Sentences with phrase «city businesses by»

Grand Mercure Wellington is one of the capital's most conveniently located accommodation options for couples, business travellers and families - offering easy access to local attractions and central city businesses by foot, car and public transport.

«This is a shakedown on New York City businesses by Mayor Bill de Blasio,» Murphy said.

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A new report from the city's Department of Small Business Services found that, over the last decade, women - owned businesses in the city grew by 43 %, outpacing the average company growth rate of 39 %.

Today, Jeff is the CEO of building maintenance company City Wide in Kansas City, Kan., founded by his father, while brothers Rick and Brad run their own businesses.

¦ February was a good month for Phreesia, a New York City - based business launched by Chaim Indig and Evan Roberts.

In between all the stories about drug use, police surveillance, and city councillors getting tackled by the mayor, there have been a few reports of otherwise innocent businesses getting swept up in the Ford scandal.

In 2014, men owned 1.5 New York City businesses for every one owned by women, and male - owned companies made nearly 5 times more revenue, on average.

In our May issue, we chronicled the unlikely rise of Youngstown, Ohio, a city long - since abandoned by the steel industry now trying to reinvent itself as a hub for technology entrepreneurs with the help of the Youngstown Business Incubator.

WE NYC services will be provided by the City's Department of Small Business Services, as well as Goldman Sachs» 10,000 Small Businesses program and micro-lender Grameen America.

After presenting, a man distinguished from a sea of business attire by his T - shirt and jeans approached him and told him that he had been thinking of ways companies could be run like cities.

The key is for entrepreneurs in places like Kansas City and Nashville and Cincinnati to take the right lessons from the Bay Area, by focusing on the mindset: the idea that innovation comes through iteration, that failure should be embraced for what you can learn from it and that every business can be transformed by technology.

Most small businesses survive by the being the signature service provider of a certain small town or section of a city.

The Flatiron School also offers a Web - development fellowship, with a similar education funded entirely by New York City's Department of Small Business Services.

Using the site, you can take advantage of the down time you will have on a business trip by uploading your travel itinerary, and finding a fellow entrepreneur in another city to invite to coffee.

By the 1870s, the Los Angeles city council was fighting against tamale wagons and lunch carts, and San Antonio's leaders worried that Mexican street vendors were upsetting other business traffic.

Encouraged by the local success of the business, which put on interactive theater performances, mostly at private parties, he set up websites advertising the business in several cities around the country.

Founded in 2007 by Zimmer and co-founder Logan Green, Lyft's business model is fairly straighforward, even if it operates in a legal gray area: The company recruits and (background - checks) city car owners to become become part - time taxi drivers, who set the hours they wish to work.

By 2012, the business had sales of $ 4 million, 30 full - time employees, 800 independent contractors, and troupes in 25 cities putting on roughly 5,000 performances a year.

His business Food Farm has since sustained it's needs and hired on several employees to grow, profiting from sales at Detroit's Eastern Market, through the City Commons Agricultural program, and by selling to local restaurants and businesses.

«It's something we tried hard to fight, but San Francisco drivers are required by the city to have a business license (called a Business Registration Certificate),» the sectiobusiness license (called a Business Registration Certificate),» the sectioBusiness Registration Certificate),» the section reads.

This week, Rogers Real Estate Development Ltd. — a private company owned by the Rogers family and held separately from Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business)-- announced its plan to develop a 15 acre patch of land at the city's western edge.

In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

This is not news; the city's decay — the slow letting of its industrial heart's blood, the fleeing of more than half its citizens, the blight that has shuttered tens of thousands of homes and businesses — has been covered extensively by the media.

In a single day on a business trip, Gerber says he will often have five meetings in a 40 - mile spread across sprawling Los Angeles, the nation's 12th largest city by area.

The fact that there are now aggregator sites and apps such as Yipit.com designed to rope together all the deals offered by all the sites in any one city or neighbourhood illustrates the commodification of the business.

Li personifies some of the conflicts that came from the region's rise: Dubbed «Superman» by local media for his business acumen, he symbolizes inequality in a city with one of the most lopsided wealth demographics on the planet.

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Starting a small business often means entrepreneurs must get by on a limited budget, but that's essentially impossible in this city.

The opportunity share of new entrepreneurs is the highest among the best cities for starting a small business, but the rate of new entrepreneurs is by far the lowest.

Jerrit Tan, CEO of New York City - based Canopy, believes more entrepreneurs should take advantage of the billions of dollars in business grants offered by government agencies, which can buy a startup valuable R&D time and boost credibility.

As Nerdwallet notes, Austin, Salt Lake City, and Midland, Texas «offer costs of living below the national average,» adding that «by reducing living and office space costs, entrepreneurs have more cash to invest in their growing businesses.»

In the five years to 2000 — 01, the number of small businesses in Australia's state and territory capital cities increased by 6.4 per cent to 945,320, and only Hobart recorded a decrease in the number of small businesses.

A swirl of development, spurred on by Grand Central Terminal's construction, shaped New York City's central business district as a major epicenter of American capitalism.

A study by Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business surveyed 150 small to midsize businesses in 19 cities spanning 13 product categories.

Using data from the latest reports by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, Moody's, Forbes, and CNBC, we've analyzed tax data, real estate prices, and labor and energy costs to identify the most expensive cities in America to start a bBusiness & Entrepreneurship Council, Moody's, Forbes, and CNBC, we've analyzed tax data, real estate prices, and labor and energy costs to identify the most expensive cities in America to start a businessbusiness.

Soon after, a number of Chicago cab companies jointly sued the company, alleging Uber is in violation of a number of city and state regulations, and that by allowing any cab driver to use its service, Uber is cashing in on established taxi brand names and reputations to further its own business goals.

Less than 18 months after opening for business, this New York City - based company commands a heady $ 1.5 billion valuation and has raised $ 175 million from a group led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, General Catalyst Partners, Khosla Ventures and Thrive Capital.

One of three start - up companies doing a national rolloutof DSL, NorthPoint estimates that 40 % of U.S. businesses will have access to its services by July.Presently, DSL service is available only in a few major cities.

Home to nearly 600 tech companies, Alpharetta was recently named the best small U.S. city to start a business by NerdWallet.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

The 2012 Inner City 100 is packed full of innovative businesses such as Intelect (# 96) that are not only energizing their communities by generating dollars and jobs, but are growing at outstanding rates.

Prompted by a local magazine article addressing the problem, city councilor Steven Leal arranged a meeting with a group of local business owners, including the magazine's publisher, John Hudak, and Don Luria, of Cafe Terra Cotta.

Zagat, which was founded in 1979, grew its business by publishing long, burgundy books as guides to a city's restaurants.

The principles — conceived by Chase and a league of academics, researchers, and city and transport organizations — outline a set of rules that ensure the goals of businesses, city governments, and NGOs remain aligned.

That project was spearheaded by noted economic development expert Ed Morrison along with area business leaders — in particular, Charles Van Rysselberge, who headed the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce at that time.

Snap's executives met with investors in New York earlier on Tuesday and are planning to tour several other cities this week, according to an invitation reviewed by Business Insider.

«Show me a company with more than 10 percent of its business with one customer or more than half of its business in one industry and I'll show you a company at risk of being impacted by one company or one industry,» says Paul Weber, CEO of Entrepreneur Advertising Group in Kansas City, Missouri.

Once you've put such a plan in place, ideally by the time you're in your forties, «the plan should be able to survive everything except major changes in your life, such as the death of a close family member or failure of part of your business,» says Dick Cummins, director of personal financial services in Coopers & Lybrand's New York City office.

Last year, we stopped by the MMA World Expo in New York City to learn all about the businesses in the industry.

Friel was another small business owner initially thrilled by the prospect of supplying Trump's first Atlantic City casino with cabinets for slot machines.