Sentences with phrase «failed business attempts»

After a few failed business attempts, his daughter suggested the idea of a dating website for geeks.

When you're young, you have less to lose from a failed business attempt than you will ever again.

If you're seeking employment after a failed business attempt, here are my suggestions for your resume.

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They found those traits in an unlikely man — a cypherpunk, part - coder, part - activist, who boasts of holding a world record for the most failed attempts at building a business around peer - to - peer, decentralized file sharing.

Business managers who attempt to use these behaviors in the world of work will eventually fail in leading others successfully — and will probably live a lonely life, as well.

The overwhelming majority of entrepreneurs» attempts to launch their first businesses fail.

Now a major event on Moscow's business calendar, the forum and exhibition is an attempt to force into being what has failed to emerge organically in Russia: A Silicon Valley, right here in the Russian capital.

After failed attempts at getting signed to a major record label, Jay - Z and his two business partners, Damon Dash and Kareem Burke, started their own label, Roc - A-Fella Records, in 1996.

Condemnations from business leaders, representing all corners of American industry, were striking for the ways they personally critiqued Trump for failing to attempt to unify the country in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville over the weekend.

Many entrepreneurs have started businesses using credit cards after all other attempts at securing funding failed.

These 20 Entrepreneurs failed in their attempt to start their business before they eventually succeeded:

Have you ever failed at your attempt to start any business?

If you have ever failed at any of your attempts to start a business, then you are not alone.

When attempting an exchange, never try for some minimum offering of value while under the guise of a business — this will undoubtedly fail.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

After two more years with Sauber and a failed attempt to buy the Prost team, Diniz retired to his native Brazil, joined his father's supermarket business and became a farmer.

The only action was a failed attempt to bring Vardy since than not much but rumours that makes us look bad in doing business.

They also follow several women's stories — both those who succeed and fail at attempting a VBAC — including that of filmmaker Abby Epstein, whose first c - section delivery was depicted in the dramatic, final moments of The Business of Being Born.

This is really good, except it mainly shows examples of failed acts from Congress, and I'm really looking for a few of the successful acts, particularly those that attempt to legislate our behavior or our personal business.

Ms Trimingham more recently courted controversy by touting for lobbying business, highlighting her excellent links with Lib Dem ministers and whose attempt to introduce a privacy law via the courts failed, resulting in one of the most damning verdicts I have read.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

I hear you grumble: Well with 42 page watchers and 922 edits in 9 years, it probably is true) Hunt is said to have «tried his hand at a number of different entrepreneurial business ventures including a failed attempt to export marmalade to Japan.»

In yet another attempt to protect his assets against angry business associates, Cappelli Enterprises failed to convince a judge to dismiss a lawsuit regarding the troubled developers failure to comply with contracts and aggreements between owners of 5 Anderson St and the developer.

Unfortunately, recent policies imposed by Albany have attempted to pick winners and losers, while failing to recognize the important role small businesses play in job creation.

After this failed attempt, Maureen receives a text message from an unknown number while on a business trip to London.

Noël Wells (from Infinity Baby, Mr. Roosevelt, Happy Anniversary) stars as a «childless, single, broke, stoner» who attempts to salvage her failing business and love life while falling for a married man.

Following the sudden closure of Elmwood Cafe in Berkeley on Friday, the coffee shop's owner Michael Pearce issued a statement admitting his business failed in its attempts to rectify a 2015...

But the charter school concept was usurped by the business crowd after Chris Whittle's failed attempt to push for - profit Edison Schools on the public.

Much of what you study in the first couple of years in Economics is about business models that didn't work, and from those failed attempts, one tries to go forth and design a new business model that will work.

I sent my share of fan letters, suffered numerous failed attempts to kiss women my mother's age, and did work in the family jewelry business for a summer... Am I still like that?

I earn minimum wage and have almost $ 10K in student loans, plus about the same in credit card debt which came from pulling cash to make student loan payments (in an ultimately futile attempt to avoid default on the student loans) and a business startup which ultimately failed due to an extended illness and ospitalization.

(1) A credit services organization, its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit services organization may not do any of the following: (a) conduct any business regulated by this chapter without first: (i) securing a certificate of registration from the division; and (ii) unless exempted under Section 13 -21-4, posting a bond, letter of credit, or certificate of deposit with the division in the amount of $ 100,000; (b) make a false statement, or fail to state a material fact, in connection with an application for registration with the division; (c) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer; (d) dispute or challenge, or assist a person in disputing or challenging an entry in a credit report prepared by a consumer reporting agency without a factual basis for believing and obtaining a written statement for each entry from the person stating that that person believes that the entry contains a material error or omission, outdated information, inaccurate information, or unverifiable information; (e) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (f) make, or counsel or advise any buyer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and that is known, or that by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a credit reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a buyer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; (g) make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; and (h) transact any business as a credit services organization, as defined in Section 13 -21-2, without first having registered with the division by paying an annual fee set pursuant to Section 63J -1-504 and filing proof that it has obtained a bond or letter of credit as required by Subsection (2).

Now the Company is faced with reinventing its business and it appears the current Board, which has failed miserably in its prior attempts to do so, believes that stockholders want a course of action that includes internally pursing another high - risk product strategy as well as pursuing acquisition opportunities.»

There are three glaring examples of failed diversification attempts: 1) the optical systems effort that was discontinued after costing the company nearly $ 80MM by some accounts, 2) the Jasomi acquisition, which cost $ 24MM and appears to have little to no contribution to the business, and 3) the PVP development, which has yet to generate significant revenue.

Strangely enough, my parents had little interest in paying me $ 30 for my homemade macaroni necklaces, thus my attempts at creating a small business inevitably failed.

Granston has spent the last few hours carefully researching images of salt mines, so that he can have the perfect response if someone criticises him for his disgustingly obvious attempt to prop up his failing business.

And a property owner who fails after a reasonable time to clear the ice and snow from the front steps of a business open to the public may be liable for his inaction if a patron falls and breaks her leg when attempting to enter the premises.

(ii) If a business associate is required by law to perform a function or activity on behalf of a covered entity or to provide a service described in the definition of business associate in § 160.103 of this subchapter to a covered entity, such covered entity may disclose protected health information to the business associate to the extent necessary to comply with the legal mandate without meeting the requirements of this paragraph (e), provided that the covered entity attempts in good faith to obtain satisfactory assurances as required by paragraph (e)(3)(i) of this section, and, if such attempt fails, documents the attempt and the reasons that such assurances can not be obtained.

After all, the BTC1 code is most associated with Segwit2x, a failed attempt by business and miners to change the rules of the bitcoin protocol.

It is clear CREA is failing to make any attempt to communicate with you on how the majority of Quebec members, can use CREA tools and technology, to improve their business opportunities in Quebec but you are not alone as these tools and technologies and hidden abilities are remaining SECRET from all CREA members because CREA is not LEGALLY allowed to tell you how to use them.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.