Sentences with phrase «few life companies»

A few life companies had bridge programs in 2017; but the pool is certainly growing larger in 2018.

As mentioned, there are a few life companies that are willing to compete to insure pilots but the vast majority of life insurers do not give pilots the benefit of the doubt.

Not exact matches

As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

Today, that messaging is gone, replaced by a few caveats: «We need to do more research to determine the connection between improved assessment scores and everyday tasks in participants» lives,» the company's website reads.

If a new technology is developed in the next few years that radically extends the life expectancy of human beings, odds are good that it will come out of a company backed by Peter Thiel.

Another publisher told Digiday that a majority of his company's Facebook Live content «was seen by very few people.»

While you'll certainly reach a larger audience online, sometimes there are huge benefits from gaining a few loyal customers in the early stages of your start - up who will act as brand ambassadors for the rest of your company's life.

Facebook is one of the few companies in recent years to continue the legacy of the traditional company town, where the corporation master - plans a new community for its employees to work and live in.

Over the past few years, even since launching the company, a lot has been learned about the gut - brain axis and the microbiome, the assortment of all the bugs that live in and on you that's an integral part of the gut, Kallyope CEO Nancy Thornberry told Business Insider.

After a few weeks of being live, the company is starting to hear back from couples that have found each other on the app.

It defies belief that this company could compete with a few other WA - listed players for the title of shortest - lived float.

Indeed, during our tour for Main Street Entrepreneur — a road trip across the U.S. in which we interviewed founders from all walks of life — very few successful entrepreneurs mentioned money as the main motivator for starting a company.

Here are a few innovative ways companies are empowering employees to create their own versions of work - life balance in the workplace:

The fact that video is one of the few places where media companies can still make money becomes obvious when you see how many places are banking on it for growth, whether it's Facebook ramping up its live video offerings or services like Genius pivoting to focus on it.

It is such an integral part of so many people's social lives and patterns of communication, and it has so few real competitors, that I think it is in some ways more like a public utility than like a private company.

During the past few years, the company has been a close - knit family, whose daily life in the home could be easily influenced.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

We expect just a bunch of people mostly living in a suburb in Northern California [to] safeguard U.S. elections in 2018, not cause ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, not help Duterte kill off people he doesn't like in Philippines, not kill off media companies by mistake in Serbia, and a few more.»

China will raise foreign ownership limits to 51 percent in securities, fund management, futures and life insurance companies «over the next few months», the PBOC said in a statement on its website.

«Someone handed me a check that set me for life — and I was miserable,» George Jacobs told me a few years ago, referring to the $ 20 million the 50 - year - old serial entrepreneur made when he sold his company American Limousine in 1998.

Although financial services companies including PIMCO and Pacific Life have dominated the local economy over the past few decades, Newport Beach has built a technology cluster in recent years: Investment app Acorns and CudaSign, an e-signature company, were both started in Newport Beach.

Compared with people at low - trust companies, people at high - trust companies report: 74 % less stress, 106 % more energy at work, 50 % higher productivity, 13 % fewer sick days, 76 % more engagement, 29 % more satisfaction with their lives, 40 % less burnout.

The sad truth of the matter is that unless a company is an extraordinary 1 - in - 10,000 success, few teammates beyond the founders or very first employees stand to gain a life - changing windfall.

In the past few years, Alphabet has poured money into its self - driving car company, Waymo, the anti-aging project Calico, a life sciences division called Verily, an energy - kite company called Makani, balloon internet project called Project Loon, a drone delivery project called Project Wing, and more.

Having founded and managed more than a few companies in my life, all I can say is, I wish I'd had a book like Small Business, BIG Vision years ago.

While other companies are claiming to have started drone delivery services in other countries — such as one that launched in Iceland yesterday — very few have delivered more than a handful of goods, or are available to more than a few people who live in places where drones can land easily.

As fewer companies offer pensions and Social Security makes up a smaller percentage of the average retiree's income, individuals will have to rely more on their own savings for living in retirement.

Very few live - streaming platforms can survive until B round, when it comes to the next stage of a company's financing, a Douyu TV (斗鱼电视) executive earlier told Reuters, citing the high burn rates of the industry.

Practicing a portfolio management strategy that involves very few (and very large) investments in high - quality companies at very infrequent junctures is a great approach, but one that can be viewed as unconventional, and thus difficult to practice in real life.

Executives at SAP and Nvidia said they hoped genetic screening might ultimately help prevent at least a few late - stage cancers, the kinds of life - threatening illnesses that can debilitate employees and cost companies with self - funded health plans more than $ 1 million in medical fees.

Later in life, Dave came to learn that too few companies lived by similar values.

If a company can find a third party company which can provide cheaper labour, less regulation and fewer taxes, but also treats its workers fairly and provides them with a safe working environment and better quality of life, as many do, it can be an excellent option.

Building a business that can survive and prosper beyond the life of its founder is a hurdle very few funds management companies manage to navigate.

At such an early stage in a company's life - often before there's a real business to speak of - there are very few metrics to quantify, no material tires yet to kick.

«Few companies are as much as a century old, while many... tribes have had two thousand years or more in which to move towards organisational perfection, and to learn not merely how to live together, but to flourish as a group.»

The Boise, Idaho - based company uses few preservatives in its products, which have a refrigerated shelf life of 10 to 14 days — compared to the typical retail product, which is required to have a shelf life of 60 to 90 days.

Over the last few years my life got busier (I started a gluten - free ice cream company), and eating gluten - free just became generally easier.

Coca - Cola Life, which has about 60 per cent fewer calories than classic Coca - Cola, was launched in Chile and Argentina last year after five years of research by The Coca - Cola Company.

Here's how babies become toilet trained by the age of 6 months among the Digo people of East Africa, according to the American Family Physician: «The child spends the first few months of life exclusively in the company of the mother.»

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced new compromise legislation on Friday that would require only companies receiving direct subsidies from the city to pay employees the so - called living wage, which is a few dollars more than the minimum wage.

While fewer students are choosing to take chemistry Ph.D. s across the US according to a recent news article in Science (6 April 2007, p. 35), life science companies are crying out for postgraduate chemists.

So far the field hasn't lived up to its promise — but senior scientists and administrators in the field mostly agree that a few companies in the industry are approaching viability so the small industrial scientific workforce is likely to grow.

Fewer than 40 companies focus on life science or biotechnology businesses, which is the sector where you'll find most of the industry's PhDs.

And despite requirements that the companies post all trials for serious or life - threatening diseases on a government website (clinicaltrials.gov), a 2003 study of industry - sponsored U.S. cancer trials found that fewer than half of such trials appeared there.

In the few cases where there are many skeletons, one can construct mortality tables like the ones life insurance companies use to calculate expected life span and risk of death at any given age.

When I first graduated from college, a few years before I founded my company, Live More Weigh Less, I was living in NYC with my boyfriend in a 300...

Thankfully, a few months ago I received a surprisingly pleasant email from a company who specializes in high performance storage containers that are meant to extend the life of your product.

there are only a few companies out there that sell organic like benefit your life or nuts.com

I recently read In the Company of Women by Grace Bonney, which made me think about all the amazing, creative women in my life who I only see a few times a year, if that.