Sentences with phrase «company of a few people»

It was a tiny, tiny company of a few people.

Not exact matches

Your company benefits because you and your employees could learn how to adopt practices with a number of advantages (such as decreased stress or fewer people needing to take sick days).

Imagine your communities with fewer places to work — after all, there aren't a whole lot of large companies willing to relocate to a town of just 5,000 people — with fewer employed people.

If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

Namie agrees that turnover — a disproportionate number of people leaving your office or unit, and few people wanting to come in from elsewhere in the company — is another sure sign that something's amiss.

Henderson says companies like his have failed in the past, and that he's «one of the few people on the planet doing it.»

A few of the well - known companies are Target, Google and Dell, and the common thread found in all of the companies was that they had a specific group, or person, dedicated to solely doing social media.

Another publisher told Digiday that a majority of his company's Facebook Live content «was seen by very few people.»

She discovered those MLM companies — the multilevel marketing, where, pyramid - style, one person recruits another and gets a cut of their sales — and tried out a few with varying success.

Few, if any, boxing fans will have ever heard of NeuLion, (and, the company's name still won't be very visible on Saturday either) but the company's technology and manpower will play a pivotal role in getting the stream of the Mayweather - McGregor fight into the homes of millions of people this weekend.

For one, they typically look for larger opportunities that are a little bit more stable, meaning the company would need a strong team of people and a even few million dollars.

All of these companies lack data from Africa and Asia, where fewer people have gotten a DNA test.

Executives of the company, which allows its more than 100 million users to send messages that disappear after a few seconds, are in advanced talks with fund managers, the person told Bloomberg.

During the first few days of an associate's career, amid those nervous, impressionable moments, a company should lay the groundwork for a lasting powerful relationship with the person involved..

It's particularly true when your team is only a few people trying to build the kinds of bonds that will take them through the inevitable rough waters every company will have to sail through.

(Sure, a bunch of people will give up using FedEx — one of the few major companies to hold its ground against the boycott — but are they really going to boycott two dozen companies, and suffer that much disruption of your consumption habits?

April 10 - Embattled blood - testing company Theranos Inc laid off most of its remaining workforce to preserve cash and avert or at least delay bankruptcy for a few more months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The company will lay off most of Snap Channel's 15 - person team, though possibly reassigning a few junior managers elsewhere.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, is just a few billion dollars away from dethroning Bill Gates to become the world's richest person.

It is such an integral part of so many people's social lives and patterns of communication, and it has so few real competitors, that I think it is in some ways more like a public utility than like a private company.

But no matter what route they choose, very few people are willing to change their company's name or the name of its products once they are under way.

Grocery giant Whole Foods and 40 - person analytics company SumAll are among some of the few businesses that embrace transparent salaries.

With so many people concerned about the uncertain future of Social Security and the continued elimination of company pension plans, it's alarming how few small businesses offer their employees a 401 (k) plan.

Very few small businesses are made up of people who have every skill for successful operation; this can be particularly true when the company grows quickly.

We expect just a bunch of people mostly living in a suburb in Northern California [to] safeguard U.S. elections in 2018, not cause ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, not help Duterte kill off people he doesn't like in Philippines, not kill off media companies by mistake in Serbia, and a few more.»

A listing of all companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.

That's a tall order, but few people could have predicted the huge success of Twitter when Dorsey co-founded that company in 2006.

Jelly's investors include fellow Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Afghan Citadel Software Company CEO Roya Mahboob, and a few other people you might have heard of: Bono and Al Gore.

Now, just a few years later, the company finds itself in the strange position of having to justify that accomplishment — and to rationalize it in order to get people to spend the extra money on its new console.

The company told Business Insider's Mike Shields in mid-September that it is touting this pool of data, which it says is rich with information on people's shopping habits, in planned meetings with numerous agencies and marketers over the next few weeks.

Large companies often flood the H - 1B application pool, while smaller businesses with less financial muscle make fewer bets on the people who are most critical to the future of their business.

Serving groups of customers whose backgrounds are different from yours isn't about swapping out photos or putting a few token people in key positions in your company.

It's asking its companies to do one of the few things they can do to get more women and people of color in the door.

Over the past few months, behind the scenes, tens of thousands of people have been writing to mutual fund company Vanguard telling the investment manager that it's time it supported transparency by corporations about their political donations.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

No one should enter a company after fewer than four interviews, and they should first meet all of the key people they will work with.

Startup cost would be $ 250,000 which includes the space, renovations (I own my own startup construction company as of last month), two busses, insurance, TABC fees, and a staff of roughly 25 people per bar (this would create good jobs for college students to pay for school as well as a few manager / event coordinator positions).

Research suggests that clearing cookies — tiny bits of software that advertising companies load on a browser to collect data on the websites people visit — is one of the few privacy - protection steps that have been embraced by American internet users.

The following may be true of a potential takeover: • the company has fewer than 50 million shares outstanding; • management is dominated by persons near retirement age; • management's record on innovations and improving returns has been poor; • the company owns assets whose market values are potentially higher than those shown on the balance sheet; • outside investors have been steadily buying the stock.

Besides generating brand trust, their genuine nature and involvement of people who are in charge of the company (most include a few words from the CEO or president) show the world how your team works and solves the problem of your potential customer.

The numbers bear this out: «89.4 % of the companies with more than 100 years of history are businesses employing fewer than 300 people.»

These are just a few of the companies that insist their low - wage workers are independent business people.

Just under half (49 percent) of the people who took our survey work at companies with fewer than 10 full - time staff.

While other companies are claiming to have started drone delivery services in other countries — such as one that launched in Iceland yesterday — very few have delivered more than a handful of goods, or are available to more than a few people who live in places where drones can land easily.

Robert Ingram, chairman of the board, stated, «While the past few months have been difficult, Valeant has a collection of leading brands, valuable franchises and great people, and I am confident that the company will be able to rebuild its reputation and thrive under new leadership.

While executives recognize the need to keep people informed about the company's strategy and direction, few understand the need to convince employees of the brand's power — they take it as a given.

The optimist's take on this trend is that robots help Amazon keep prices low, which means people buy more stuff, which means the company needs more people to man its warehouses even though it needs fewer human hours of labor per package.

On a frigid evening, days before Christmas, nearly 100 people braved icy roads to attend a SolarCity job fair at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, on the slight chance they might qualify for one of the few hundred positions available at the company's solar factory.

Few people actually studied the finances and underlying businesses of the companies that they invested in.

While networks of companies remain at the center of where most people in blockchain think the technology is headed, a few leaders from both the legacy firms and startups will likely continue to chalk out their own territory.