Motive, founded in 1997, helps IT managers keep track of all their various brands and versions of technology equipment and software.
Although the decision to outsource development or test processes is founded on various background motives, e.g., costs, capacity, time-to-market, etc., additional factors that influence the outsourcing relationships are frequently overlooked by client organizations.
Michael Maples Sr., an angel investor and former Microsoft executive, has funded and advised Motive, which was co-founded by his son, Michael Maples Jr. Now ranked number 67, a Motive IPO would probably push Maples Sr. into the top 50.
The group, founded by Julian Assange, sometimes hides its true motives, and has not published any information about its own finances in years, despite amassing tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency.
Harmon previously founded and served as chief executive of Motive Inc., which he took public in 2004.
If John J. Moores is out to embarrass BMC Software, the $1.6 billion (sales) mainframe applications firm he founded in 1980, it's with a strong motive.
When I founded an addiction treatment center in Costa Mesa, California, my motive was simple: to give other men struggling with substance use disorder the same chance I'd had to get sober.
The desire to tie it down was one of the chief motives of the German and French politicians who founded what has become the European Union.
There is endless controversy over whether L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer who founded the religion from scratch, did so from cynical or sincere motives.
