Sentences with phrase «business year by year»

In September 2011, I left my corporate job to become a full - time author and creative entrepreneur and since then I've grown my business year by year, all based on my writing.

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Quickly, please have a look at this troubling essay by historian Jay M. Smith about a giant business — big - time college sports — that hasn't reinvented itself in years.

LinkedIn recently joined the gig economy earlier this year when they launched ProFinder, a service that enables freelancers to promote their business and be found by those in need of their services.

As Krishen Rangasamy, an economist at National Bank, observed this week, all the hiring in Canada over the past year has been by large businesses, not tiny ones.

And this year I plan to lift up the many businesses that have figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders, their customers, and their communities, so that we can spread those best practices across America.»

According to the report, Foursquare is now back on track to beat sales expectations by the end of the year, and the business development team has been successful in attracting several new advertisers to their «post-check-in product.»

We also decided to wind down our activities in the wind pitch control business by year end, resulting in a charge of $ 0.72 per share.

Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

According to research by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 46.6 percent of startups launched in the U.S. that are still in business after five years are founded by «user entrepreneurs.»

It also announced that it's teaming up with Danone to jump into the yogurt business, with new Greek yogurt parfaits planned for cafes by next year.

Included in our original business plan years ago was that everything had to be completed by the end of each day.

Potdevin's years at Burton were dominated by two interrelated challenges that will sound familiar to Lululemon watchers: he had to grow the business.

At constant exchange rates and business scope, year - on - year sales increased 5.2 %, driven by a 6.0 % positive price effect reflecting ongoing actions to raise selling prices along the entire acrylic chain.

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

The company finally entered mobile gaming last year by bringing its Super Mario Bros franchise to Apple's iPhones, but it still sees console gaming as central to its business.

According to a report published by Business Insider, ad spend for social media this year is expected to surpass $ 8.5 billion.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

This article is part of Fortune's Best in Business 2015 package of highlights and lowlights of the year in business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of Business 2015 package of highlights and lowlights of the year in business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of Fortune.

These excellent results are supported by the success of our innovation drive in advanced materials, the benefits of increased production capacities in specialty molecular sieves in France and PVDF in China last year, the integration of XL Brands in adhesives and the confirmation of the very good performance of our intermediate chemical businesses.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

Saujani, whose six - year - old organization is tackling the gender gap in tech by training young girls in computer science, encouraged the nation's business leaders to double down on the effort in a wide - ranging panel discussion on attracting and retaining diverse talent.

This is welcome after several years of lacklustre investment by Canadian businesses across the economy.

While hiring was down by 0.1 percent in March, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10, or 87 percent of small businesses, expect the first quarter to be the same or better than a year ago.

Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.

Earlier this year, the mogul extended his business relationship with Live Nation by signing a decade - long touring partnership valued at $ 200 million.

«We're planning to invest over $ 50 billion in the U.S. over the next five years to increase production of profitable volumes and enhance our integrated portfolio, which is supported by the improved business climate created by tax reform.»

Industry professionals between the ages of 23 and 45 are nominated by their cluster - member - business to participate in the one - year professional development program.

Financed primarily by large mutual and hedge funds, the exchange opened for business last year.

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

In the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobs.

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

The first business SeaFort Capital acquired was owned by a 79 - year - old entrepreneur.

Outsourcing has become one of the hottest topics in the business world over the past few years, with so many tasks in the workplace now capable of being carried out by outside parties.

The community rallied, and Kepler's reopened later that year with a new business plan and more than $ 1 million invested by locals who didn't want to see the family - owned business perish.

However, a couple years later, as the business began to earn more revenue, Turner was shocked by the amount of taxes he was paying the IRS.

He likes businesses that can grow earnings by 10 % or more per year.

And according to a 2012 survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, the organization that administers the GMAT admission test for graduate business and management programs, 64 % of business school deans felt MBA programs would specialize further in the next five years.

Sometimes when I pick up my three - year - old daughter I'll drop by the yard to check in on the business.

A survey conducted this year by Canadian Business and Deloitte shows that only 17 % of family - owned businesses in Canada have succession plans.

By that year, customers had gradually turned their backs on a brand many now saw as schlocky; Coach's share of the handbag business had fallen 12 percentage points, and Kors was No. 1.

Woodies is a startup, bootstrapped by the owner, which has been doing business for the past two years.

Western Australian retailers have a positive view of business conditions in the year ahead, according to a recent survey by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with one third expecting an improved market in the 2018 financial year.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

Kelly hopes that in the next 10 years he can inspire enough homeowners and businesses to come on board that 50 percent of America's 40.5 million acres of lawn will be switched to organic care, reducing by half the 3 million tons of synthetic fertilizers and 30,000 tons of pesticides used annually.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

However, as that happens, small businesses continue to be a top target for hackers, with the number of organizations hit by cybercrime rising each year.

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2013 is sure to be a great year with so many thriving small businesses and entrepreneurs who are grabbing the bull by the horns and taking charge!