Sentences with phrase «years building a team»

Over the past few years they built a team to deal with the growth of their ecommerce store from $ 100,000 in 2011 to $ 3 million in 2013.

18 fookin years building a team, if he hasn't got it right now he never will.

We have spent years building a team of coaches with the expertise in concurrent training for strength and endurance.

Not exact matches

The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

A couple of years ago, one of our best developers quit on us mainly because the team we had built wasn't good enough for him.

In the coming year, we plan to expand even more, including building out our team to meet demand and look for even different ways to leverage our exclusive student - generated content.

As an entrepreneur with a career spanning over 16 years and multiple successful companies under his belt, Blake B. Johnson knows that building a solid core team is a pillar of innovation.

«When you make it so the whole team does it, it really does give the entire team a long weekend — a built - in, enjoy - yourself time each month of the year,» Douglas said.

Since launching KingFisher more than 20 years ago, he and his management team have built the 150 - person company into the market leader in the heavy - gauge welded aluminum boat category.

Since I started this business over two years ago, I have had a goal of building an industry - leading service for local businesses, but I never dreamed we (SinglePlatform, the team, and me personally) would have had this opportunity.

This is a great strategy for showing what your team is made of and building some strong momentum for the coming year.

Like any start - up, the first thing Churchill did three and a half years ago when he founded VonChurch was build a senior management team, or as he calls it, «a supergroup» that would be as cohesive and successful as some of the best rock bands.

Twelve years, two companies, 100 employees, and three times on the Inc. 500 list of fastest - growing companies later, I've learned that the only way to build a company with great success and scale is to build a great team.

Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

Within days, a team of designers was in the XJ offices, mapping out the next generation in customer - relationship management software with a clear mandate: «Take the best of what we've done in this space over the past 20 years,» says Tatham, «and starting from scratch, build better than ever before.»

NexJ, the software firm he quietly built with a tight - knit team of former Janna executives, has grown a whopping 36,000 % in the past five years, with 2009 sales of more than $ 18 million.

Your in - house team can help, but, as often as not, the thing that's busted is something they've built in the first place and have been bandaging rather than rebuilding for years -(See Build a Bridge Over Your Old Code, Not a Band - Aid).

«In the past we'd march on for months or years before we'd admit defeat,» says Chik, an 18 - year veteran who now runs the engineering team that builds Microsoft's mobile device management technologies.

More money, a new building, a reconfigured brand, an entirely new senior leadership team, and a radical reorganization of the faculty, all in four years.

The hire is another coup for Coinbase, which has rapidly been building out its executive team as the more than 5 - year - old startup, now worth over $ 1 billion, attempts to fortify its reputation as one of few professional financial institutions catering to Bitcoin investors.

Leaders must know how to build teams - that's no different now than it was 20 years ago.

But over the years I learned how to manage the work and build support teams.

The team spent the first five years of the company's life building out what co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly describes as a «giant compiler, debugger, and programming language for genetic code.»

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

The aim is to build a team of about nine, including themselves by the end of the year, with a small office in Hong Kong also expected to open before the year - end.

Even though we had the software live and running within eBay for three years before we spun it out, it still took us months to get customers on board, build a team, raise money and scale revenue.

In the past five years, we've built our own fraud engine and now have a global team of 2,000 safety experts dedicated to identifying potential fraudulent activity.

Indeed, that attitude explains how, nearly seven years after their fateful game of catch, the former dorm mates — RAM not only stands for «Randy and Mike» but also is the nickname (Rams) of sports teams at Colorado State University, their alma mater — have built a $ 4.6 - million company that competes against the likes of Wilson, Spalding, and Nike.

Your insights will flow back to your company's product development team, for them to build additional features into your product, that can help next year's upsell with that client.

FORTUNE — When Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer suggested we build some kind of online, interactive game around this year's Executive Dream Team feature, a sports theme seemed obvious.

The team at Ames in California has toiled for years to design and build its Astrobees.

All told, Team Building Systems paid only three months» rent for a tenancy of 27 months and was clear of three years» high - priced obligations.

The team members who remain behind the scenes are the ones responsible for building a grassroots, bottom - up culture — the driving force behind our various accolades over the years.

The challenge for our team this year was to build a new version of that offering, and to figure out how to seamlessly move millions of people from one to the other.

To try and overcome many of these issues we held all company meetings twice / year where we paid for EVERY employee (executive assistants, customer support staff, interns) in the company to come to a central location for a day - and - a-half of team building & fun.

Five years ago, Google — one of the most public proselytizers of how studying workers can transform productivity — became focused on building the perfect team.

Earlier this year, Musk announced a Hyperloop pod competition that would enable students and independent engineering teams to design and build a subscale pod for the train.

Generally I agree (9 times out of 10) with your startup thoughts, especially given you and members of your super team (like ex-vancouverite Catrina) have done it before (and I've just been building for past 8 years) but I have a couple of quibbles on this post (but not necessarily «disagreement»).

He built this team and established the market presence and ecosystem for FireEye in Japan from scratch, achieving $ 6M in revenue in the first year and growing it to $ 35M revenue with 100 + local employees in three years.

Nearly 5 years ago I was just beginning to build out our US based link building team so there was plenty we'd yet to learn on how to finesse the prospecting and outreach.

The portfolio has been built over a period of ten years by Innovestor ventures team within Finnvera Plc..

We look forward to building on the team's and community's successes for years to come.

Prior to joining Zillow, Stan spent five years at Expedia where he ran the advanced analytics team, which applied innovative econometric and data mining approaches to internal business problems, building systems for personalization, pricing, forecasting, and fraud detection.

Over the past 16 years W Capital has pioneered this approach to minority investing, building an incredible portfolio, team and culture that I'm fortunate to be part of.»

A little more than two years ago, we set out on a mission to build a sales development team.

With more than 100 executive sales and marketing placements in our 11 - year history, we were compelled to build a specific team exclusively focused on connecting the very best business leaders with companies looking for intelligent and structured growth.

After three years, and 60 + investments closed on his own, Jeff built a team and raised a larger, $ 55M Fund III that invested in 55 companies.

He is a firm believer that outstanding results can only be achieved through people; engaging people and teams, building commitment by creating a new paradigm between company and employee and delivering extraordinary results year - after - year.

I built an amazing team around me over the last three years, and I should have empowered them more to help solve the big problems and take advantage of the big opportunities.

In the past two years, Andrew has scaled Square's SDR team while also building out a new enterprise team to focus on high growth accounts.