Sentences with phrase «years in a software company»

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Nine years later, I've largely managed to avoid those things I feared, and along the way, I've become an expert in my company's software products and in communicating their value to customers.

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..

A Canadian company called IC Potash changed its name last year to Belgravia Capital International, and intends to produce specialized fertilizers for cannabis firms and form partnerships with growers in Canada and the U.S. Belgravia also proposes to use «blockchain technology software» to track seed sales and quality.

Qualtrics now sells its software to a growing list of Fortune 500 companies — Home Depot hd, Gap gps, and CarMax kmx are among those that use it to collect and analyze customer feedback — and an IPO is likely in the next two years.

Tim Harris, co-founder of 30 Under 30 honoree Swift Navigation, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008 and spent the next couple of years working as an industrial planner for OR Soft, a German software and consulting company.

Thanks to the new law, the largest tech companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result in a bottomless well of capital to fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»

«As a now 130 - person software company with plans to hire 100 more in the next year, our hardest challenge will be to keep the same level of shared purpose and context across everyone in the company.»

With three - year revenue growth of 424 %, security software and appliance company Untangle clocked in at No. 932 on the 2016 Inc. 5000.

Last spring, Salesforce (crm), which sells customer management and sales software to big companies, committed to spending $ 400 million over four years to host new software on AWS rather than in its own data centers.

Bring it on, say CEOs like Larry Fiorino of G1440, a three - year - old Internet software company based in Columbia, Md. «Internet and technology businesses move at a faster rate,» he says.

One of the changes the company has made in the years since is to change that original mission statement, which now reads like this: «Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software.

It's funny that both companies are now underdogs, given that only a few years ago they were the undisputed kings of their respective realms — Microsoft in software and Nokia in phones.

Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

Separately, the White House said a private - sector partnership connected to the Startup America program was announcing $ 1 billion in services — from free software and consulting to legal services — to 100,000 start - up companies during the next three years.

The data center software company's sudden stock spike follows several media reports on Thursday that said Dell was considering going public, just five years after the technology giant went private in a deal worth nearly $ 25 billion.

We've been running a business together for eight years now: We founded Sonic Boom Wellness, a software company in the corporate wellness world, in June 2007 while we were dating.

Snap also revealed that it will spend $ 2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years and has custom built its software and computer systems to use Google's computing, storage, bandwidth, and other services, some of which do not have an alternative in the market, the company said in the S - 1 filing.

Lamb determined that his 17 - year - old enterprise software firm, which provides cost accounting services to drilling companies (and is ranked 385th on the 2013 PROFIT 500), would thrive in Colorado's oil and gas sector, which is similar to Alberta's.

In five years, Kunal Gupta has built Toronto - based Polar Mobile into one of the world's leading digital - media software developers, creating mobile sites for clients like Condé Nast, The Wall Street Journal, CBS and every major Canadian media company.

Its filing follows one of the strongest tech IPOs of the year, from software company Atlassian Corp, which raised $ 462 million in its debut and brought some cheer to the dour market.

Today, the 8 - year - old company announced it is acquiring TopTix, an Israeli ticketing software company that has processed over 80 million ticket sales, for $ 56 million in an effort to bolster and expand its newly - launched feature, SeatGeek Open.

Aptly named XJ Partners, the company focused on tech firms in the health sector, where the software «lagged what we were doing on Wall Street by at least 10 years,» he says.

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

The company, founded in 2007, has provided for many years consumer backups (uploading your hard drive to the cloud), but had the technology built (their own self - built software and hardware to profitably create backup) that could handle large amounts of data, but also make sure the company still made money.

In recent years, however, these networking companies have begun to shift to a more software - oriented line of products and are restructuring their own businesses to accommodate the needs of business customers that want more flexibility.

The agreement includes a five - year unlimited Evidence.com license with Axon Five image - processing software specifically designed for investigative, forensic and security applications, the company said in a news release.

He said that his staff found a 42 - year - old software bug in its system, which highlights the elderly technology the company must deal with.

This year has seen a string of successful technology IPOs, including Snap and enterprise software company MuleSoft in March, breaking last year's dry spell.

According to data compiled by Ubot Studio, a marketing automation software company, ecommerce is a $ 200 billion industry in the U.S. that is projected to expand by 15 percent each year.

You can't rely strictly on a magazine's demographics, says Gordon Gossage, head of sales and marketing at MathSoft, a Cambridge, Mass., software company that has grown its sales from $ 1 million to $ 10 million in five years.

«With the myriad of sophisticated attacks and the ad infinitum game of «cat and mouse» between hackers and security software vendors, we believe a big ramp in cybersecurity spending will continue in the coming years as «cyber warfare» heats up, adding to growth prospects at next - generation security software companies,» said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent note.

I was CFO of a successful software company that had to show average returns of more than 25 percent of revenue to the bottom line after taxes, growth of more than 50 percent per year for five years and an excess of $ 20 million in annual revenue before the bank would release the owner's personal guarantees.

Aquantive didn't bring in as much online ad revenue as Microsoft envisioned, prompting the software maker to absorb a $ 6.2 billion charge last year that resulted in its first quarterly loss in its 26 - year history as a public company.

«Steve was in your face, screaming, and Tim is more quiet, more cerebral in his approach,» said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet software and services, in an interview with Fast Company earlier this year.

In launching the Aliso Viejo, Calif., company three years ago, Maiffret set out to write software that could outsmart even the most clever of hackers.

In a gamble that police departments will sign up for paid software subscriptions, the company is offering a free body camera to police officers in addition to a year of free access to Evidence.com, its online software for managing video and other evidencIn a gamble that police departments will sign up for paid software subscriptions, the company is offering a free body camera to police officers in addition to a year of free access to Evidence.com, its online software for managing video and other evidencin addition to a year of free access to Evidence.com, its online software for managing video and other evidence.

In the past few years, software that assesses your supply chain risk have proliferated from numerous companies.

As your business needs evolve, be sure to strateglically review all features in the tool at least twice a year to maximize your investment in the software, says John Kiraly, client informations systems manager at ARI, a fleet management company.

Nintendo has since said that it plans to unveil details on the NX in 2016, and a report in the Wall Street Journal last year revealed the company had already started distributing software development kits to developers so they could start creating games for the platform.

Over at the Globe and Mail, I popped in on QNX, the Ottawa - based software company owned by smartphone maker BlackBerry, to see what was new and also to see what they thought of the big news of Google's Open Automotive Alliance, which will be pushing Android onto cars starting this year.

The bread - and - butter of the company — PC software — is in a free fall, having its worst year in 2013 since analysts started tracking the market.

As a strategist for Razorfish and Director of Marketing for an e-procurement software company, she spent four years in the technology start - up trenches.

In the 13 years since — as the Toronto - based software company has grown from 30 employees to nearly 200 — he's done just that.

Qualtrics, the Provo, Utah - based enterprise software company famous for bootstrapping in its early years, has raised $ 180 million in new venture funding, valuing it at $ 2.5 billion.

The Minnetonka, Minn - based company, which appeared on the Inc. 500 for the third year in a row this year, will be acquired by California - based SuccessFactors, a human resources software vendor that is itself being acquired by German company SAP.

HubSpot, a marketing software company in Cambridge, Mass., offers 90 % off its very expensive software for one year to early - stage startups with less than $ 1 million in funding and revenue.

Sean Gourley, the founder and CEO of Primer, a 2.5 - year - old, previously media - shy startup that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to parse vast quantities of data and spit out pithy, navigable digests, is demonstrating his company's software for me in a midtown Manhattan office near the United Nations» headquarters.

The 4 - year - old Silicon Valley startup pairs companies in need of software developers with freelance programmers from around the world who are looking for work.

Now as a midmarket account executive at Lever, a leading recruiting software company based in San Francisco, Megan Dunn has worked in inside sales for years — including time spent at both Oracle and Okta.

In a few years» time, the best - case scenario is that RIM reinvents itself as a niche mobile player, either with hardware, or as a pure software and services company.