Sentences with phrase «at competitors of»

But here's a fact you may not have known: By and large, recruiters prefer selecting candidates from successfully employed performers at competitors of their client companies.

And he had some compelling justifications for his insults, even if they were mainly targeted at competitors of his portfolio companies.

Not exact matches

If you passed that part of the market - validation process, it's time to take a hard - core look at your competitors.

A merger of CBS, which owns its broadcast network and premier channel Showtime, and Viacom, the owner of Paramount Pictures and such networks as Comedy Central and MTV, would give the company scale at a time when many competitors are merging, Paulson said.

Falcon Heavy — more powerful than any other rocket available and at a fraction of the price of any competitor — can launch payloads as far as «Pluto and beyond,» Musk has said.

For Roundarch, they ended up hiring Paul Tebsherany, a person with deep knowledge of their business whom they had known and worked with for two years while employed at competitor, Razorfish.

Perhaps most important, its customers are loyal: According to a recent survey by Business Insider's BI Intelligence, almost one - quarter of T - Mobile's customers say they would never switch to a competitor for any reason, vs. 16 % of AT&T's customers, 15 % at Verizon, and just 7 % at Sprint.

The article exposed that Theranos was using competitors» machines to run at least some of its tests, among other indiscretions.

I think you have to hope that... they step up, as Bell has done and make these kinds of investments that triggers a response from their competitors and that other people are at least prepared to look, even if it's on a limited basis like Beanfield has, at coming into the marketplace.

It's even more important than how good you are at picking yourself up off the floor and getting back in the game after getting punched a few times by a client or a competitor — or one of your own folks.

In the first decade of the century, the large integrated oil companies traded at an average discount of between 11 % and 12 % compared to their pure - play competitors, according to a study conducted at the time by Citi Investment Research and Analysis.

The biggest player here is Oceaneering, which at the end of last year operated about 35 percent of ROVs worldwide and held a global market share of roughly 60 percent, nearly triple that of the next closest competitor.

Based on a sum - of - the - parts analysis, integrated oil companies traded at a discount to their pure - play competitors, whether they were pure - play upstream, like an Anadarko or a Chesapeake, or downstream, like Valero or Tesoro.

Faced with a dilemma of how to gain awareness as «The Computer Inside» with lower - priced competitors chomping at the bit for market share, Intel took a page from consumer marketing.

Just as Susan is aware of her competitors who are selling similar items at retail as a result of her success, she will evolve her marketing to coincide with the direction of her growing company... whether or not she decides to expand into retail.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

It can mean the difference between your website buried deep in the search engine results pages (SERPs) behind your competitors, and sitting at the top of the first page.

Aequitas does have a formidable competitor in TMX Group, which will fight any loss of market share with all the tools at its disposal.

It's fairly typical that your customers, competitors and industry will take note of your final «instant success» and marvel at how easy you made it look, and give little consideration for the bumps, bruises and cold nights on a mountain ledge you may have suffered along the way.

At this writing, peer - to - peer car sharing is still banned in the state; Getaround's competitor, RelayRides (now called Turo), was fined $ 200,000 in 2013 by the New York Department of Financial Services for noncompliance with insurance regulations.

Those competitors include BuzzFeed and Vice, both of which now have private - market valuations that are greater than that of the 93 - year - old publisher, whose market value stands at $ 1.7 billion.

Nonetheless, the judge declared «consumer harm is not relevant» to competition policy; Sears broke the rules by selling tires at a lower price than its competitor most of the time.

Bob Lachky, a marketing executive who spent 25 years working at competitor Anheuser - Busch gave this campaign some high praise: «It was arguably one of the greatest campaigns over the past 30 to 40 years.»

However, rather than compete for market share on the merits or fulfill its statutory obligation to enable competitors to practice its invention after its patents expired, Green Mountain has abused its dominance in the brewer market by coercing business partners at every level of the K - Cup distribution system to enter into anticompetitive agreements intended to unlawfully maintain Green Mountain's monopoly over the markets in which K - Cups are sold.

Manning came across as a laid back southern boy but on the gridiron he was a clinical, ruthless competitor with an off - the - charts football IQ who changed plays at the line of scrimmage to outsmart opposing defenses and torched opponents with a big arm and dead - on accuracy.

In fact, 66 percent of customers will take their business to a competitor if they experience poor customer service at a company.

Convenience retail is the ultimate discipline game, and few of Couche - Tard's competitors share its laser - like focus on «the box,» what's inside it and how it's run — particularly at its more than 4,700 gas station outlets.

Poke, Facebook's failed first attempt at developing a Snapchat competitor, was essentially a direct rip - off of the service.

She may not have the resources of her giant competitors, but Amilya Antonetti is making her own mark in the soap business, one customer at a time.

At the nadir of the financial crisis in early 2009, Scotiabank CEO Rick Waugh again warned that foreign competitors (freshly bailed out by their respective governments) could wreak havoc on Canada's Big Six.

And yet so far this year, the company's stock is outperforming that of at least two of its close competitors.

This feedback can help business owners find out if their products, stock, pricing, and placement are appealing to customers; measure the training and performance of frontline employees; learn if competitors do a better job at sales, service, marketing, and operations; identify if employees are following company procedures or compliance practices; and, increase focus on service and selling to help convert browsers to buyers, Warzynski explains.

The lighter and cheaper Surface 2 is the company's main tablet competitor to the likes of the iPad or Nexus 7 while the Surface Pro 2 is the next iteration of its effort at tablet - laptop hybrids.

«When I was able to make that change, I went from a salary of zero, which was really disheartening, to being able to bring in a salary of six figures for myself,» says Burke, whose company posted annual revenue of $ 1.1 million and employed 15 people at its height in 2010 before being acquired by competitor Booksfree.com.

The data underlined concerns that, after a long period of growth through globalization and reliance on global trade, governments are increasingly seeking to protect their own industries and promote domestic producers at the expense of foreign competitors.

Finally, poor customer service can also be relished... if you experience it at the hands of a competitor.

He was no longer at the firm to accept the award with the rest of the team, however; he quit the year before to join a competitor, and moved back to Toronto.

If your startup is looking to bag some market share here, then you probably can't even keep up with the number of competitors given the phenomenal pace at which landscape is growing.

But the company's willingness to spend (and lose) limitless sums money to drive competitors out of business raises a question regulators might soon have to answer: At what point does being too competitive make you anti-competitive?

Certainly there are plenty of small cloud - HR competitors, including at least one other «Zen» - monikered outfit, like ZenPayroll, now called Gusto.

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

Depending on the needs of the client, I could turn to one of these competitors for assistance on particular projects with my clients, and they could also pull me in at times to help with theirs.

Those marketers and companies that understand that will be way ahead of their competitors, and will truly get better at understanding how to market and advertise more effectively, as well as how to create experiences for their consumers more effectively — and so we're moving up the adoption curve quickly.

In real terms, while the display certainly is nice to look at — and a giant step up over the grainy screen of LG's other recent effort, the bendable Flex — it's not that much better looking than its competitors.

About a generation after small breweries with flavourful beers stormed the oligopoly that controlled the beer sector, craft beers, many of them made in micro-breweries and distributed locally, have become frothy and surprisingly upscale competitors in an industry that traditionally functioned at the meat - and - potatoes end of the alcohol spectrum.

At a resolution of 1280 x 720 and 225 pixels per inch, the Flex doesn't have the full high - definition screen of some of its «phablet» competitors, such as Samsung's Galaxy Note 3.

He says, «The cost of customer acquisition is very high and if you're letting the competitors get those customers when at a potentially lower cost than the online channel, I think you're missing out on a pretty big opportunity.»

Last summer, New Jersey — based sandwich chain Jimmy John's found itself at the centre of an online storm when a staffer posted details of the company's restrictive contract — one blogger called it «utterly psychotic» — which prevents even front - line employees from leaving for a competitor.

Scott Simpson, a former associate at Battery Ventures Associates, thinks there are three important parts of a business plan: the problem statement, the explanation of your solution to the problem and the explanation of your differentiation from your competitors.

At one time or another, it has faced many of the same accusations as Uber: that it harbors a harsh corporate culture; that it's an excessively sharp - elbowed competitor; that it disregards laws it doesn't care for.