Sentences with phrase «with founders of companies»

I've used it with founders of companies I'm looking at investing in, TechStars founders, and execs for early stage companies.

Dowd says it's the exclusive access and attention to detail that sets Abercrombie & Kent apart — plus being able to travel with the founder of the company.

With the founder of the company making false claims about the product, Phoenix Weight Loss Pill is certainly not the most reliable product in the market.

Not exact matches

The companies with the most reach and the founders with the deepest connection to the consumer are able to show up in all of those different places in unique ways and tie it all back to the brand's central mission.

Founder and CEO Jack Davis launched the company four years ago with the goal of becoming the «Marvel for monsters,» a generator of scary characters that distributes programming through social media.

Investors who spoke to CNBC all described a common experience with the ICO in question: They thought the project was legitimate until warning signs began to appear, including a falling out with the company's sole supplier, a lack of correspondence from its supposed founders, and failed attempts to recoup the lost funds.

-- Nick Alt, founder and CEO of VNYL, a subscription company that launched as a successful Kickstarter project and, with its three - year growth, now curates 500,000 new vinyl records annually to its members

In speaking with analysts who have covered Michael Dell and his company for several decades, what emerges is a portrait of a founder so completely enmeshed with his business that many liken Dell (the company) to his fifth child.

Christelle Macri is the founder of Ebizpromotion, a leading SEO company in Berkshire, with a no - nonsense and ethical approach to digital marketing.

For those not familiar with the show, it's important to know in the beginning of season 3, the awkward yet assertive founder, Richard Hendrix, is replaced as CEO of his own company by Jack Barker.

I spoke with Tom Popomaronis, CEO and Founder of OpiaTalk, a company that specializes in hyper - conversion by means of their flagship widget.

TMI founder and managing director Mervyn Dobbins said the company was also in the advanced stages of completing joint venture arrangements with governments in China and the Middle East to implement the system.

Holacracy founder Robertson said he was disappointed with the way some media outlets characterized 14 % of the company leaving as a sign of failure.

Rahn said that most of the founders he speaks with are focused on solving funding problems, rather than fixing the flaws within their companies.

The flight will depart New York's JFK airport around 8 pm on October 5th, and onboard passengers will have the opportunity to sample their way through Sam Adam's lineup of beers along with the company's founder and president, Jim Koch.

Pony Ma's company, Tencent, has moved with the stealth of its founder this year, making a series of investments in Western companies that are significant, but not splashy: A 5 percent stake in Tesla, a 10 percent stake in Snap, an investment in Essential Products, and now, reportedly, a 10 percent stock swap with Spotify.

Melody Biringer, founder of the CRAVE company appeared on the Small Businesses Do It Better Show, episode 3 (watch the show on Ovaleye.tv) on Connecting with Other Businesses to Grow Your Own.

Joe Gebbia, co-founder and CPO of Airbnb, talks about working with the company's two other founders and the management structure at the home - sharing platform.

Marsha Firestone, PhD, is president and founder of Women Presidents» Organization, a non-profit membership organization for women presidents of multimillion dollar companies with 93 chapters on four continents.

-- Scott and Missy Tannen, founders of Boll & Branch, a New York - based company with a line of accessibly priced luxury bed linens that launched in January 2014 with first - year revenue topping $ 2 million and more than a $ 10 million run rate in its second year in business.

Taei is also the founder of HindSite Interactive, an award - winning web agency that helps companies improve their online presence with effective websites.

When I was involved with DotLoop, the founder, Austin Allison, thought big about changing how we buy and sell homes on our mobile devices, signing up eight of the top 10 real estate companies.

Cherae Robinson, founder and CEO of travel app Tastemakers Africa, talks about dealing with investors and what she learned when her company's capital was quickly dwindling.

-- Ahmed Albaiti, founder and CEO of Medullan, a digital health innovation company that works with payers, providers, and pharma on patient engagement.

Cherae Robinson, founder and CEO of Tastemakers Africa, a mobile app for booking experiences in Africa, found it challenging to transition from running a bootstrapped company to one with outside capital behind it.

Alain Albert, founder of the online cabinetry retailer Doordoer, likes the flexibility that comes with running a «virtual company»

Besides figuring out whether a family member can take over the company's operations, succession advisors say clans must also come up with a consensus about a transfer of ownership, as well as implement a plan that allows the founder to extract their equity from the firm.

According to First Round Capital's analysis of its own portfolio, companies with at least one female founder provided them with 63 % better returns on investment than companies with all - male teams.

«Regulations around cannabis are changing rapidly around the world, along with social acceptance,» says Derek Riedle, founder and CEO of the cannabis and lifestyle media company Civilized.

«I still feel like I'm behind enemy lines» as a founder turned investor, Busque said, «So I'll say this: I've learned that there are thousands of reasons why an investor won't invest in your company that have nothing to do with you.»

He says that most Silicon Valley founders are lucky to keep 10 %, or even 5 %, of the stock — and that's if they stay with the company.

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.

Sweta Patel, founder of Silicon Valley Startup Marketing who has advised over 200 early stage startups and high - growth companies; connect with Sweta on Facebook and Instagram:

«Long tenure in any industry comes with a lot of ingrained behaviors and assumptions that are hard to break,» says Dan Pappalardo, founder and CEO of media company Troika.

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:

-- Zhifei Li, founder and CEO of Mobvoi, a mobile voice search company equipped with proprietary AI technology including Chinese voice recognition, semantic analytics, and search technology.

What experience does Koel Thomae, founder of $ 170 million yogurt company Noosa, credit with her entrepreneurial success?

Nathan Gilliland was the founder of Boston - based biomass energy company Harvest Power and more recently served as an entrepreneur - in - residence with Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of the world's largest venture capital firms.

Donna Carpenter, CEO of Burton Snowboards, explains how she — with the help of the company — pulled her husband (and the founder of Burton), Jake, through the darkest moment of their lives.

Las Vegas has the honor of the highest percentage of venture - backed companies with at least one female founder: 26 percent.

Through the work I've done at Growth Everywhere, I've been lucky enough to chat with notable entrepreneurs such as Jason Lemkin (founder of Echosign, which sold to Adobe), Mark Organ (co-founder of Eloqua, which sold to Oracle) and others who are constantly pushing the boundaries of business success with their own companies.

«We are becoming scared of boredom, scared of solitude, scared of conversations with ourself [sic],» Light's founders wrote in a blog post about how the company got its start.

Under the leadership of President and Chief Baking Officer Bobbie Lloyd, the company trains its staff to frost cupcakes the Magnolia Way, continues to refine founder Allysa Torey's original recipes (check out The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook), and emails personal apologies to the rare customer who has a bad experience with its counter staff.

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

«We are really happy with the results of the first quarter,» Steven Boal, founder and chief executive of Coupons.com, said, in a conversation after the company's first earnings call earlier this month.

When visionary founders depart (death, firing, etc.), the operating executives who reported to them believe it's their turn to run the company (often with the blessing of the ex CEO).

In contrast, before the company founders of the»80s started their businesses, they were generally involved with activities removed from their companies - to - be — Anita Roddick owned a small hotel in Littlehampton, England, and was raising two young daughters; Yvon Chouinard saw mountain climbing as a calling.

Throughout last year, the Virgin founder shared what he thinks are the keys ingredients to building a successful company with each letter of the alphabet, which he slowly revealed through the 365 days.

I've worked with countless CEOs of companies big and small, famous venture capitalists, and founders of startups that beat the odds and went public.

Strebulaev recalls a discussion he had several years back with the founders of the file - sharing company Dropbox and one of its investors.