Sentences with phrase «doing city business»

In de Blasio's case, that would mean a maximum gift of $ 4,950 per person — but only $ 400 from anyone doing city business.

And two - thirds of the donors to his Campaign for One New York slush fund were doing city business or seeking city action when they contributed.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said he plans to rip a page out of Cuomo's playbook by forcing private companies that do city business to disclose claims of sexual harassment against their employees.

Noting Gross does no city business, the Conflicts of Interest Board OK'd the trip, authorities said.

Not exact matches

As soon as they see a roaring success in the city, they want to put you and your business on the road and have you build copies and clones throughout the state or the country - whether it makes the slightest sense for you to do so or not.

If your home is in a zone in your town or city that doesn't allow for any business operation, then even an office may not be legal.

Because business does the building, not the city.»

Kelsey Ramsden, a serial entrepreneur and consultant who runs three businesses in different cities, explains the art of managing a crazy to - do list

The new rule could affect more than 500 publicly traded companies that do business in Portland, including Fortune 500 companies Wells Fargo, Walmart, and General Electric, the city says.

As a city, we don't have enough of these businesses to have them scattered everywhere.

They sent a survey to an email list of Kansas City residents that Howard had collected and conducted a focus group with six current loyal members to find out what they liked — and didn't — about Howard's current business model.

«We consider this a perfect pairing, as Amazon and Salt Lake City are both known for our customer service and ease of doing business.

«I think the main difference between Irish cities and other cities is that people genuinely do welcome people with open arms in terms of business, networking, and relationships,» observes O» Reilly.

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.

Many businesses shy away from moving into inner - city areas like South Central Los Angeles due to concerns about market viability, vandalism and gangs, but when we were looking for a location for our Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar franchise, my partner, Karim Webb, and I realized it didn't make sense to look anywhere else.

New York City is a tough place to do business — but these fast - growing companies have cracked the code.

Besides teaching the brothers the importance of hand washing, the experience exposed them to the specific benefits of doing business in the inner city — access to highways, parking for large vehicles, flexible zoning, and cheap land.

Filmed at the NeXT headquarters in Redwood City, California, in 1991, Jobs focuses on marketing strategy — but along the way, he stresses some fundamentals that every business owner would do well to heed.

Swinburne, who worked in the City of London before becoming an MEP in 2009, said all the projections were probably the «worst case scenarios» as they don't take into account anything businesses may do to mitigate the impact of Brexit.

«We have customers in 12 countries, but my business card doesn't have our city or country on it,» he says.

Not only did an entire delegation from the Turkish government, including high - profile diplomats, travel to the U.S. Small Business Administration's National Small Business Week event in Washington, D.C., last year; tech giant Dell chose to host its Women's Entrepreneur Network event in the nation's most populous city, Istanbul, this month.

Do not limit yourself to advertising locally, as many traveling business men and women look to co-working spaces in destination cities to have a place to work and network with other professionals.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

What's more, same - day delivery is a way for Walmart to get more business from New York City customers, a market of 8.5 million people that doesn't have a single Walmart location.

See the infographic, which compares the costs of doing business in each city, below.

But Dell did not reveal which business units are being affected or which cities where the layoffs are primarily taking place.

When Dick and Mark started City Capital, they admit that they didn't have a concise business plan, but the one thing that they did know was their niche market of middle - market companies and how they were going to bring extreme value there.

Some cities are an excellent choice to start a small business, but others don't share the same status.

No income tax in Texas is another bonus of doing business in the city.

Anyone who wanted to do business in the shiny new parts of cities that Alphabet controlled and built would end up paying for the privilege,» the article speculates.

Unlike 24 - hour cities, such as New York, they are able to operate on these extended hours without significantly running up the cost of living and doing business.

Says Mitch Roschelle, partner and real estate advisory leader of PWC, about the top second - tier cities: «Survey respondents told us that there are two key drivers that enable small business success: lower cost of doing business and access to skilled talent.»

When Circuit City went kaput in January, I didn't waste my time on the chain's so - called going - out - of - business sale.

One doesn't expect a government to become a business, but many cities, notably Atlanta, Austin and New York, have found a way to inject a sense of public - private partnership to attract and support new businesses.

Alleviate the high cost of doing business with this cost - containment guide for entrepreneurs in expensive cities like Honolulu, Anchorage and New York.

Travis Isaacson, senior director of organizational development at Access Development, a Salt Lake City, affinity marketing business, doesn't want anything that fancy, just an iPod Classic with 120 GB of memory instead of the old 80 GB model he has now so he can squeeze in more of the business books he downloads from Audible.com.

Forbes lists San Francisco, San Jose, and San Diego as three of its top ten most expensive cities to do business.

One of three start - up companies doing a national rolloutof DSL, NorthPoint estimates that 40 % of U.S. businesses will have access to its services by July.Presently, DSL service is available only in a few major cities.

While business groups in Indiana, such as the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, have come out decisively against the law, Indianapolis, the center of business conference activity in the state, is now fighting to make sure that businesses don't abandon the city's vital convention industry.

Out west, we did a bit of business at lunch, but now we were dealing with cities with triple and quadruple the population.

Though Cisneros didn't indicate a specific reason why now, of all times, the city is cracking down on license - free drivers, San Francisco did finally get an online business registration system operational last month.

«I hear all kinds of excuses from business owners who don't want to get involved in estate planning,» confides Joshua Rubenstein, a partner in the estate and trust department of New York City law firm Rosenman & Colin.

As Hurricane Sandy bears down on Atlantic City, New York, and (eventually) parts of eastern Canada, thousands of businesses large and small are faced with dilemmas related to doing business before, during, and after a potential state of disaster.

«The fact is, there were a lot of small contractors and vendors who got hurt, who went out of business because Trump did not pay contracts on time,» New Jersey state senator Jim Whelan, who was the mayor of Atlantic City during Trump's casino years, told Newsweek last year.

Other business owners in Atlantic City did benefit from the build - out of casinos in the 1980s and»90s.

Small business owners noted the cost of doing business is still very reasonable, and the city has a lower - than - average cost of living.

Life is too short to fly in and out of the same predictable cities we always do business in.

A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of WashingtoCity employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washingtocity's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.28

Our list doesn't include 25 cities that were missing business survey data.

The trips include stopovers in major cities where students will learn firsthand what it is like to do business while participating in a number of cultural and tourist activities.