Sentences with phrase «businesses founded more than»

In fact, the company recently rose above 30,000 lenders across the country to become the nation's largest residential mortgage lender — surpassing businesses founded more than 100 years ago.

Not exact matches

As a business owner, I find that there are few things more valuable than being compared to what other businesses are doing so that I can learn from and even copy their best practices.

Susan Faykus, from Integrated Financial in Austin, Texas, says: «More often than not, when we help business owners exit their existing company, we commonly find they have waited too late to engage legal, business broker and financial strategist professionals that could help them mitigate the heavy tax burden that could have been restructured for philanthropy or their legacy.»

A recent survey found that for more than 80 percent of small - business owners, the rewards outweigh the challenges.

While family and business relationships can be difficult to navigate, it is more than worth it for the families that find success in the field.

More than 60 percent of the 320 women business owners surveyed by Forbes Insight and KeyBank's Key4Woman said that they don't track social media to find out what they're customers are saying about them.

If you find yourself spending more than 60 hours a week on work, there's only two solutions: shrink your business or delegate your responsibilities.

«That growth potential could be greater than we think — if businesses find new ways to engage with [global value chains] and develop new products and processes to make them more productive and competitive,» Lane said.

Price shared her insights about what it takes to stay in business for more than two decades, planting seeds for future successes and how to move past fear and find your voice.

Those worried about Canada's declining manufacturing sector would find no hope in the Leaside Business Park — except for the brewery, which produces more than 300,000 cases each year with double - digit annual growth.

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

I've found that the right business strategies can deliver significantly more value, in all respects, than is possible through a purely stakeholder - driven social agenda.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

The company has raised more than $ 230 million in venture capital since its founding, from investors such as Sigma West and Ignition Partners, and is using that money to rapidly expand its business outside the U.S.. It's well on its way: DocuSign is available in 43 languages.

When considering the rule of 3 for the tasks you use to run your business, you will find that more qualify than you initially think.

Part of the problem, the study found, is that «existing tax rules effectively create a $ 19,399 reporting tax loophole impacting millions of taxpayers» because of the confusion surrounding the requirements for forms 1099 - K, which is supposed to be filed by companies when they earn more than $ 20,000 through 200 or more credit card transactions, and 1099 - MISC, which covers payments above $ 600 to independent contractors, freelancers and small businesses.

The NSBA surveyed more than 800 small business owners and found that the average cost of a single cyber attack to a company was $ 8,699.

We also found that more than two - thirds of value will be generated in business - to - business settings and that business customers and consumers will likely capture more than 90 % of the value created.

As your business begins to tell you where it needs to go, you'll find yourself becoming something of a bystander — more of a guide than a leader.

In 1990, Ben Cohen helped found Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, the largest state group of its kind, with more than 450 members.

What's more, while 95 percent of small businesses are organized as pass - throughs (based on 2014 Treasury Dept. data) rather than traditional C - corporations, the CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey found the most support (68 percent) for the tax plan among C - corps — which would receive the flat corporate tax - rate reduction to 20 percent.

As The Economist pointed out in 2006, when you look at the cream of capitalism's self - made crop, you are hard - pressed to find anyone who has «done more than deliver a speech at a business school.»

The 2016 BNP Paribas Global Entrepreneurship Report found that women are more ambitious and successful than their male counterparts when it comes to business.

A study of data from more than 800 U.S. firms over 30 years, reported in the Harvard Business Review, found mandatory diversity training actually makes managerial ranks more white and male.

More than one - third of sole proprietors said that their biggest challenge is finding the time and resources to generate new business, according to a recent survey conducted by Visa USA and SCORE, a nonprofit group that counsels entrepreneurs.

Small business owners are more satisfied with the federal government than they have been in recent years, but a new survey has found there are still a lot of changes the sector would like to see implemented to help run their businesses efficiently.

According to data compiled by Wishpond, a maker of social - media marketing applications, 77 percent of business - to consumer (B2C) marketers have acquired customers through Facebook, while business - to - business (B2B) marketers have found more success on LinkedIn — finding it a whopping 277 % more effective than Facebook or Twitter.

Entrepreneurs who focus on their passions tend to be more successful than their less passionate peers, and there are plenty of ways to find your passion and turn it into a thriving business.

«Arby's has always had a lot of quality products and has always had more than roast beef on its menu, but I think we found a particularly effective way to communicate that,» CEO Paul Brown told Business Insider.

It's easy to find courses suited to unique business interests at Schulich, where there are more than 130 elective course choices.

This news comes against a backdrop, where small business owners are, generally speaking, finding it harder to get loans under $ 1 million from banks — and more specifically to find loans of less than $ 50,000.

A 2013 Deloitte study found one - third of business executives and owners felt they were spending equal to or more than their peers on R&D, when actually they were spending far less.

There is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis (or SWOT thinking) and more than a fair share of theoretical or academic quadrants within which you can plug your business challenge and find a solution — in theory anyway.

As Priceline.com cofounder Jeff Hoffman, co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back, likes to say, «Your business plan is more about the questions you ask and get yourself to struggle with than it is about finding the «right» answerBusiness and Get Your Life Back, likes to say, «Your business plan is more about the questions you ask and get yourself to struggle with than it is about finding the «right» answerbusiness plan is more about the questions you ask and get yourself to struggle with than it is about finding the «right» answer.»

In a salary analysis that looked at the earnings of more than 14,000 graduate business school alumni, GMAC found that female alumni experience a significant wage gap throughout their careers.

Our recent survey of more than 1,500 young U.S. business school students and graduates finds that both men and women count on having flexible careers that provide room for life outside of the office.

A business born of a need to find a way to pay the rent receives funding that values the company at more than $ 1 billion.

Francese speaks both from his experience analyzing demographics and as a former small business owner; he founded American Demographics magazine and ran it for more than 20 years.

This is a great strategy for your business — it is much easier to market more products and services to your existing customers that are already raving fans than to try to find new ones.

«There's way more data than there has ever been,» he says, «and it's the job of people in market research to try to find a way of taking all of this data, reducing it to a story and explaining to our clients how they should change their business as a result of what we learned through this.»

Even so, the Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute found in a new study that, for small businesses, their Websites were more important as sales - generation tools than any social media strategy.

«Since 2011, Facebook has invested more than $ 1 billion to help local businesses grow and help people find jobs.

A: It's really about finding a business in an industry that you're really passionate about, because it's going to be much more difficult and take more time than you anticipate.

In this busy world, it's more important than ever to find unique ways for you and your business to stand out.

Maybe you're genuinely the first person to come up with the foundational principles of your business, or perhaps you found a need in the marketplace and believe you could fill it more readily than companies that already exist.

Small businesses with 50 or more employees invested an average of $ 257,098 in time and money seeking contracts in 2012, while those firms with fewer than 10 employees spent only $ 37,172, the American Express survey finds.

In the immediate aftermath, more than a dozen local businesses are reeling from the events, and trying to find meaningful ways to support the community.

Interviewing more than one broker, paying attention to success rates and fees, and determining how committed a broker is to selling your business are just three ways to determine whether or not you've found a reliable broker.

The site sells Internet filters and the numbers appear to include traditional sector businesses as well as the adult industry itself, so it's probably safe to assume they're on the high side, but they are still more comprehensive than most found elsewhere.

After more than 80 rounds of matching and guessing faces to occupations, the researchers found that the participants were able to accurately pick out the business, military and sports leaders more consistently than if they were guessing by chance.