Sentences with phrase «year running a company»

«Don't quit your day job,» Daymond John, founder of FUBU and one of the most iconic Sharks on Shark Tank, told Inc.com recently, recounting that for the first five years he ran his company, he was supporting himself by working full - time as a waiter at Red Lobster.

«I'm always happy to come back to the U.S.,» says Verdier, who for most of the year runs his company from New York City.

In your first year running a company, you need to focus on lead generation and building a sustainable sales pipeline.

Not exact matches

In fact, the company has an exclusive pact with Disney — including the right to run new movies months after their theatrical release — that begins next year.

No amount of spin will make Trump's dozen years at the helm of a Trump Hotels, the only public company Trump has ever run, look like anything but a flop that damaged thousands of shareholders, bondholders, and workers.

I'd been running my own companies as an entrepreneur for 15 years, and it all hit me for the first time exactly how much I needed to share, how much I was constantly holding in, and — perhaps most importantly — I had the realization that I wasn't the only one going through this.

The billionaire financier — whose holdings include a portfolio of energy companies and the NHL's Calgary Flames — left his longtime Calgary home last year to run his empire from the U.K..

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

Global sales were projected to top $ 24 trillion in 2015 and are expected to grow another 3.2 % this year, making the magnates who run the sector's largest companies even wealthier.

The leader in marijuana edibles in Colorado, the company is run by Nancy Whiteman, a 59 - year - old entrepreneur and mother of two.

But when he got the idea to start making Greek yogurt in the U.S., the company fixed the factory up and ran with it, and Ulukaya said he practially lived in the plant for five years to get Chobani off the ground.

Menear, who took the reins three years ago, has had the enviable though difficult task of building on his predecessor Frank Blake's remarkable run by finding new avenues of growth and preventing the company from falling into complacency.

Having founded a video game company, and with major investments in an eyewear company, Piqué is increasingly involved in business strategy himself; in 2017 he underwent an executive program at Harvard Business School, and he says he hopes to run Barça in the future, after he finally retires from football, probably in a few years» time.

A company Fun Run fundraiser for a non-profit organization, while impactful, is only one day out of the year.

Jill Barad ran the toy company for a few years in the late 1990s until she was ousted following a widely panned $ 3.5 billion acquisition of software company Learning Co..

Five years ago, if you had told Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy that they'd be running a company valued at $ 20 billion today, they wouldn't think you were crazy.

Ask 30 - year - old Emily Weiss whether she runs her skincare line, Glossier, as a product company or as an online media company with a merchandising arm, and she replies, simply, «Yes.»

Treurnicht runs a non-profit innovation hub whose emerging companies have attracted $ 2.6 - billion in capital and earned $ 1.25 - billion in revenue over its 12 - year existence.

After a nine - year bull run in stock markets, many analysts consider British and European companies to be close to peak values, ramping up the risk of over-priced purchases.

Previous CEO Paul Straus ran Home Hardware for 26 years, from 1988 to 2014, while Hachborn, who still keeps in close touch with company affairs, was in charge for the 24 years before that.

That was more than 10 years ago, and today, Hoffman still runs his water company (recently rebranded as o2cool.com), reinvesting any and all profits in the company, while earning his living strictly from domaining.

-- 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.

When you have years of experience running a business, as I do, you recognize patterns and can give good advice, even if you haven't been close to a specific company.

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.

With the series» last run of episodes beginning April 5, we've compiled the smartest strategies (and the most painful lessons) learned over the years by Don Draper and company.

Well, TRE finally got up and running late last year, and companies with more than $ 1.5 million in annual sales can now sell their receivables online to the highest bidder.

While the company expects that the deal will close in the fourth quarter of this year and add to earnings in 2018, analysts say the earnings boost may not be as lucrative to shareholders in the short run as share buybacks.

Three years earlier, Cramton quit his job as a furniture salesman to focus on building the company, which he had been running part time out of his basement in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Because for the past few years, many gold companies have nearly run their businesses — and their investors» equity — into the ground, despite an incredible rise in gold prices.

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The family - run company enjoyed a 274 % revenue growth over the past five years, with sales in Canada, United States and Mexico.

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.

The company's shares sank for years as the BlackBerry lost ground to the iPhone and phones running Google Inc.'s Android system.

Yesco ran contrary to everything Muzak was about, but the company clung to its formula for years to come.

The financial affairs of numerous previously low - key unlisted or foreign - owned companies headquartered in Western Australia have been released by the Australian Taxation Office for the second year running.

«Even if Uber can get 10 percent of that market, in the long run that still gives them a revenue of $ 200 billion [a year], which will make them one of the biggest companies in the world,» says Sundararajan, who didn't divine when he thought this might happen.

Disclaimer: The author has personally benefited from a number of CEO peer groups over the years and he currently runs a peer group for the CEOs of fast - growth companies called: The Inc..

While running her first company — Coutorture, a fashion and lifestyle ad network she started at age 22 and sold two years later — a typical day involved 12 hours at the office, followed by a night of schmoozing at industry events and a scant four hours of sleep.

A spokesman for the prosecutors in the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig) told Fortune that recent disclosures suggesting that chief executive Martin Winterkorn was aware of the long - running deception of U.S. regulators already in May 2014 — over a year before the company finally admitted it to the world — weren't enough by themselves to justify opening an investigation into the former boss.

The company has a loyal following in North America and is now looking to expand globally, tasks that Day is suited for after serving as head of Starbucks's Asia Pacific Group; she traveled 240 nights a year, running business operations in 10 countries in Asia.

Tim Cook has now run Apple for five years, long enough for this to be his company rather than Steve Jobs».

One «disinformation campaign» linked to about 80,000 Facebook posts in two years was run by the Russia - based Internet Research Agency (IRA), and the company estimates that 146 million people might have been served its content on Facebook and Instagram combined.

Confidence in Wasson began to wane, but as late as Nov. 24, 2014, Walgreens» proxy stated that he would run the company when the deal was consummated at year's end.

Now, two years after its 2013 launch, health insurance brokers, by the company's own account, are running scared.

After seven years running a service business that helps large organizations with multiple locations manage social media and online reputation, my company and I decided to make a leap into the mobile app world.

It's been a remarkable run for the company — in just four years it has quadruped its top - line sales, while shares are trading at a record high of about $ 53.

And NCO's billings have reached $ 3.5 million a year, growing so fast that the company has made the Inc. 500 three years running.

Helping run sales kickoff, despite being technically outside of my job description, accelerated my ability to successfully plan our company - wide MeetUp each year.

Running a business was a blast, Newman found, and three years later, he launched a new venture — Niche Marketing, which advertised and distributed products for progressive companies and nonprofit groups, such as a militant left - wing T - shirt maker and a manufacturer of water - saving showerheads.

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.