Sentences with phrase «do about all of the years»

I'm afraid to just start filing though... and I have no idea what to do about all of the years I've missed.

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What has really happened in private equity over those decades is that investors, net of fees, did about 25 % better than the S&P up through the 2005 «vintage» year (denoting funds that first drew capital in 2005).

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

«We really do feel that the [TaskUs] team is part of our extended family,» says Kirsty Traill, vice president of customer support at Hootsuite, which has used the company to handle customers» email queries for about a year.

It's getting to that time when we begin to think about lists of things we should be doing in the New Year.

«Last year we did a Twitter campaign last year in the US to raise awareness, and people started doing crazy fun videos about the brand, and made it a lot of fun.

In theory, the U.S. Commerce Department's move earlier this week to slap a seven - year ban on the sale of American products to ZTE Corp., China's second - largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, was all about national security and had nothing to do with trade.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Then a couple of years later we did the first launch of Falcon 9, version 1, and that had about a 10 - ton - to - orbit capability, so it was about 20 times the capability of Falcon 1, and also assigned to carry our Dragon spacecraft.

Three quarters of Canadian CEOs say they fear disruption in the next three years — but many appear to be unsure about what to do

«The injury rate at our Fremont factory is half what it was in the final years of the UAW plant operated by GM / Toyota immediately before us, and we care deeply about the safety and well - being of our people and strive to do better every day.

«Last summer, about 40 percent of back - to - school searches were done on mobile devices, and already this year, mobile share is topping 50 percent,» Google said.

You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

Based on a projection made by the Conference Board of Canada, the Post warns that it will be losing about $ 1 billion per year by 2020 if it doesn't shift its operations.

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, «If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?»

It's actually quite a relief to hear from someone with years of experience who has built a substantial, multi-decade career in a major industry at a global corporation (BP / Amoco) instead of a wet - behind - the - ears «expert» who's had about 15 minutes of startup success and no clue about how he or she got there, or what to do next.

Now it's been almost a year and the new stores continue to do incredibly well, so we'll change over about 20 % of the chain this year.

Starting off with my favorite holiday of the year, Halloween is one of the most mindless holiday marketing months and I am not talking about zombies; though when I read some of these Facebook pages it makes me wish I was one... What I mean is that it's relatively easy to research and find quality content that can be used to boost interest in your cause, so why not do something more ghoulish?

However, although the BCC believes the country will manage to avoid recession, it does anticipate slowing economic momentum over the next two years given higher inflation trends and a continued lack of clarity about the process by which the U.K. leaves the EU.

Rempel is now being talked about as a contender for the Conservative leadership, a prospect she addressed in a series of sardonic tweets last year, including, «All your DMs with DO IT aren't helping.

I didn't much care for the 2015 Best Picture of the Year Spotlight; in my view, it was a Lifetime version of the kind of gripping story about journalism that All the President's Men actually was.

«Amazon's been signaling for about one or two years that they're going to make big bets, because they can, because they've got the cash flow to do it, so that makes this less of a surprise,» said Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital.

Prioritize customer service: According to a study of last year's holiday trends, shoppers care as much about the shopping experience as they do about the gifts they buy.

When Warren was asked how she stays so optimistic about the future of America, she assured Bee that the country will come out of the Trump years better than it started because «we don't have any other choice.»

With that, she's built a company that will do about a billion dollars of revenue this year, and it will be profitable in a few years.

Netgear's (ntgr) stock has done fine, but trailed the S&P 500 index for most of the past five years until a big rally the past few months, largely over excitement about how well Arlo cameras sold in the holiday shopping period.

And as the number of telecommuters increases (studies suggest about 35 % of employees do some telecommuting, up from about 20 % four years ago), attitudes toward productivity are also changing.

But because many of these multinationals do most of their business outside of Portland, the actual dollar amount deducted for the tax would be miniscule: the city estimates it will generate about $ 2.5 to $ 3.5 million per year from this initiative.

And here's the kicker about all that insurance money — it's generated by millions of agents, with lots of paper, in processes that look much the same way they did 30 years ago.

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

«We've all heard lots of talk over the years about the fear that analytics will drive the types of stories you do in a bad way.

This alone, however, does not explain why almost half of the 30 positions that existed in Richmond five years ago have disappeared, or why, according to various surveys, SBA employees have just about the lowest morale in the federal bureaucracy.

This year — with some of the more influential minds within the industry, state and federal government, and academia all gathered on his back patio — Jenkins wants to do more than just talk about what can be done.

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

It took me about two years before launching Dwolla to figure out how to legally do it and get into the marketplace and raise the first chunk of money.

«So most of us didn't talk about it much until recent years.

What to include: Business plans vary in length — anywhere from 20 to 50 pages — but typically cover the same topics, such as: Cover Page (essential contact information); Executive Summary (what your business does and what market need it solves); Company Overview (profile of company and successes); Industry Analysis (details about the market); Customer Analysis (who are the customers); Competitive Analysis (identify key competitors); Marketing Plan (your brand and how do you plan on getting it in front of customers); Operations Plan (daily and yearly operational processes for success); Management Team (identify key company personnel); and Financial Plans (revenue projections for three to five years).

About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.

You always hear about the «overnight success» of a lot of businesses, but what most people don't see is the years of behind the scenes blood, sweat, and tears that go into pushing a business to that single point in time.

«A lot of studios went out of business about three years ago,» Godwin explained,» [and] a lot of it had to do with a...

Lots of people are talking about a study put out this morning by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives about how the average Canadian CEO will earn as much by lunchtime today as the average Canadian does in a year.

That would put a floor on five - year mortgage rates of about 2.6 % — assuming the five - year bond rate doesn't fall any further.

Founder Adam Robinson is passionate about recruiting; not only does he have over 20 years experience in the industry, he has written a book about the power of predictive hiring.

«The BoC has stated rather clearly to look through near - term inflation, partly because there isn't anything it can do about it anyway but also because (and we agree) it believes many of the pressures will abate into next year,» they write.

I was doing a seminar many years ago on networking and was talking about the value of collaborating with your competition from time to time, and how it is actually possible to increase your business by collaborating and cooperating with people who might be your competitors.

After about two years of that, I realized I couldn't do both.

As the clock counted down to the end of Howard Stern's five - year deal with satellite radio broadcaster SiriusXM, speculation about what he might do rose to feverish levels.