Sentences with phrase «company than a big one»

Is it easier to run a small company than a big one?

Not exact matches

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank spoke to graduates of his realization that he wanted to do more than just be a «cog» after leaving the military as a youth and joining a big tech company.

The New York Times started quoting her as an expert, creating the illusion that her company was bigger than it was.

Hackers pummeled the code - sharing site's servers with 1.35 terabytes per second of bogus Internet traffic — 15 % stronger than the next biggest DDoS attack, which targeted Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company (now owned by Oracle), in late 2016.

More than a dozen big chemical companies are building tens of billions of dollars in petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast, and Union Pacific, boasting by far the region's best routes, is destined to get most of their rail business.

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.

General Motor's Mary Barra also underscored the need for governments and big companies to work together, rather than separately — though, she added that this requires execs to remain open minded.

The company plans to follow its customers as they move back to cities, with new urban locations that are smaller than its 1,800 big boxes, and stop playing catch - up when it comes to digital.

Canada's Big Six banks themselves are less likely to feel the need to innovate, insulated as they are against the competitive agitation of fintech companies by their market position and regulatory balustrade, and cognizant that Canada's venture capitalism industry — usually the fuel for fintech — is far less fulsome than America's.

Last year, I tried several pieces from Olivers and liked it better than clothing from big - name sportswear companies.

«Are bigger companies really getting much better job matches than their mid-sized competitors?

And if you're fresh out college, you might do well to look hard at startups for your next job, not only because they need your talents, but also because research suggests that's where the jobs are, and they're likely to pay you better than a big company.

Because regulatory compliance has a high fixed cost, small businesses face a larger per - employee cost of adhering to government regulations than big companies.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

Later in the day, the company is throwing an event called YouTube FanFest, a live performance in downtown Toronto featuring more than a dozen of the video platform's biggest names.

Charter Communications tumbles 15 percent after the company reports a bigger - than - expected loss of video subscribers.

With more supply than demand, Chalupka thinks that it will be hard for companies to post big returns in the short haul.

In the wake of Amazon's HQ2 search, it's become clear that trying to grow the next big tech company is a whole lot cheaper and more effective than trying to attract it.

The size of your company allows you to reach people at a more personal level than big businesses, which turns into stronger relationships with customers.

The funeral industry in WA is increasingly dominated by a handful of big players, including two listed companies that hold more than 50 per cent of the market after buying some of the state's oldest operators.

It was the biggest deal in the company's history, but last February it announced a $ 2.49 - billion writedown after finding out that the gold at Red Back's Tasiast mine was of a lower grade than previously thought.

So how can a small company appear bigger than it is?

A minor celebrity in both Davos and Big Data circles, Goldman sold his first company for $ 225 million, back when less than a billion dollars was actually worth something.

More than a decade later, the company is now the biggest online delivery portal in Turkey, with 3.5 million active users and 100,000 orders processed every day.

They suggested weighting companies in an index by metrics that tell you more about how good the business is rather than just how big it is.

Falcon Heavy is a large, reusable launch vehicle that will allow the closely held company to bid on heavier payloads than it can with its Falcon 9, such as big commercial satellites and national security missions.

Last spring, Salesforce (crm), which sells customer management and sales software to big companies, committed to spending $ 400 million over four years to host new software on AWS rather than in its own data centers.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

Southwest Airlines ($ 2.3 billion in revenues, 15,833 employees nationwide, headquartered in Dallas) shares more information than most big companies: chairman Herb Kelleher's quarterly letters to employees describe the big picture, and weekly updates give detailed reports on costs.

Here are 25 inexpensive platforms, websites, and apps that Treyger says can help any small company appear bigger than it is.

Facebook is now the sixth most valuable company in the S&P 500 index, bigger than Wells Fargo (WFC), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), and Amazon (AMZN), in addition to GE.

One concern is that companies will choose to raise big rounds from SoftBank rather than going public or selling to a larger rival.

«This is really about helping large media companies grow even bigger,» said Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, adding that Republicans were «more intent on granting the industrys holiday wish list early rather than looking out for the public interest.»

Attila Szigeti, COO of Drukka Startup Studio, recently crunched the numbers on 42 of the biggest and best companies to emerge from startup studios and accelerators: He discovered that startups that had partnered with accelerators raised more capital and employed more people than their studio brethren.

Prior to any meeting [with big food companies], I was so nervous that they're assholes, better than us, arrogant, they're going to eat us, they want me fired.

The stocks of retailers, banks, railroads and other companies with big exposure to Alberta will enjoy better growth prospects than their peers.

The big Canadian retailers don't publish monthly sales figures, but it's understood from companies operating in both countries that while the Canadian market has fared better than the U.S., it has still seen declines.

Better yet for the company, advertising sales were a «strong contributor» to Amazon much bigger - than - expected profit in the first quarter, said Brian Olsofsky, Amazon's chief financial officer, on a conference call with investors on Thursday.

Nordstrom said its Anniversary Sale this year, which is historically the company's biggest sales event of the year, «performed better than recent trends.»

From a big picture perspective, the company will grow as more people move into the province — more than 100,000 people moved into the region last year — and as incomes grow.

Unless you have a startup that's trying to change the world, like Apple in its early years, I find personal goals that also benefit the company resonate better with employees than big - picture company goals.

Even Buffett marveled at how their business models, built on intellectual property rather than tangible assets, are «so much better» than the industrial core of yesteryear's biggest companies.

«It's not about me and my ego — it's about the company building something that's bigger than us, that is going to be here for hundreds of years.»

You need to think of your company as something bigger than yourself.

The fledgling company's next big bet was producing an electric rice cooker that was widely panned as being capable of little more than ruining a bowl of rice and leaving you with a wooden tub to clean.

In the meantime, the company has had to spend more than $ 60,000 raising and rebuilding the bulkheads, installing reinforced pilings that can withstand big storm surges, raising electrical sockets up to waist level, and rebuilding its repairs warehouse with waterproof materials, like impermeable sheetrock and rigid foam insulation.

They've got $ 2 billion in cash in the bank, so it's a company that has time, options and assets, but what it doesn't yet have is a demonstrable, positive upward trend to give anyone reason to believe it'll be bigger than it is now any time soon.

«Your individual biology, your health history and ever - fluctuating state of well - being, where you go, what you spend, how you sleep, what you put in your body and what comes out» — that rich - but - messy heap of information, more than anything else, is what's driving these companies together, write Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee in their terrific cover story for Fortune's April 1 issue («Big Data Meets Biology»), which we're posting online today.

In fact, the South African native has been building big, ambitious companies for more than a decade.

«I could have retired years ago, but I didn't because this company is bigger than me,» he says.