Sentences with phrase «companies than the companies»

This means that the founders invested more hard cash in their beloved companies than their companies are worth today.

Not exact matches

For more than two decades, Springboard's Millman has contended that we needed vast societal changes before we'd have masses of women building fast - growing companies, cracking the very top ranks of entrepreneurship.

More than 750 companies had VC units as of last fall, CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports.

In other words, companies run by men got more than 16 times more funding than companies run by women.

While Lyft never operated services in China, the complication adds heat to a U.S. market some say is winner - take - all, where one company has a valuation more than 10 times that of the other.

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

The company has about 1,200 employees and has quietly taken on more than $ 200 million in venture funding.

More than anything else, BuzzFeed is the poster child for the multi-platform approach to media — according to the Fast Company piece, as much as 75 % of the site's output never appears on its website at all.

We want to predict: Is this company going to grow faster than other companies?

In BlackBerry's case, however, investors have sent the company's share price up more than 12 % so far today after a dismal set of earnings were released this morning.

When Business Insider talked to CEO Joe Einhorn in March, he said that the company's international market is growing fast and that it now offers same - day delivery in more than 100 cities around the world.

In Japan, a Tokyo governor recently ordered municipal employees to finish their work by 8:00 p.m., after a 25 - year - old woman employed by Dentsu, an advertising company, jumped to her death after logging more than 105 overtime hours in one month.

Nobody is hotter in Silicon Valley right now than Jen - Hsun «Jensen» Huang, 54, the cofounder and CEO of semiconductor and software company Nvidia.

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

Small company owners are hiring more cautiously than companies overall.

He saw the PC mogul wading into crowds of shareholders and signing autographs at the company's annual meeting, noting how a larger - than - life CEO could inspire loyalty and garner loads of free publicity.

That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

Avendano and Toro Lopez left Uber this summer after more than two years with the company.

That number is greater than the total number of franchises for the other four businesses on this company combined.

Passport Capital sold 325,434 shares of the social media company, cutting its stake by more than one quarter.

More than a tenth of the names on the 2017 PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies are headquartered in and around the city.

The company boasted it could develop psychological profiles of consumers and voters which was a «secret sauce» it used to sway them more effectively than traditional advertising could.

Depending on your project, you might pay less money to a company than by hiring someone internally and paying them a salary with benefits.

Without giving away any trade secrets, a good CPA will tell you when certain financial ratios or metrics are better or worse than similar companies in their stead.

Jackie Stone, CMO of MiMedia, a personal cloud storage company, told Business News Daily: «I've worked in digital media for more than 20 years, and as we become more connected, more people have decided that staying «on» 24/7 is socially acceptable — and it's not.»

MusclePharm sales are smaller than they once were, but we're a much stronger company than we were a few years ago.

These companies use political contributions and armies of lobbyists to cajole governments to ignore the consequences: an economic crisis worse than the recent recession awaits if these nations fail to spark growth in areas that can stimulate growth and create jobs.

So special tax rates for smaller companies hurt economic growth rather than enhance it.

As Gluskin Sheff + Associates» David Rosenberg and Peter Mann put it in a note last week: «the real money will be made based on classic value investing that focuses more on company fundamentals than on Trump - onomics.»

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

New technology like Dish's $ 20 / month Sling service and Microsoft's Xbox TV tuner make it easier than ever for consumers to ditch the cable company while still getting a decent fix of television.

For more than a quarter century the federal government has approved almost all foreign takeovers of Canadian companies.

All companies, and especially small firms, must be clear about more than just their budget before they can start designing their offices, says Richard Shugar, the principal and owner of 2fORM, an architecture firm based in Oregon.

Cagle, who has earned an A + rating from the NRA every year he has served in elected office, said companies should take different action than punishing the NRA.

KIND Healthy Snacks has sold more than one billion snack bars — that's billion with a «B.» The New York City - based company was founded in 2004 by CEO Daniel Lubetzky and today has about 300 full - time employees.

During his presentation alongside Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger at the company's annual meeting in April, Buffett remarked, «Union Pacific's rail network is much better positioned for Mexico than BNSF.»

Since July, the company has been used by more than 200 organizers, and with notable brands like Uber, IZZE, and Treehouse.

Thanks to Microsoft and a few other companies that are following the software giant's lead, the spotlight on accurate worker classification is more intense than ever.

Investors aren't paying attention to anything other than whether a company is stable and is paying a yield.

As of March 2016, Express Scripts began amortizing the contract over 10 years, rather than over 15 years as it had been doing, the company said in its annual filing in February.

Additionally, the company lowered forecasts for the next earnings period, unsurprisingly sending its stock price tanking more than 10 percent in after - hours trading.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

Shares in South Perth - based Noble Mineral Resources have surged more than 37 per cent on news Chinese group Zhongrun is to invest $ 87.7 million and take a 42 per cent stake in the company.

After the earnings announcement, the company's shares jumped more than 6 percent in after - hours trading.

They also offer special programs for businesses with fewer than 50 employees, making them a standout provider for small companies.

He always found resourceful ways to make money, and after he graduated from college, he opted for entrepreneurship rather than wait for an internet company to take notice of him.

According to the study, «Loyalty has a lot more to do with how well companies deliver on their basic, even plain - vanilla promises than on how dazzling the service experience might be.

The company, based n Eden Prairie, Minn., has installed 21,000 3 - D printing systems for industrial use since 1991, more than any other company.

Rather than dwell on the problems, however, the magazine launched a special «Economy of the Future» series that aims to spotlight case studies of people and companies who were doing things right, and how they could act as examples to others.

The company has raised $ 45.5 million in venture capital and its tech reaches more than 1.3 billion consumers across more than 3.3 billion devices globally.