Sentences with phrase «just looking at companies»

In fact, just looking at the companies kids today like, it seems as if most of our nation's youth spend the majority of their time gorging themselves on junk food.

Just looking at companies with the cheapest rates doesn't always answer the question as to which insurance provider to pick.

McDonald's executives apparently read Entrepreneur — or just looked at the company's sales figures — and realized it was time to make some big changes.

«Don't just look at the company's website,» she advises.

Just look at companies like Moz, 37 Signals, HubSpot and MailChimp.

When I start to question whether this is really true, I just look at my company's performance metrics and see in black and white just how productive I've become.

Most people just look at a company's margins and judge the quality of the business model based on that, but the cash flow characteristics of the business can make one company a far more valuable company than another with the exact same operating margin.

One just has to look at the impressive book reviewers over at Amazon will prove just how saintly Mann is, just look at the the company he keeps.

Just look at the company's cancelled smartphone partnership with AT&T.

If you don't know when you should use bullets or narrative, just look at the company's job posting and the style of writing they use on their website.

Not exact matches

If you look at the company and say «I want us to be a great place to be,» than you need to eliminate the slackers, the laggards and the people who are just putting in his or her time.

That now looks to be just the opening act, with the Gaglardis» hospitality and property development company, Northland Properties, looking at expanding further in Texas.

So when a potential acquirer looks at a business that is clearly doing its best just to keep the status quo and not making the right moves and investments, they will see right through that and wonder if the company is now too risky to invest in.

IPOs are good for companies — just look at how well Mark Zuckerberg has fared, he posited.

Followers do accept requests without complaint, and perform just as well as their counterparts, but the lack of independent thinking and leadership is a major fault when you look at your company from a distance.

Just look at the story of British photography equipment company Triggertrap.

In their analysis of the new legislation, lawyers at McCarthy Tétrault warned its «broad concepts and elements of uncertainty» could «place a heavy burden» on foreign companies looking to invest in Canada; the risk of a meddlesome minister torpedoing a deal is just too high.

The reason to take a close look at this company is twofold: it's one of the most diversified miners around, so one commodity's underperformance shouldn't have as significant an impact on the company as it would if it was just a coal or iron ore producer.

While tech companies dislike paying taxes — just look at Apple, which keeps much of its money offshore to avoid taxes, or Twitter, which once threatened to leave San Francisco unless it received a special tax break — none of them wants to be labeled as an opponent of anything that would provide help for the homeless and those with low incomes.

«If you're going to buy an entire company, you wouldn't just look at financial statements,» he says.

«I think companies need to be looking more broadly than that — not just at operational direct loss,» said White.

RC: Take a look at a company like Nest Labs, they started just four years ago.

Just take a look at Open Data 500, a review of U.S. companies using government data to innovate and solve problems.

«I've been spending a fair amount of time in the last few weeks just looking at this and saying, as a small company, how can we hedge more effectively?

«And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.

Just look at Nest, who is leading the IoT wave, and Oculus Rift, the company that put virtual reality on the map.

Unlike that time a man claimed he was served a deep - fried rat at KFC instead of a chicken tender (it ended up just being a rat - shaped piece of chicken), this Popeyes roach photo looks legit (though still potentially staged), and the company repenting on Twitter at least suggests that getting a bug in your food isn't beyond the realm of possibility.

Or your company might pivot and reinvent itself entirely — just look at Instagram, a floundering check - in service that became a billion dollar photo - sharing app.

«To keep that within budget and on time you just have to be able to decide by looking at some of the track records of companies who have actually delivered.»

So we started having conversations, and the more I learned about Pangaea and the types of companies they were looking at investing in and were already invested in, it just really seemed like a great fit.»

• Because I just can't help myself: Following Tuesday's dust - up between Donald Trump and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, I took a look at the progress of Trump's lawsuit vs. Univision (a PE - backed company that is in registration for an IPO).

There are also signs that many companies are looking at the risks and costs involved in outsourcing and deciding that it might just be better to stay home.

One thing technology has been doing for some time is helping to determine salary by looking at a person's position and responsibilities and then comparing it to their peers», not just inside the company but across the industry.

Here's a look at the factors that help young companies scale with just a couple of clients — and how your firm can leverage some these ideas to grow.

In fact, Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal, an outsourcing firm that focuses on the world's most elite technology talent told me that when his company evaluates programmers, they not only look at technical skills, but put just as much emphasis on communication skills, initiative and teamwork.

Everyone just needs to take a deep breath, look at future BlackBerry plans, and trust that the company is working hard to return to profitability.

While it's true that some companies have this capability (just look at how Disney has unlocked the value in Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm), these cases are few and far between.

Take a look at just about any marketing company in the world, and you'll find the word «brand» on at least one page.

Metrics are just one way sales teams can get an inside look at what's happening with companies they're selling to.

Then, on top of that, you increasingly have brand advertising dollars — also an order of magnitude more than direct response dollars — looking for somewhere to go other than TV, and it just so happens that Facebook is the perfect brand advertising platform.2 The company has the right set of products in the right market at the right time.

If you're one of those investors, or just like looking at breakdowns of your investment performance, you'll want to open your Roth IRA at a company that provides that information.

Looking ahead into 2018, I am keeping a close eye on the energy sector, where the ability of US exploration and production (E&P) companies to grow oil production — at half the price of oil from just a few years ago — remains a competitive advantage for these firms.

This blogs runs now for more than 1 year, and during that year I have learned a lot about investing e.g. I would never do the investment I did at the beginning as I was just looking for good companies and did not look at their valuation.

For example, there are environmentally focused funds, funds that concentrate their efforts on finding companies who have sound corporate governance policies, others that look at the impact a business has on society as a whole, and this is just to name a few.

For an illustration of this pathology, just look at Michael Eisner, the legendary leader of Paramount movies and then the Walt Disney Company who worked seven days a week.

He was looking for a company that could provide «a broader vision with all of HR,» as opposed to just insurance, «and Zenefits fit that bill,» he says, adding that he heard of them through fellow CEOs at other startups.

Companies wouldn't keep making them if they didn't — just look at how home shopping has skyrocketed QVC into a multibillion - dollar business.

Just look at the numbers, he says: «There's a 0.00006 % chance of building a company that will grow to be worth more than a billion dollars.

If you choose to work with Marc, you'll be in good company — just take a look at the list below.

The parent company will just line up another hungry entrepreneur who is looking at franchise opportunities to take over.