Sentences with phrase «about a dozen companies»

«We have about a dozen companies worldwide,» Durov told The Outline.

A prolific angel investor, he has put money in about a dozen companies in 2016 alone.

That amounts to about a dozen companies.

I track about a dozen companies, mostly Norway - listed — the largest and / or most attractive include: Grieg Seafood (GSF: NO), Salmar (SALM: NO), Leroy Seafood LSG: NO), Cermaq (CEQ: NO), Marine Harvest (MHG: NO) & Scottish Salmon Co (SSC: NO).

The industry alliance, which includes about a dozen companies, is expected to contribute $ 400 million to $ 600 million toward the estimated $ 1.5 billion total cost.

Since the ruling, about a dozen companies have begun similar proceedings against the Indian government seeking damages for breaches of investment treaty protections.

On average, insurance rates have dropped 5.44 per cent since the Auto Insurance Cost and Rate Reduction Strategy was put in place last year, with about a dozen companies ahead of the curve with rate reductions of over 10 per cent.

About a dozen companies — most of them practitioners advertising their own companies — popped up when «TR Inc.» searched on the Internet for «real estate and corporate callers.»

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I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

Of nearly a dozen fund managers contacted by Reuters, three - quarters expressed concern about the way companies are allocating capital during a period of relatively healthy cashflow.

Urovant is one of the member companies under Vivek Ramaswamy's Roivant Sciences umbrella, which contains about a half dozen firms, each of which is focused on a different disease treatment space.

The company sponsors about 40,000 wreaths each year and donates the services of more than a dozen tractor - trailers to deliver the wreaths around the country.

Merely rambling about your company isn't going to make you memorable to people who hear dozens of pitches a day.

His solution: he assembled a working team of about a dozen people — including industry sources and accountants — who created a comprehensive business plan and an attention - grabbing video that focused on the company and its industry's growth potential.

The firm had shared information about the malware, dubbed ModPOS, with clients in October, and briefed dozens of companies, including retailers, hospitality companies and payment - card processors, about its dangers.

He has been the «second CEO» at a half - dozen companies at this point and can speak authoritatively about this transition from early - stage hill climbing to later - stage growth and acceleration.

Sales also took a dive at Fletcher Music Centers when the company lost about a dozen key salespeople.

Business ability, however, is not a prerequisite for a good president, said Buffett, who built Berkshire into a conglomerate with about 90 running businesses and investments in dozens of companies.

Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

We spoke with dozens of black men about their lives and careers, interviewing executives at major companies, as well as researchers, educators, and talent experts.

Since the company went public in 1997, it's snapped up about two dozen smaller players, worth a combined total of more than $ 4.7 billion.

By 2008, dozens of top executives — mostly CEOs and CFOs — at Altera, Broadcom, Brocade, Cirrus Logic, KLA - Tencor, McAfee, Take Two, Verisign and about a dozen other technology companies had lost their jobs over the fallout.

Amazon laid out very specific criteria for the new, second headquarters campus it's looking to build somewhere in North America, and dozens of cities are no doubt preparing pitches about why they present the ideal mix of talent, transportation access, quality of life amenities and so on to meet the company's requirements.

Two trade groups and about a dozen technology companies signed a letter to the Trump administration late last week calling for the continuation of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against Qualcomm over patent licensing.

According to nearly a dozen current and former Uber engineers and product managers who attended or were briefed on the Tuesday all - hands meeting, employees said they were concerned that Mr. Kalanick's willingness to work with Mr. Trump after the immigration order would color Uber as a soulless company that cared only about its bottom line.

The tiny La Jolla company, with about a dozen employees, celebrated its move last week in an open house.

I mention all of this to say that there are about two or three dozen companies in the world where the goal is not to buy the stock at an undervalued price.

So, my big idea is to change those numbers by starting with this relatively small $ 20M fund, which will invest in about a dozen startups and create some wildly successful companies with gender diverse founding / exec teams.

Turnbull's stop at Alibaba's Xixi headquarters was the last of about a half dozen delegations to visit the company during the G20 summit, which was held in Hangzhou over the weekend.

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

This recipe makes about three dozen small cookies - enough to feed family as well as company or to portion into homemade gift baskets.

About Ted Reader Ted Reader is an award - winning chef and food entertainer, who's parlayed his passion for food into a culinary tour de force that includes more than a dozen cookbooks, shelves of food products, live culinary performances, TV and radio cooking shows and appearances as well as culinary demonstrations, a catering company and teaching.

Byrd manages and promotes events from basketball games to rock concerts, serves as agent to a half - dozen players, consults with companies like Spalding and Converse about opportunities in Great Britain, runs several summer camps and handles the accounts of all the companies that do promotional tie - ins with the Kingston club.

From a recent article in The Bay Citizen I learned that about two dozen small, affluent public schools in the California Bay Area have opted out of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and instead have hired small catering companies (such as... [Continue reading]

It seems that every day there are a dozen new products on the store shelves, from pizzas to granola bars, and... MORE companies are also becoming much more savvy about labeling their products clearly, so that it's evident which items are gluten free and what's not.

After waves of lawsuits alleging the failure to warn about the dangers of the sport and that helmets were ineffective in preventing concussions, the number of companies making them dropped from more than a dozen in the late 1970s to only a couple of major names by the early 1990s.

Before Levy became county executive, title work was awarded under a rotation system among about a dozen title companies.

A small chunk of Buffalo Billion funds designated for revitalizing neighborhoods and improving transit in the city went to about two dozen companies and local groups, a few of which also donated to the governor.

Federal investigators» interest in the former gubernatorial aide came to light in late April, when the administration acknowledged that it had received a wide - ranging subpoena from Bharara's office seeking information about actions taken by a half - dozen current or former members of the administration, including Percoco, that might have benefited two dozen companies that had received state funds or other benefits.

COR Arsenal Street — the company behind the redevelopment of Mercy Hospital — is one of two dozen companies mentioned in Bharara's April subpoena seeking information about actions taken by certain Cuomo administration officials.

The company was not mentioned in the federal subpoena issued to the Cuomo administration in late April seeking information about the actions of several Executive Chamber officials on behalf of two dozen companies.

Federal investigators» interest in Percoco came to light in late April, when the administration acknowledged that it had received a wide - ranging subpoena from the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara seeking information about actions taken by a half - dozen current or former members of the administration, including Percoco, that might have benefited two dozen companies that had received state funds or other benefits.

Owens and Roberts were among representatives of about two dozen American manufacturing companies that were invited to meet with Trump on Wednesday.

Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Lake Forest, California, with a manufacturing plant in Pyongtaek, South Korea, it is the world's first commercial manufacturer of bulk metallic glass products and has about a dozen pilot projects under way for the U.S. military and for private companies.

A company's leaders can swing dozens of scientists toward a single problem without having to worry about the politics of sharing equipment or skills.

The researchers also worked with about a dozen wind energy companies to evaluate the models and confirm the economic findings were realistic.

The study's authors, representing more than 3 dozen medical centers, government health agencies and institutes in the U.S., Asia and Europe, credit this rise in smoking among Asians to aggressive product marketing by tobacco companies and a lack of education about health issues related to tobacco.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half - dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Similarly, the NCI Formulary, a partnership between NCI and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to improve access to otherwise proprietary experimental drugs, has so far enabled about a dozen pharmaceutical and biotech companies to work through thorny negotiations on intellectual property, licensing, and other issues, to speed research and clinical testing.

(The paper was co-authored by about a dozen researchers, two of whom own equity in a company that could profit from a commercialized version of this procedure.)