Sentences with phrase «years by their founders»

The high - performing companies we looked at had one thing in common — they were almost all run for many, many years by their founders.

Mavenlink was boot strapped for the first three years by founders, friends and family.

There's perhaps no more comprehensive analysis of the current trends than the annual Smashwords Book Industry Predictions, written each year by founder and CEO Mark Coker.

Started in that year by its founder, I. Oscar Spevack, the tradition continues with his son and current senior partner Ronald Wm. Spevack and his grandson David R. Spevack.

Not exact matches

But over the past year, the company has endured a series of embarrassments: soft sales, see - through pants and insensitive comments about plus - sized woman by founder Chip Wilson.

BERLIN, April 13 - Berlin - based digital bank N26 expects to offer its services in Britain and the United States by the end of the year, its founder and chief executive told Reuters.

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk told an audience at South by Southwest that his timeline for sending a space vehicle to Mars could mark its first milestone early next year.

The move by founder Nicolas Galperin to close after 11 years comes despite forecasts...

Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, whose company is owned by AOL (which was itself acquired by Verizon last year), sent out a memo to employees on Friday saying the company is shifting its approach to video.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

And yet, just eight years later, it seems Facebook may be turning into the very thing its founder once rejected: a still important technology company that's growing a bit long in the tooth and fighting to stay relevant by throwing stacks of money at whatever just might be the next big thing.

Canadian companies even have a new resource to turn to in their quest for female candidates: a recruiting firm launched last year by Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women's Executive Network.

These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

If the Bank of Canada ultimately raises its benchmark rate by 50 basis points from the start of the year, that could increase borrowers» monthly payments by approximately 5 per cent, according to Rob McLister, founder of comparison site RateSpy.com.

BERLIN, April 13 (Reuters)- Berlin - based digital bank N26 expects to offer its services in Britain and the United States by the end of the year, its founder and chief executive told Reuters.

Unicorn startup Medallia was bootstrapped by its founders for 10 years before they sought venture capital investment.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

After being astonished by the stunning images of flooding in Texas, Kenan Pala — the 13 - year - old founder of Kids4Community, a San Diego - based non-profit — decided to take action.

As part of the Year of Zayed, the initiative was also inspired by the leadership of UAE's founder, H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

Trump has criticized Amazon for well more than a year, often tying the company to The Washington Post, owned by Amazon's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos.

-- Rifat Oguz, founder and CEO of Sinemia, a global movie ticket subscription system used by five million moviegoers in five countries and named on Wired's annual list of hottest startups last year

By next year, founder Richard Jenkins hopes, there will be more Saildrone boats capturing data in the world's oceans than there are satellites in the sky.

-- Scott Scherr, CEO and founder of Ultimate Software, an HR tech platform on track to hit $ 1 billion in annual revenue this year and used by companies such as Subway, First Horizon, MLB, the Phoenix Suns, Yamaha, and Nikon

Anthony Lacavera, the founder of Wind Mobile turned VC investor, told Canadian Business earlier this year that the situation means entrepreneurs sell out prematurely or get wooed across the border by U.S. investors.

One year ago ExactTarget, an interactive marketing software company, went public with a market cap of over $ 1 billion (and I wrote about the mental journey from start - up to IPO taken by the company's founders.)

Ethan Song, founder of Frank & Oak, was inspired by reflecting on his teenage years to launch its new clothing line, Escondido.

Backed by a host of investors and advisors including Techstars CTO Jud Valeski and Modern Farmer founder Ann Marie Gardner, the project has plans to incubate 10 new food businesses in its first year, tackling everything from food tech to policy solutions.

Rad's about - face is at least the third high - profile return by an ousted founder this year: Zynga brought back Mark Pincus in April to take over from Canadian Don Mattrick and Twitter replaced Dick Costolo with Jack Dorsey, albeit on an interim basis.

Maytag, the 72 - year - old entrepreneur behind the Anchor Steam brand, is an icon all by himself: The great grandson of the founder of the Maytag Corporation, he bought the small brewery in 1965, reviving and renaming it.

Fred Crosetto, the founder and CEO of Ammex, a disposable glove distributor based in Kent, Washington, has seen his Chinese business grow by nearly 70 percent year - over-year.

In a post laying out several tips for start - ups in the new year, Blumenthal separates the big data hype from the reality on the ground for many small businesses, and offers sensible - sounding advice on how founders can avoid being overwhelmed by walking a middle way.

-- Gordon Ritter, founder and general partner of Emergence Capital, an enterprise cloud venture firm which was recently named Venture Capital Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association

But as research by author Noam Wasserman (author of The Founder's Dilemma) has shown, by the time a venture is three years old 50 percent of founders are no longer in charge, a cliff - like decline that continues to plummet by upwards of 10 percent every year thereafter.

But the years after the deaths of HP's founders in 2001 and 1996, respectively, were defined by large acquisitions (Compaq, Electronic Data Systems, Palm) that didn't work out.

The creator of the controversial technology went by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, and over the years multiple media outlets have attempted to unmask the mysterious founder.

«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.

According to one limited partner who has been involved in every Founders Fund pool since 2007, performances have ranked in the «top quartile, if not the top decile» of all VC funds of their vintage (i.e., the category determined by the year the fund closed), with annual returns in the 35 % to 45 % range.

The founder and CEO of Facebook has often been characterized as a wunderkind, earning his first billion at just 23 years old, and his college - sweetheart wife, Priscilla Chan, has been by his side since the start.

Papa John's International founder John Schnatter will step down as chief executive by the year - end, the pizza chain operator said on Thursday, weeks after his comments on the NFL leadership drew criticism.

As Popeyes enters its 45th year, its success reflects the amazing brand entrusted to us by founder Al Copeland Sr. and the unique high trust partnership that we enjoy with our franchise owners.

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The following is based on a five - year study of key entrepreneurial strengths by Gallup, a global research and consulting firm, which studied more than 4,000 founders to understand the talents that foster business creation and growth.

But Cook gave it a personal touch by invoking his mentor, Steve Jobs, the Apple founder who he replaced just before his death four years ago, and the company's can - do ethos.

The 19 - year - old pop star led a $ 1.1 million seed round for the new social network called Shots Of Me, which is scheduled to launch later this week by the founders of RockLive games.

Zola's round also represents the sixth largest raise this year by a startup with a female founder, according to data from PitchBook.

Despite weathering the storm, CEO and founder Gal Haber is stepping aside to take the role of managing director in April, to be replaced by 35 - year - old Asaf Elimelech.

The large number of immigrants among Fortune 500 founders was first documented eight years ago by an organization called New American Economy.

Founder Edwin Land, by then 51 years old, was to many an «aloof, authoritarian» chief executive, hell - bent on overtaking the far bigger Eastman Kodak (then ranked No. 45).