Sentences with phrase «company doing big things»

«As a small company doing big things, our goal has been and will always be to improve the world around us by giving back to our community, our workforce and the environment.»

They were important companies doing big things in terms of providing the technology needed for the next century's communications and internet build - out.

Not exact matches

We'd like to see companies like General Mills really stepping in, in a big way, to do even more things that would make a difference.

The one virtue of startups that these big companies do seem to value and appreciate above all (and one that makes acquisitions so attractive rather than internal R&D efforts) is the freedom we have to embrace rapid change, the ability to adapt and pivot, and the understanding that things may never be perfect at the start, but that you'll never get started at all if you wait until they are.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

The question is whether all these startups are really good for the economy or do we need big companies and are these entrepreneurs who are selling out for $ 60 million or $ 90 million really doing the patriotic thing?

Whether it's a new product or something as benign as a store layout, you don't have to look hard to find examples of (largely white) men at tech companies siloing themselves off to develop The Next Big Thing, only to discover a major, avoidable flaw after the fact.

If you end up among the many who decide to begin a job search in 2018 in pursuit of your next big thing, here are two important but simple things you should make sure you do that will not only significantly increase your chances of finding a great new job but will also help you land one that you can feel good about long after the «new company halo effect» has worn off.

Most business owners think about creating a «start doing» list, with its endless recitations of things they could be doing more of in order for the company to be bigger, better or more profitable.

When you start out your company, don't only look at who your customers are today, but look at who might be the next big thing in one year, or in five, or ten!

Unilever's chief marketing officer, Keith Weed, threatened to reduce the company's ad spend online if the big tech platforms didn't clean things up.

Of course, the Oracle doesn't worry himself with the day - to - day management of companies he owns; his biggest act of participation in four decades was in 2006 when he installed longtime Berkshire insurance man Brad Kinstler to run things after Chuck Huggins, who had been with the company 54 years and was CEO for 33 of them, retired.

«Very big companies don't know a goddamn thing about customer service,» notes retail guru Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus of Neiman Marcus Group.

Just when economic bullying by big corporations threatened the whole idea of independent small business, company builders nationwide did the last thing anyone expected — they turned to one another for help.

Besides simply viewing meetings as «a big company thing,» entrepreneurs are «constantly pushing, and always on, they don't consider the important of cadenced checkpoints to measure the progress against their goals, and reevaluate that their previously agreed goals should continue to be their goals,» he writes.

For Simpson, one thing is for certain: It doesn't matter how big his company grows to be, or what the latest design trend is, the customer will always be in the center of it all.

«The only thing you have to do to be an enterprise software company is sell your product to big businesses.»

Zuckerberg concluded: «The biggest things that have gotten done in the world tend to be done by people who primarily believe in a mission and are not trying to build a company; by teams, not by individuals; and by people who just don't give up.»

So they exist out there and they usually try, if they're entrepreneurs, they build companies that are trying to do the next big thing or trying to make huge changes in human behavior.

And while he was fuzzy on many details, giving lots of partial answers and promises to «follow up», one thing he did confirm was that Facebook board member Peter Thiel's secretive big data analytics firm, Palantir, is one of the companies Facebook is investigating as part of a historical audit of app developers» use of its platform.

Perhaps that's extreme, but one sign the whole thing did have an impact on agency profits and revenues, at least when it comes to the stock prices of the four biggest holding companies.

«The biggest mistake you can make as a new car company — and this is, in my opinion, maybe why Faraday failed — is if you want to do too many things.

When I did big things, some large corporation like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was behind me and the responsible party.

I manufacture, wholesale, and retail some pretty amazing brands of cloth diapers... I'm a relatively small company and don't matter that much to anyone at Amazon in the bigger scheme of things.

'' It's the way the companies mail samples to an expecting woman's house before she's even had the baby as if to say, you're milk isn't good enough» If someone is so fragile and needy that they get that message from a sample of formula, I shudder to think what they are going to do when much bigger and still routine parts of parenthood rear their heads (like reading a report card that has things marked «needs improvement»)

you can say the same thing about the big blue box store that beats up on companies to sell at dirt cheap prices & don't care if the company sacrifices quality to have their product sold at said store.

«The nice thing about working for big pharma is that they can allocate resources for doing basic research,» says Gervais, now a research scientist at the company.

The second thing on the ethics and what do we do in the face of these big health challenges is something that I've spent a lot of time on, again, coming from private industry and academia before coming to the Foundation, and that is something that is exciting about our Foundation's work, we want private companies to participate in global health.

And there is [was] a big push in the 1990s of pharmaceutical companies trying to join up with ethnobotanists and look for medicinal plants, but I think they are always trying to do it as quick as possible, so they didn't always pay attention to these things.

Microsoft Bids Farewell to Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with Preview of Windows 8 and Two - Way TV Microsoft kicked off the CES much as the company has done since its first keynote in 1998 — extolling the virtues of Windows and promising big things from its operating system in the future

That being said, I always thought I would have a more traditional career working for a big company and doing things with numbers.

But nothing sinks the film more than Jake Lacy and Malin Akerman's villains, the nefarious siblings who run the evil company doing evil science things and making evil big animals and more evil stuff.

«When working in big companies, especially Japanese companies, every little thing has to be approved beforehand, and you need paperwork to do anything,» Kojima told The New Yorker.

Actually the dualistic struggle of Shaun of the Dead takes place not between the zombies and the living but between Ed, who prizes Shaun's company in a perpetual adolescence of pints and PlayStation 2, and Liz (Kate Ashfield), Shaun's bright and ambitious girlfriend, who thinks Shaun could do big things if only he'd apply himself.

«When working in big companies, especially Japanese companies, every little thing has to be approved beforehand, and you need paperwork to do anything,» says ex-Konami employee Hideo Kojima in a new interview with The New Yorker.

So, the first thing we need to do is identify your company's big picture goals.

While Ford expected big things for its small cars (including the Fiesta, already assembled in Mexico), the midsize Fusion sedan, and especially all its trucks and sport / utility vehicles do far better for the company and its bottom line.

Bought this truck with 7800 miles on it and had 4 recalls in less than a year the factory bedliner in it is separating from the steel and everytiei take it to the shop and its supposed to be a work truck made tough that's a joke due to the manufacturer defects I have to miss using it on jobs to haul and if you ask for a loaner that is not included in the warranty so I have a ram that is causing me to lose money and the company wont give me a truck to use while its getting manufacturer defects fixed makes sense and well trading it in is a joke after you buy a ram they depreciate dramatically so trading it in will cost you so thought since they changed names maybe they would b better but 2 hours on the hotline about why no loaner for a working man and all I get is there is no loaner policy when your vehicle is in the shop even when it is their flaws!And what really ticked me off they wanted to patch the factory sprayed bedliner so I took it in and dropped it off we had a big hail storm and they left my truck out in it and they aren't responsible for that either and you pay 600 for a factory sprayed bedliner and its peeling up and they want to patch that spot instead of respraying the whole thing can u say cheap but they were more than happy to take my money when I bought it but they don't stand very tough in my opinion never had this many issues with my fords

Most companies that started out between 2009 - 2014 have run into one of a number of walls related to scaling — they couldn't capture enough share to make publishers interested, couldn't get big enough to keep investors interested, tried out a business model that didn't work, couldn't raise cash after VCs moved on from ebooks to the next shiny thing, or their parent company didn't see a path to profitability and decided to wind down.

You want to be doing the things that big companies are doing — marketing hacks that engage fans.

Searching and app discovery has always been a challenge for a small company, doing big things.

Expect the major publishing houses to be small companies with big holdings in a few years... the big boys will be doing bigger, better, and bolder things as we all embrace cheaper prices.

As @bookofjoe said in a recent tweet, «All tablet companies but Apple spend big ad $ telling us how great machines are instead of great things we can do with them.

Essentially, although Amazon is still the early days of its offline retail push, the company has done some pretty big things on a small scale.

This is a bigger strategy of their parent company Amazon who is doing the the same thing for ebooks.

There are a lot of companies that are doing big, positive things and Libraries can use that and embrace eBooks and stay away from the new breed of middle - men who'll suck them dry.

But being a self - published author tops the list, more difficult than it was learning architecture and going on to design dozens of large custom homes, or operating a construction company that specialized in the absolutely highest end for the most demanding people on Earth, or running a successful international import / export firm in dozens of jurisdictions, or making wine with one of the biggest wineries in Argentina... I could go on, but the point is that I've done a few tough things which required a fair amount of effort and mental dexterity, and writing makes them all look like child's play.

I don't have the patience for doing things on other people's timelines, which is why I've never been a good big company player.

That's why it's important to show that no company, no matter how big and powerful, can get away with doing wrong things.

This is a tremendous boon for a small company (GameResort is just a two - man team) trying to do big things.