Sentences with phrase «at those firms do»

Tech company CEOs are probably happy, since they are selling hand over fist (admittedly, they almost always do — it rarely happens that insiders at these firms do anything else, sincea lot of their compensation comes in the form of stock options).

«At our firm we don't just sit at the computer looking at business plans of companies,» he explains.

Flaherty has audited the skills among nonpartners at some firms doing work for Kia and others auditioning for it.

Lawyers at those firms did not return calls for comment.

Myth # 4: A lawyer working at a firm does not have to worry about his / her LAWPRO policy.

Sam Glover: Then once they're in the office the lawyer who's interviewing them and does everybody at the firm do this or do you also have like initial consultation specialists?

The hardworking injury attorneys at our firm do whatever it takes to get their clients the money they deserve, and to get it as fast as possible.

One current political client called the embedded Cambridge staff «like an extra wheel,» suggesting that the American political campaign vets at his firm do a better job of interpreting Cambridge's data when crafting ad copy.

Not exact matches

Robert Byrne, a manager at the market research firm Technomic, says while the company does a brisk business with Millennials, it scores even more highly with Gen Z guests «who over-index for frequent visits to the chain relative to the family - dining segment.»

Matt McIlwain, the managing director at Seattle - based investment firm Madrona Ventures, further suggests the city's overall attitude is in line with how the company operates: «It has a very can - do, growth - oriented attitude, which aligns with the Amazon culture,» he says.

By way of pay, while the average worker at a startup earns about 6 percent less than a worker at a more established firm, the youngest workers earn about 3 percent more than they do at older firms.

Zandberg points out that alcohol companies are experts at developing and promoting consumer brands, something that cannabis firms, until now confined to the medical space, haven't done before.

At Petrel, Wren and the firm's two other partners didn't take salaries for about 18 months.

ROSS, for example, helps small law firms pour through documents, much like the armies of lawyers do at big firms.

It's not that owners at small firms don't know how important social media is; mostly, they just don't know where to start.

Founder Zach Goldstein, an investment banker who formerly worked at JPMorgan and a private equity firm in Chicago, was frustrated with the quality of other lounge clothes on the market that he didn't feel comfortable wearing outside his house.

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.

In the lending world, the players at the upper end of the market include the banks and monoline firms, such as First National Financial, which issue mortgages but do not take deposits.

At my company, we're firm believers that the person who's been here the longest doesn't necessarily have the best idea.

I have no idea how widespread the practice is at RIA custodian firms because my firm's sole custodian, TD Ameritrade Institutional, does not engage in the practice.

Those firms didn't see the revolution coming, at least not soon enough.

And firms like Mojio, a Vancouver startup whose products are in pre-market testing, is one of several firms that are targeting the vast base of cars that don't have touchscreens at all, but whose owners would like to reap the benefits of constant connectivity.

One manager at Ernst & Young noted that «bring - your - own - device» is now, for many firms, table stakes: «You don't want to be the company without BYOD.»

«Young people do not look at sales as a realistic, ideal career path,» says Jamie Scarborough, co-founder of the recruitment firm Sales Talent Agency and a PROFITguide columnist.

«As an investor at a large VC firm, I meet many founders who don't have a great handle on their numbers,» says Jeff Richards, partner at GGV Capital.

Many financial planners are doing a poor job at, well, planning — both for the future of their own firms and in grooming the next generation of advisors.

And it's earned plenty of positive word - of - mouth support by doing its best to smooth the nerve - fraying experience of air travel — the long wait times, the heightened emotions — with friendly service, says Hanna, a partner at Toronto branding firm Trajectory.

With the sharing economy expanding and on - demand services booming, there are more rating and review systems being established to help people decide whom to do business with, said Karissa Sparks, the vice president of marketing at the reputation management firm Reputation.com.

«What happens with Facebook is you don't know what you don't know,» said David Lopez, a former general counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who is one of the lawyers at the firm Outten & Golden bringing the age - discrimination case on behalf of the communication workers union.

Apple would have done better to focus on China's regional trends rather than develop the payment service for a global market, says Kitty Fok, managing director of the China group at the market research firm International Data Corporation.

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

I've done a couple of startups before this and I've had experience at a big venture capital firm.

«Oftentimes the company will just have an answering machine in human resources with a dedicated phone number, but 90 percent of the time it's ineffective and employees don't use it,» says George Ramos, a managing partner and senior executive investigator at Diversified Risk Management (DRM), a Downey, California - based firm that handles corporate security and investigations.

The firm has a program that enables employees to do at least one short - term placement with a customer.

And he didn't have anything to add on the subject of EMC - owned (EMC) RSA, its encryption and network security firm, per its pending inclusion into the Dell family — at least nothing beyond the casual remark that it will be a «differentiator» for Dell, which is what the company's execs said on a Monday call.

Courage meant that whatever the founder or firm was doing, he or she was doing it exclusively with the belief that a better outcome would arise at the end despite moments of uncertainty.

«Market moves within a 10 percent band [don't] impact small businesses at all,» John Backus, founder and managing partner of New Atlantic Ventures, a venture capital firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says.

Just look at the titles of the advertisers with the most effective Winter Olympics ads, according to an analysis by analytics firm Ace Metrix: Smucker's, «Hardworking Olympians;» GE, «Childlike Imagination — What My Mom Does at GE;» Bounty, «Julie Chu: Has to Credit Her Mom;» and Jif, «Kids with the Olympic Dream.»

According to Paul Smith, a managing partner at executive recruiting firm Odgers Berndtson in Toronto, creating an exit strategy begins with asking yourself some questions: «How will I know when I've accomplished what I've set out to do?

«So many political people have gone on trade missions to say, «Come do business here,»» says Stephen Green, a partner at Toronto immigration law firm Green and Spiegel.

He approached Josh Kopelman, another partner at the firm, in July 2015, with the idea, but didn't tell Kopelman the startup idea was his.

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.

But the smart thing that the private firms did was they looked at their existing portfolio companies and tried to figure out how to leverage the internet.

Indeed, produce apps or wireless solutions, or do other quick - turnaround projects for other firms are now at a significant advantage when bidding on contracts.

«You have to know what you're going for, and do it with your eyes wide open,» says Francisco Dao, founder and president of The Killer Pitch, a firm based in Tarzana, California, that helps companies and entrepreneurs refine their message, and former business coach and columnist for Inc. «Look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what it's going to take to achieve your goals.»

While Apple isn't the first firm to try to capitalize on mobile payments, Banga said Apple is strategically looking «at what consumers want to do with their devices» and addressing their needs with Apple Pay.

Market research firm VC Experts subsequently pulled Delaware filings that show the round was done at a post-money valuation of approximately $ 1.03 billion (based on the $ 79m, not the $ 150m).

Wells Fargo at least partially blames it on rules that prevent listed companies from conducting buybacks in the last 30 minutes of trading — and keeps even the most liquid firms from doing it during the final 10 minutes before the close.

«As business processes have started to rely more on information and IT, the temptation, the desire is to give people access to everything [because] we don't want to create any friction for users to do their jobs,» said Robert Sadowski, director of marketing and technology solutions at security firm RSA.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.