Sentences with phrase «business took first place»

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«Thanks to smartphones we live in a mobile first world, and messaging is the killer app,» he said, «much to the benefit of Snapchat, the mobile messaging app with the rather old - fashioned business model ready and willing to take the place of TV.»

Extracurriculars are strong at Laurier — the school's team took first place in the AspenInstitute's 2011 Business & Society InternationalMBA Case Competition.

Students begin crafting their network and community within the business world the minute they arrive at Columbia, thanks in part to the school's cluster system, which places first - year students in «clusters» of 65 to 70 people who take all their core classes together.

It's your ego that can give you the self - respect and the self - confidence to take the risks it will take to start a business in the first place.

Putting time, money and resources into a business venture that's about to take off can always be risky, but it's why you became an entrepreneur in the first place.

Chase's Ink Business Cash Card gives you a $ 300 bonus for spending $ 3,000 within the first three months, allowing it to take third place for most up - front cash back out of all 1,000 cards reviewed, Wallethub reports.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

Keep in mind, most businesses start out in the red: it usually takes financing, often in the form of a loan, to buy everything necessary to even open the business in the first place; a company is not truly profitable until that financing is retired.

The first will take place in April and be led by U.S. Small Business Administrator Maria Contreras - Sweet, who will then sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Argentina's Ministry of Production.

The most essential step in leading change like this is creating a sense of urgency that such a transformation needs to take place (which takes us back to the first habit: Know how to put content marketing in business terms).

``... People of God, maybe now is the time for us to take a hard look at the ways in which the church has tended to judge our success on a set of values that perhaps we had no business buying into in the first place.»

The two - day business conference that takes place during the IBWSS show offers buyers and producers a chance to hear first - hand from some of the leading names in the industry.

The Dutch Centre for Trade Promotion (NCH) is organizing — is sufficient interest from the Dutch business — a Holland pavilion at the Nordic Organic Food Fair 2016 in Malmo, Sweden for the first time takes place on 16 and 17 November 2016.

«Let the current one take place first to see what kind of impact it's had on growth,» said Biryla, who says tax cuts for businesses would be better for overall job creation.

The first stage of Lords reform took place in 1911, when the Liberal government passed legislation to limit the Lords» ability to block Commons legislation after peers objected to Lloyd George's «People's budget», and making the Lords democratic has been unfinished business for the party every since.

Attempting to determine dosage amounts of a drug according to the generic recommendation that «this will work for everybody» from a company or business that is interested more in making a sale than in the health of the population is counterproductive to the initial impetus behind taking the medication in the first place.

Let's start with why I took the pill in the first place, I mean there's a few reasons other than the baby protection business.

In addition to the men's jacket, in the 2016 season, the first place is taken by the Spencer jacket, easy and feminine look the collarless blazer, and a strictly business - like look jackets and blazers with a belt, and of course, the classic blazer.

I was wondering what you guys would think of a sequel to THE GODFATHER PART III taking place in modern day in which the grandson of Michael Corleone is forced into the family business paralleling the arch of the first film in which Michael was forced into the mob.

As long as you pre-order the game in North America you will receive a Business Edition which means this edition basically takes the place of what is normally labelled a «day one» edition aka the first print run of the game.

The launch took place at the College's Kirkley Hall campus, where business professionals and partners found out about the new venture and talked to the first cohort of Career College land - based and rural tourism students.

This past spring, Figueroa was part of the Harvard team — including students from the Kennedy School, Law School, and Business School — that took first place in the Public Schools Urban Education Redesign Challenge, a national case competition for innovation in urban education.

He recently took first place in the prestigious Yale Education Leadership Conference Business Plan competition for his Discover...

Currently with more than 100 first - time exhibitors, the 2010 SEMA Show — which takes place Tuesday - Friday, November 2 - 5, 2010 in Las Vegas — is a can't - miss opportunity to reach thousands of industry professionals, display the latest new products and attend educational seminars designed to help you improve the way you do business.

The first three books, Mixed Messages, Unfinished Business, and Desperate Deeds take place in Cincinnati but in Mistaken Identity, the fourth book, her characters are vacationing on Fripp Island in South Carolina.

Worse than this, though, it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of why the self - publishing business has taken off in the first place.

Without these forces doing most of the heavy lifting (these forces are also partly behind the success of businesses like Amazon, at least the second one if not the first, enabling the retailing giant to develop a business model that undercut existing retailers and took advantage of almost infinite shelf space to appeal to huge swathes of customers) authors and self publishing would still be clamouring for attention not demanding a place at the table.

(a) No creditor having a place of business in Alabama, or having a resident employee in Alabama whose employment includes making consumer loans or taking assignments of consumer credit contracts shall engage in the business of making consumer loans or taking assignments of consumer credit contracts without first having obtained a license for each location in Alabama from the administrator; provided, however, that a creditor having no place of business in

The event will take place in Midtown Manhattan on July 17 at 3 p.m., and for the first time ever, we're providing our readers with the chance to attend and meet top airline and hotel executives, as well as members of the Frequent Business Traveler editorial staff.

And those points can take you a lot of places in the world in business and / or first class!

The report follows the huge success of the inaugural World Sport Destination Expo — the first dedicated Sport Tourism exhibition and business forum which took place alongside the final week of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The idea came when I was organising my notes and business cards from my first TBEX conference in Costa Brava, Spain which took place the week before.

Artists will be expected to work in the studio during regular business hours for a minimum of seven days, including one Family Night, which takes place on Wednesdays from 5 - 7 pm, and a First Friday event from 6 - 9 pm.

For the first time, cultural venues, galleries and local businesses were invited to join the Associate Programme, resulting in 60 additional events taking place throughout the night, making Art Night one of the largest free arts festivals in the UK.

NWEI's first discussion course, Exploring Deep Ecology (now Reconnecting With Earth), took off throughout Portland businesses over twenty years ago, setting the stage for two foundational courses to follow: Discovering A Sense of Place and Voluntary Simplicity.

NWEI's first discussion course, Exploring Deep Ecology (now Reconnecting With Earth), took off throughout Portland businesses, setting the stage for two foundational courses to follow: Discovering A Sense of Place and Voluntary Simplicity.

Whether the prime contractor uses separate deal teams to negotiate the subcontracts running almost concurrently with the core table negotiations, or the subcontract negotiations take place on specific days of the week using the prime contractor team, or the prime contractor crystallizes the business deal first before negotiating with the subcontractors, or some other negotiation strategy is implemented, the prime contractor must have a plan and a strategy for managing its negotiations with subcontracts before it starts the negotiations with the customer.

7 Google Places listings — i.e. websites Google has identified as local businesses relevant to the search query — are identified with red pins lettered A-G and now take pride of place on much of the prime territory on the first page of results.

«We realized most first nations don't have access to the tools and experts they really need to not only analyze, select and manage their business and investment opportunities — they really need to take steps forward to generate own - source revenues and really put a plan in place to build community wealth,» she says.

And, as allegations continue to surface around how Cambridge Analytica was able to get data on 50m Facebook users in the first place using a third - party app, the social network has seen its share value plunge 7pc, wiping nearly $ 40bn off its market value as investors, worried about how new regulations could damage Facebook's advertising business, take flight.

In a first proof of concept, Raiden tokens were exchanged between nodes with the opening, closing and settlement of channels taking place on the Ethereum testnet, while the actual transfers happened off - chain, International Business Times reports.

According to Shao Yang, president of Strategy Marketing at Huawei Consumer Business Group, the smartphone - to - superphone evolution will take place within a 12 - year cycle similar to the one that saw Motorola invent the first feature phone in 1995 and Apple end that cycle by inventing the iPhone in 2007.

If you apply to Procter & Gamble, your first interview could take place over the phone, at an office or on campus, and your interviewer could be from the recruitment team rather than the specific business area you have applied to.

• Deep knowledge of the restaurant business, with a great ability to provide exceptional first contact customer services • Track record of providing customers with the highest quality of service by ensuring their comfort and accuracy of order • Well - versed in taking accurate orders, relaying them to the kitchen and ensuring timely delivery to patrons • Excellent communication and listening abilities aimed at responding to customers» requests and fulfilling their needs aptly • Adept at making prompt and effective decisions during rush hours targeted at ensuring consistent and high quality services • Exceptionally well - placed multitasking and organizational skills, with a strong ability to respond to several requests at the same time and come up with solutions to everyday problems • Excellent attention to detail and social perception, aimed at being aware of customers» reactions and complaints, with a great ability to handle adverse situations with tact so that they do not affect other customers • Exceptionally service oriented with excellent coordination and communication skills • Able to effectively handle restaurant waiting list during high volume rush hours

The reason you're taking a safety course in the first place is to think more deeply about your vulnerabilities in everyday business.

In our first case study, we set out to learn what global business activities were taking place in three «unlikely» markets — Colorado, Alabama, and Kentucky.

A team of UM students took first place in the Miami Business School's second annual Impact Investing in Commercial Real Estate competition.