Sentences with phrase «couple years company»

For the past couple years company has managed to be on top, however, the competition has never been too far behind, and it is approaching fast.

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Three years after opening the Seattle Coffee Company, the couple sold it to Starbucks for around $ 90 million.

-- Blodget said on the conference call that the company still has about $ 22 million of the $ 50 million in financing that it has raised over the past couple of years.

For the next couple of years, the company took its lumps.

Tim Harris, co-founder of 30 Under 30 honoree Swift Navigation, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008 and spent the next couple of years working as an industrial planner for OR Soft, a German software and consulting company.

The Dell role lasted a couple of years before Legere joined telecoms company Global Crossing in 2001 as CEO, taking it through a «really tough» restructuring and eventually selling it to CenturyLink (then Level 3) in 2011.

«(For) a period of a couple of years, this company had been in waiting for a merger, which probably would've been the demise of T - Mobile's people and brand,» he told «The Brave Ones.»

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

Airbnb has crucial decisions to make before it eventually floats on the stock market but will likely become a public company in the next couple of years, one investor told CNBC Thursday.

That's why Mobovivo organizes a couple of company - wide get - togethers every year, usually on the sidelines of industry conferences.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

The past couple of years has seen a spate of Chinese companies going public through reverse takeovers — a somewhat murky process in which a private firm purchases a shell company that already trades on a foreign exchange.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

But they can also be weapons — as the actions of big technology companies over the past couple of years have shown.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

You can have a patent for something and then a couple of other companies violate that patent and then you get relief six years later, but by then it's too late.

After testing out a couple of sweaters from this year's collection, which now includes hoodies for guys and sweatpants for women, I'd argue this is the company's best attempt yet.

After 20 years of service coupled with a handsome salary, my wife and I had enough savings so we decided to invest in «prospective companies.»

The past couple of years have been marked by investor revolts against the level of salaries paid to top executives at some London - listed companies including Sky Plc and Pearson Plc (pearson - plc).

The last couple of years have been an understandably busy time; SOLS is Schouwenburg's first company, and she's pouring everything she has into making it a success.

Two other companies — Detroit Bicycle Co. and Shinola, which produces bikes in addition to leather goods and luxury watches — have also set up shop in the past couple of years.

In - vehicle video ads: Companies like Go Vugo have been around for a couple years but haven't quite gained a foothold with the driver community.

TPGTEX Label Solutions Inc., a Houston - based seller of label - printing software, printers and related products, got a head start on finding a new printer supplier a couple of years ago after a friendly sales representative, without going into too much detail, warned that the company's existing vendor was on rocky footing.

Fast - forward to a couple of years later when my company nearly went under (twice) and I realized it was time to look around me for sage counsel.

The Roasterie, a 17 - year - old company in Kansas City, Missouri, for example, sent out a small price increase a couple months ago, according to Paul Massad, the company's director of supply chain and self - described «bean hunter.»

Dark Matter comes just a couple of weeks after the anti-secrecy organization released a trove of documents describing how the CIA over the last several years has targeted electronics made by a slew of prominent tech companies to further its espionage efforts.

But just a couple of years later, Netflix lost its exclusivity with Epix when the distributor signed a similar deal with Amazon (AMZN)-- news that also hit the company's share price hard, taking Netflix stock down by as much as 11 percent in a day.

Though an increasing number of tech companies have been doing so in the past couple of years, Atlassian added a twist: It includes the percentages of teams with member of each underrepresented groups (gender, age, ethnicity).

A couple of years ago, after a survey asked customers what they wanted the company to do for them, one customer joked he wanted Qualtrics to help him buy a wedding ring for his fiance.

By 2013, they had fallen to $ 1.46 billion, despite the company's efforts to steady the business in the last couple of years through steps such as improving reps» cut of the action, and streamlining its product assortment to focus on lower - priced products.

In between all the fun the Smiths are clearly having as they grow a multi-billion company, they are on track for an IPO in a couple of years.

Fresh food is already available in more than half of Walmart's 337 stores, and the company has nearly doubled its grocery market share over the past couple of years.

People will be curious about the company's market, its strategy, its competitive advantages (or disadvantages), what it's focusing on over the next couple of years.

A couple of years ago, the FBI caught flak when one agent acknowledged the dilemma and said the agency often simply advised companies to pay up when they had no other recourse.

You may remember Kanojia from a couple of years ago, when he was CEO of Aereo, a company that allowed subscribers to stream and record broadcast channels.

Over the past couple of years, dozens of companies have joined the coveted «unicorn» club by achieving valuations of $ 1 billion of more, but a chill seems to be setting over the industry.

«It was a company that had been around for a couple three years.

I've been very happy with the Vizio TV I bought a couple of years ago, and the company has brought HDR, a previously high - end feature, to its entry - level line.

It took another couple of years before Allison and two scientific colleagues entered a collaboration with a Princeton, N.J., company called Medarex.

I have been with the company for a couple of years and in the semiconductor industry for over 20 years.

Over the past couple of years, insurance companies like Progressive and State Farm have created tracking devices that can lead to lower insurance rates for safe driving.

The company said it has cut back its capital expenditures forecast «by focusing on the critical near - term needs that benefit us primarily in the next couple of years,» the company said in its shareholder letter.

The latest survey, released January 9, suggests Canada's companies are feeling okay about 2017, which is a significant improvement from the previous couple of years.

Jade and I worked at Warner Bros. for three years prior to starting our company, and we took on several smaller projects in the first couple of years of our business before we went after bigger projects.

Since its first year, the business has generated strong profits, which the couple reinvests in the company.

The couple launched their company in 2003, their junior year of college.

In his recent Harvard commencement speech, Mark Zuckerberg explained how a couple years into his venture, some big companies wanted to buy Facebook.

Like I mentioned earlier, it's not perfect by any means — the controllers lack headphone jacks, and I've avoided using the Switch in tabletop mode because of its flimsy kickstand and bottom - facing USB port — but I'm guessing Nintendo will release new - and - improved hardware in a couple of years, as the company has done in the past (think: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS).

The amount of money being put into early stage companies has greatly increased in the past couple of years.

Meanwhile, the company is boosting its operations in Canada: A new 50,000 - square - foot technology hub in Toronto is expected to add 400 positions to its payroll in this country over the next couple years, with longer - term ambitions to employ up to 1,500.