Sentences with phrase «companies start the move»

But as companies start the move to platforms they often benefit from including outsiders in the process.

If the uncertainty in Catalonia persists and companies start moving their productive means out of Catalonia, then the impact will start to be bigger.

If you can't beat them, join them: that's the strategy Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is trumpeting today as his company starts moving toward a merger with its biggest rival, Didi Chuxing.

Not exact matches

The company began moving production abroad in the early 1990s, around the same time that brutal conditions in overseas sweatshops started making headlines (Levi's figured in some of them, due to a scandal in Saipan).

The move comes at the start of the time of year known as the annual upfront marketplace, between March and May, when many major U.S. media companies sell the bulk of their ad inventory for the next year.

More companies are shying away from traditional sources like the want ads in the newspaper, and are moving more towards online sources and social media when hiring.Social media is a great place to start advertising your business, whether you are a small business or even starting out large.

If you look at the most successful companies — Google, Facebook, Amazon, places that started as engineering culture or star culture have moved towards commitment culture.

Whether you plan to start a new company entirely, move your entire operations or open a new office, here are seven destinations every entrepreneur must consider.

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His project grew through word of mouth until it grew so big, he moved the company to San Francisco and started taking on venture capital investments, eventually raising $ 259 million at a valuation of $ 1.5 billion.

The company was founded in 1977 by Ron Ball (Eppel was an early hire, just 18 years old when he started), and it expanded quickly — first with a plant in Buffalo, then to Europe and, as the industry moved east, to China in 1996.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

If you start a company with someone else, you are moving into a relationship that is very much like a marriage.

Companies are suspicious of their loyalties to the brand, concerned about paying commissions, and worried about cannibalized profits when «normal» customers start moving through affiliate channels.

Among the 2001 Inc 500 companies started at home, the percentage that, when they moved to their next location, had One to 5 employees: 62.98 % 6 to 10 employees: 10.58 % More than 10 employees: 7.69 % No employees: 18.75 %

They may have started something new within their company (by launching a new product or division, for example), moved to a smaller company to take on a greater set of responsibilities, or started their own business.

Instead of growing by acquiring other companies in the same business, companies have started to move into new lines of business, with no two combinations looking exactly the same.

It's unrealistic for Apple to move the entire supply chain to the U.S., but the company could start with final assembly and testing in the U.S., he said.

She moved to the tech beat in 2012, where she started covering VCs, start - ups, publicly traded tech companies and cybersecurity.

Dan Gilbert, CEO of Quicken Loans, for example, moved his company's headquarters to downtown Detroit to bolster the population numbers and help jumpstart the local economy, then provided further sustenance to the commercial ecosystem by opening a new start - up incubator and venture capital firm.

«The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn't cost that much to start a new bitcoin company, it doesn't cost much to start owning bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world,» says Tim Draper, venture capitalist.

The company has expanded into other businesses to diversify away from the traditional news model, with moves like hosting live conferences, starting a wine club, and opening an online store selling branded products.

«I look at the move as a challenge and an opportunity,» says Augusta Scott, 61, who started answering phones in the Zappos call center in 2007 and now serves as the company's in - house life coach.

I can't say that I started a company that partners with restaurants because of the time I spent at McDonald's, or because of the time I spent working in my mom's Chinese restaurant — the first business she worked in after we moved to this country.

To get into this line of work, you can join a moving and hauling service in your area, or if you have a van or a truck, you can go independent and advertise moving and hauling services on your own, which is how the company Man with a Van started out.

He realized he wanted to start his own company, and «almost arbitrarily» chose to move to Portland, Oregon, where he worked odd jobs until he landed at a digital marketing agency run by his friend Zeke Camusio.

It took work to drop those beliefs and forge my own way, but with courage I did drop those limiting ideas about myself, moved to the U.S. and started my own company.

Many business school electives use real - world business cases to teach entrepreneurialism, and MBA grads move on to start a company two, three years later.

The loss of Starz hit Netflix's share price hard, since investors were concerned not just about losing access to the company's library of movies and TV shows, but about whether the move signaled that distributors and traditional networks were going to start playing hardball with the streaming service.

In fact, Google routinely checks to make sure it doesn't pay differently based on race or gender or other discriminatory factors, the search giant said in a statement — a move other companies are starting to make these days.

After living with his uncle in the United States, he moved back to Hong Kong and started a company to deliver takeout boxes with advertising.

Specific experience with hiring, firing and navigating difficult situations (company pivots, large scale business model changes or moving from old business systems to building new ones) also builds a strong case for a higher starting salary.

Eventually, the serial entrepreneur — who had started and then sold a moving company, a plastic container business, a reusable beverage ware maker and barbecue grill business — and his team solved the bottling issue.

It started as a job and then quickly became a career, as he realized he could move up in the company.

I started TaxiGuy, which is a national network of 400 cab companies that was really cool 15 years ago because they were linked together through a toll - free phone number and now it's moved to an app system.

Yes, the 37 - year - old Honolulu native went east in her 20s, but in 2012, after starting two successful apps in Silicon Valley, she moved back home to mentor, coach and help fund startup companies — especially those helmed by other Hawaiian locals.

Instead of moving to chase some well - publicized trend or trying to blend in with the look of other cities» brands, companies can start a movement where they are.

It's often the case that smaller companies, operating on lean start - up principles, are able to move rapidly, test out new technologies, and scale them up at a substantially lower price point that it would cost a large defense contractor.

Smaller companies, operating on lean start - up principles, are able to move rapidly, test out new technologies, and scale them up at a substantially lower price point.

Some right - wing websites have already started criticizing the company's latest move as a crackdown on free speech, and an attempt to enforce «politically correct» behavior.

Samsung moved to play catch up in October by buying Viv Labs, a company started by Siri co-creators Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer.

Talk of an imminent Tesla move into the Chinese electric vehicle market has grown with Beijing's removal of foreign ownership caps, but the American company's arrival will be welcomed, according to the president of a Chinese electric vehicle start - up.

The company just announced that its $ 99 - a-year membership program now comes with free, unlimited photo storage in the Amazon Cloud drive (great for the snap - happy among us), but the real news is that Amazon Prime's free - shipping benefits will start bleeding out to other shopping websites, a move that has been in the works for some time now.

The pair came up with an elegant solution to the long hours demanded by starting their company: They cohabitated and then had early employees move in too.

«Cyber insurance policies started to evolve to pick up those expenses, as well as providing what I call «crisis management coverage» — helping companies deal with the moving parts of dealing with a breach.»

After starting in sales, she had moved up to market research and before turning 30 was already the company's Business Development Director.

She'd undergone a decade - long apprenticeship at Linamar, the auto - parts manufacturing company Frank founded in Guelph, Ont., in the 1960s, starting as a lathe operator and moving through accounting, quality control and factory management, among other functions.

McAfee, the former tech millionaire who founded McAfee anti-virus software, lost the bulk of his fortune during the economic crisis and moved to Belize to start a pharmaceutical company and ferry business.

Page oversaw major changes to Google's business structure in 2015, starting with the creation of Alphabet, the holding company that manages Google and all of its related ventures, including Nest, Calico, and Google X. Previously the chief executive of Google, Page moved up to helm Alphabet, which has its hands in everything from home automation to self - driving cars to prolonging human life.

For someone with no experience in retail, apparel or business, starting my own clothing company was a pretty bold move.