Sentences with phrase «businesses out of their dollars»

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In the wake of the Dollar Shave Club deal, I reached out to my own business advisers, at Commerce Business Advisers, and asked them what are the three biggest mistakes that founders make in the early days, that eventually hurt theibusiness advisers, at Commerce Business Advisers, and asked them what are the three biggest mistakes that founders make in the early days, that eventually hurt theiBusiness Advisers, and asked them what are the three biggest mistakes that founders make in the early days, that eventually hurt their exits.

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

David Swensen, the head of Yale University's $ 25 billion endowment is calling out some of the biggest players in finance for shelling out billions of dollars for what he calls «kickbacks» to attract business to their trading venues.

Bootstrapped businesses are forced to count each dollar they bring in and put out, staying in complete control of their money and keeping their companies financially healthy.

As Marx foresaw, this process leads to monopoly and cartels as a few strong players drive weaker ones out of business or acquire their assets for pennies on the dollar.

The U.S. government is the largest supplier to small businesses in the U.S., doling out hundreds of billions of dollars worth of contracts each year.

She had to answer for the cancellation of two gas plants that will cost an estimated $ 1.1 billion, a criminal probe into the questionable business dealings of the province's Ornge air ambulance service and a multimillion - dollar decision to bail out the MaRS innovation and research complex in Toronto.

That's powerful — and a long ways from throwing money at a print ad or plunking down thousands of dollars for a trade show booth and hoping that you get some new business out of it without ever really knowing if you did or didn't.

With an eye to the future, he bought used furniture at auctions and from companies that were going out of business, for as little as 10 cents on the dollar.

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

Most websites with as much traffic as Plenty of Fish would have by this point raised millions of dollars from venture capitalists, hired dozens of engineers and business - development types, and figured out a way to keep someone as unconventional as Markus Frind from making any major decisions.

On the other hand, Glickman found out that the state of California had put its billion dollars» worth of business up for bid.

Depending on where you're at right now in your coaching business, an income of $ 1 million dollars may seem intimidating, or even out of reach.

We need the consumer being confident and strong, having those extra dollars to go out and have a set of wine glasses or buy some extra dinnerware,» said Walt Rowen, owner of Susquehanna Glass Co. in Columbia, Pa., at the press conference Small Business Majority, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.

Telling multibillion - dollar media conglomerates and marketers their business requires a certain degree of chutzpah from entrepreneurs technically still in their first job out of college.

«Ever since Facebook became a «pay - to - play» social medium, small businesses especially are scurrying to figure out how to best spend their ad dollars,» says Aubrey Swanson, a Miami - based Social Media Manager and Owner of Auboom Media.

According to a report from Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair, Trump sees himself as being at «war» with Amazon and Bezos and is considering a number of ways to strike out, including canceling Amazon's potential multibillion - dollar contract with the Pentagon to provide cloud computing services and encouraging state attorneys general to investigate Amazon's business practices.

He says the New Jersey bank would «take money out of Wall Street and put it to work for New Jersey — creating jobs and growing the economy [by] using state deposits to finance local investments... and... support billions of dollars of critical investments in infrastructure, small businesses, and student loans — saving our residents money and returning all profits to the taxpayers.»

If you have an opportunity to purchase inventory for pennies on the dollar from a vendor that is going out of business, then it's in your best interest to act quickly to do so.

Likewise, if you run your own business and focus on keeping costs low, margins sufficiently high, and reduce spending in - line, you're probably going to come out ahead of the game by using these downturns to dollar cost average into your portfolio.

In college he created a successful several hundred - thousand - dollar business but drove it into the ground in just a few years before he was even out of college.

«If we put a dollar in the Google machine, we know exactly what's going to come out,» says David Sobie, VP of business development at HauteLook, a Nordstrom subsidiary that runs a members - only, daily - discount fashion site.

They aren't spending millions of dollars on AdWords campaigns and they don't have call centers or send out mass spam mail to sucker business owners in.

«If you look at the capital that is being withdrawn from the business, hundreds of billions of dollars are being taken out of the business right now.

All I knew at that point was that I was out of work and had a lot of friends who told me they were making three to five thousand dollars a week and I wanted to get into the business.

Starting a small scale but standard cleaning company business that can only carry out routine cleaning services for homes and offices in the United States of America will cost about five thousand dollars to fifteen thousand dollars ($ 5,000 to $ 15,000).

Yes, there was a one - time gain recorded of $ 2.5 billion due to an accounting change, yes the government had to give Citigroup last - resort rescue money 3 times totaling 10's of billions of dollars and yes, Vikram has had to whack out whole lines of business and thousands of employees to stay afloat.

Truth is that most entrepreneurs are looking for the easy way out; they are just been lazy and that's why they sit on their business ideas, waiting for millions of dollars in start up money.

If every dollar coming into and going out of the business isn't tracked, cash flow will invariably suffer.

Jain got a shout - out in Buffett's 2016 letter for turning that business around and creating billions of dollars for shareholders.

He started the company, without any hardware experience, out of a garage as an undergraduate student and lead it to a multi-million dollar business with product sold in over 40 countries and at retailers such as Apple and Best Buy.

In the name of necessity, or security, or advancement, or just out of cowardice, these people abrogate their individual responsibility and take part in questionable or immoral or illegal activities because they are following orders, or because business demands it, or because if they don't somebody else will, or because it's the only way to get that extra dollar, or because it's simply easier.

Government is also by far business's biggest customer; it now spends one out of every three or three and a half dollars of the gross national product.

The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

I do not understand the economics of the business well enough and there always seems to be contradictory reports about everything (dollars, skills, scheme fit etc.) From my admittedly naive, fan - based vantage point, we needed to strengthen the offensive line and the linebacker corp, add some punch to the running game (while keeping an eye on the draft for a fleet - footed youngster), and bring some leadership to a clubhouse that was akin to Animal House last year (of course, winning makes grown ups out of everyone).

Look at Nate and Nick, they have money, have their own businesses from their own academies, clothing brand, marijuana - related products... sometimes Nick Diaz gets $ 15 - 20K just to show up at a party for damn sake... they hang out with all the famous artists and rappers, they get invited to events just to light up a joint, people design customised weed joints for them that costs thousands of dollars... but cant remember the last picture Nate posted bragging about money or expensive jewellery...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - New York state shut down its out - of - control Empire Zone business incentive program in 2010 after providing millions of dollars to companies that state officials never intended to help.

Rizzi honed his business acumen while masterminding and running a multimillionaire - dollar prostitution ring where johns shelled out as much as $ 20,000 for a night with a different kind of hot dish.

When Karen asked if the company might ask other ad - targeting firms to pay a licensing fee or even try to force them out of the business, for instance, the answer that came back was, «I'm just a simple man trying to advance the cause of digital politics, you're talking way above my pay grade,» though we did also learn that the patent is «patent is a recognition of what we've done as a company» and that «taken us years to get to this place, it's taken millions and millions of dollars.»

«Henderson later described consulting as «the most improbable business on earth»: «Can you think of anything less improbable [sic] than taking the world's most successful firms, leaders in their businesses, and hiring people just fresh out of school and telling them how to run their businesses and they are willing to pay millions of dollars for this advice?»

New York's attorney general has launched a lawsuit against the owners of Buffalo - based FWS furniture company, which recently went out of business, costing customers thousands of dollars.

The tax breaks, targeted for businesses and the middle class, include a phase out of a surcharge on utilities, and the distribution of $ 350 dollar checks, starting next year to every family with children up to the age of 18.

Mr. Bruno earned $ 3.2 million in fees from clients over 15 years and ran his multimillion - dollar consulting business almost exclusively out of his government office, according to testimony and evidence put forth by prosecutors.

«After we spend billions of public dollars bailing them out and allowing them to go back to business as usual with exorbitant bonuses, we now begin to turn the public employees into public enemies,» DiGerolamo said.

Now it may be the case that Ahlam Jaoui of her parents» house in Bay Ridge, who is signed up to find work as a trade show brand ambassador, who is willing to pose wearing a hijab and say that she wants to drive a taxi, and whose LinkedIn profile lists her as still working for an out - of - business investment company, is also a well - positioned power broker who can convince lawyers and business owners in Westchester and New Jersey to contribute thousands of dollars to Mayor de Blasio's re-election campaign.

Krueger recalled that the ill - fated Empire Zones program, which was created by former Gov. George Pataki in 1999 (it actually morphed out of the New York State Economic Development Zones) ended up being an ill - conceived boondoggle that gave away millions of dollars worth of publicly - funded incentives and tax breaks to businesses that pledged to create jobs and then often didn't make good on those promises.

He pointed out that it made no economic sense for the Federal Government to be calculating the country's revenue on the basis of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) official rate of N199 to a dollar while States and Local Councils that are sharing the revenue with the Federal Government run their businesses at the open market rate of over N400 to one dollar.

They never meet a business or corporation they didn't want to tax and regulate out of business, with the exception of these green energy joke businesses that the Democrats use to funnel billions of dollars to their campaign contributors.

«As a Board of Equalization Member, Betty Yee safeguarded our tax dollars, called out wasteful spending, and cracked down on the underground economy where unscrupulous businesses harm law - abiding taxpayers,» Yee explains in her ballot statement.

The announcement was sent out on the same day that former Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were convicted on eight counts of bribery and extortion following a federal trial, and weeks after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted of abusing his office by receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies with business before the state.