So, I left the security of my job and went to a start up company.
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Clearwire is a start up company that is always on the verge of running out of cash.
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There is less risk in investing in a start up company where you know the people than there is investing in the stock market.
Many young people had their first glimpse of a possible new future for themselves, others had their first conversation with an aspiring entrepreneur in another country, and still others visited a company, indeed, a start-up company for the first time.
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Michael Fertik owns ReputationDefender, a start-up company that helps individuals and companies manage their online reputation--essentially a Web-centric crisis PR firm.
But how does she head a start-up company while managing to take care of her children?
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Dave Boyce: Fundly is a start-up company, with all the ups and downs of any new venture.
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We were just a start-up company ten years ago and really began developing the airline between 2006 and 2009.
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Whether you work in a start-up company or a multinational corporation, the choices your organization makes can harm or help those living in poverty.
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They founded CFX Battery, a start-up company based in Azsua, Calif.
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Solar Frontier, a start-up company based in Tokyo, Japan selling leading-edge solar CIS technology, is opening an office in Khobar, Saudi Arabia to strengthen its position in the emerging solar-power market in the Middle East, which it has described as a strategic priority for long-term growth.
San Francisco entrepreneur Todd Pelman has founded a small start-up company called Blue Green Pacific, which produces a corkscrew-shaped, roof-mounted turbine that is still in the development phase.
ARD, as it was known, was in turn indelibly famous for helping to finance a start-up technology company known as Digital Equipment, which became a classic example of venture capital gone right.
Encryptor, a cleantech start-up company based in Plano, TX, is commercializing the underlying technology in the form of a low-cost electronic chip that can be easily built into appliances.
After studying a few exceptions to the pattern of disruption, Christensen concluded that the only way a big company could avoid being disrupted was to set up a small spinoff company that would function as a start-up, make the new low-end product, and be independent enough to ignore what counted as sensible for the mother ship.
According to his blog, Jiang has a start-up technology company, Hooplus, and was rejected by an investor last November.
Venture for America is a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates to work in a start-up or early stage company in a low-cost city.
After all, the talented engineers who work in the pillar companies are quite comfortable with the idea of maintaining their previous commuting patterns by working in a start-up near the pillar company while building a new company with their former colleagues.
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Certainly those I talked to on the show floor of Nokia World gave out the vibes of working at a fast moving start-up rather than a company over one hundred years old.
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In an interview, Hirshberg acknowledged the privilege of the freedom to start up a company that is unparalleled in America.
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Or the candidate clearly has eyes for a start-up when my company is a Fortune 50 (or the other way around).
In interviewing for a job at a small start-up software company, I went through 6 hours of interviews with all 11 employees.
OsComp Systems, a privately held start-up company based in Houston, Texas, wants to distribute natural gas the way that propane is distributed and has pioneered a compressor technology that it claims will allow it to do so.
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The reality is, when you work for a start-up, making that company successful has to be the number one priority in your life.
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The number of influencers online is not a huge number and their support of a new project can be vital to a start-up launching a new app or to an existing company with a new product to promote.
Seeing such a need, you might even round up some friends and start such a company yourself.
There is a formula to making a tech company sound credible, say start-up whiz kids and comics alike.
Why would anyone with a mortgage and family leave a stable job at a big company to go work for a start-up that has a less than 1% chance of surviving for more than a few years?
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While he enjoys the early phase of building a start-up, he is less enamored of running a large company, he said.
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