Sentences with phrase «as older business»

SARANAC LAKE U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) is proposing legislation to make it easier for small businesses to craft employee - owned stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, a measure the lawmaker says will stave off possible disruptions in local economies as older business owners begin to transition out of the labor force.

As an older business owner, however, you quickly come to the realization that you're just not 25 anymore.

Not exact matches

Madsen said that young family businesses (those companies that didn't have as much experience) were shown to possess or develop more dynamic capabilities than older and more family - controlled family businesses.

As you pointed out, my life in business started with Student magazine when I was a few years older than you are now.

So why are you still using an old POS system that «leaks» energy, slowing down your business and costing you money as well?

Fisher, 38 years old at the time, was regarded as a wunderkind who had quickly risen through the ranks at Target's American command post in Minneapolis, from a lowly business analyst to leader of a team of 400 people across multiple divisions.

After quitting his job, he came across an old colleague who was thriving as a franchise owner of a mobile pet - grooming business.

An old adage of investing in the stock market is that you should never invest money or funds that you can not afford to lose, and this is equally as applicable to investing in a business.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

As the baby boomers — the oldest of whom will turn 70 this year — begin to retire, they often sell their businesses to a younger generation that is more diverse than ever before.

GE CEO John Flannery on Tuesday said that the 125 - year - old business is considering carving out its major divisions into separately traded units as it announced a $ 6.2 billion charge related to its insurance operations.

Seattle's Best Coffee, part of the Starbucks family, revitalized its business and its 40 - year - old brand earlier this year as part of its new strategic direction.

«The name Chooks to springboard the business was a conscious, but easy decision, as nothing could be more simple or compatible with our culture than the good old Australian backyard or farmyard chook.

Business entries mean companies that were less than a year old, expressed as a percentage of total businesses.

The tech industry, with it's army of engineers and eggheads, is the most dynamic and chattered about sector around, so - called «quants» are the new media superstars, and even something as old - school as farming is being radically disrupted by new, smarter ways of doing business.

If the 67 - year - old lost all of his money overnight and had to start from scratch, he knows exactly what he would do: Start all over again as an entrepreneur, launching a new business he hasn't tried yet.

The availability of dear old Dad has been an issue since September, when the 47 - year - old quit his former gig as head of Microsoft's business division in Redmond, Wash., and moved to snowy Espoo, near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, where he is currently trying to save the world's largest mobile phone company from itself.

But, in business just as with comedy, how you learn from those failures can be the difference between succeeding in the future and going through the same old motions you've always known.

As the Internet continues to disrupt old media business models, publishers of traditional vehicles such as print newspapers are scrambling to figure out how to survivAs the Internet continues to disrupt old media business models, publishers of traditional vehicles such as print newspapers are scrambling to figure out how to survivas print newspapers are scrambling to figure out how to survive.

Under Nadella, Microsoft has been pitching its cloud business as its future and away from its older slower growing businesses like its Windows operating system for personal computers.

And it's going to help you in business, be it by a mixture of accounts on other corporate successes or failures and lessons on lean startups, or a 2,500 - year - old military tome that works just as well in boardrooms as war.

The world economy is «about as good as it gets,» the 56 - year - old American said, pushing back against fears that rising trade protectionism could hurt globally diversified businesses like SAP.

In mid-March, as part of a world tour to promote the company's new menu of «experiences,» Chesky stopped in on New York City for a sit down interview in front of the Economic Club of New York, the 110 - year - old organization whose membership spans the top leaders from across the business world.

I had a chance to catch up with a bunch of old friends and get up - to - date on their businesses and what they see as major issues for their companies going forward.

As Business Insider has previously reported, these 18 to 35 - year - olds grew up during a recession, which has impacted their spending habits.

Cesar Del Valle, a 33 - year - old trep, sold his lighting and production company in Southern California to cover costs as a student at ESADE Business School in Spain.

But in a series of interviews, Canadian Business was given exclusive access to Cara, one of Canada's oldest family - owned businesses, as it closes out an important chapter in its history.

The Financial Times predicted the dispute could «lead to the death of the 500 - year - old publishing business as it is known.»

The search giant said Tuesday that it would roll out several new data features specifically targeting the needs of businesses as well as tweaking its service for archiving data so that customers can get their old data more quickly.

As a small business owner, is it frustrating that greedy young kids, the players, are battling over money with greedy old men as ownerAs a small business owner, is it frustrating that greedy young kids, the players, are battling over money with greedy old men as owneras owners?

Her children are too young to help in her business, but she is building it now with the goal of working with them as they get older.

Yet the shops» old - world practices have their advantages: book - acquisition costs are minimal to nonexistent, as the stores acquire titles either inexpensively or in the form of donations (even though the business is not a nonprofit).

Additionally, many business owners pay little attention to other physical aspects of their companies» operations that pose a threat, such as leaving computers exposed or failing to destroy old hard drives.

In other word, networking neophytes are trolling the room, collecting business cards as if they were 10 - year - olds completing a baseball, Tamagotchi, or Pokémon set.

As Canadian Business went to press, it was widely expected that federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's March 29 budget would include an announcement that the cutoff for Old Age Security (OAS) will be raised, which could compel millions of Canadians to delay their golden years.

The economy in eastern Europe was slowly liberalizing, and Kholodenko figured he could find success as an entrepreneur thanks to his business education and language skills (his family emigrated from Ukraine when he was five years old).

Schroll recommends that you encrypt your drives, leverage cloud backups, enclose any hardware ports exposed to the public, have old hardware disposed by professionals and use theft recovery software, such as Prey Project, on business devices.

Some view these businesses as alternatives to the kinds of legacy database technologies from members of the old guard like Oracle.

As if there weren't enough roiling the company, it will have to contend with the return early next year of its 71 - year - old founder, who owns 85 % of the business.

As we settle into 2015, it's the perfect time for small - business owners to reevalute old processes and implement new ideas for a happier and more productive year ahead.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

The key is finding that sweet - spot between youthful enthusiasm and the more «old - fashioned» values that have served as the backbone of business for generations.

SM is such a critical part of every business's business today that it really can't be left to the alleged professionals — hired guns at old - line agencies who generally know almost as little about this stuff as you do — or simply delegated to employees who have the attitude, aptitude, and interest in creating some of this.

Who'd like to bet it'll the same old story once again — a slap on the wrist and they'll be back to «business as usual» in a couple of months?

When I was really young I wanted to be an airline pilot, but as I got older I wanted to be like my dad and run my own business.

As more and more young folks develop start - up dreams and start their own businesses, the inevitable result will be more and more young bosses, many of whom are supervising folks much older and more experienced then themselves.

But, as inevitable problems arise, the older and more experienced investors treat these things as business as usual: problems to be dealt with rather than major catastrophes that are about to kill the company.

He started a business when he was 15 years old as a computer consultant in Bath, England in 1996.

After raising significant funding a few years ago as a 20 - year - old, the company needed to take a drastic shift over the past year to revive a struggling business model.

The Tennessee - based manufacturer Fitzgerald Glider Kits, for instance, is in the business of buying up wrecked or otherwise not roadworthy old 18 - wheelers, rebuilding the outdated engines and other drive train components, and then installing them in brand new vehicle bodies, or «gliders,» as vehicles without powertrains are called.