Sharethrough, an ad - tech company that creates software for publishers and brands and is considered a trailblazer in the native - advertising movement.

«Today the tech sector is stocked with good companies,» says John Backus, founder and managing partner of New Atlantic Ventures.

-- 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

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.

«We're igniting a movement of social good within tech and helping great companies connect with passionatecoderswho've built open portfolios of their work,» says Vanessa Hurst, founder of the event.

In a founder - dense city like San Francisco, which further has two peak neighborhoods where tech companies congregate (SoMa and the Mission), what this means is that you can't walk down the street without (almost literally) running into someone else who is starting a tech company.

Early on I worked at a tech startup and in order to get that job, I kept pestering the founder of the company.

On his blog Quick Sprout, tech entrepreneur Neil Patel speaks with 10 founders of companies that are worth at least $ 50 million and asks them what was their biggest mistake in business.

His admission that even the company's tech - savvy founder was unable to protect his own information underscored the problem Facebook has in persuading skeptical lawmakers that users can easily safeguard their own information and that further legislation governing Facebook is unnecessary.

Both of those homegrown companies built a formidable strategic advantage by being first in the Latin American market, says Alan Colmenares, who worked for Intel's venture capital arm in Mexico and Brazil and now serves as a facilitator in his native Colombia for the Founder Institute, an incubator focused on tech start - ups across the globe.

Shot at Founder's Co-op, a Seattle venture fund and tech incubator, the video shows the founders of web companies like LookStat and NearlyWeds writing code, discussing pricing, and sharing ideas about their businesses.

Case in point: Arlan Hamilton, the founder of Backstage Capital, an early stage tech investment fund that focuses on three underserved markets in the world of venture capital: black, female, LGBTQ company founders, or any combination of the three.

Although highly educated founders of tech companies get a lot of attention, they're just one part of the story of immigrant entrepreneurship in America.

Jigar Shah, the founder of large solar company SunEdison and a clean tech advocate, thinks between 90 percent and 95 percent of electricity will come from renewable sources in 2039.

The company behind the app was started just 18 months ago in London by a sextet of founders: three cabbies and three financiers and tech experts.

I recently asked Leura Fine, CEO & Founder of Laurel & Wolf, how she went from designer to founder of one of the hottest tech / design companies in Los AFounder of Laurel & Wolf, how she went from designer to founder of one of the hottest tech / design companies in Los Afounder of one of the hottest tech / design companies in Los Angeles.

With no prior movie - making experience, entrepreneur Mark Hulme, founder of Dallas - based publishing company the Five Star Institute, decided in 2011 to produce a movie about the late tech innovator and commissioned an employee to pen the screenplay.

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.

Founder Frank Selldorff was a 2014 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and is also chairman of Momentum Equity Partners, a venture capital firm investing in innovative tech companies.

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark asks more tech companies to help reduce homelessness in San Francisco.

If you're hiring, the drum - tight talent market for anyone with programming skills should loosen up considerably, although big companies may reap the benefits more than small ones, says Oliver Ryan, founder of the tech recruiting firm Lab 8 Ventures.

Last year, tech company RadiumOne fired its CEO and founder, Gurbaksh Chahal, after he pled guilty to assault.

Take the underrepresentation of women among tech entrepreneurs together with an overwhelmingly male VC population (with their presumably dude - heavy networks and natural affinity for the types of companies that speak to men) and the result has been dismal amounts of investor dollars going to female founders — less than five percent just a decade ago.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debby Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

But why would tech companies or their billionaire founders want to do it?

Having worked at mature tech companies like Google and Microsoft, and having advised several young startup founders, Dan Shapiro says that people at the tech bellwethers don't look kindly on brogrammer antics.

The founders of Facebook and Microsoft announce a new initiative that consists of tech companies investing in clean and reliable energy.

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.

Allyson Kapin, founder of Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech in Washington, D.C., says previous incidents, such as Uber advertising that was demeaning to women and a top executive's suggestion that the company conduct opposition research on journalists who are critical of Uber, were shocking and disappointing but hadn't kept her from hailing rides on the smartphone app.

That's according to new research presented at a recent conference in San Francisco organized by Women 2.0, a media company devoted to women founders in the tech industry.

The «PayPal Mafia,» a term for PayPal founders and prominent multimillionaire executives whose post-PayPal careers include founding and investing in dozens of prominent tech companies, is stacked full of Review alumni, including Ken Howery» 98, David Sacks» 94, and Eric Jackson ’98 (all former Review editors - in - chief) as well as Keith Rabois ’91 (a former Review opinion editor), and Premal Shah ’98 (a former Review staffer).

The average New York City tech founder is thirty - one years old when she founds her company and founders are just as likely to have studied a non-technical subject in university as a technical one.

We also believed that VCs should play a role in accelerating the creation of world - class tech ecosystems by providing support beyond the companies for whom they wrote cheques, so we rolled up our sleeves and built projects that served founders» needs.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debbie Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

But, possibly because of ageist policies, that's changing: more and more rising tech companies are led by founders in their 20s.

The founders said they've each been involved in starting software firms to solve business problems, and now they're trying to solve some of the many problems involved with starting a tech company.

Founded by two graduates of Georgia Tech, the company built a working product, acquired customers, and achieved profitability with only the two founders.

Steve Goran Stevanovich is currently the founder, President and CEO of SGS Global Holdings, which holds investments in a variety of tech companies in different industries like aeronautics and sustainable energy.

Established by engineers, the extraSlice founders have also worked at tech companies of all sizes, and stages of growth.

Ventures with existing equity investors are not eligible and should consider Next Founders, a program for entrepreneurs who have founded early - stage tech companies and are seeking founder development and access to networks to scale their business.

The founders I'm talking about today largely have started (or are in the process of starting) a high - growth company that likely leverages some type of technology — we at Cintrifuse refer to these as «tech or tech - enabled.»

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.