Sentences with phrase «young founders who»

Entrepreneurship is a solitary life, and for the young founders who pack up and move to the desert with the promise of funding, one's life and one's company are very tightly intertwined.

So you might logically think that the most successful fast - growth companies are started by very young founders who are unfettered by convention and unwritten rules, able to take risks, and unafraid to shake up the old order.

I recently met a young founder who just graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in biology — a field in which he excelled by any objective criteria.

Not exact matches

The youngest successful founders were those who had received funding from New York City - based venture capital firms, although even then their average age was 38.7 — old enough to have been Mark Zuckerberg's parent when he started Facebook from his dorm room at 19.

«As a first - time, young female founder who quickly grew from three people on a couch to a team of ten, we love how this book clearly outlines so many tactical approaches to communication, being a good leader, and building trust on the team.»

I won't reveal yet who my favorites are, but I will say that these young scientist - founders came up with very creative solutions for preventing infections in some common surgeries, tackling resistance in targeted antibody drugs, improving gene vectors for cell therapies, helping the vision - impaired «see» faces and better read their environments, imaging hard - to - see spots in the lungs and other organs, improving genetic risk analysis, and expediting the logistical operations of hospitals.

Called The Next Foundry, it will link high school entrepreneurs with young founders like Gillis who can guide them through the startup process.

The drugstore chain is a relative unknown outside its home of Quebec, but there, the founder is a familiar, grandfatherly icon who, along with his youngest son and current CEO, François, was inducted into Canada's Marketing Hall of Legends last year.

Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani is partnering with big Silicon Valley companies to teach young girls to love computer science.

Inc.com's Eric Markowitz staged a debate between two young entrepreneurs who have taken different paths: Trevor Owens, 22, is the founder of InsideStartups.org, and he is on leave from New York University.

«One thing that differentiates the young founders is who they can connect with early on,» says David Cohen, executive director of TechStars, a Boulder, Colorado, incubator that works with Millennial company founders.

«I don't think of a lot of tech guys have been particularly generous, especially the young guys who've made billions of dollars,» said James Steyer, CEO and founder of Common Sense Media.

Vice founder Shane Smith, fresh off the cover of the latest Marketing magazine, was in Toronto on Feb. 23 to talk to Canadian marketers who want to connect with young people.

Venture capitalist Mark Suster explains that the cost of starting a company has fallen by 90 % in the past decade, one reason investors — who also have heard of Zuckerberg and Mason — are more willing to fund more companies, with younger founders, ever earlier in their life cycle.

The classic rags - to - riches tale of an enterprising dreamer who works all hours to build her dream business is part of what makes start - up life such a compelling idea, and young, growing businesses get plenty of media mileage out of their human interest aspects, from working out of garages to quirky founders.

In addition to founder Zooko Wilcox, who brings more than 20 years experience in cryptography, security and startups, contributors include six scientists: three PHD scientists from Johns Hopkins and one young PHD dude from MIT who focuses on zero - knowledge cryptography.

«Our bread and butter are younger people who move approximately 12 times between going to college and buying their first home,» wrote founder and CEO Jay Reno, in an email to VentureBeat.

Many people believe that tech founders are young, technical experts who studied at a prominent local university.

Equity - based pay is often used by the founders of young startups who want to grow their businesses but can not offer big salaries to qualified professionals.

It's refreshing to be reminded that not everyone who met the zealous young advocate for life in community and the Sermon on the Mount was equally impressed — Hardy Arnold, son of the founder of the pacifist Bruderhof near Frankfurt, thought Bonhoeffer a bit of a dandy and a romantic when Bonhoeffer visited there in 1934.

(CNN)- The founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, wed as many as 40 wives, including some who were already married and one as young as 14 years old, the church acknowledged in a surprising new essay.

«The aim is to accompany young people in their journey of faith — and for that, we need spirit - filled evangelists, who are really in love with God» said Curtis Martin, founder of the movement, which began in America and is now in its 20th year.

Well, they young guys who run BIG THINK (with, I hope, good reason) think of themselves as something akin to the founders of GOOGLE or YOUTUBE.

The founder of the movement, Rachel Eyitayo, told Premier the group was birthed by a group of young Christians who saw a need for love «among fear, darkness and confusion.»

Their founder was Peter Waldo, a rich merchant of Lyons who, seeking salvation, in 1176 took to heart the advice of Jesus to the rich young ruler, paid off his creditors, provided for his wife and children, gave the remainder to the poor, began begging his daily bread, and traversed the countryside and the cities preaching the Gospel as he found it in a vernacular translation of the New Testament.

«We have a whole generation of young people who don't know that abuse is wrong, and who are learning about sex from pornography,» says Natalie Collins, domestic abuse survivor and founder of Spark, a consultancy preventing violence against women.

«As the mother of two young kids who attend New York City public schools, I know first - hand how important it is for children to eat lunch at school,» said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, a Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Kids Safety Caucus.

Among the national co-chairs are prominent Arab - American activist Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and founder and CEO of MPower Change, and activist Tamika Mallory, who served as the youngest executive director of Sharpton's NAN.

Our panelists included: Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein, emergency room physician Dr. Joshua Lynch, former Erie County Sheriff's Department narcotics detective Alan Rozansky, substance abuse counselor and supervisor Carolyn Grisko, Clarence Town Drug Court founder Judge Mike Powers and a young man from Judge Powers» drug court who is in recovery.

The Founder of Tony Elumelu who has supported over 10,000 young entrepreneurs to the tune of $ 100million admitted thatwithout critical infrastructure, driving technological advancement would be difficult.

She also pointed to her role as a founder of Girls Who Code, which aims help young girls develop a passion for technology.

«Highlighting (or strobing) makes your skin look better, younger, plumper, smoother,» says celebrity makeup artist and Mally Beauty founder Mally Roncal, who has worked with stars like Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Lopez, and Heidi Klum.

Noel Biderman, founder and president of the site, who is married with two young children, launched the site in 2002 after he «discovered that countless numbers of married men and women were using traditional «singles» dating sites.»

She also speaks to Cindy Gallop, the 57 - year - old founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.com, who argues that apart from the physical upsides of dating younger men, «men her own age often have a problem with dating strong, powerful women who make more bank than they do.»

And to mark Valentine's day, Mark Lesnick who runs iDate2014 - a huge internet dating conference will talk to us about the business of dating in the USA, whilst on - line dating entrepreneur Valenice Balace, founder of dating app Peekawoo give us the view from those young and in love in the Philippines.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Damning Bio-Pic Recounts Rise of Ruthless Facebook Founder This damning bio-pic portrays Person of the Year and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as less a computer genius than a ruthless fraud who deliberately stabbed everyone close to him in the back en route to becoming the world's youngest billiFounder This damning bio-pic portrays Person of the Year and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as less a computer genius than a ruthless fraud who deliberately stabbed everyone close to him in the back en route to becoming the world's youngest billifounder Mark Zuckerberg as less a computer genius than a ruthless fraud who deliberately stabbed everyone close to him in the back en route to becoming the world's youngest billionaire.

Gleeson plays Caleb, a young drone programmer at a Silicon Valley mega-corp called Bluebook who wins an internal contest to spend a week with reclusive company founder Nathan (played by Oscar Isaac, who is incidentally also on the Star Wars cast list).

Hetal Jani Specialized Studies Current City: New York Current job: Founder and executive director of SPEAK Mentorship; Founder and president of Studor Career highlight: Since graduating, I realized that I wanted to create opportunities for young girls of color to mentor with professional women who share similar cultural backgrounds so they can see clearer pathways from high school to career.

«There are many young people who feel they are trying to select and get into a high school that has a strong reputation and is safe and where they do well,» said lead author Eva Gold, the founder of Research for Action, the Philadelphia - based research group that produced the report.

The car we drove belonged to a young stockbroker, Winston Goodfellow, founder of the Iso - Bizzarrini Owners Club, who enlisted us to drive his car from a restoration shop in the L.A. area to his home near San Francisco.

Serial Project Starter: Co-founder of 30 Day Books, Founder of Ladies Who Critique: A critique partner matching site, and member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, an invite - only nonprofit membership organization comprised of hundreds of America's most successful young entreprenYoung Entrepreneur Council, an invite - only nonprofit membership organization comprised of hundreds of America's most successful young entreprenyoung entrepreneurs.

The founders were largely authors who wrote traditional Western fiction, but the organization swiftly expanded to include historians and other nonfiction authors, young adult and romance writers, and writers interested in regional history.

The founder of AudioFile Robin Whitten elaborated on the most popular genres on the website «Mystery & Suspense gets the most attention, while Science Fiction and Fantasy are popular with a fairly distinct audience; we have a lot of listeners who like Young Adult titles, because of of very popular summer SYNC program.

The Chief Guest at the event, Dr. Isaac Kalua, founder of Green Africa Foundation, commended the Wangari Maathai Scholarship Fund for promoting a generation of young women who embrace the spirit of environmentalism as propagated by Wangari Maathai.

Young people who never had to earn money don't appreciate the risk, sacrifice and tenacity that it represents,» says Paula Pant, founder of AffordAnything.com.

Founder Samantha Saffir Barnes is a creative cook and former middle school educator who launched her company in 2006 with the goal of empowering young people to unleash their creativity in the kitchen, and later founded subscription box service Raddish.

Not only was the experience uniquely «Portland,» but I also got to learn a lot about the massively successful local beer scene, meet some great people who all share a love of good beer, and also catch up with one of my favorite young entrepreneurs in the world, Brewvana's owner and founder, Ashley Rose Salvitti, whom I had the pleasure of meeting initially here in New York.

As Sally Morgan Lehman, Founder and Director at Morgan Lehman Gallery explains, for The Armory Show the gallery is structuring their booth around a single installation by a young New York City artist who constructs her work around the premise of combining opposite notions and using that new concept as a foundation for her reinvented Baroque still lives or the 18th century Roman Ruins after Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

-- Eric Heist was the Founder and Director of Momenta Art, an artist - run institution that seeks to expand the dialogue of art by showing work by young artists or artists» who are not well represented in commercial galleries.

Hirst, who is regarded as a founder of the 1990s YBA (Young British Artist) movement, has spent much of his career forcing Contemporary Art lovers to come «face to face» with their own mortality.