Sentences with phrase «company at the height»

My wife and I made the decision to start our company at the height of the recent startup craze, and I joined a wider community of other aspiring entrepreneurs — and immediately felt like an outcast.

In addition to Berkun Menaker and Parry, this panel included Caroline Shaw (Composer and Pulitzer Prize winner), Maureen Towey (Director for such music powerhouses as tUne - YaRdS and Arcade Fire), Gus Solomons jr (Dancer for the Merce Cunningham Company at the height of their collaborations with Cage and Rauschenberg), and Grant McDonald (Video and Projection Designer who brought Matt Wolf's film to life.)

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«When I was able to make that change, I went from a salary of zero, which was really disheartening, to being able to bring in a salary of six figures for myself,» says Burke, whose company posted annual revenue of $ 1.1 million and employed 15 people at its height in 2010 before being acquired by competitor Booksfree.com.

In 1999, at the height of the internet bubble, Cuban sold the company to Yahoo for $ 5.7 billion.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

My grandfather founded what was, at its height from the 60's through the 80's, one of the largest apparel companies in Canada.

Once back at Apple, Jobs proved his capacity for greatness by reinventing the company's image and taking the Apple brand to new heights.

At the height of the dotcom boom, although I had grown my company, Palo Alto Software, to more than $ 5 million in annual sales without outside investors, I partnered with a Silicon Valley venture capital firm to build it faster.

Shares traded at record lows this week, a fraction of their height from just two years ago when the microblogging company went public.

The company spent heavily on share repurchases in the first quarter of 2016, at the height of the fallout from its E. coli scare.

In the early 1990s, at the height of Snapple's popularity, the company attracted the attention of larger food and beverage conglomerates.

«Bill was the one who pushed hard for my company, Net Gravity, to be profitable at the height of the dot - com boom» in the late 1990s, said Thuan Pham, a tech entrepreneur who joined Uber in 2013 and is now chief technology officer.

This transition has cost RIM, however, as the company's share is now being traded at less than $ 8 when a RIM share was valued at over $ 140 during its height.

Our company's corporate culture is designed to drive our business to greater heights and training and retraining of our workforce is at the top burner.

Despite all hullabaloo, that company has gone through in the recent past, Uber is still scaling new heights by adding new marketers at...

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze.

At the height of religious indoctrination in the United States courtesy of Graham and company, the world was at war, so the world was out of control not due to lack of religion but because lets face it, men are stupiAt the height of religious indoctrination in the United States courtesy of Graham and company, the world was at war, so the world was out of control not due to lack of religion but because lets face it, men are stupiat war, so the world was out of control not due to lack of religion but because lets face it, men are stupid.

According to the company, its farm is at an elevation of approximately 1,400 meters, the ideal height for the best - quality coffee beans.

Mountain Spring Coffee Company has its farm house at a height of 2500ft above sea level.

It was founded in the early 1980s at the height of the fast - food boom, company profile which gave him another idea — to cook all burgers made - to - order Cheeburger Cheeburger www.cheeburger.com using only fresh produce and the 2008 Sales: $ 65 million best beef.

The company, one of the world's largest providers of fresh - cut, packaged salad, is even enlisting the services of an Emmy - winning actress, Felicity Huffman, to motivate Americans to new heights of indulgence — at least when it comes to their salad - making.

Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

Bruno was at the height of his considerable powers at the time, and Abbruzzese was hoping to cash in on the potential privatization of New York's horse tracks, pushing for state grants to companies in which he had an interest.

At their height, labor unions represented more than 33 percent of the Americans working for private companies.

The researchers tested five amputee athletes running at different heights on blade prosthetics made by three companies.

At the height of the London summer we mentioned claims by the Colorado company Osmosis that it had produced a drinkable sun screen (5 July).

Among the four major dramas to center on working class Boston types at the end of 2010 and into 2011, I'd rank The Company Men alongside the Hilary Swank lawyer film Conviction, both a far cry from the appealing heights of The Fighter and Affleck's acclaimed hit The Town.

The roll - out was especially unexpected given that the film company is at the height of promoting their upcoming project, Thor: Ragnarok which will debut in just a little bit over two weeks.

This kind of word - of - mouth is the most precious «advertisement» plan a company could ask for and has propelled companies that have managed to achieve it at record heights.

Based on the A-Class, the company's rival for the Audi Q3 and BMW X1 got a chunkier look and, for the UK at least, comfort suspension, plus a raised ride height.

Released in 1998, it had a smaller bore and stroke than the 2 - liter four - cylinder «Neon» engine; and, since the company already had bigger V6 engines, the cylinder spacing and deck height were both made much smaller, at 104 mm and 210 mm respectively, than those of the 3.2 / 3.5 engines.

Indeed, the company makes no bones about the fact this upgrade targets more business buyers, which now account for less than 60 per cent of sales — down from more than 65 per cent at the height of the mining boom.

At forty - three, the man who wrote «Nocturnes» and «Pasodoble for Don Quixote» was at the height of his fame, and all the Spanish illustrated magazines published a photograph of him, arm in arm with his beautiful wife aboard the Cap Polonio, an ocean liner of the Hamburg Südamerikanische companAt forty - three, the man who wrote «Nocturnes» and «Pasodoble for Don Quixote» was at the height of his fame, and all the Spanish illustrated magazines published a photograph of him, arm in arm with his beautiful wife aboard the Cap Polonio, an ocean liner of the Hamburg Südamerikanische companat the height of his fame, and all the Spanish illustrated magazines published a photograph of him, arm in arm with his beautiful wife aboard the Cap Polonio, an ocean liner of the Hamburg Südamerikanische company.

At the height of the tourist season — winter and summer — Waikïkï Beach was crowded with visitors, but during the offseason there was more room for families like ours, from less affluent parts of the city, and my family and I would often enjoy the beach in the company of my Korean «sisters» and their families.

The company really refined all of their technology and this lineup of devices was at the height of the e-reader and eBook boom period.

There are several tailwinds that could propel private prisons to new heights: private correctional facilities house only a fraction of all inmates in the United States and the world, state and federal governments are more willing than ever to outsource prison management to a private company, and the number of incarcerated people continues to grow at a rate faster than the general population.

At the height of the financial crisis, the company's non-performing loan ratio was half the industry average.

Smaller companies spent the last half of the 1990's at new heights of unpopularity.

I looked at the full list of companies and found a mix that I would say Yes, Maybe, and No to individually, but No to altogether, especially with 25 % in financials and 22 % in health care, two industries whose biggest entities are the height of avarice and whose top - dogs are paid staggeringly huge salaries and bonuses (hundreds of millions of dollars per year) that I believe come from entrenched practices of outright usury and gross overcharging, among other heinous activities.

Aston Rasuna Jakarta Hotel is a deluxe hotel in Jakarta and is due to only to it being part of the Aston Company or its staggering size which towers above the city at an impressive height; it is also because of the unreal level of service and grandeur which is displayed throughout the hotel and in the grounds.

Tuck into a black sapote or roasted wattleseed ice - cream at the Daintree Ice Cream Company (where cassowaries commonly roam); soar to new heights on a Jungle Surfing tour in Cape Tribulation (where Bennett's tree kangaroos are regularly spotted); or dive into the Great Barrier Reef on a half - day Ocean Safari tour from Cape Tribulation beach (where two World Heritage - listed wonders meet).

In 19th - century India, at the height of British control and while tensions are quickly escalating between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company, a Master Templar arrives looking to steal the famed Koh - i - noor diamond.

Because as far as most SquareSoft fans remember, they were an important part of what being a «Final Fantasy fan» meant when both the company and the franchise were at their heights.

During 19th - century India, at the height of British control and while tensions are quickly escalating between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company, a Master Templar arrives looking to steal the famed Koh - i - noor diamond.

By the way, my contract with the energy company was negotiated in 2006, at the height of my status as a «high priestess of global warming.»

Michael Mann & company are treating harmless thoughtful people as though they are far lower than spies for the USSR at the height of the Cold War.

Each pleaded guilty to two charges: failing to ensure the company provided information, instruction and supervision to a worker regarding fall protection and / or working at height and to failing to ensure that the company ensured that a worker was protected by fall protection (director and officer provisions in Ontario, as well as B.C., require that directors and officers take all reasonable care to ensure corporate compliance with OH&S provisions including regulations and orders).

The directors each pleaded guilty to two offences: failing to ensure the company provided information, instruction and supervision to a worker regarding fall protection and / or working at height and to failing to ensure that the company ensured that a worker was protected by fall protection.

The Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — based company, which listed debts and assets of between $ 10 million and $ 50 million, announced that it would immediately cease flying at the height of the spring break travel season because of mounting fuel costs.

Your height and weight matter, too, since some insurance companies will use your BMI to help determine whether you are at risk for issues related to obesity.