Sentences with phrase «most of these failed companies»

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To date, the company has purchased four plants, three of which were on the verge of failing — most notably Republic and Kensington, both in 2009.

Shares of the company are flat for the year after its most recent earnings report failed to beat Wall Street estimates for the first time in two years, but Marshall said that he expects its revenue to continue to grow at above - market rates.

All too many companies still fail to realize that most customers, especially millennials, look at social media channels as valid a form of interaction as a physical trip into a brick and mortar store.

The worst of it is, most companies never find out they're failing.

Sadly, though, most of these Phase III companies do die, not because their ideas are bad, but because they fail to secure enough funding.

Ross has spent most of his life working with distressed companies facing bankruptcy and restructuring, and he is known for his work with failed steel and coal companies.

Most companies do a great job of explaining what they do but fail when it comes to using more dynamic content (blogs, videos, infographics) to show how they can help.

Property management company Renter's Warehouse has been the most successful of Brenton Hayden's start - ups, but his failed companies have come with their lessons, too.

At the time, Atari had all but failed and most game companies thought the boom of the 1970s and 1980s was over.

Conroy, a West Haven, Conn., cash - flow expert who spent most of his career as the treasurer or controller of businesses with up to $ 10 million in sales, offers a solution that is as effective as it is unusual: «Appoint a cash - flow specialist with the authority to cross department lines as he or she follows the trail of cash coming into — or failing to come into — the company.»

Cybersecurity is on the minds of most businesses today, but there's one area where companies often screw up: failing to protect their key executives when they're on the move.

The most important part of the story, though, seems to be the company's early years spent prototyping with lithium - ion manufacturing equipment inherited from failed battery startup A123 Systems.

«In crowdfunding, we say that anybody can invest in these most speculative of companies, most of which, through no fraud or ill - will, will fail.

Fonstad said most VC money is still directed at nascent companies, or successful ones that are scaling up; not enough is being pledged to help companies cross the «chasm» in which so many startups fail, which is one of the ills Aspect is hoping to address.

Like most venture investors, the companies we invest in stand a chance of failing, and unbridled success is rare.

The company recently admitted that the data on most of its 2 billion users could be compromised by malicious actors, a strong sign that the social media giant is not only misusing consumer data, but failing to protect it.

The 2018 Index data showed that most companies failed to disclose clear options for users to control what data about them is collected and how it is used for the purposes of advertising (Figure 12).

The focus of a company should thus, be on ensuring referrals from their A grade customers, but most fail to do so.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

This means that 95 % of the companies that are much further developed than most ICOs will fail.

Quoting the example of 3M's product PostIT, when the product was about to fail, the company decided to send a free sample to all the secretaries in corporate offices, who were the most influential customers, today PostIT is present in day to day life of the masses.

Tech E&O, as it is often called, is arguably the most important policy that a tech company can purchase as it is the first line of defense when the service or digital product that they sell fails.

Kickstarter has commissioned tech journalist Mark Harris to investigate and report on one of the company's most high - profile failed campaigns to date: the Zano mini-drone, which raised over $ 3.5 million and was Europe's most funded project ever.

And yet the company that owns the brand... failed to protect it in one of its most important markets, China.

Our client financial agreement attempted to prepare consumers for these unforeseen and very unfortunate circumstances, and making clear that ultimately the responsibility for any unpaid balance is the client's, yet when insurance companies failed to follow through per the client's expectations, it was most often the midwife that suffered the burden of a disappointed client.

Most of the time companies that make baby carriers fail to consider comfort in all positions.

Creative destruction: the constant churn of new companies, some of which get bought, some of which grow into giants of their own, but most of which fail.

The punishment, imposed in August but only made public today, is apparently the most severe reaction by NIH so far to a Senate investigation of NIH - funded researchers who may have failed to report all of their income from drug companies.

Charles Cohen, founder of failed micropayment company Beenz, told me that these efforts mostly died «because the dot - com bubble burst, and most of the companies who were accepting and issuing our microcurrency went up in a puff of smoke.»

While universities and research councils are keen to exploit new ideas, many companies fail to make the most of scientific opportunities.

make it stick The Science of Successful Learning Peter C. Brown Henry L. Roediger III Mark A. McDaniel THE BELKNAP PRESS of HARVARD UNI Rebranding a company's goals, message, and culture is hard — many have tried and most fail.

Through three good - to - great films, the company hasn't failed fans yet, and despite being the most troubled production of the new batch of films, Solo shouldn't be given a premature death sentence.

Female students are often the most vulnerable, and may be subject to being followed outside of the premises and not being within the security companies remit, resulting in the student being attacked, and although they are away from the premises it does not mean that the security company will not be accused of failing to protect the student.

companies (the requirements for alternative teachers beyond knowledge of their subjects, if any, being unspecified, here), then failing to pass the content exam and / or, in the case of the few who actually find jobs, discovering that it's an exhausting job, requires long hours and tremendous dedication, and at least a couple of years to be any good at it, most of whom will blow right back out of what used to be a «profession» but will now be reduced to the status of a «trade.»

Google may be the most sophisticated Ed Tech company out there, and if they are being accused of failing to fully comply with the law, you can bet less sophisticated Ed Tech vendors are engaging in behavior that will cause concerns for community members and watch groups, too.

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application failed to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school there.

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application fails to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school there.

In fact, most of the conference rooms in Tesla's offices in San Carlos are named after failed electric car companies.

Mazda's MX - 5 is a company mainstay, but despite being one of the most popular roadsters of all time, it still sells in fairly small numbers in the U.S.. What's more, every challenger that's come along has failed to dethrone it, the Pontiac Solstice / Saturn Sky twins being of particular note.

Oldtimers like myself will remember other examples of the use of «slate» as a synonym for «tablet» — most notably Slate Corporation, an early - 1990s company that made applications for Microsoft's first failed tablet platform...

Most of the inefficient debt consolidation companies fail to last very long.

More than 200 years after the inception of our country and several wars, stock market crashes, powerful companies suffering from failed investments, rising unemployment rates, the famous bursting of a tech bubble and most recently the bursting of a housing bubble, federal debt stands at $ 16.7 trillion.

According to the authors, «[most] shells come into existence either with the sole intent of merging with unidentified single or multiple companies (these are called virgin shells), after being created with a business plan that fails to materialize (these are called development stage shells), or after selling their operations and assets following bankruptcy (these are called natural shells).»

Collectively dubbed «robo - advisors,» companies such as Betterment, Personal Capital and Wealthfront have managed in just a few years to do what the financial industry has failed to accomplish during a couple of centuries: provide quality investment guidance at a cost accessible to most demographics.

If the company were to fail it would indeed be... the largest most terrible financial collapse on record, a stupendous event historically; but for the vast majority... it would very simply mean a personal disaster of almost unimaginable proportions... Strangers met and mutually strengthened their faith (in the company) with words of comfort.»

Surety bonds, like most bond issues, tend to be quite large and therefore the issuing organization assumes more risk should the company which took on the debt go out of business or fail to meet financial obligations of the issuance.

Right now I think this analysis is most relevant to retail companies, some of which are failing and some of which may survive.

The enhanced trading volume allows the scam artist to dump his shares on the unsuspecting public, most of whom eventually lose their money once the newly formed public company fails.

It is possible for the US to default without Campbell Soup defaulting, but the life of any US corporation would be made so much more difficult by an outright default of the US government, that I would expect an outright default to cause most US companies, states, and other nations to fail as well, because of implicit reliance on the creditworthiness of the Treasury.

Not only did many employees of failed companies lose most of their retirement savings, but they lost their job to boot.