Sentences with phrase «deals are getting bigger»

2016 is on pace to see even more money invested in security start - ups, and the deals are getting bigger.

Part of the reason for the disparity is that the largest deals are getting bigger, and VCs and their corporate partners are doing more of them.

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Although there's a pretty big catch — most of the flights are based out of cities in Asia, so you'll have to get yourself over there first before you can enjoy these sweet deals.

It's pretty small, but the fact you've got three consecutive quarters of decline is a big deal.»

Remember, the more you get used to looking at those «deals,» the better you'll be at finding the perfect deal for you — one that will pay off with a big upside more than worth your investment of time and limited resources.

The opportunity for similar deals is huge, but the challenge for MDC is, as ad legend Jay Chiat famously put it, «How big can we get before we get bad?»

Athletic apparel contracts are also getting bigger and bigger in the professional realm, as Nike can attest, having recently agreed to spend a reported $ 1 billion on a deal to outfit the NBA and WNBA, supplanting Adidas from that role starting in 2017.

«There seems to be very little progress on some of the big things in terms of getting user growth going again, in terms of making Twitter more accessible for new users, in terms of dealing with abuse, in terms of driving revenue growth.»

So, to get back to the question at hand: is the Lumia 800 a big deal?

«For me, this is a very big deal; it's a potential partnership of the century, said Jungwirth, who noted the company's ultimate goal is for anyone in the world to be able access self - driving vehicles and get to where they need to go with «push of a button.»

Forget worrying about the best deal on converting your pounds to dollars, some of our biggest mistakes are painfully simple to make but can physically stop you from getting by, if you're not careful.

He says the EU ultimately has to find a way to get the deal done because not doing so would be a much bigger crisis.

So big is great, but even the biggest have to make concessions to get their deals done.

Goldman Sachs is betting it can get its money - making mojo back by pitching creative deals to big, complex clients.

«Being gay has never been a big deal to me, which is why it's a little funny to be getting all this attention about it,» he told GQ.

If the person they collect a card from isn't C - suite, or employed by a top company or startup, it's like getting a journeyman right fielder... no big deal.

In the meantime, though Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Stefano Pessina told a Forbes conference last week that Amazon won't be a big threat absent a megadeal, history shows Amazon can siphon away market share and is also willing to willing to make big deals to get there.

We're getting into the technology space, so we've been out and about working with them, we just signed a deal with HP (hpq) so we're in the space, and we like the dynamic of all the big technology companies right now.

I don't know what you were doing when you were 14, but it probably wasn't signing a licensing deal to get your product into big name retailers such as Barnes and Noble and Target.

Getting on Toys «R» Us shelves is a big deal for a startup, says Sean Windle, a toy - industry analyst with market - research firm IBIS Worldwide.

When deal after deal is going through seamlessly and business is on a steep incline, it's easy to get a big head.

Your salesperson most likely got the adrenaline lift from closing the pilot program, and they are on to hunting the next big deal.

That doesn't mean it's not a big deal if the company can get it to work well, though.

The big banks say clients are clamoring for impact investing, so they're scrambling to accommodate: they're lowering thresholds, reducing bureaucratic obstacles, making it easier for some of the smaller deals to get through the door.

Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

As the private deals get too big for VCs to underwrite on their own, some public money is making its way into them, through direct investments from mutual funds like Fidelity, Janus, and T. Rowe Price, and indirectly via pension - backed hedge funds and private equity.

And there's always a voice in your head telling you that you need to keep every plate spinning and get your network as big as you can, in case it leads to that one big deal that you know is out there for you.

While T - Mobile and Sprint agreeing to merger terms is a big step forward, the pair still need to get approval from regulators to finalize the deal.

Miller, who until recently was a senior adviser at the Business Council of Canada, which represents the chief executives of the country's biggest companies, says Canadians simply don't know enough about how China works to avoid getting screwed in the fine print of any deal.

«It's not so much the cities they chose — the problem is that the launch in Canada was tied to a big real estate deal, and they got these antiquated, inadequate spaces.

Now if you have a big business — and I ran Hewlett - Packard and it is a huge business, and we don't like business regulations, but we can deal with them — but the bigger government gets and the more complex regulations get, and the more complicated the tax code gets — and all of that is happening — the more difficult it will be for small business.

While the value of M&A deals globally increased 67 percent year - on - year in the first quarter of 2018, the number of deals dropped by 10 percent to 10,338, preliminary Thomson Reuters data show, reflecting how deals on average are getting bigger.

Put yourself out of business, and let them get on and run your business day to day, and then you can start dealing with the bigger issues, and you can take the company forward into bigger areas, and you can — maybe if you're an entrepreneur, you can start your second business or your third business.

And the lesson that we've learned in a business that's seasonal and where we get rewarded for serving that grower year after year is, consistency is a big, big deal.

Despite a lot of backlash over a big redesign for the Snapchat app — which to be sure is a very big deal for a product - centric company like Snap — Snap CEO Evan Spiegel vigorously defended the redesign and basically said people need to get used to it.

But the biggest deal was one that got away.

Toshiba is seeking a minimum of $ 18 billion for the world's second - biggest producer of NAND chips and wants to get the deal done as quickly as possible to help it cover billions of dollars in cost overruns at now - bankrupt nuclear unit Westinghouse.

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I can find deals now, but my biggest problem is that I don't have a lawyer, is there any lawyers that would get paid when the deal is done??

They appreciate a good deal, and they're finely attuned to saving money where they can — one of the biggest contributors to how they got where they are.

While activist shareholder Sandon Capital has been a voluble opponent of the deal, arguing Tabcorp is getting a very good asset in the Tatts lotteries business, there are enough big shareholders who own stock in both companies that are in favour of the transaction to make a favourable vote likely.

We were bidding against all the big guys, but I guess they had a level of comfort with us that we would actually get the stuff done and be easy to deal with.

As for Disney, Juenger observed that the Fox deal is an enormous bet by Disney CEO Bob Iger that getting significantly bigger as a content producer will help it battle the larger issues facing traditional media.

Deals are pricey, but getting bigger.

Because while Buffett's skill as an investor and an allocator of capital is well - documented, the single - biggest reason that no one else can invest like the Oracle of Omaha is that at this point in his career, he gets access to deals no one else does.

Bloomberg's Krista Gmelich: «The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee is getting closer to striking a deal on a bipartisan bill to ease financial rules that could have wins for banks both big and small.

«There's still a big delta in rents, and although landlords have gotten much more receptive, they don't want to make those adjustments for 10 or 15 or 20 years,» said Firestein, who represented Starbucks» Italian - bakery offshoot Princi in the retailer's first deal in the city, for 2,600 square feet at Paramount Group's 1633 Broadway.

If you're AT&T and Time Warner and you want to get the deal done, you would likely argue that Stephens» comments are no big deal: Giant $ 86 billion deals are complex, and it's natural to be talking to the regulators that are supposed to sign off on the deal — and, most important, Makan Delrahim, the DOJ antitrust boss who's the decision - maker on this deal, only started on the job a few weeks ago.

Not only are they losing potential synergies as they wait, but there's a big potential political risk that all their talks will be for naught if they can't get a deal done before the next spectrum auction.