Sentences with phrase «thing as a startup»

I explained that we at Virgin often worry about the same things as our startups become established.

And there is no such thing as a startup decision with complete information.

Not exact matches

As Agnieszka notes, although having a high valuation doesn't sound like the worst thing for a startup (it is a bit of an ego boost after - all), it could seriously harm a company.

One of the things I've probably been most inconsistent with in my journey as a startup founder is whether to raise funding or to bootstrap.

If your startup has been tagged as «the next big thing,» the adrenalin rush that comes with building buzz can lead to impetuous decisions and a loss of a sense of purpose.

And, just as importantly, great startup employees praise their colleagues, recognizing them for when they do things well.

Not because Azure was a bad service, but because the last thing growing startups can afford (regardless of the «learn as you go» myths) is on - the - job training.

While there's a growing wealth of knowledge about customer behavior available, an important thing to note as startups take advantage of big data is to ensure that customers are not viewed as mere statistics.

«It's not that startup thinking is the best thing ever, but it forces you to look at the world as a changing place.»

However, things aren't stopping with the giants, as many startups are taking to the scene offering great practicality with AI powered engines.

That thing, for Uber (as for so many startups), is its blind, bottomless faith in early adopters.

As a startup, we made a commitment to a small group of investors to do certain things and run the business in certain ways.

In my experience, three things can unerringly predict the failure of a startup: being undercapitalized; not committing to a positioning; and failing to provide for marketing in the business plan, as the day will inevitably come when investors want to see sustainable growth.

The other thing that repels Thiel is startups that describe themselves as part of a trend popular enough to have its own buzzword.

«Now, there are a lot of things that are unique compared to other startup markets,» such as access to venture capital and angel funding.

Entrepreneurs and startup leaders have to do things that are extremely difficult, like scaling a company as quickly as possible.

As for Shonova, one of the hardest things to do in startups is course correct.

Some startups have even created positions like chief regulatory officer as a sign they're taking things more seriously.

Just when it looked like Dara Khosrowshahi's tenure as CEO of Uber was coming into focus, the genial executive has muddied the water by buying, of all things, a bike - sharing startup called Jump.

* In case you're wondering McKean's four things that investors want is: Your bio (especially with a startup, VCs want to see whether you are worthy of money, as well as your idea); momentum (you must show growth); money (you should have cash in the bank); and market (you need to have a Big Idea).

It usually starts like this (at least this is how it started for me when I earned my scar tissue): you own or work for a startup that sells a product or service and are looking to contract out some work instead of hiring inside staff because, well, you're strapped for cash — things such as fulfillment, public relations and web design are all common applicants.

There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.

With all the bombastic talk of millions in funding and unicorn companies with valuations of more than $ 1 billion, it appears things are not as flush for disruptive startups as they seem.

Startups always develop their own homegrown nomenclature for things — what passes as «outbound» in one place could easily pass for «inbound» at another.

Atlanta leads the market in groundbreaking wireless technology through a core of established industry giants and an explosive startup scene, including disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things.

It's no secret that in order to grow, your startup requires effective promotion — and there are few things that will give your company the boost it needs as effectively as press coverage.

One of the things that happens is a lot of startups get pulled into the system and that's unfortunate, because it turns out that when you've got this thing that's 18 % of GDP and you start following the money flows, you enter a market in one place with a very altruistic notion that I'm going to change things, and ask things morph, it turns out you're actually just helping the system get bigger and helping people collect, if you will, as a leach against the system.

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In 1996, when Richard Smith took the helm of Realogy, the housing bubble was in its infancy; there was no such thing as Zillow; and the concept of a startup -LSB-...]... [more]

Another lesson: While venture capital firms aren't as much like startups as investors would have you believe, one thing is true of both, and that's when things go really wrong, the wheels can come off fast.

The Economist cites the economic boost from startups as the third factor boosting rust - belt cities, suggesting that things like Crowdfunding makes it easier for small businesses to get a start.

After a thing like that, you find it almost impossible to understand how you can sit as a startup in a basement and solve problems for people you just don't know.

I have fortunately gotten offers to work at a startup and in several different contexts similar to my previous position — and these are things I would potentially enjoy, yes, but to waste the potential equity that «personal brand», dirty as it may sound, creates for me (or anyone else) to leverage into client work that pays well and speaking gigs that open up other opportunities — would be a true «lighting on fire» of that which I had done to build that before quitting.

Uber's new SVP of business David Richter isn't as well known as his predecessor, who was pushed out on Monday following an internal review, but at the trouble - plagued startup, that may be a good thing.

Establishing Your Reputation as a Startup CEO Before Launch Yesterday, I wrote about the things you can do to prepare your startup's website pre-Startup CEO Before Launch Yesterday, I wrote about the things you can do to prepare your startup's website pre-startup's website pre-launch.

First, because one of the things I'm doing in my new life as a freelance nutrition consultant is working with a startup that provides recipes and meal plans within an app, and, unlike the meal plans I typically provide to my clients, these one are revolving around calorie counts.

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He also said there are five things to know about unlimited subscriptions, including the fact that startups such as Oyster and Scribd are now on borrowed time to prove their worth (about 18 months), and publishers have options, which means they can help the startups by choosing to enroll their books in those services.

PH: As the CEO of a startup I worry about three things: team, vision, and money.

If we invest in a startup at a very low price and management ends up with a miniscule ownership in the business, they may be demotivated, so price alone isn't the only thing I personally look at, just as an example)

There was a startup company demanding more time than I had available, as well as my dad who was depending on me for things.

Anoè told an Italian blog dedicated to startups: «I would like them to speak of my victory as a stimulus to change things in this country (Italy).»

When I was representing tech startup companies, I told them all that they could use my conference room whenever they wanted to for board meetings, or for shareholder meetings, for investor meetings, whatever they wanted, with the idea that A) if they're having their board meetings in my conference room, I can even be the secretary, and chances are as they're talking about their business, I'm going to identify, «Hey, you need me to handle this thing.

Well, that was certainly one of the things that I thought when I first heard about this was that what makes it interesting that Thomson Reuters is developing AI products is that Thomson Reuters is an established player with a strong reputation and a long track record and that brings a degree of legitimacy to AI products that, as you say, that some startups, they may be fully legitimate startups and brilliant people working at them, but they don't have that reputation, and for lawyers to trust something I think that's a key element of it.

Marco Ament, the author of the extremely popular Instapaper, argues in a blog post that competition from a big player such as Apple isn't necessarily a bad thing for the startups that may compete with it.

As the Europe Director of Innovation at Dentons, Marie is a passionate promoter of technology and innovation within the firm, who helps to: (i) assess partnership opportunities with startups, clients and other law firms; (ii) share information on all things around innovation in the industry, helping others frame achievable service design and product development deliverables; (iii) promote learning from other chief innovation officers of all industries across the globe.

As an insurance startup, we're excited to be in the Big Apple not just because it situates us next to some of the biggest insurance and financial institutions in the world — being close by is handy when we're trying to bring them into the 21st century digital world — but also the best and brightest minds who are creating new tools, discovering new ways to do things, and disrupting entire multibillion dollar industries.

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«We're taking on the possibility that they've really hit on something that — as opposed to going after some downstream things — are in the physiology of these cancers,» says Diego Rey, Y Combinator's visiting partner focused on healthcare and biotech startups.