Sentences with phrase «bigger than the firm»

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The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

«Every startup competition has their own goals that are much bigger than just giving free money away to startup founders,» says Jonathan Allen, President and co-founder of Longneck & Thunderfoot (L&T), a content marketing firm and previous winner of a $ 50,000 Arch Grant.

I mean, as you see consultancies — like they say the big three accounting firms are now — bill less in accounting revenue than they do in consulting revenue, particularly in the marketing and advertising space.

The firm attributes 30 % to 40 % of its profits to the U.S., and trades at a bigger - than - average 75 % discount to tangible book value.

The firm did report better than expected profits in the third quarter, and could potentially return to a bigger presence in the individual insurance market once uncertainty around Obamacare stabilizes.

Italy and Spain remain big growth areas, with Huawei now shipping more smartphones than Apple, according to data from market research firm Counterpoint.

«We see many international retailers reluctant to come to the U.S. [after] you've seen big retailers take longer to resonate here than elsewhere,» said David Zoba, chairman of the global retail leasing board at commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

Big firms may care about screening resumes, but a good sales hire is going to be a lot more than a piece of paper.

By Sunday's end the «conversation» about Adidas and Yeezy Boost had lit up social media, with social analytics firm Networked Insights recording 141,077 related posts — 20 % more than the sum of posts about Nike (NKE), which had likewise set up a flotilla of big - dollar marketing events for the All - Star celebration.

Despite their having more resources than you, big firms might not have a chance against you when you leverage the following five advantages that you have over them:

«Feel free to push the argument at the security line that a keyboard, portable battery or any other piece of electronics bigger than a smartphone (whichever size smartphone they decide upon) is considered a risk,» says Chris Roberts, a Chief Security Architect at security firm Acalvio.

If you sell soccer shoes, for instance, Adidas is a bigger player than either of the two American firms.

Some pundits and companies have found the cost prohibitive for firms operating on a smaller scale than behemoth Google, but at least one tech company is willing to take the idea and run with it — big time.

Notably, there is a larger percentage of firms whose single most important problem is «labor quality» than the percentage of firms whose biggest problem is «sales.»

The big consulting firms are much more likely to help engineer the marketplace solution than they are the manpower solution.

He wasn't surprised that startup CEOs spoke up while the major players did not: «There are a lot more ways for the Trump administration to hurt Big Pharma firms with products on the market than there are ways for the Trump administration to hurt biotech firms.»

The proposed repeal of the current Obama - era protections would be a big win for ISPs including Comcast and Verizon, but has been strongly opposed by tech firms like Google and Facebook — though those giants are less likely to be hurt than smaller content providers.

Instead of focusing on moving the business forward, my time was spent elsewhere, trying to make the firm look like a bigger entity than it actually was.

From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

Daily - deal pioneer Groupon and social - gaming firm Zynga, which both achieved big valuations based on little more than high expectations, are tanking.

But it turns out that in aggregate, small firms pay about the same premiums as big firms — in fact, for family coverage, companies with under 200 employees pay less ($ 11,835) than firms with 200 or more workers ($ 12,233).

In its biggest crisis ever, Facebook is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that political research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

At $ 30 - $ 75 per month, which includes other benefits like syncing, sharing and cloud storage, this instantly makes such apps affordable for more than just professional designers employed by enterprise or big media and advertising firms.

Sanofi CEO Olivier Brandicourt said that his company would rely on the U.S. national health expenditures (NHE) growth projection to cap price increases other than for a «sound reason» (in which case the firm would disclose the reasoning behind the bigger hike).

If you're hiring, the drum - tight talent market for anyone with programming skills should loosen up considerably, although big companies may reap the benefits more than small ones, says Oliver Ryan, founder of the tech recruiting firm Lab 8 Ventures.

While Western Australia is a lot bigger than one man and one company, with a bit of imagination it is possible to see the state through the financial health of a firm that sells equipment to the mining industry, and the personal wealth of a man with the biggest stake in that business.

And DB5 gains the potential brand appeal from an outsourced, automated system that helps it appear more like a corporate titan than a small business — key for a firm with big clients such as GE, AT&T and Girl Scouts of the USA.

Gagliardi explains that he often returns from his foreign business trips with more questions than ever — issues he'll generally bring to Coopers & Lybrand, the Big Six accounting firm that handles Fourgen's international tax matters.

Big - name venture firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates have been behind Coursera from the beginning and together have invested a little more than $ 146 million in the company.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

But the biggest impact is on small startup firms — contrary to Haber and Levine, most patent trolls target firms selling less than $ 100 million a year.

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Those homes are more likely to be purchased in the close suburbs rather than in urban cores, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data by real - estate listing firm Trulia, which found that millennial growth in big - city suburbs was 1.4 percent in 2013, compared with 1.2 percent growth in dense cities.

by Trevor Hunnicutt and Olivia Oran (Reuters)- BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, slashed the amount it paid out in commissions to Wall Street firms for research by more than half for its largest mutual fund over the last two years, according to filings.

The company has lost more than $ 45 billion of its stock market value over the past three days on investor fears that any failure by big tech firms to protect personal data could deter advertisers and users and invite tougher regulation.

Also like the EarPods, the Pixel Buds rest on your ear rather than create a firm seal in your ear canal, and I should point out that the earbud itself is quite big, not good for teeny ears.

Indeed, the technology sector has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Trump presidency: The S&P information technology group has risen more than 13 percent this year, more than banks, utilities, health firms, energy companies or consumer brands.

It's true that the activist investors on the Exxon vote likely include heavy hitters like financial firms BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (though the specific votes are not made public), which are the company's biggest shareholders, owning more than 18 percent of the stock.

Rather than take another reputational hit by trying to overturn a rule billed as pro-consumer, the big firms said they preferred putting the effort into complying with it.

Microsoft plans to spend $ 5 billion on the internet of things, and it's more than the usual shell game that big firms play with these sorts of announcements.

The most valuable employees understand more than just their jobs; they understand the industries in which their companies operate, the way in which their companies functions in big - picture terms and the way in which their individual job roles contribute to the success of their firms.

Last week, a three - person crew in downtown San Francisco installed a new billboard for GitHub Inc., a service used by software developers that has raised more than $ 100 million from big - name venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz.

Aerospace and aviation are by far the biggest segments of IMP, a conglomerate with revenue of more than $ 1 - billion a year from interests spanning charter airline CanJet and private aviation firm Innotech - Execaire Aviation Group.

Second, the biggest form of financial risk faced by most workers is job loss, which is lower for employees of worker - owned firms than most other firms.

Some predict that the implications of PSD II for incumbent firms could be even bigger than fintech.

Qudian's founder CEO Min Luo will forgo his salary until the $ 5 bln firm tops a $ 100 bln valuation, bigger than backer Ant Financial.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

Generally speaking, the culture at boutiques works more in favour of clients than the big firms, but there are some terrific funds at the big firms — ultimately you need to study each fund in turn and decide on their individual merits.

Still on our watch list: news of bigger - and - better - than - ever funds from other firms that announced their latest funds roughly two years ago, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners.

«It's a bigger risk than we're giving it credit for, and the manipulation can cause it to compound issues,» Matthew Stock, an attorney at the law firm that sent the letter, told me.