Sentences with phrase «biggest early winner»

His biggest early winner was GEICO, a high quality growth company that quickly became a 10 - bagger (although Buffett sold it to buy an insurance company at 3x earnings).

Not exact matches

That could bode well for the holidays, but so far this year, the big winner among software publishers is Ubisoft, which has seen a pair of early 2017 releases dominate the sales charts.

The big winners of Facebook's $ 2 billion deal to buy Oculus VR, a virtual reality headset maker, include a roster of elite venture capitalists who invested in the company early on.

«We need the 49ers who would be a big winner for us,» Bradley said earlier in the week about some 18/1 and 20/1 bets made early in the playoffs.

Georgia was dubbed the big winner of the early signing period, but January's recalculation of top prospects» star ratings helped Ohio State regain a slight edge heading into signing day.

But everything is different in Augusta and the three - time winner enjoys playing in the Par - 3 Contest, unlike Tiger Woods, who went out on the big course early this morning for a practice stroll.

It seems to me if you had to gamble this early in the season that there is now a big 3 made up of City, Man U and Chelsea who have the winners DNA we had 15 years ago.

Everton were big 3 - 1 winners at home against Swansea earlier in the season.

Movsisyan has earlier been linked with big clubs like the German cup winners Wolfsburg, and Liverpool, but after his disappointing season it is unlikely that these clubs are still interested.

As the two big teams, their competition is always high voltage and it would be tough to predict the winner earlier the match.

Earlier this month, FUTP60 announced the winners of their Team Up «Dynamic Duos» photo contest; congratulations to all the winners, especially Program Advisor Lynn L. and Student Ambassador Mati G., of Wisconsin, who have launched their school's brand - new FUTP60 program in a big way!

It's obviously too early to tell, but if Poland submits this film for Oscar consideration next year (which is a big if since Pawel Pawlikowski, Oscar winner of IDA, should have new film COLD WAR ready this year), it could be a big player à la ON BODY AND SOUL and A FANTASTIC WOMAN.

Earlier than ever this year, some of the biggest critics and major precursors will announce their nominations and winners from the very best of...

Some of the winners» names were familiar just kicked - off awards season — Alexander Payne's Hawaiian - set «The Descendants» was named Best Picture, as it also was recently by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association — but perhaps the biggest winner of the night was Nicolas Winding Refn's neon - lit, criminally overlooked «Drive,» which sadly withered on the box office vine earlier this fall and yet sped off with the most trophies Sunday night.

The party's first phase earlier in the evening was a dinner for a smaller group of invitees, who dined on slow - poached dover sole and grilled beef calotte as they watched the show, where «The Shape of Water» was the big winner.

Curiously her screen daughter in that best picture winner Jean Arthur, an even bigger star, shares her same birthday (for the year of 1900) 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (an early step in creating the cinema) 1903 Author and screenwriter Nathanael West is born in NYC.

Earlier this season the four big winners also claimed the top prizes at the SAG Awards, Golden Globes, and BAFTAs.

The Screen Actors Guild announced its award nominations this morning, ass - crack early, and while there was some spread in the nods, there was also no doubt as to the biggest winner.

Winner of the Audience Award and Best Canadian Film prizes at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, this is a film I saw twice on the big screen this past year (and was moved to tears both times, I proudly attest) and one that eloquently makes its case early in the film when an early Charley Patton recording is played and lands like lightning.

There were few surprises among this year's list of winners presented Jan. 11, especially following another big awards show earlier this week.

All that plus the supple suspension, reasonable power (we always want more power), refined interior, and great on - road manners is why the 4Runner was an early standout for many, if not all, of the judges (OK, Péwé blindly loves all things Jeep and Williams likes big lumbering Ram [read: Dodge] trucks with locking differentials and winches) and why it eventually convinced everyone that it was a winner.

Cooklet was a big winner at the AppCircus at BlackBerry Jam earlier this month in Orlando Florida — and with good reason.

I think he was interested in the compounders at an early age... and although he bought net - nets and cigar butts like Cleveland Worsted Mills, most of the money he made — even early on — was due to a few big winners that were for the most part — great businesses.

There were plenty of come - from - behind matches, unexpected early knockouts for early winners, and a big win for MvC3 Evo champion Viscant.

Another ingredient is to avoid the curve of command that runs loosely from invention, innovation, early adoption, prototyping, etc etc through to getting lawyer protection of ideas, patents, grants, finance committees to allocate fund and pick winners, to professional corporate types to strip the profits away before moving on with a big bonus to wreck another venture.

The early winner taking advantage of Apple's next big thing uses your iPhone's camera to place a cuddly pet dragon in the real world around you.

The early winner taking advantage of Apple's next big thing is a free app that uses your iPhone's camera to place a cuddly pet dragon in the real world around you.

«A lot of people are beginning to realize how big of an opportunity there is between business and the blockchain... and that's making ripple the early winner here,» he added.