Sentences with phrase «few companies take»

I find it strange however that so few companies take advantage of the PSPs infrastructure mode.

Orion Hindawi, president of Tanium, said it's shocking how few companies take the most obvious measures to keep their networks secure.

This is the constant tension between «real time» and «right time» access that too few companies take the time to understand and manage.

Few companies take the time to express genuine appreciation for a sale or referral.

Those few companies taking on the challenge of delivering quality book apps, will generally have their own small dedicated team (like Disney), or outsource it to special production companies.

Not exact matches

It would take a few years before Twitter's true power became clear, but its role in everything from political movements to how companies market themselves is undeniable.

Your company benefits because you and your employees could learn how to adopt practices with a number of advantages (such as decreased stress or fewer people needing to take sick days).

The best companies have always known that it takes just short of forever to build a great brand and only a few highly - visible boo boos to jeopardize the crown jewels.

Since taking Coach's reins in 2014, the 50 - year - old executive has done what few retail CEOs have been able to do: tapped into his company's successful past to help it compete in a difficult present.

If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

If your private company has grown in the past few years, take advantage of this opportunity to receive global and national recognition for your achievements.

If your company is scaling and needs to bring on more than a few new faces, it only makes sense financially to take this step when you consider that an outside recruiter is going to charge somewhere in the ballpark of 20 percent of a new hire's base salary.

It would take a few years before Twitter's (TWTR) true power became clear, but its role in everything from political movements to how companies market themselves is undeniable.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

Corporate venture - capital firms that benefit from high cash flows might be willing to spread out their investments over a few similar companies and take a back seat in terms of driving their growth, while a venture - capital firm is typically motivated to take a more focused and hands - on approach for its portfolio companies.

The company recently raised US$ 42 million from venture capital firms Atomico Ventures and Accel Partners, and its CEO is now contemplating taking the company public within the next few years.

Very few entrepreneurs manage to take a company from start - up to IPO — much less to acquisition.

That August, the two met in the Aloha State and talked about taking his company private, and over the next few months they hashed out what became the buyout.

«A lot of companies talk about «making the world a better place» but I feel like Etsy is one of the few which actually takes into account issues like sustainability, equality, humane treatment, etc. in all of its business decisions.»

Some customers of Carl Mazzanti's computer networking and security company want to upgrade their systems, but it's been taking longer than expected the past few months to get banks to agree to finance the deals, says Mazzanti, owner of eMazzanti in Hoboken, New Jersey.

In turn, consumers are expecting hardware companies to take a few tips from these products» functionality.

And this is, after all, the company that in 2000 «accidentally» sank the world's largest oil platform at the time just a few months after taking ownership of it.

After all, it's usually the Founder who took the company from nothing more than an idea with a few thousand dollars in cash to where it is today.

It's particularly true when your team is only a few people trying to build the kinds of bonds that will take them through the inevitable rough waters every company will have to sail through.

Businesses take time to build, but there are a few tricks to snagging key clients quickly and getting your company off the ground immediately.

«The reaction we've gotten over the last few days as I've met with investors is they love the fact that you're getting a pure play infrastructure, cloud - levered, [internet - of - things]- levered company that really takes care of all the interconnections within the cloud and to the edge.»

Take some advice from a few companies which have done it.

In this post I will teach you how I took my online invoicing company from a non-verified page to a now verified page in a few simple steps.

Quite a few of the things you need to take your company to a higher level are possible with apps that are already on the market.

But of course, it takes only a few companies like our # 1 company, the Outsource Group (which had a growth rate of 54,330 %), to throw off the average.

After raising significant funding a few years ago as a 20 - year - old, the company needed to take a drastic shift over the past year to revive a struggling business model.

Only about 200 patients or fewer will take Valeant's branded version of the migraine drug this year, amounting to less than $ 1 million in sales (about 0.01 % of the company's annual revenue).

Following $ 3 billion in transactions for 20,000 companies can take 3 billion keystrokes across 20,000 spreadsheets — or, with inDinero, just a few clicks

Once you have been through that process a few times — of dealing with disappointment, examining what went wrong and then relaunching your project by building on what you've learned — it's more likely that your company will take off.

Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and Facebook board member, took to Twitter to defend the social media company's Free Basics service — and encountered quite a few detractors after an offensive tweet.

The company has only rolled just a few smartwatch options while guarding its patents, and it is waiting to see if the tech really takes off.

In the business world a company might make a point of having managers sit on assembly lines or take customer complaints a few days a year.

Customers are talking more than ever — review sites, social media, or on a company blog's comment string — but few business owners are listening and taking it to heart.

Here's our take on a few companies that successfully leveraged the trend in last year and some that missed the mark.

You just need to be prepared to jump through a few hoops and put up with a little red tape to take advantage of it,» said Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst at CreditCards.com, which recently compared the plans offered by credit card companies.

Hey, Inc., the company behind the app had an interesting backstory: After building a few successful gaming apps, they had tried, for four years, to make their social media app take off.

A few months before taking her company public this summer, Arista Networks (ANET) CEO Jayshree Ullal told Fortune she'd never compete in a «conventional way» against Cisco (CSCO), where she worked for more than a decade.

«The «winner takes all» dynamic of the tech industry concentrates more and more power into fewer and fewer companies.

If that sounds like your company, stopping the bleeding won't happen with a flip of the switch; it'll take innovative engagement solutions over a few seasons to set you culture and leadership pointing in the right direction.

When the European regulators charged Microsoft in 2000 for antitrust violations, the company ended up paying US$ 2.3 billion in fines, and some argue it became a much more cautious firm, taking fewer risks.

Despite an increasing consensus from social scientists that these ratings demotivate people, few companies are willing to take the leap and change.

There are a few interesting companies I've been looking at in the last couple of weeks who have taken old industries and ramped up their functionality rather than change the business model altogether.

Easterbrook, who has vowed to remake McDonald's as a «modern, progressive burger company,» has been taking steps to bolster the taste and quality of McDonald's food by using butter instead of margarine on Egg McMuffins and switching to cage - free eggs and chicken from animals raised with fewer antibiotics.

Taking care of a few key matters will make your company more attractive to buyers and, more important, help you get the most out of your business.

The term «thought leader» gets bandied about freely nowadays, and as a result has lost some of its value, but if you take the time to comment on industry trends and share past experiences, the value generated for your company will be more than just a few clicks to your website.