Sentences with phrase «years before launching»

«There's no question that we have a lot of experience with distressed assets, and the current environment is almost like a repeat of what happened [in the early 1990s],» says Michaels, who sold life insurance for a couple of years before launching his real estate career in 1980 by joining real estate syndicator Island Planning.

Like many startup founders, Elizabeth had saved for years before launching her farm - to - table grocery delivery business.

He ran it for years before launching his own eponymous firm in 1978.

Apple has a reputation for avoiding markets where it can't keep the product's standards in line with its brand image — famously avoiding netbooks for years before launching the higher - end Air range — so it's reasonable to assume that any 7 - inch iPad is going to be an attractive product with some aluminum involved.

Cathy Lewis, president of C.S. Lewis & Company Publicists, worked as an in - house publicist in publishing houses for seven years before launching her own company in 1994, convinced that she could do a much better job serving authors.

He taught social studies at a public high school in Maine for eight years before launching his blog.

Tavonia Evans, who worked in the tech industry for nearly 20 years before launching her own cryptocurrency, called $ Guap, sees those women too and says they're raising the bar because of how they've been held back in the past.

Mobipocket Two years before launching its first hardware device — the Kindle — Amazon started making investments in the e-reader's underlying technology, which included buying this Paris - based software company that developed an e-file format for physical books.

Luo moved to New York City when he was 16 and studied at Parsons for two years before launching his eponymous fashion label in 2014.

It took me about two years before launching Dwolla to figure out how to legally do it and get into the marketplace and raise the first chunk of money.

She worked at Snapchat in Los Angeles for nearly two years before launching Nomadica.

He ran it for years before launching his own eponymous firm in 1978.

Four years before he launched his company, Nesi reached out to a college friend, whose family had started AriZona Beverages, a billion - dollar company.

It's hard to see another potential giant on the horizon right now, but remember that RIM was around for 12 years before it launched its first wireless messaging device, the Inter@ctive pager.

Fisher kicked off his buyout program in 2012, a year before he launched the «I Hate Annuities...» ad campaign.

Soon after his death Islam spread / invaded N. Africa and Spain... 350 years before the launch of the first Christian Crusade... and made several attempts at the Balkans over roughly a thousand years....

Shao and his colleagues have seven years before the launch date to work out the glitches, but given the aspirations for SIM, they will probably be grateful for every minute of it.

Ground - based detectors are more technologically advanced than space - based telescopes, because the design for space instruments has to be frozen five or six years before launch.

In 1980, three years before the launch of the massive epidemiological study in China bearing the same name as Campbell's book, Campbell's research group switched from using Sprague Dawley rats to Fisher 344 rats (4).

I sat on my first webisode for over a year before launching it because I was terrified and felt so exposed.

Student participation in the federal School Breakfast Program has increased 73 percent since 2010 — the year before the launch of the New Jersey Food for Thought Campaign.

Even then its still your own damn fault for not pre-ordering one; it was announced a year before it launched.

It came exactly one year before the launches of the PS4 and Xbox One as it launched in November.

Sony's PlayStation VR was pumped up excessively last year before it launched in the fall.

And Rockstar, the only announcements they've ever made more than a year before launch was because the launch itself was delayed.

Speaking at the E3 video games conference in Los Angeles, the president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment also expressed surprise that Microsoft had announced its Project Scorpio hardware over a year before launch.

Anthony Huberman: We gave ourselves an entire year before launching a new program because I wanted to spend time really thinking through some questions: What is the point of this kind of nonprofit art institute?

During the summer of 1998, two years before the launch of Tate Modern in 2000, teenagers, retirees, artists and historians mudlarked on the foreshores of Millbank and Bankside for artefacts at low tide.

His large - scale activism began in 2007 — the year before he launched 350.org — with a Step It Up campaign featuring gatherings in all 50 states.

Last year before the launch of the Moto G4 Plus the company was not expected to give Android 8.0 Oreo update for the smartphones.

However I've been developing software years before I launched Lee - Soft.

It was launched two years before the launch of Nokia N97, i.e., in 2007.

Throughout, Facebook has touted a team of advisers, academics and families who helped shape the app in the year before it launched.

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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.

A Cboe spokesperson initially told CNBC the bitcoin futures launch is expected «probably before the end of the year,» but later clarified, saying the exchange couldn't be that specific.

Often, presidential candidates will launch their bids for office a year or more before the actual November elections.

Interest graph targeting takes advantage of the insights that Flipboard has built up in its five years of serving readers, cofounder and CEO Mike McCue said in an interview before the launch.

He said Blue Origin also hopes to launch tourists to space before the end of the year on the New Shepard rocket.

Before he can get an answer, McMullin launches into a giddy litany of all the Edmark products he owns, what his five - year - old daughter and three - year - old son can do with them, and why the lukewarm prospect who's been staring vacantly at the screen until now should buy anything with the name Edmark on it.

A Harvard graduate, Tuzman worked as an analyst for five years on Wall Street, before launching his own company, govWorks.com, which is featured in the documentary»Startup.com.»

However, it took eight years before Power Corp. launched a business venture there.

Becker had a 16 - year career at communications giant Edelman, but had no experience of running her own business before launching Caulipower.

Yahoo had launched the year before, but it had only recently shed its original name, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.

They launched Indiegogo in 2008 (ahem, a year before Kickstarter); users like that it's global and allows all projects — and that there's an option to keep money raised even if they don't hit their goal.

The Pet Rock (whose inventor I consider the greatest entrepreneur of all time) made its debut in October 1975 - in other words, 19 years and nine months before the launch of Amazon, which is now 20 years old.

A new project - management tool startup, SpringSled, has been able to acquire over 138,000 users before even launching their product by simply offering users who refer five or more customers with an early, free one - year access to the finished product.

Working men were loving Levi's for 60 years before «Lady Levi's» launched in 1934 — just as women in denim became legal on New York City streets and Audrey Hepburn was popularizing pants.

Aequitas co-founder and CEO Jos Schmitt told Canadian Business earlier this year that one of the problems with Canadian capital markets is that companies launch initial public offerings before they're mature enough to operate as publicly traded corporations:

Remember, this was a full four years before we would even launch the very sparse library of titles as a free add - on to the beloved DVD - by - Mail service.»

YouTube had launched only three months before his graduation and Twitter wouldn't arrive until nearly a year later.