Sentences with phrase «time with founders»

I've been fortunate to spend time with founders from both of these companies and I think they're on to something.

I spend a ton of time with founders discussing personal issues such founder fighting, the fear of failure, the rejection of investors as well as dealing with real failure and figuring out the aftermath.

Tran Kingyens spends much of her time with founders, seeking to understand their motivations for building their ventures.

But he did something most superintendents would never do: he scheduled a visit to a YES Prep school and spent some time with founder Chris Barbic.

Not exact matches

Determining if an idea fails on paper can help a prospective founder avoid wasting time and money on a business with no realistic hope of success.

«In fact, founders like Michael probably have spent more time with their company than their kids.

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.

With great timing, solid business skills, entrepreneurial drive, and a little luck, some founders build thriving businesses without ever creating even an informal business plan.

«I have learned, as an entrepreneur, the most important skill you have to have is you have to be an optimist and pessimist at the same time,» said Stephanie Tilenius, former Google VP and founder of Vida, an app that pairs you with 24/7 access to a health coach.

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.

Backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, preparing for his talk with the founder of Frontback — an app that lets you take pictures with both of your iPhone cameras at the same time — Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, is reflecting on the six - year history of this start - up launch conference.

Whereas entrepreneurs may have looked to their investors or board members in the past for guidance, founders are discovering that their investors are increasingly strapped for time, which leaves them with nowhere to turn when making tough business decisions.

Ankur Jain, Kairos founder and CEO, discusses how his start - up, Rhino, plans to revolutionize the rental market by replacing one - time security deposits with affordable monthly fees.

While walking in with lots of questions for those on the sales floor is totally acceptable, customers who don't realize it's the busiest shopping day of the year may feel let down when it's impossible for you to spend as much time catering to their requests, says Mike Wittenstein, founder of Storyminers, an Atlanta - based customer experience and service design consultancy.

Especially with a startup, where workdays are long and the future uncertain, it's important to have the company's founder «lead through the tough time,» he says.

Things have certainly progressed since John Madden first sat down with EA founder Trip Hawkins to discuss bringing the sport of football to the videogame space, which at the time wasn't the $ 74 billion global pastime it is today.

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.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

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.

In this exclusive interview with Inc., conducted over a long lunch in Chicago, John speaks candidly of the loneliness that comes with leadership, his hard - won understanding of why founders ignore their health — and the importance of a well - timed drink.

By launching products this way, startups «win a tremendous amount of time in getting to market and avoid the costly mistakes that come with «parachute manufacturing,»» says Haxlr8r founder Cyril Ebersweiler.

Robert Epner, Founder and CEO of ChiefofStaff.com, has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies on strategy execution and suggests that you try the following the next time you have a big idea:

Some founders try to scale with errors still present in the product, believing that the kinks will work themselves out over time.

Rocket Internet founder Alexander Samwer, a 40ish German entrepreneur with an MBA from Harvard University, has for some time been looking outside saturated European markets for business opportunities with the potential for high returns.

In the course of developing that strategy, they had some long conversations with the founders and the musical.ly team and came to the understanding that musical.ly's primary focus at the time was and continues to be the health, vibrancy and positivity of their community.

Bridge founder Shannon May told the New York Times Magazine that her company is considering partnerships with microfinancing firms to help families defray the costs.

The Buzzfeed founder and CEO wakes up around 8:30 a.m. and heads into the office with the sports or business section of the New York Times, he tells The Wire.

According to Ian Lurie, founder and CEO of SEO consulting firm Portent, «A good consultant spends the time to plan out a successful project with their client.»

«Most business owners don't realize they could be saving thousands of dollars per month if they only used the right systems, programs and expense optimization tactics,» explains Gerber, who along with Paugh recently co-founded SimpleBusiness, an absolute must - have membership for every small business owner, startup founder and freelancer that saves time, headaches and money on everyday business - related expenses and name - brand services (more on that below).

With the right mix of speed, timing and guts, smart founders can profit hugely from their much, much, much larger rivals» misfortune.

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.

«I was driving with my wife and daughter one day, when my wife asked if the baby had wet herself,» Pixie Scientific founder Yaroslav Faybishenko recently told the New York Times.

Her pep talks are filled with counterintuitive advice such as, «slow down time» and «gain your power by letting go,» but these directives don't seem idealistic when coming from Harder, founder of the Bliss Project; they seem downright fun.

As Search Engine Land founder Danny Sullivan notes, Google has been dealing with this kind of problem for some time.

I heard a startup founder once say «sell before you build» which really resonated with me at the time, as my company had very recently done the exact opposite.

Founder and CEO Therese Tucker noticed that customers were experiencing minor problems with the software but often failed to mention them until renewal or upgrade time rolled around, at which point a customer would say, «By the way...» and BlackLine would finally be alerted.

«Synctag along with its niche strategist team is able to provide unique social media solutions to get a 20 % above more and delivery value for the ads on social media and campaign virality in a relatively shorter time period,» states, Harsh Mehta Founder at Synctag, to Entrepreneur India.

The four airlines with the best on - time arrival records, advises Taj Bates, founder of The YOLO Guide to Travel, are Delta, United, Alaska, and Hawaiian.

The company's financial woes were eventually solved through a lucky run in with Salesforce founder (and father of a baby who spent time in neonatal intensive care) Marc Benioff, but Chen confesses her frenzied efforts to save her company had caused a huge psychological strain.

Sage - Hayward says this often happens when the founder shuts out the family from the day - to - day interactions of the business or is so busy building the business and not spending time with their families that the kids begin to resent the business and want nothing to do with it when they get older.

-- Jill Johnson, founder and creative director of AWE, a New York City - based jewelry line with ambassadors including a three - time Olympian, a NYT best - selling author, a professional wakeboarder, a YouTube star who gave a TED Talk three days after reconstructive surgery, and other survivors

As my company's founder, I was essentially its first sales rep.. But as we've grown, I've needed to scale sales and hire new reps.. One of the most important lessons I've learned from growing a sales team is that spending time with newly hired sales reps early on can yield exponential jumps in productivity and revenue.

How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities - law scandal, an also - ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

At the same time, female founders received a mere $ 1.46 billion in funding last year, compared to the $ 58.2 billion haul of companies with all - male founders.

But that was just my opinion — so to find out for sure I talked with Dr. Steven Stein, the founder and CEO of Multi-Health Systems (MHS), a three - time Profit 100 (fastest growing companies in Canada) company that helps improve leadership skills and emotional intelligence for Fortune 500 companies, the military, government organizations, and professional sports teams.

Although founders of a previously successful business have a 30 % chance of success with their next venture, founders who have failed at a prior business have a 20 % chance of succeeding versus an 18 % chance of success for first time entrepreneurs.

Customers who rank themselves as «completely satisfied» are worth three to six times more than those who say they are just «satisfied» or «dissatisfied,» says Jeffrey Henning, founder and vice president of strategy of Vovici, an online survey management company that has worked with Marriot, Cisco, and many other large companies.

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As Robert Graham, founder and CEO of the security firm Errata Security, demonstrated in a blog post, someone appears to have printed the document on a printer with the model number 54 and the serial number 29535218 at a certain time on May 9, 2017.

Entrepreneur: John Harris, founder of FieldCandy, a U.K. - based brand of designer tents with offbeat graphics such as a block of cheese, floral and galactic motifs, leopard print, bubble wrap — even a time machine.