Sentences with phrase «company back years»

An example: let's say your startup relies on a specific person's expertise and losing that person would set your company back years or make it impossible to deliver on your goals.

Not exact matches

At the beginning of 2015, Orlando predicted there would be a «mid-stage capital crunch» that year, owing to the fact that it has historically been the most difficult stage of a young company's growth, and because U.S. investors that might otherwise back Canadian companies have their pick of opportunities at home these days.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

For $ 999 per year up front or $ 99 monthly, customers will use a kit sent by the company each quarter to take blood, urine, stool, and saliva samples, and then send them back for testing.

One small business that's benefited is RCS Nuclear of Charlotte, N.C. Back in 1997, RCS was an environmental and engineering services company with revenue of $ 5 million a year.

A quick «congrats on the great work» email, thank - you note or pat on the back can go a long way in cultivating improved job performance and a positive company culture for the rest of the year.

To my eternal regret, I wrote an article for Fast Company a few years back saying that business books were the new business cards.

But Chen says the company will be profitable (on a non-GAAP basis) sometime in the back half of the year.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

In order to pay back creditors, Kobayashi has sold 35,841 Bitcoin and 34,008 Bitcoin cash on behalf of the company since September of last year.

I was going from a record company to the airline business, so the key thing in that deal was that if it didn't work out, I could hand the 747 back to Boeing after the first year.

David Katz, Matrix Asset Advisors, and Steve Massocca, Wedbush Securities, discuss their market outlooks for the rest of the year as markets bounce back after some companies report strong earnings results.

There are 17,000 venture - backed companies in the U.S., and there were only 39 venture - backed IPO exits last year.

In 2007, The Laljis» company, Larco Group, struck a $ 1.7 - billion deal with the federal government to buy and then lease back seven Ottawa office buildings; the CBC reported in 2015 that the arrangement has been plagued by years of disputes between the two parties, including acrimony over repairs, contract tendering and even parking fees.

«Looking back now, that seems like small change,» says Gillis, the 18 - year - old CEO of what's now Bitness.io, a location analytics company that aims to help retailers boost sales by understanding shoppers» purchasing behaviour.

Earlier this year, he stressed the need for tax reform, particularly in allowing companies to bring back profits stored overseas at lower rates.

«We're taking Barrick back to the way it was 15 years ago,» says Kelvin Dushnisky, the company's co-president.

Not because he knew me, but because the BDC had backed him five or six years ago, and now he's the CEO of this incredibly successful, rapidly growing company.

The company is also getting back into growth mode, opening seven stores this year and planning for 10 more in 2016.

The company began to cut back its lavish spending on employee perks in 2016, something that was costing the company $ 25,000 per year per employee.

The fund is reportedly being raised to help Sequoia compete with Japanese tech giant SoftBank, which announced a huge new $ 100 billion (# 75 billion) fund last year that is now being used to back promising tech companies worldwide with tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

You quit shopping at dowdy Hudson's Bay Company years ago, but now you're back, snapping up A-list offerings from brands like Top Shop and the just - opened Kleinfeld Bridal boutique.

A year after its initial public offering, we look back at the social media giant's highs and lows as a public company.

Google waited until last year to start making an official Android phone but the original Pixel made waves, and the company is back with the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.

Speaking on the sidelines of the 19th Edition of Naseba Global WIL Economic Forum in Dubai, Sophie Le Ray, co-founder and CEO of Naseba, a business facilitation company specializing in emerging markets, looks back on her 15 - year - long entrepreneurial journey.

Billionaire investor Ron Baron, a huge shareholder in the electric car company, told CNBC back in November that he believes he can make 20 times his money on the stock over the next 10 to 15 years.

Banks like Citigroup and Goldman Sachs (GS)(another Dataminr investor) have backed 15 of those companies in 2015, compared with nine last year.

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

If a new technology is developed in the next few years that radically extends the life expectancy of human beings, odds are good that it will come out of a company backed by Peter Thiel.

In December of that year the company said Wilson would step down as chairman and it also named a new CEO, hoping new faces at the top would help the company bounce back from the debacle.

I began working at Coplex five years ago, back when that company focused primarily on digital product design and development services for small businesses, enterprises and startups.

For instance, assuming the SBA meets its goal of creating one job with every $ 50,000 of 504 lending — and the SBA says many Certified Development Companies exceed it — the cost per job in 2006 was a mere $ 188; the Treasury would earn that back many times in a single year's tax bill.

CytoSport's innovative pipeline in recent years has been powered by Hormel Foods (hrl), which paid $ 450 million to acquire the sports - nutrition maker back in 2014 in a deal intended to help the company reach younger consumers as well as those interested in adding more protein to their diets.

«We look forward to welcoming back holiday employees who return year - after - year to Amazon and welcome new faces to the team, many of whom will continue on with regular, full - time roles with the company after the holidays,» Dave Clark, Amazon senior vice president of global customer fulfillment, said in a statement.

While the average five - year growth rate among this year's Inc 500 was 1,933 %, the growth rate among VC - backed companies on the list was more than double that.

Even more so, you never where your company will be in a few years, and who you'll hope to hire back.

I had to put a company of mine into the hands of an administrator (kind of like Chapter 11 in the USA) a few years back in the midst of a partnership dispute.

It also means that over the next year, Apple will be paying more back in dividends than any other publicly traded company, beating out oil giant Exxon Mobil for the position, according to Howard Siliverblatt, veteran market watcher and senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

And there are plenty of well - backed companies hoping to help navigate the maze of threats; cybersecurity startups have seen $ 4.6 billion in investment in the last two years alone, according to CB Insights.

Back in 1995, 39 % of the Inc 500 companies told us home was where the start was; last year 61 % of them did.

Strebulaev recalls a discussion he had several years back with the founders of the file - sharing company Dropbox and one of its investors.

Clearly the company has had its product and operational issues, but while global sales remain strong and the company's marketshare with younger consumers actually grew earlier this year, a huge part of RIM's problems can be traced back to image.

WASHINGTON — Thirty years after failing to convince the Supreme Court of the threat posed by home video recordings, big media companies are back and now trying to rein in another technological innovation they say threatens their financial well - being.

It will be years before the huge company's sales teams and back - end systems are fully integrated.

The number of ad - tech companies raising money dropped 17 % last year compared with the year earlier, data from CBInsights shows, and the total volume of funding fell 33 % to $ 2.2 billion from $ 3.2 billion, putting it back where it was in 2013.

That's why I wanted to look back at my junior year in college when I founded the company.

While this doesn't mean all companies are back to pre-recession performance levels, entrepreneurs are likely to see new options for their business next year, thanks to an expected increase in bank loans and a larger pool of potential buyers.

Her $ 33 million paycheck this year puts her ahead of tech CEOs like Microsoft's Satya Nadella ($ 18 million), who is successfully steering the company back towards growth, as well as leaders at fast - growing tech giants like Alphabet's Larry Page ($ 1), Apple's Tim Cook ($ 9 million) and Amazon's Jeff Bezos ($ 2 million).

Perth - based trucking company CTI Logistics has flagged an 18 per cent slide in half - year profit on the back of the economic downturn.

«Many of the companies we back start out as little features,» says Roloef Botha, a partner with Sequoia Capital who led the company's investment in YouTube, which Google bought for $ 1.65 billion last year.