Sentences with phrase «failed business models»

Smaller «government», if you can call people who dig into the tax stream up to their armpits and give cash to failed business models hand over fist «government».

Toby advises one to acquire stocks in crisis - stricken companies with failed business models and uncertain futures.

If it can't compete on its down it means its not good enough for the market and its not our duty to have to compensate for their shitty product and failed business model.

They decried pure - play online retail as a failed business model being propped up by endless streams of venture capital that, in the end, would collapse under its own weight.

I think that's more than can be said of corporate publishers who tried to save their failing business model through collusion rather than innovation.

It isn't working under the failing business model of B&N.

He reasoned that this was a failing business model for both the mobile phone manufacturers and the mobile phone service providers.

Once the need for quick commission bucks stops, because they've graduated out of that failing business model, the need to hard - sell American Funds immediately and permanently goes away too (ditto with having to hard - sell life insurance company products like whole life and annuities).

According to a July 25 press release, the Lancaster County SPCA went out of business because of a failed business model and a lack of funds.

Crowds lined up at the shelter to adopt the animals remaining there after the agency announced Tuesday it was closing due to a «failed business model and lack of funds.»

This is reminiscent of the Solyndra scandal — taxpayers paying hundreds of millions for a failed business model.

Partnership is a failed business model — it just hasn't completely failed yet.

I see why they are good for Realtysellers, they had a failing business model until the CB allowed them to hi - jack our business what's worse is CREA gave them the keys!

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«I think the business model that's been executed has failed, that the model needs to be revised.

In response to Einhorn's presentation, Assured Guaranty released a statement that said the investor's analysis «fails to acknowledge the positive implications of our significant financial strength and strong operating performance, and demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of our business model and the municipal debt markets.»

Although the rest of the «Big Four» (Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG) were also tarred and feathered, PricewaterhouseCoopers was singled out for abysmal work auditing Northern Rock, a failed bank whose business model the Lords deemed hazardous.

Ballmer and Microsoft failed because the CEO was a world - class executor (a Harvard grad and world - class salesman) of an existing business model trying to manage in a world of increasing change and disruption.

He knows he's lucky to have survived; many companies fail not because their business models are flawed but because they just can't get money they're owed in time.

These types of companies often fail to sufficiently address emotional triggers in their business models.

After failing to persuade Microsoft to release its iron grip on its code in 1997 — then, Friedman was a lowly intern, and de Icaza a mere job applicant — they set out to develop audacious software that spurned the company's multibillion - dollar business model.

Early in the blog's life, I noticed that many publishers were failing to find a business model that worked for them.

Accordingly, the rejection of labor contracts «has not been the mechanism of last resort to save a failing business,» the Air Line Pilots Association told Congress in 2010, «but instead has often been used by employers as a business model to gain long - term economic advantage by unfairly gutting the wages and working conditions of airline and other employees.»

Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the «land of the living dead» by never growing (failing to Pivot.)

Most problematically, they failed to grasp that its business model basically guaranteed that large - scale invasions of privacy would become the new normal.

So the failures of Microsoft to move beyond the rapidly evaporating Windows business model are attributed to the personal failings of its CEO.

Failed founders seem to agree that a business model is important.

Therefore startups trade off certainty for speed, adopting «good enough decision making» and iterating and pivoting as they fail, learn, and discover their business model.

Both were ultimately unwilling to accept criticism that the bank's sales - focused business model was failing.

So many brokers that are experienced in one or two forms of commercial financing fail to incorporate financial instruments in their business model that they can earn residual income off of.

Investors are failing to realize just how much competition this business model creates.

Chasing FOX's business model is a failed strategy on CNN's part, as evidenced by fact that CNN's numbers have been tanking.

What many here are failing to realize is, for this club to survive, a certain type of business model must remain in place managed by business minded individuals.

I accept City is run on petro - dollars Chelski on Russian money and Utd is a debt mountain.But to me Wenger AND the Board show no ambition to reach that last step up.Again I accept we run on a business model and operate within our means but tell me why Wenger with his stranglehold on the Club and the entire Board with the exception of Ivan Gazidis licking his balls he doesn't force the issue.Oh but he gets a pay increase with his new contract despite failing to reach the minimum of Champions League

Arsenal failed as a club as soon as it started d business model preferring money rather than success on n off the field n fans accepted it allowing mediocrity as a standard... now 6th place will be accepted as d new standard with fans agreeing that it's good

«Our analysis — modelled on the default scenario that the UK withdraws completely from the EU and fails to reach trade and customs agreements with remaining EU member states — opens the door to the possibility that Scottish businesses and taxpayers will face a range of additional financial burdens in the form of increased trading and labour costs.

The Business Secretary was part of the Brexit «war cabinet» which failed to reach agreement on whether to back the hybrid customs partnership — which would see the UK collect import duties on behalf of the EU for goods arriving via British ports and airports — or the so - called «maximum facilitation» or «max fac» model relying on the extensive use of technology to minimise checks at the border.

She added that the majority of personals sites, including Yahoo and Match.com, employ a business model she believes fails consumers.

Advocates of choice have been too quick to characterize the add - ons, rhetoric, and ad campaigns as the leading edge of a business - like, performance - oriented response to competition, because they have failed to recognize that these changes are the product of a market that is fundamentally different from the hypercompetitive models described in economics textbooks.

I think the reason camps do well with such a staffing model and schools often fail with much better prepared new hires is that camps have active and competent management — or go out of business — while school administrators often seem to have come to that career field by being too stupid to teach.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

As pointed out in a recent expose in Business Week, school administrators and academic researchers are increasingly concerned that online schools fail children and overcharge taxpayers and that the model may have been embraced more broadly as a way to overhaul public schools at the expense of actual education.

Scribd's competition at the time simply stayed with the unlimited model and hoped enough users from Scribd would flee the ecosystem to give them an influx of capital, but Entitle and Oyster both failed and went out of business.

This is a complete rebuild, fundamental business model needs changed otherwise every point listed will fail in the current environment.

What we have failed to do is reconceptualize the business model, not failed to adopt the technology.

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 noted that companies would eithers find business models that make money, or fail.

At the moment Barnes and Noble seem to be the ones with a business model that is failing.

Basically some of the less viable ideas and business models would fail, and the strong ones would continue on.

In my inaugural post, Why Ebooks Must Fail, I promised to follow up by exploring a variety of business models I believe could work in the long run for publishers of all sizes and shapes.

Producers find a business model that makes money, or they fail.