Sentences with phrase «behind by the big companies»

Finally, Williams believes small businesses are uniquely positioned to capitalize upon opportunities left behind by the big companies that become too mired in their own politics.

Not exact matches

But whilst bigger companies have legions of finance experts behind them, smaller business owners can often find themselves dealing with accounting responsibilities all by themselves.

When asked which companies scored the highest by seven different criteria, Canadians ranked Tim Hortons at No. 10 this year (up from 29th last year), behind international heavyweights such as Walt Disney, Lego and Google, but ahead of big names like Honda, Apple and Amazon.

As ever, these days some of Berkshire's largest holdings are in famous financials; big bank Wells Fargo is the company's No. 2 stock by market value, while credit card giant American Express (NYSE: AXP) isn't far behind at No. 5.

By picking a price at the top end of the assumed range, Alibaba surpassed big American companies like the Walt Disney Co. and Boeing Co., leaving behind as well e-commerce rivals such as eBay and Amazon.

If there's heavy «dough» behind it, means there's a lot of money behind it, backed by a big company.

Luca Guadagnino, the filmmaker behind A Bigger Splash and last year's Oscar - winning coming - of - age romance Call Me by Your Name, is at the helm of this new iteration, with Dakota Johnson filling the lead role of a young American new to the troupe of a world - renowned dance company where a bloody nightmare ensues.

By thinking it can hide behind a big number like 120,000 and fool customers into thinking they'll get the apps they want when they buy a BlackBerry 10 device, the company is sacrificing a good experience for an ad strategy.

And with a big company behind it, we might see a final version by 2015 instead of 2029.

Over the course of most of those fifteen years, Freedman had put all of her influence and credibility as the president of Knoedler & Company, until recently one of New York's oldest and most respected art galleries, behind what she believed to be a treasure trove of newly discovered modern art by the biggest names in Abstract Expressionism.

Picture: soy and corn plantations and algae in Chubut, Argentina.Leaving the most radical speeches behind, we thought worth mentioning some excerpts from a document by Engineer Enrique Mario Martinez, president of the Argentine National Institute for Industrial Technology (a well known investigation institution), who highlights issues like the low yield of corn - based biodiesel, the different impacts in the environment between biodiesel and bioethanol, and the big oil companies interests in biodiesel mixed with petrol.

Attacks on electric cars by the oil industry are on a par with misinformation campaigns promoted by big tobacco companies and vested interests undermining climate science, according to Elon Musk, the serial entrepreneur who founded PayPal and the brains behind both the space exploration company SpaceX and the electric sports carmaker Tesla Motors.

Insurance companies are perceived to be much less hip, staffed by folks with side parts behind big wooden desks inside industrially - lit offices.

The company is funded by some big - name investors, including Goldman Sachs, Chinese internet company Baidu and Jim Breyer, a tech venture capitalist that got behind Facebook in its early days.

The forum is organized by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab — a Blockchain research institution co-founded by Vitalik Buterin altogether with Wanxiang Holdings — the biggest manufacturer of auto spare parts in China, and the company behind the luxury sports sedan Karma Revero that is gearing up to challenge Tesla.