Sentences with phrase «then started the company»

Ultimately, they created their own food, and it was so popular with friends and family that Spot's owners then started the company.

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Ryan Drexler thought so, too, but he also saw a great opportunity — first as an investor, then as a board member, and starting last year, as the company's CEO.

That includes his Avant co-founders Paul Zhang, 28, and John Sun, 30, both of whom started out as college interns at Enova, then transitioned into full - time employees, before striking out on their own to start Debteye, a personal financial management software company in 2011.

In 2009, the company purchased Galaxie, which then had 45 channels, for $ 65 million, starting a consolidation strategy that continues today.

Second of all, if you lie about the job, then the person starts working for you and sees that things aren't the way you presented them, you are going to lose them and they will go work for another company.

The company was founded in 1977 by Ron Ball (Eppel was an early hire, just 18 years old when he started), and it expanded quickly — first with a plant in Buffalo, then to Europe and, as the industry moved east, to China in 1996.

In 1984 we started a company called Enorme, and got Ettore Sottsass, an Italian designer, to design a telephone that we'd then sell.

Since then, cities both big and small have been working on responding to the company's request for proposals in hopes of jump starting their local economies.

Key is really starting from within, figuring out some business pain points — big or small, across front and back office — and then taking a curated approach to meeting relevant companies.

It starts with one, two, maybe three individuals, then propagates through the organization, and is reinforced by those founders or leaders as the company scales over time.

And then I shifted careers into tech and started a [dating app company] called HowAboutWe.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Then, he was hired by Jason Richelson, founder and CEO of ShopKeep, a start - up Web - based cash - register company, to do Web - design work.

He started a B2B services company because it allowed him to start small — first with himself as the head programmer — then adding on more staff as he found more work.

Then, in mid 2016, when we licensed the company, we started putting the team together.

«From the start, you should be thinking about the type of company you want to build and then make sure your systems and decisions support that vision,» Wertz advises founders.

«I think it's real tough for anybody to go out and start a business in a world he knows nothing about,» says Tom Golisano, the founder and CEO of Paychex Inc., an $ 870 - million payroll - processing and human - resource - services company based in Rochester, N.Y. «My advice to Mike would be to find a job in a dynamic industry and then to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities within that industry.

He started as the Chief Financial Officer of Macro-region «Ural» and since then served at various positions in the Company.

Dan Gilbert, CEO of Quicken Loans, for example, moved his company's headquarters to downtown Detroit to bolster the population numbers and help jumpstart the local economy, then provided further sustenance to the commercial ecosystem by opening a new start - up incubator and venture capital firm.

The trouble is that many of these companies got distracted, you know, starting up a company, so the data and analytics projects were back - burnered, and then allowed to go cold.

Then the company found religion, got its act together, and started repairing the considerable damage that had been done.

If you are are considering starting a new company, creating a new cause or just want to get a massive group of people to follow you for one reason or another, then take a second to consider these points:

Then, the company you bought from starts emailing you every day.

He says the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

If these loans don't get paid back then banks could start going bust, while local governments, some of which have been a beneficiary of these loans, and other companies could find themselves underwater, too.

The company is also able to determine if a customer wants to start entering data on one device and then switch to another device to complete or work on that same task.

Then there are the personal challenge metaphors: A blogger could always say, «Starting a business is like climbing a mountain» or if he is up to it, «How Starting a Company is Like Climbing Everest.»

«Most companies start with what they do, then they look at how they do it, and very rarely look at why they are doing it.

Ben Wegbreit, the VP of engineering (one of my mentors and then co-founder of Epiphany), broke his foot skiing just as the company started.

He then started planning his second act, which would embrace three subplots: relaunching his hedge fund, becoming a venture capitalist, and founding a new billion - dollar company.

So many entrepreneurs start with a great idea, launch a company and then it fizzles after a short time when they run out of money.

Then, they started talking about getting companies to list all their foreign workers, and this time I (or rather, our algo traders in Singapore) completely lost the plot, because there's only two Brits on my desk of 12.

Many «wantrepreneurs» encounter their doubts and misbeliefs about starting a company and then turn to run.

That was partly because many of the people who formed some of the earliest tech companies then became venture capitalists, but it's also because people tend to hire people like themselves, or when they're starting a partnership, to bring in people who they know and like.

Then I had to get bottles and jars and write literature and everything else that goes along with starting a company.

Kay's 40 - year - old son, David, started an electronics company and a windmill company, then worked as a contractor before he joined the family business as sales manager in 1980.

If you are starting a company, then getting your first customer is an incredible rush.

Eventually, the serial entrepreneur — who had started and then sold a moving company, a plastic container business, a reusable beverage ware maker and barbecue grill business — and his team solved the bottling issue.

It started as a job and then quickly became a career, as he realized he could move up in the company.

Then there's Origami Owl, a jewelry company started four years ago in Phoenix by Bella Weems, then 14, and her mother, ChriThen there's Origami Owl, a jewelry company started four years ago in Phoenix by Bella Weems, then 14, and her mother, Chrithen 14, and her mother, Chrissy.

«As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss and then people have to do what you say.»

Here's how it worked: Employees clicked on a coworker's name in a particular section of the company's intranet, then wrote suggestions regarding specific habits that person should stop, start, or continue.

If some of the planned series are as well - received as The Handmaid's Tale has been thus far, then Stillerman and Hulu will be off to a strong start toward the company's goal of pulling even with its larger streaming rivals.

Many of us, faced with something we can't change, accept that we can't succeed as much as others and then don't try: «I can't beat Arnold Schwarzenegger so I won't try bodybuilding,» or «I won't be as successful as Elon Musk so I won't start a company.»

Then, establish your own blog or blog on your company's site and start writing on a regular basis.

Musk then headed for Stanford to start a Ph.D. in applied physics but dropped out after two days to develop Zip2, a company owned with his brother, Kimbal, that created online city guides for newspaper publishers.

«We started five years ago, and since then there have been many Flipboard killers, from big and small companies alike,» McCue said.

«We bootstrapped for the first two and half years, and we didn't actually pay ourselves anything,» says Austin, adding that the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

Then, when Target and Nordstrom's earnings kicked into high gear and both companies raised their holiday sales forecasts, Cramer started to suspect a genuine turn in the group as a whole.