Sentences with phrase «as the marketplace company»

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The move comes at the start of the time of year known as the annual upfront marketplace, between March and May, when many major U.S. media companies sell the bulk of their ad inventory for the next year.

The company also made waves as part of the insurer exodus from the individual insurance sector (including Obamacare marketplaces), which led to almost $ 700 million in losses between 2014 and 2016, according to Aetna.

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

The rental property management company Pillow uses marketplaces such as Airbnb and HomeAway to list its clients» properties and decrease vacancies.

As a speaker, consultant, and executive coach to Fortune 500 companies and beyond, Glenn guides leaders and organizations to embrace a new type of thinking that helps them evolve and stay ahead of the rapid changes in the workplace and marketplace to drive growth.

They paved the way for companies such as professional - services marketplace Thumbtack and luxury - brand consignment site The RealReal — and ultimately for the vertical disruption currently under way.

Intrapreneurship has been around since 3M developed Post-It notes back in 1977 and is even more popular today as companies leverage their employees to innovate and stay competitive in the marketplace.

Samantha Godfrey, CEO and co-founder of San Diego - based Pharmly, a pharmaceutical bidding marketplace that graduated from the program in June, says her company benefited from mentors who gave guidance for which she would have paid top dollar had she been working on her own, as well as from $ 60,000 in credit for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

That surge has been the result of moves such as buying Jet.com (which Lore sold to the company in 2016 before becoming Walmart.com CEO), expanding its marketplaces, further integrating stores and e-commerce, improving its mobile shopping app, and equipping more stores as pick - up points for online grocery orders.

Until recently, you could sidestep tough questions by presenting your company as a platform or marketplace that simply connects customers with providers and lets them transact.

SecondMarket is the largest centralized marketplace and auction platform for illiquid assets, such as asset - backed securities, auction - rate securities, bankruptcy claims, collateralized debt obligations, limited partnership interests, private company stock, residential and commercial mortgage - backed securities, restricted securities and block trades in public companies, and whole loans.

As Dr. Jaclyn Kostner writes, «Collaboration can positively impact each of the gold standards of performance — profitability, profit growth and sales growth — to determine a company's overall performance in the marketplace.»

Ensuring that your team has the tools needed to succeed in an increasingly competitive and challenging marketplace is key for startups and emerging companies, as is developing and retaining a strong, stable workforce — this often makes the difference between success and failure.

As 3DPrint reported, «shareholders of Stratasys... want the company and officers to pay for not only misleading their customers, but also misleading their shareholders by knowingly putting a faulty product into the marketplace.»

«The best marketplace is only as good as its suppliers,» says Evolve co-founder Brian Egan of his company's position in the sharing - economy ecosystem.

Under the current model of equity crowdfunding, companies need to screen for ventures that will meet investors» expectations — such as a strong team and marketplace traction — and usually only a very small percentage of submissions are approved to post.

Today, the company operates an online marketplace that helps farmers lock in fair prices on seeds, fertilizers and other costly «inputs» they use to grow healthy crops, as well as sell their crops to buyers.

And as my fellow columnist John Nemo pointed out just last month, the company recently launched Profinder, a freelancer - for - hire marketplace that matches clients with freelance product and service providers.

More players continue to enter the marketplace, including yield - hungry investors, such as insurance companies, that look to get into the small business lending game.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

Digitalundivided's FOCUS Fellow accelerator / incubator program has so far helped black and Latina founders raise more than $ 13 million in angel and venture financing, boosting to prominence a range of companies such as online design marketplace Zuvaa, food supply - chain data provider FoodTrace and postpartum - care developer Mahmee.

As companies in one industry after another are discovering, a good product at a fair price, backed up by a responsive customer - service department, is merely the price of admission to the new competitive marketplace.

As businesses and individual communities have become more globalized, most companies are operating within a diverse marketplace.

Five years later he joined Facebook as an engineer, and later rose to head the company's search, local, and marketplace product groups, reporting to Zuckerberg.

Because of the uncertainties in the marketplace — and the very real threats to many companies» survival — many, many leaders see the concept of «culture» and the tasks of defining and managing it as luxuries that only get attention once more concrete and easier - to - measure objectives are handled.

Leigh Goldstein, the former director of shipping for eBay and current COO of Feastly, a San Francisco marketplace for shared meals, raves about Shyp's ability to improve efficiencies and notes that the company ultimately might be able to revolutionize the last mile — delivery — as well.

As executive vice-president and chief information officer for Indigo, Serbinis was the point person on Shortcovers, which he now describes as a «pilot» project designed to take the company's theories off whiteboards and out of conference rooms and test them in the marketplacAs executive vice-president and chief information officer for Indigo, Serbinis was the point person on Shortcovers, which he now describes as a «pilot» project designed to take the company's theories off whiteboards and out of conference rooms and test them in the marketplacas a «pilot» project designed to take the company's theories off whiteboards and out of conference rooms and test them in the marketplace.

As in past years, we ranked these women on four major criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global marketplace; her clout inside her company; her career trajectory; and in certain cases her cultural and social impact.

In large part, Grubhub has been able to pursue these partnerships as it shifted its business from being a pure online marketplace that matched diners to restaurants to a company that offered delivery services with Grubhub - employed drivers.

The results of Uber's legal battle could reshape the sharing economy, which is built around Internet companies that serve as marketplaces matching people who provide a service with others looking to pay for it.

Though King wouldn't say whether Walmart had concrete plans to eventually make marketplace items available for services like in - store pickup of online orders, as it does for its own assortment, it's clear Walmart's 4,000 - some stores could give the company a big advantage over its main marketplace rivals, Amazon.com (amzn) and eBay.

The new wireless companies brought additional choice to the marketplace as well as a number of price wars and deals for consumers.

As entrepreneurs start, build and grow companies, we want the right message to go into the marketplace.

Sampler, a company devoted to changing how brands distribute samples, has partnered with a number of big companies over time as it has gained traction in the marketplace.

The home of Amazon and Costco, Boeing and Expedia, as well as rising stars like Adaptive Biotechnologies, online marketplace OfferUp and space company Blue Origin, Washington has the old and new economies covered — as well as pretty much everything in between.

By June 2015, the company had a services marketplace — an Uber - like app where users could quickly find, book and pay for health services such as massage, yoga, meditation and so on.

As an added perk for this seventh iteration of the program, accelerator companies also get access to Helix, the Illumina - affiliated genomics product marketplace that's aiming to close out the year with roughly $ 300 million in total financing.

Last week, online classifieds company Info Edge (India) Ltd, which runs portals such as Naukri.com, invested Rs 3 crore ($ 460,000) in ShoeKonnect for a 20 % stake in the online B2B marketplace for footwear.

Apple is also expected to overhaul iTunes Radio, the free service that the company introduced in September 2013 as a competitor to Pandora, and which has had little impact on the marketplace.

The technology companies have contended that their virtual marketplaces, in which people act as contractors and use their own possessions to provide services to the public at the touch of a smartphone button, afford workers flexibility and freedom.

For example, Centerline Digital's John Lane says millennials in the marketplace aren't searching for «XYZ Company» as much as they're directly searching for products or solutions.

As companies mature, it takes more money than small local investors, business Angels, or the SR&ED incentives are able to provide in order to get companies to the next stage — successful commercialization and scaling up to become profitable in today's competitive global marketplace.

First and so far only Bitcoin marketplace worldwide trading with audited Bitcoin customer portfolios by a publically accredited auditing company (last audit as per 04/09/2017, next audit scheduled for september 2018)

MUMBAI, May 3 Indian online marketplace Flipkart has bought back $ 350 million worth of shares from its investors as it seeks to convert its Singapore - incorporated company to a private limited firm, in a move that could ease the way in for a new strategic investor.

But Welnys wants to do the heavy lifting for those companies, offering a marketplace for workplace wellness vendors such as yoga and meditation instructors, nutritionists and more.

Aspect will look to build on investments such as ForeScout, a security company that went public in October, as well as early bets on companies such as networking startup Cato Networks, design marketplace Crew, security intelligence shop Exabeam and careers site The Muse.

We are bullish on marketplaces, fintech, B2B and software - as - a-service companies.

Athleisure companies Lululemon and Athletica Inc., clothing brand Abercrombie & Fitch Co., home goods firm Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and automotive products company Advance Auto Parts Inc. have all be discussed as potential acquisitions for the digital marketplace.

I was just too close to the strategic places in my company where I could leverage key initiatives that would play well in the marketplace as well as connect to my strongest passions.

Wikipedia also defines it as: «A startup company (startup or start - up) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast - growing business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around an innovative product, service, process or a platform.