Sentences with phrase «back of a napkin»

As is her habit in any business transaction, Elaine did some quick back of the napkin math while John was on the phone with the claims adjuster.

Employing back of a napkin calculations, TSI would need to fall roughly 4.3 W / m2 to provide 0.6 °C of cooling.

Quick back of the napkin math shows that the tournament saved about $ 20,000 by paying their normal electricity rate for wind power.

Employing back of a napkin calculations, TSI would need to fall roughly 4.3 W / m2 to provide 0.6 °C of cooling.

«Advanced Distressed Debt Lesson: Bank Debt Trading on the Modern Day Back of the Napkin,» Distressed Debt Investing Blog, May 13, 2013

A quick, back of the napkin calculation of our mileage needs can be done using the Rule of 7.

Pete, 25 years of inflation looks like 100 % to me with back of napkin math.

As is her habit in any business transaction, Elaine did some quick back of the napkin math while John was on the phone with the claims adjuster.

In an interesting way, Action Method Books are an improvement upon the «back of the napkin» in a much more organized, functional and retainable way.

Again, our definition of an entrepreneur is someone who believes she can change the world with an idea scribbled on the back of a napkin.

With Fortune's back of the napkin math, the company pulled in at least $ 10 million in revenue in 2015.

They could appear at the incubator's door, with their idea on the back of a napkin and, a few weeks later, pop out with investor money to burn.

Rather, the 4 % rule is a great estimating tool, kind of a «back of the napkin» approach.

No start - up is too much in the early stage to come to me — usually it's just an idea on the back of the napkin.

In 2002 Bruce Constantine and Chris McLean met for coffee, and sketched their first product concept on the back of a napkin - a calibrated tamper to make more consistent espresso.

I always do the back of napkin math on it but if they have it already that would be sweet.

«I'm not one of these people who has written on the back of an envelope or the back of a napkin x, y or z. My first ambition in life was to be a bus conductor and I've never managed to achieve that.

Wrap the bunny napkin holder around the napkin and trim if necessary, then tap in place on the back of the napkin.

I pride myself on being tacky and pray the paragraphs I scribble on the back of napkins will morph into a bestselling novel (or series... I wouldn't complain.)

We can use photography to document thoughts that prefer to appear on the back of a napkin or whiteboard.

For example, students can use photography to document thoughts that appear on a whiteboard or the back of a napkin.

I did a back of the napkin analysis of one district and came to the conclusion they could pay EVERYONE top step and only increase teacher salary costs by about 13 %.

When she began working with her father she started to jot down stories on the back of napkins in her lunch breaks.

One of Weinstein's authors, Dan Roam, also in San Francisco, gives workshops and lectures frequently about his best - selling business book, «The Back of the Napkin,» which are about how to solve complex problems with pictures.

For example, I'd never considered the marine industry to be particularly efficient, but in 2000, I'd run a project where we took a ship design from the back of a napkin to a finished state - of - the - art cableship, delivered in sixteen months.

Visual Thinking Resources includes links to over a dozen books and resources, including books like Dan Roam's Back of the Napkin, Idea Paint, and Wordle (a free online tool that converts text, URLs, and RSS feeds into compelling graphics, as shown above).

As a back of the napkin thing, if they pay 25 %, they'd have to sell over a million dollars worth of each book.

I'm sorry but the last two posts are delusional retellings of the story: 1) If Fusion Garage was such a clusterfck, the CrunchPad was never going to be a success and you deserve just as much blame for ever doing business with these clowns — particularly as it looks like most of the business was conducted on the back of napkins and with handshakes.

It can be written up on the back of a napkin.

Pardon my math - Correction on my previous question My apologies on the back of the napkin math I provided on my earlier question titled «Rent - to - Own Strategy Still Viable given Canada's Strict Down Payment...

He uses them to break down money matters on the back of napkins.

A back of a napkin may be all you need to do this, but there are also a ton of great calculators online if you prefer to do it yourself.

We can break it down even further and see a back of napkin calculation that shows the annual return we received over the last 6 years.

I just did a back of a napkin calculation... A lot of people like to drive a nice car and are content to pay, say, $ 400 per month to lease a higher end one.

No longer do you need a secret map scrawled on the back of a napkin from some jittery mess in a Bangkok bar to get there: the location of this place is no secret anymore, but its beauty remains.

Books like The Sketchnote Handbook and The Back of the Napkin set out simple techniques you (or someone in your organization) can use to illustrate a message with clarity and power, even if you haven't dared to doodle since grade school.

But unlike the corporate «art» that might serve as a backdrop for a Dilbert strip, his scribbles are raw and rambunctious, as if scrawled on the back of a napkin at the moment of epiphany (not unlike the cliche about how business ideas are born).

Just like spending millions searching for Dyson spheres and E.T. live just because someone at a cocktail party put together a wild notion on the back of a napkin.

How many times have we had that architectural cliché, the design on the back of a napkin, foisted on an unsuspecting public?

It's a wash, so to speak, even if a crude one, in a writing on the back of the napkin with a really dull pencil, and maybe that napkin is a bit wet because you put it down in the sweat ring from your beer sort of way.

Note that an «informal writing» (e.g., a memorandum on the back of napkin that includes all the necessary elements including the signatures of both parties) can satisfy the statute of frauds in the UCC so long is it represents the intent to be bound by the contract.

«Back at the height of the dot - com bubble maybe you could, when guys were getting funded for ideas on the back of a napkin.

Dan Roam wrote a book back in 2008 called The Back of the Napkin.