Sentences with phrase «dollar company just»

But Midwest and East Coast - based entrepreneurs shouldn't give up on building a billion - dollar company just yet.

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After wasting a couple million dollars, we ended up selling the line to another company just to get out of debt.

Komisar: There are just too many companies carrying these [billion - dollar] valuations to be absorbed by the public markets or in private acquisitions.

Those deals may be right for billion - dollar companies, but they just didn't make sense for us.

Ivanov's story is just one example of the serendipity involved in this small Canadian company's rise to the forefront of a worldwide race to harness nuclear fusion, a race that has been going on fitfully, consuming tens of billions of mostly public dollars, for more than half a century.

The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.

In the entire US, there are just 135 private companies that are valued at over a billion dollars or more.

Canadian companies are funnelling a growing chunk of their research and development spending through the country's universities and colleges, with the total coming in at just under a billion dollars in 2013:

Darrell Cavens co-founded Zulily in 2009, and just three years later, the company had achieved a billion dollar valuation.

Just because larger companies spend thousands of dollars on sales lead services doesn't mean there aren't options available for cash - and time - strapped startups.

Although many of the companies going public lack profits — Twitter and Box, as just two recent examples, reported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of losses in their Securities and Exchange Commission filings — they are a far cry from many of the hollow IPOs of the 1990s, experts say.

Shares have dropped as much as 66 % in the past 12 months, are currently trading at just over a dollar, and the company risks being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.

There's no new theme to it, just more riffs on the old one of a self - reinforcing spiral of slower growth in China crushing the economies of its raw material suppliers, while an appreciating dollar makes it ever harder for emerging market companies and governments to repay the debts they gleefully took on when the Federal Reserve was giving away dollars for free.

Failure now would put thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, and SpaceX has become crucial not just to the U.S. space program but also to countries and companies around the world hoping to put up satellites.

In just a few years, my company grew to be a million dollar company and I discovered strategies I knew would help women entrepreneurs.

What kickstarted in 2009 with just $ 200,000 in seed funding is now a multi-billion dollar company that provides commuters from all across the globe an alternative to the usual taxi transportation.

It's worth asking how someone could commit nearly a billion dollars of fraud and now just lose control of her company.

In October, the company launched «happy hour» from 2 to 5 p.m., during which time participating locations sell sliders, drinks, and sides for just one dollar.

This company developed a highly innovative cancer detection technology that costs less than a thousand dollars for the provider and just a few bucks for the patient (compared to current devices that cost providers $ 30,000 and patients $ 1,500).

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«I just don't know how Uber can argue with a straight face that as a $ 40 billion dollar company it can't afford to insure its drivers, pay minimum wage or pay overtime, or be reimbursed for their expenses.

I've heard of a small company that missed its profit - sharing trigger by just a few thousand dollars due to an employee who was stealing merchandise; as a result, the company didn't give out bonuses and ended up with a very bitter staff.

Apple (aapl) just announced record earnings for fiscal 2015, posting nearly one - quarter of a trillion dollars in revenue, and it remains the most valuable public company by far.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, is just a few billion dollars away from dethroning Bill Gates to become the world's richest person.

The invoices from the lumber company are all sizes, from just a few dollars to up to $ 20,000 or so, depending on what they bring to the job site and when.

The hedge fund manager, whose Yelp stake was worth about $ 10 million at the end of 2015, has made at least several million dollars in the stock just this week, after telling investors that he believes the company's revenue could double in the next three years.

The thinking here is that shareholders may have been objecting not just to Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit's US$ 15 million dollar pay, but also to the $ 10 million retention payment awarded to him, and the general lack of correlation between Pandit's pay and the company's financial performance.

Or your company might pivot and reinvent itself entirely — just look at Instagram, a floundering check - in service that became a billion dollar photo - sharing app.

Google Earth, Maps and Translate are just a few of the company's services that have defence dollars at their very cores.

Take the underrepresentation of women among tech entrepreneurs together with an overwhelmingly male VC population (with their presumably dude - heavy networks and natural affinity for the types of companies that speak to men) and the result has been dismal amounts of investor dollars going to female founders — less than five percent just a decade ago.

By tapping female advisers, investors, and employees, the company hit half a million dollars in sales and ran out of its holiday inventory just six months after launch.

It's become very clear we can't assume a billion - dollar company is legit just because some venture investors said so.

That's just a handful of companies expected to continue to demonstrate the onslaught of the strong dollar.

Rather than just say, «I want to build a multi-million dollar company,» you need to break financial goals down into reachable and measurable ones.

By bringing a drug that's been well - established as safe in other markets to the U.S. for the first time in order to treat a rare disease, the company doesn't just control its pricing destiny — it will also receive a coveted «priority review voucher» which it can hawk to another firm for tens (or even hundreds) of millions of dollars.

The promotion is just one of several companies are making on Equal Pay Day, as firms like Adidas (addyy), Reebok and Procter & Gamble (pg) push awareness campaigns about women earning 20 % less on the dollar than their male counterparts.

This would save small businesses a large percentage of money and allow them to focus on their core strengths knowing that their software and hardware will just work and is monitored and supported for pennies on the dollar and allow these companies to compete with corporations many times their size.

«I need more than just a rising dollar in order to find these companies attractive.»

Before Uber lost out to chief local rival Didi Chuxing in China, the company was said to have used up billions of dollars just to maintain its hold on the country.

Barron's says that «The gun companies generate huge controversy, but not much in the way of investor value — the market cap of all three gun stocks combined is just $ 2.5 billion, a rounding error in the trillions of dollars managed by Vanguard and BlackRock.»

In thinking about the race to the first trillion dollar company, I just assumed it would be Apple, nothing else was even on my radar.

Then, on top of that, you increasingly have brand advertising dollars — also an order of magnitude more than direct response dollars — looking for somewhere to go other than TV, and it just so happens that Facebook is the perfect brand advertising platform.2 The company has the right set of products in the right market at the right time.

So I think a litmus test is always just to say if we took the dollars out of it, is there a deal that we would want to do with this company?

Contrast that to just Northern California alone, where there's a new multi-billion dollar company going public every year, and we can see why there is a rising amount of income inequality and dissatisfaction in America.

Founder of Evernote Phil Libin has seen his company skyrocket to a billion dollar company in six short years, ballooning its headcount from 45 people in 2010 to pushing 400 just three years later.

Of the $ 48.3 billion spent in the U.S. on venture capital in 2014, 80 percent of those dollars went to companies in just five states, with California receiving a whopping 56 percent.

Mobile advertising represented just over half of all Facebook's marketing dollars in the last quarter of 2013, and for the same period in 2014, analysts expect mobile ads to make up at least two - thirds of all ad revenue, making Facebook primarily a mobile ad company.

First, why do tech companies charge so much for just a few dollars of extra stuff?

Companies wouldn't keep making them if they didn't — just look at how home shopping has skyrocketed QVC into a multibillion - dollar business.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.