Sentences with phrase «at ideas like»

When I look at ideas like pension plans employing leverage (also here), I think they don't know what they are doing.

If nothing materializes, so be it, but I know I'm not the only one hoping the CIF at least looks at ideas like this one before ordering more of the current system.

Not exact matches

But Karl Martin, co-founder of Bionym, the company that makes the Nymi, has his sights on a bigger goal: «persistent identity» — the idea that the Nymi, or something like it, could make the wearer instantly recognizable to wireless devices everywhere, whether at home or at a coffee shop in London.

If you like what you see, you at home can back your favorite products via crowdfunding to help the contestants bring the next billion - dollar idea to life.

Adam Alter: «Nomophobia» is a new word that's being coined to describe no mobile phobia, and it's the idea that a lot of us, in thinking about not having our phones, experience something like a phobia, and this is supposed to describe hundreds of millions of people today, and I'm sure that number is growing at the moment.

Some, like getting away from your screen and out into the real world to see people in the flesh, are relatively obvious, but at least one is a clever idea you've probably never considered before.

Lori is used to handling many writing orders at the same time and as she likes sharing her ideas and experience, she decided to write a great article for you to show how multiple tasks should be dealt with.

I'm not being critical of this because it was a decision taken in the past which undoubtedly seemed like a good idea at the time, but the way the TTC set it up is they put a company in the middle.

Don't go in like a bull in a china shop with the idea that «At any cost, we're going to make it happen this way.»

He had been at Sony Entertainment for 13 years when he got the idea to bring a mobile app like Uber's to the chopper industry.

They liked the idea of checklists at the end of the chapter, but couldn't we tell them what they should do about what they just read, and why did the book need to be so wordy?

«A lot of people get discouraged about meditation because they like the idea of it, but then feel like they're «failing» at it because they just come face to face with the quality of distraction,» says Arden Pennell, Business Insider's program director.

One that, in this particular case, is sweet music to the ears to those, like me, who shudder in horror at the idea of one extra moment of cleaning in their lives.

«The jailbreak community is like an incubator for cool ideas,» says Cydia's founder, Jay Freeman, until recently a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

It may have sounded like a noble goal at first, but Peters had taken the idea of calorie counting too far.

There are plenty of people who buy into ideas like radical transparency and complete information sharing or participatory management at all levels.

Once you have a plan, you'll realize the value of multiple advertising insertions, elimination of vendor rush charges and prevention of unwise purchasing decisions — like those 15,000 imprinted kitchen magnets that seemed like such a good idea at the time.

For writers and professional speakers like me, this means that if people are not disagreeing with you, walking out of your events, challenging your articles and ideas, you are playing too safe and not working at the edge.

«What I tell them is, 9 times out of 10, if you've moved assets into some kind of trust at a place like the Cayman Islands and something goes wrong with your business, you will be tarred and feathered by the idea that you've behaved improperly, whether or not you really have.

«Philosophically, investors [who employ core and satellite] are saying, «For the majority of my portfolio, I want to be well diversified and I want it to perform like the market, but I like the idea of taking some risk in an effort to outperform,»» said Michael Iachini, vice president and head of manager research at Charles Schwab Investment Advisory.

The idea is to develop eyewear that essentially replaces the smartphone — so that floating in the periphery of your eyesight at all times are options to do things like get directions, place video calls, or check into Google +.

Team brainstorming seems like a good idea — at least, on paper.

At CES, I jotted down 35 ideas related to my writing; at SxSW, I accumulated more like 6At CES, I jotted down 35 ideas related to my writing; at SxSW, I accumulated more like 6at SxSW, I accumulated more like 60.

Often, a founder will make thenrounds at conferences and hear, again and again, «This sounds like a really great idea; please come back to me when you have a working prototype and we can talk money.»

He called the new endeavor Obvious, a nod to a lesson learned from the success at Blogger — that seemingly silly and trivial ideas often look like great ones in retrospect.

If you were an investor taking an objective look at that company, and the CEO refused to pursue an amazing idea like that, leaving who knows what kinds of opportunities on the table, what would you do?

I know if you're a young guy trying to start up a business selling dress clothes to older men, the idea of hanging out at some overpriced, elite club during the week after work might not sound like the most fun you've ever had, but in the long run this type of extracurricular activity might be worth the large bar tab and cigar scent on everything you own.

Foskett says that a whiff of silliness accompanies some of the authors» ideas, like doing yoga hip rolls at your workstation and taking «reflexology» breaks.

«Twice,» Buffett says, «he asked me to go to breakfast at like 5:30 in the morning before the Coke meeting and tried to sell me on the idea of distributing Benjamin Moore through Home Depot.

To a majority of the electorate, he seemed like a good idea at the time.

A decorated Harvard economics instructor, a former White House policy adviser, and the author of bestsellers like Market Shock and New Ideas from Dead Economists, Buchholz found himself surrounded by people he deemed to be seeking tawdry material gain at the expense of real quality of life.

«While carrier customers like the idea of buying infrastructure from large global suppliers, it's not obvious to us that amassing scale for the sake of it makes sense for the vendors,» analysts at Jefferies said in a note Wednesday before the deal was announced.

Shot at Founder's Co-op, a Seattle venture fund and tech incubator, the video shows the founders of web companies like LookStat and NearlyWeds writing code, discussing pricing, and sharing ideas about their businesses.

Consumers today might experience a gut - level cringe at the idea of an artificial intelligence that can recognize and analyze their Instagram photos, but companies like Google and thought leaders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are investing heavily in it, making huge bets that people will accept it someday.

Then the idea feels like the one piece you have to hang out to and you hold on so tight no one else can get at it.

At the earliest stage you feel like the idea is all you have.

As Lauren Dragan, writer / headphone reviewer at The Wirecutter and Sound and Vision, succinctly put it, «I have no idea why people like the halo headphones.

Richard Martin, senior editor for energy at MIT Technology review, called the plan «bonkers» and that «the idea of combining solar power with automaking is a bit like Ford buying ExxonMobil — if both were losing hundreds of millions a year.»

At the time, it sounded like a radical idea.

Looks like he had the right idea at exactly the right time.

So before I graduate, I'd like to think through these ideas with my fellow students and hopefully meet some business partners to put at least one idea into practice.»

Everyone likes the idea of entrepreneurship, which may be why, at some point, more than 50 percent of all business owners get financing help from friends and relatives.

At Tumblr, Karp likes to spend his time sketching ideas in notebooks, lunching as a group with his 30 employees, and of course, perusing blogs on Tumblr.

It must have seemed like a brilliant idea at the time.

«Like most philosophy majors, I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew it would be downright foolish to miss the chance to help set up a company at the ground level,» he said in an online blog post about his beginnings in finance.

It's not a bad idea to start taking a look at what open - source software you're already using and spending some time getting a better understanding of how it works — in the case of Becker's example of AngularJS, you can dive deeper with resources like the AngularJS Google Group, AngularJS questions at Stack Overflow and W3Schools» AngularJS Tutorial.

Now, if a Syria intervention is bound to look somewhat like Iraq and Afghanistan, looking at how much those two wars cost should give us an idea of what the bill for a new conflict could be.

Going public seemed like a great idea at the time, but by 2002, it was an excruciatingly painful experience.

The idea goes something like this: Build a product to the point at which it's good enough, launch it quickly into the marketplace, and then make iterations as you go while learning from your customers.

When he got off the space shuttle, I was there waiting at the hatch, the first thing he said to me when he got off was, «I had no idea what that launch was going to be like.»