Sentences with phrase «by going in first»

One of the few things taught in training is how to teach their dogs to alert to noises, people in close proximity and how to clear a dark room by going in first and checking the area.

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Lately, I've found that even the mission - critical business ideas that make it through my first set of filters have to address another elephant in the room: the question of whether this startup is building something that's going to become a free - standing and independent business or whether it's developing a great feature that is going to be swallowed up, ripped off, or rolled over by one of the big guys in their space in the near future.

Ekati, the area's first significant mine, began production in 1998, spurring an influx of activity that would see diamonds go from a zero - dollar industry to one that represented 20 % of the territorial economy by 2002.

So by fostering a culture in which employees can make such a call — the first of Zappos» 10 core values exhorts employees to go «above and beyond the average level of service to create an emotional impact on the receiver» — Hsieh walks away with a hat trick.

«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,» says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of technology firms.

Doerr first presented OKRs to two young founders named Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1999; their company Google (now Alphabet) has now gone on to become the world's second most valuable by market capitalization.

I've heard from several young people lately that they're excited by the possibilities of the technology sector and want to start their own businesses, but aren't sure how to go about learning the technical skills to help them succeed — or whether they need to know the technical side in the first place.

Gravity was inundated with résumés — 4,500 in the first week alone — including one from a high - powered 52 - year - old Yahoo executive named Tammi Kroll, who was so inspired by Price that she quit her job and in September went to work for Gravity at what she insisted would be an 80 - 85 percent pay cut.

I joined as Buffer's first Culture Scout in October 2015, when we went from growing the team by 1 to 2 people per month to being on the lookout for 30 to 40 team members between September 2015 and April 2016.

Since HBO first went on the air in 1972, it has been tied down by cable companies who require viewers to pay for expensive packages even if they just wanted the HBO channel.

In a similar fashion, the 36th (Ulster) Division went «over the top» on the first day of the great Somme offensive, July 1, 1916, led by a football kicked out by a lead battalion, only to be mowed down, counting among the 57,000 British troops who fell dead or wounded that terrible day.

«The first generation went through their formative years in the»60s and didn't found their businesses with the idea that they were going to change the world, by and large,» says Grossman.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will implement a 21st century digital bill of rights for EU residents by updating privacy regulations that first went into effect in 1995.

Spurred on by that angel investment, ShopLocket went on to raise a $ 1 - million seed round in its first six months.

The first product in the range — a basic unit shaped like a low sofa or bed frame — is expected to go on sale in early 2018, according to The Verge, which cited a (paywalled) article by The Wall Street Journal.

Then in 2007, Edwards was at agency T.A.G. to create the «Believe» campaign for Halo 3, a game that went on to sell 3.3 million units in its first month (a record broken by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in 2009).

But as the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money, and given that the market is forever demanding increased speeds, by being first Rogers has wisely invested in the future.

«If you purchase a home but can't make the payments if interest rates go up by two percentage points, you probably shouldn't be buying that home in the first place,» he says.

By contrast, more than half a million people got prescriptions for Viagra in the first month after it went on the market, according to the report.

In 1980, Apple went public with a market value of $ 1.2 billion by the end of its first day of trading.

The university's contributions go well beyond funding, as evidenced by the affordable housing it provides for community residents; the program it sponsors to allow university staff to serve as volunteer firefighters in Princeton; the students who help staff the first aid and rescue squad; the auditing program it offers to community residents; the intellectual, cultural and athletic events it makes available to community residents; and it supports entities like McCarter Theatre and Garden Theatre.

Facebook has gone further by setting up portals of special content that first - time Internet users can get for free, and the way in which it has done so has opened it up to charges of neo-colonialism.

The first Bush would get up at 4 a.m., go running, be in the office by 6 a.m. and stay up until 2 a.m. «He was a horror,» said a former White House nurse who had to try to keep up with him.

The first place distinction went to Transacto, an app to organize transactions easily and categorize SMSs from bank accounts, followed by Smart Visit in second place, an app personalizing customer experiences during bank visits, and in third place, Bridg, an app enabling users and SMEs offline cashless payments powered by Bluetooth.

This year's Physics Nobel Prize goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish for their efforts that helped lead to the first measurement of gravitational waves in 2015 by the LIGO team.

But if you decide to increase your life expectancy by jogging, do yourself one other favor: Go running first thing in the morning.

First voiced in the 1970s by Arthur Laffer, an adviser to the Nixon administration who came from the conservative Chicago school of economics, it was embraced by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and, consensus has it, went a long way to alleviating the stagflation of that era (though falling energy prices and interest rates, demographic shifts and yes, deficit spending contributed too).

Before going into the diverse funding alternatives available, we want to remind you to be careful with the way in which you choose to finance your company, to get comfortable with the fact that its valuation will be determined by others, and to reconcile with the idea of going to your friends and family for the first round of capital.

While you may be intimidated by the scope of your new role, remember why you went solo in the first place.

Going backwards and doing something over ends up costing us far more than we saved by skipping over the work in the first place.

The first stores went by the name Tote'm, since customers «toted» away their purchases, but in 1946, when the stores» hours were extended — from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. — they got a new name.

The first app came out in 2010, for use in San Francisco, and by 2012, it had gone international to its incubation city, Paris, before spreading to Toronto, London and Sydney.

The first app came out in 2010, for use in San Francisco, and by 2012, it had gone international to its incubation city, Paris, before spreading to Toronto,

Founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple (aapl) first appeared on our famed roster in 1983, having gone from California garage to the front door of American business in a mere seven years.

In its first earnings report since going public, fitness center operator Planet Fitness reported second - quarter profit of 13 cents a share, topping estimates by a penny, on $ 79 million in revenue, which beat projections of $ 77 millioIn its first earnings report since going public, fitness center operator Planet Fitness reported second - quarter profit of 13 cents a share, topping estimates by a penny, on $ 79 million in revenue, which beat projections of $ 77 millioin revenue, which beat projections of $ 77 million.

At the time of the show's premiere, however, Trump's Atlantic City casino holdings were burdened by $ 2 billion in bond debt that they struggled to repay, according to The New York Times, which goes unmentioned in the first episode of «The Apprentice.»

In the spring of 2016, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck went on CNBC to make a bold prediction: Chipotle comparable sales would fall by 29 percent in its first quarteIn the spring of 2016, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck went on CNBC to make a bold prediction: Chipotle comparable sales would fall by 29 percent in its first quartein its first quarter.

The deal, which could be announced as early as Monday, marks the industry's first big consolidation in Southeast Asia, home to about 640 million people, and puts pressure on rivals such as Indonesia's Go - Jek, backed by Alphabet's Google and China's Tencent Holdings.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

Not long afterward, in an interview with XXL's former editor - in - chief Elliott Wilson, he defiantly said, «I'm offended by that because first of all, and this is going to sound arrogant, but my presence is charity.

«We've heard a lot today about how smaller banks are being smothered by unnecessary regulation, supposedly because of Dodd - Frank rules, like the new mortgage rules that went into effect in the first quarter of 2014,» she said during the second Senate Banking Committee hearing this week on regulatory relief for small banks and credit unions.

Groupon, hardly the first site to offer daily deals but by far the most successful (at least revenue-wise), went public in November 2011 with a nearly $ 13 billion valuation.

Early - stage investors agree that things started picking up in the fourth quarter of 2009, and were going full steam ahead by the first quarter of 2010.

«We need to reach the working mother that went to college but didn't complete, or the son with sons of his own who like his dad never went to college but knows that he needs to upgrade his skills,» Haslam said in the address, as first reported by the Tennessean.

If it goes through, the acquisition will represent the American retailer's biggest acquisition in an emerging market and the first by a global retail chain in South Africa.

Research indicates that by 2007 the percentage of nonprime mortgages that went into default within their first year rose to 10 percent compared with 3 percent of such loans originated in 2003.

The dropped 2.6 percent to C$ 57.13 in Toronto today after the earnings report, which included the first drop in Canadian same store sales since the company went public in 2006, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

I went to my first Pure Barre class in 2011 after being invited by a friend.

They've tripled in size since the opening of their first location; last year they went from 2 locations to 11 and they're estimating to go from 11 to 25 — 34 locations by the end of 2016.