• Product or Packaging Innovation
Has your company launched a new product or packaging concept in the last year?
Had the company launched the Sonic twins, the Maruti Suzuki Swift and Swift DZire would be sweating by now.
Not exact matches
As New York
launches an investigation of The Weinstein
Company, one of Harvey Weinstein's former assistants
has broken her non-disclosure agreement to discuss his behavior.
In the two years since Watson Health
launched, it
has struck partnerships with an impressive array of academic institutions, such as the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and prominent biopharma
companies like Pfizer (pfe), Medtronic (mdt), and Johnson & Johnson (jnj).
After Amazon
launched the Alexa Fund, one of its portfolio
companies called foul, saying that the
company had cloned its product with the Echo show.
Gin Lane
had never taken equity before, but Harry's
had backing from a number of venture capital firms Shine knew well, and one of the Harry's co-founders
had helped
launch online eyewear
company Warby Parker.
Bezos also
has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space
company Blue Origin, which successfully
launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.
Bohn says she
had plenty of big -
company suitors, including Target, after her
company launched in 2004.
After Hogan
launched his lawsuit against the
company, it was revealed that PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel
had been bankrolling the former wrestler and others who were suing Gawker, in the hope of driving the
company out of business.
KIND, which
launched in 2004,
has sold more than one billion bars and currently
has 300 people working full - time at the
company.
The San Francisco - based
company launched in 2011 with hoodies designed to last a lifetime; it
has since expanded into jackets, pants, belts, and dresses.
He?s a former software executive, entrepreneur and fund manager, and
has founded or financed more than 40
companies that
have launched more than 100 products with transactions exceeding one billion dollars of capital.
Just like the rest of us, Knight
had moments of self - doubt and constant flirtations with disaster as he
launched and grew his
company.
Almost three decades after
launching the
company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders
had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.
The
company brought in more than 6.65 million Euros ($ 7 million) in 2015 sales, and
has been profitable since
launching in 2010, according to Desandre.
The thinking is that the industry will continue its current trajectory of steady growth, which means that as much as there are opportunities to
launch new podcast programming
companies, there is also tremendous opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to build businesses that
would help the industry scale up its processes.
It's true, Apple wasn't first to
launch a smart watch, but it
has done something other
companies have failed to do: make us realize just how useful a smart watch can be.
The
company, according to the Times,
had planned to
launch a self - driving car service in Arizona by December.
When I
launched my first
company, at age 19, I
had a dedicated phone next to my bed for customer calls.
The
company has been a big proponent of the benefits of technology advances since it
launched its business 30 years ago from a garage in Tempe, Arizona.
Erickson and his wife, Kit Crawford,
launched Clif Bar &
Company in 1992 and
have grown it into a business with more than 20 products.
-- Elliot Tomaeno, founder and CEO of Astrsk PR, an award - winning PR agency that
has launched more than 300
companies and products since being founded in 2012
Having worked at traditional financial planning firms since 2007, certified financial planner Sophia Bera quit her job in mid-2013 to
launch her own
company, Gen Y Planning, catering to millennial investors.
Christopher Yoshida, the chief strategy, sales and marketing officer at trading firm trueEx,
has been busy with client meetings following the
company's announcement that it is
launching a derivatives platform for digital currencies.
Scott Svenson, who
launched the
company with his wife Ally, says the gamble
has paid off in many ways.
And Ellis says Relativity
has $ 1 billion in letter - of - intent
launch contracts, largely with
companies looking to send up midsize satellites about the size of a car.
Launched in 2009 by three Yale alums — Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory — and refined during a stint with the well - known startup incubator Y Combinator, the
company was completing the details of a massive $ 40 million funding round by one of the top investors in tech, a piece of news they
had agreed to announce as part of a profile on Business Insider.
He did it in his recent Tesla master plan, referring to the low chance of success he knew he
had when starting Tesla by citing the fact that Ford is the only U.S. car
company to
have avoided bankruptcy — knowledge he didn't
have when he
launched Tesla in 2003, six years before GM and Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
If Snap spawns something like the» PayPal mafia» — PayPal alumni
have gone on to
launch billion - dollar
companies like Palantir, LinkedIn, and Yelp — the Los Angeles startup community could give Silicon Valley a run for its money.
Boekhoff's says the
company has just
launched a partnership with Tommy Hilfiger in Europe.
PERTH
company aCure Technology
has launched the city's first CBD - wide free WiFi service - beating competitors and the City of Perth.
After Amazon
launched the Alexa Fund, one of its portfolio
companies called foul, saying that the
company had
Since
launching Raleigh Construction
Company (now Raleigh Enterprises) in 1955, he
has acquired, developed and managed more than 11 million square feet of real estate across the globe, reimagining dormant plots of land and run - down commercial buildings as resort hotels, residential apartments, office towers, shopping centers and film studios.
But because it was the first smartphone Samsung
launched after discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 — some of which were found to
have a battery defect that could cause it to explode or catch on fire — the
company delayed the
launch to implement a new safety - testing protocol to ensure the phones» batteries were safe, it said.
Four years before he
launched his
company, Nesi reached out to a college friend, whose family
had started AriZona Beverages, a billion - dollar
company.
Sysco says he suspected the technology
would need to gain FDA approval from the time the
company launched in 2005, because it was designing an app that physicians
would prescribe like a drug or device.
In the years since he
launched his site, the Brazilian trader
has signed on many clients who found his
company through a web search.
Lubetzky
launched KIND in 2004, and today, the healthy - snack
company has about 300 full - time employees and
has sold one billion bars.
Just 24 hours after the official
launch of the
company — accompanied by coverage in GQ and Vogue — Warby Parker
had to suspend its home try - on program.
Like so many women, I
'd launched my
company after
having a child.
Everyone knew the
launch was a disaster and the
company had to stop opening stores so it could fix its operational problems, but no one actually said so.
When Facebook announced on Tuesday that it was
launching a dating service, many eyebrows were raised: after all, this is a
company that is currently under fire around the world for the lax way in which it
has handled users» personal data.
A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures,
has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them
launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care
company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.
Domestically, the
company has also
launched mobile boarding passes which further facilitates the process of flying by eliminating paper printouts and waiting in long check - in lines at the airport.
Having the opportunity to work for
companies like Deloitte, working at Pardot when we were acquired by Salesforce, and now
launching my own startup with 75 employees and growing, I don't think I could
have been this fortunate in any other country.
Upon
launching the business, while Yates knew how to reach potential customers thanks to her experience in online sales,
having worked for big
companies such as Google and Facebook — science wasn't her area.
A number of eastern - States - based outfits
have launched DVD rental
companies and, more recently, Telstra announced its plans for fetchmemovies.com, designed to target existing broadband customers.
The year after the campaign
launched, Intel became the world's biggest semiconductor
company, a position it hasn't relinquished since.
«In our 14 years in business we
have never
launched a program that changed the face and direction of the
company more significantly than our free POS initiative.»
Quickflix chief executive officer Stephen Langsford said the
company had been aware of Telstra's intention to
launch a similar product into the market for some time.