Sentences with phrase «chunks of»

Either he'll have to raise money from investors, who will want sizable chunks of equity, or he'll have to compensate employees with shares.

Finally: You're experiencing a cold snowy scene in Greenland beneath a piercing blue sky, gazing up warily as huge chunks of glacier plunge down, right in front of you, into a raging river of ice floes which could have sunk another Titantic, but now, in the modern day, are emblematic of what is sinking Planet Earth.

Some of the most widely held mutual funds in 401 (k) plans, including the $ 116.1 billion Fidelity Contrafund and the $ 39.3 billion Fidelity Growth Company, have large tech stakes and big chunks of assets concentrated in their top five holdings.

Spotify didn't need to raise money, but it did need to go public to satisfy its stakeholders and avoid paying out chunks of equity that diluted its shares.

In Brunswick, Georgia, large chunks of ice fell on commuters» cars from the old oak trees that frame the streets.

Similarly, an A.I. designed to maximize paperclip production might try to convert first the Earth and then increasingly large chunks of the observable universe into stationery.

They spread rum nougat into flat pans or break up chunks of cashew brittle by hand.

Split long material into smaller chunks of varying lengths, linking them to the original document and to each other.

Many office phone systems send calls through digital switches before kicking them out to the traditional phone network, and some long - distance carriers route calls through chunks of the Internet to save themselves money.

According to Browder's testimony, Putin amassed his vast wealth by using political clout to coerce Russians who made similar investments to simply hand over large chunks of their holdings to him.

One of the things that the Viacom chairman has already done with those assets is to give large chunks of them to his former girlfriends.

Successive explosions from the building storing the fireworks sent huge chunks of concrete flying as far as a kilometer (a half mile), according to resident Jayashree Harikrishnan.

Rather than maximizing potential returns through big chunks of stocks in their portfolios, young investors are taking a cautious approach.

I like to have chunks of time set aside to be able to focus on a task.

There are many ironies: Germany, which so frightened Europe for nearly a century, as it had in late Roman times, is now being beseeched virtually to take economic suzerainty over chunks of the continent where the physical German occupiers in bygone days were violently unwelcome.

This is because large chunks of our genome perform similar functions across the animal kingdom.

Part of what makes Twitter unique is the need for brevity, and while there are ways around those restrictions — through reply threads and chunks of text turned into images — the only change to the limits that Twitter has successfully managed to introduce is the exclusion of @names from the character count.

You don't want to spend huge chunks of time in orientation, in training, or in the futile pursuit of getting your feet wet.

The provinces have lead jurisdiction, with Ottawa buying its say on policy by providing big chunks of money.

Barry Gruman, a retired retail - analyst - turned - independent - investor in Montreal, spent the last year, along with his wife, Molly, buying up ever larger chunks of Le Château stock.

The incredible contraption was powered by about ten people pedaling, who were pulling a full band performing on a caravan of sorts, along with a grill being used to cook large chunks of meat.

And we can't always offer major chunks of time to those who ask, no matter how desperately they may need.

Fears have increased in recent years after President Vladimir Putin deployed Russian troops, agents and proxy forces to seize chunks of Georgia and Ukraine.

That meant not hiring full - time employees until it was absolutely necessary and experimenting with «small chunks of resources and dollars.»

To start a business or a platform or a lifestyle where you can put big chunks of money away.

That essentially means the company was forced to give away chunks of equity to launch its music streaming service.

Because your teachers spent large chunks of time standing in front of the classroom talking at you.

Ideas in the $ 250,000 - to - $ 1 - million range are harder to fund because venture capitalists are looking for bigger chunks of stock and bigger returns.»

Rather, «it's how they practice: with full attention, focused on high - quality work, and in chunks of 60 to 90 minutes separated by short breaks.

Other large startups in need to big chunks of money, like Uber and DraftKings, have also gone the way of convertible debt over the past year.

But the golden age began in 1984 when President Reagan deregulated the television industry, allowing broadcasters to sell larger chunks of time to advertisers.

The point is you need to physically type your new chapters, paragraph by paragraph, and not just edit the existing chunks of raw transcription.

While it's important to have two - hour chunks of focused time in your work schedule, it's equally important to give your brain and body a rest.

I also had to take plenty of time getting good at memorizing smaller chunks of cards before moving on to larger chunks.

But while ESPN is focused on cutting costs and hunkering down, Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat are busy carving off chunks of its younger, more digital - friendly customer base.

Studies show that checking texts and emails for even a minute or two at a time can add up to huge chunks of time every day.

There are the back - to - back meetings, distractions that continuously hit my inbox, and strategic activities that need chunks of my time to think, problem solve, or innovate through.

But what if any of those customers leave in a short time span, erasing a significant chunk of revenue?

Once you've grown to a solid base of customers, you can then re-invest a good chunk of that revenue in advertising for acquiring more customers.

Once dominant in the smartphone industry, the company has lost significant ground to the competition: RIM's chunk of the U.S. market dropped to just 12 % by year - end from 44 % in 2007, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

The Bonneville Power Administration, which controls electrical transmission in the American side of the Columbia River basin (and supplies a chunk of B.C.'s power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm fish.

Meanwhile, as the government takes on more debt to fund its daily operations, the cost to service that debt will take up a larger chunk of government spending as well.

We can't imagine it'll be cheap, what with pretty much a good chunk of your child's upbringing in its metal - jointed robot hands and all.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

Independent developers — often just a handful of people and sometimes just a single individual — are popping up faster than mushrooms in a Super Mario game, and they're taking a big chunk of the pie through a thousand little slices.

Rosenthal launched the boutique vineyard in part to justify his investment in the property, turning to wine after scrapping his plans to allocate a chunk of land to growing avocado trees.

But all the effort can easily put a good chunk of money back into your thriving business.

Apple will need game - changing hardware or software for its next iPad or it risks losing a large chunk of the tablet market to cheap — and just as capable — competition.

Like we said in one of our previous posts, cash and credit cards won't be things of the past any time soon, but mobile will definitely get a huge chunk of the payments pie in the near future.

It's the biggest chunk of the average American's budget, accounting for about 37 % of take - home pay.