Sentences with phrase «time at startups»

He spent time at a startup media company based in Woodstock which triggered his interest in African founded startups, fintech and entrepreneurship.

There comes a time at every startup life, where you need to create a promotional product video — To some of you, creating a good promotional video showcasing their product for the first time might be intimidating.

During his time at the startup, Ehrsam made 30 Under 30 lists from publications including Time and Forbes, while also attending high - profile events as a representative of the company.

Not exact matches

At the time, his friends working at startups were living in garages and were free to pursue their own ideas and cultivate their talents — he made his choice and joined theAt the time, his friends working at startups were living in garages and were free to pursue their own ideas and cultivate their talents — he made his choice and joined theat startups were living in garages and were free to pursue their own ideas and cultivate their talents — he made his choice and joined them.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

Plus, every VC is working with more than a handful of startups at any given time, so we simply don't have the bandwidth to hold a founder's hand on a day - to - day basis.

Not long ago, Google spent more than $ 400 million to buy industry - leading startup DeepMind, and scored a major tech and marketing coup when the computer AlphaGo defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol at the possibility - lush game of Go — an achievement hundreds of times more complex than when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess.

Particularly in a startup, it might seem silly at first glance to spend time on small things that delight your customers, when you have so many big problems.

From your business partners to full - time staff, here is what to look for at three critical stages of your startup.

Today, each of the startup's farms features vertically stacked trays where the company grows carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, and, its main product high - end baby greens, which it sells to grocers on the East Coast including Whole Foods, ShopRite, and Fresh Direct, as well as to dining halls at businesses like Goldman Sachs and The New York Times.

Snapchat's lofty valuation is all the more eye - popping given that the startup has no established revenue stream (at least as of press time).

Jiang's inspiration for Birdnest came from his time working out of a series of cramped co-working spaces at an early - stage startup.

And besides, at times it's better to not seek investors for your startup.

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

Cherny: Frank is a board member at PayPal and Intel, so it was really a question of whether he had the time and energy and passion to devote to our startup.

Today, as even super-hot startups forgo IPOs (at least for now), and some public behemoths turn private, the time has come to recognize the hugely significant contributions of those corporations that choose not to sell their stock to the public.

Mark Organ, chief executive of Toronto - based marketing startup Influitive, remembers being shocked when Price, president of a fast - growing software company at the time, offered to help him tweak his business model.

Outside of Silicon Valley the relative cost to operate is low, but you still need top talent and at a startup time is your enemy.

This company - building - companies structure also lends itself well to helping large corporations behave like startups while at the same time giving smaller businesses access to resources only available to larger firms.

At the time, the startup boasted a $ 16 million valuation and Croft told the Sharks it sold $ 6.5 million worth of merchandise last year.

At the same time, if you are a startup looking to find evangelists or partners for your business, then a coworking space provides an opportunity to do so.

At the time, she was writing five books, meditating daily and running a startup in aggressive growth mode.

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

However, unlike SEMrush, the Keyword Planner allows you to search for a group of keywords at a time, and gives accurate suggestions for alternative keywords that may perform better for startups.

«If you compare a startup that started at the same time in Silicon Valley with another in Chile, the Silicon Valley startup will go faster than the one in Chile,» May says.

Making decisions when 30 % of the time you will be wrong is just the pace you need to move at in order to make progress with a startup.

Lately, most of our candidates mention that they've seen us around or thank us for the great time they had at our last startup event.

At the same time, says Mark McQueen, president and CEO of VC firm Wellington Financial, the «push to reduce the amount of money required to find out if a company can succeed» has placed more of an onus on tech startups to prove that their products have what it takes.

In the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem, I've seen founders and their board members forget this at times, as they seek to install someone with the right pedigree but perhaps the wrong cultural fit.

At the same time, more and more new startups are emerging every year, with roughly 10 percent more startups emerging in the U.S between 2015 and 2014.

Lore told Re / code's Jason Del Rey at the time that the company switched business models because Jet noticed people were buying more per visit than anticipated, and dropping its membership fee could actually help widen the startup's appeal.

As far as wooing venture capitalists is concerned, More informs that Finzy's investors were following developments at the startup ever since the time of inception.

At the same time, a recent reform to Canada's Income Income Tax Act has made it as easier for U.S. venture capital firms to invest in Canadian startups.

Now the times have changed, at least for some startups.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

A startup entrepreneur needs to operate in at least three dimensions at once: There's time, there's money, and there's your target, the growth you need to achieve to demonstrate that you have a viable business.

Shortly after setting up the company, the founders moved SoundCloud to Berlin, which was developing a reputation as one of the most startup - friendly cities in Europe at the time, partly due to its cheap accommodation and its abundance of talented programmers.

If the issue is indeed finding the right fit, a job candidate would have an easier time landing at the right company if startups willingly shared such information.

Recently while watching some of my all - time favorite movies, I picked up on some great quotes that extend beyond the plot of the movie to my real life and my personal journey while working at a startup over the past two years.

At the same time, new born - to - the - web startups are deploying on Amazon or Microsoft or Google public clouds from the get - go.

Under the agreement, Tesla has the right to hire a third - party investigator to conduct a second forensic audit of Anderson's and the startup's computers and cloud accounts at any time until February 1, 2018.

At TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing, Systrom says the startup's most difficult day was its first, when the site crashed multiple times.

E-commerce will change that at a time when many of the largest American food and beverage makers are already reporting slow sales as they face increased competition from nimble, smaller startups.

They went to companies like AltaVista and Excite and Yahoo and eBay, which were tiny little startups at the time.

At the time, entrepreneurs had little by way of funding options and the startup economy was suffering.

As the new CEO, Khosrowshahi will have to figure out how to balance and channel the energy at one of the most valuable startups ever and yet keep the ship straight at the same time.

At the time, Yext had closed a $ 50 million round of financing that valued the startup at $ 525 millioAt the time, Yext had closed a $ 50 million round of financing that valued the startup at $ 525 millioat $ 525 million.

As a startup founder you want to move fast to get your vision up and running but not taking the time to hire correctly from the start could leave you with the wrong people for the job at hand.

In the talk, which lasts a little over an hour, Jobs shares a number of stories from his time at Apple and NeXT (the startup he founded after leaving Apple), along with the lessons learned through both good times and bad.

«It all started in 2008 when I was looking for a way to save up for a vacation,» says Damphousse, who was consulting with startups on product management and user experience at the time.