Sentences with phrase «few years challenging»

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Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much to handle.

If you're one of them, and you have expertise in, say, one or two areas, the broad range of questions you must answer — with little or no prior experience to draw on — burdens those first few years of running a business with challenges.

A few years back, Netflix founder Reed Hastings told Inc. how he got started and how he fended off challenges from Wal - Mart and Blockbuster.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

Recognize your sales team might be tired or somewhat challenged based upon the past few years of tight budgets and stress.

Because in the past few years, a competitor has arrived to challenge Google in terms of advertising value.

This year poses even more challenges than usual because there are six fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Over the past few years we have faced some unprecedented economic challenges and we surmounted.»

That isn't to say they won't continue to nag at you as the years go on, or that new and varied challenges won't arise to take their place, but you'll be prepared to handle yourself in those most volatile and impactful first few months — and that puts you far ahead of the competition.

But alas for Imax, a new year brings new challenges, and 2013 promises a few doozies.

«With the modest economic recovery of the past few years, finance functions are preparing the enterprise for challenges that could materialize at any time by working to preserve margins and by sustaining a strong focus on working capital management,» said a Protiviti managing director in a release.

Let me ask you a few very straightforward, tough questions about what you are looking for in a supplier, what challenges you've had over the years, and then we can figure out together whether I truly add value.

If Amazon wants to recruit and retain the best talent, Denver is the optimal place for them because of the growth of our young, motivated, and educated workforce that has been drawn to the city over the past few years... [I] f Amazon decides to make Denver their home for HQ2, it will be challenging to go head to head with them from a recruiting perspective.

These are a few challenges I have faced over the last few years, but the joy I get from running this company far outweighs the challenges that are occasionally encountered (except maybe the license fees).

But I suspect that their challenges would be way fewer than they would have been 40 years ago.

The Middle East has faced numerous economic and political challenges in the last few years, but to its credit, it has weathered them reasonably well.

I don't have to tell you that the Canadian economy has faced its share of challenges these past few years.

Over the past few years, countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and Brazile, Russia, India, and China, and South Africa (the BRICS nations) have begun to pose a challenge to the current system, forming pacts to transact oil in local currencies, bypassing the petro - dollar.

And that is going to become more challenging than ever over the next few years because of the concentration of Federal debt that is coming due by 2020.

Setting his sights on hacking the toughest challenge of all — cancer — the co-founder of Napster, founding president of Facebook, and president of the Parker Foundation has already accomplished something miraculous in a few years» time: getting the nation's top cancer immunology experts to work together toward a common goal.

As I have written recently, I think the period going forward will be more challenging for central banks than the preceding few years.

We see some compelling reasons why, after a challenging few years, commodities could play a bigger role in investor portfolios in 2018 and beyond.

So an «upside - down out of the gates» January is more than inauspicious — it's an outright «non-starter» for risk managers in light of the performance - challenged era of the past few years.

Their better - safe - than - sorry attitude can be chalked up in part to the economic turmoil of the last few years and the unique financial challenges they face.

One challenge in pinning down a safe withdrawal rate: large additional cash flows because they plan to purchase of an RV and then sell it a few years later.

To make matters worse, several of the discounted companies in the last few years have been what we consider to be either low - quality businesses or former high - fliers that now face structural challenges from technological disruption.

One of the toughest challenges in the past few years has been to figure out how to respond to these changes.

To make matters worse, Norway's economic reality is much more challenging than just a few years ago.

Admittedly, the band has faced challenges with the extensive touring schedule they've maintained over the past few years.

A few years ago, I gave up sleeping in for Lent and found that fast surprisingly challenging and meaningful.

Both of the major camps of social conservative reaction to the challenges of the last few years are right in part: We have always had to struggle against the inclination of our liberal society to furiously pound itself into what Edmund Burke called «the dust and powder of individuality,» and to resist its elevation of choice above commitment.

Last year, he won a five - year battle over his residency — becoming one of the few missionaries to bring such a legal challenge and win.

If I've learned anything over the past few years it's been that when the rains come down and the floods come up, when doubt and frustration whip like wind against my faith, all the apologetics in the world can't ground me like the simple, yet profoundly challenging teachings of Jesus Christ.

Richard Whinder on the words of Oscar Romero that will challenge a few prejudices; Paul Brooks finds plenty to interest in a spirituality of self - esteem; James Tolhurst enjoys fascinating insights into parish life in England in the turbulent years of the 16th century and David Standen on a magisterial overview of Pope John Paul's theology that captures his unity of thought.

Q: You've mentioned that you've been on a journey of challenging stereotypes the past few years.

We hope that what happens at Emory over the next few years will stimulate discussion, debate and creative ideas at other graduate schools, leading them to take up these challenges in their own ways and build other educational models for preparing practical theologians.

People who think their few years of experience, and access to human knowledge are enough to dismiss the thousands of years of culture and religious beliefs that accommodated development of morality and led man to this democratic point need to challenge their pride and open their mind.

Although the last few years have been challenging due to the drought California has experienced, Brown says Morada Produce has continued to find ways to succeed.

I remember doing these as a challenge a few years ago and I just completely failed.

This kind of elimination test makes sense to me, so I'm embarking on a dairy - free challenge for the next few weeks (and probably years, if we're being realistic).

We've had our raised beds for a few years now and had great luck growing in California but the weather in Georgia has proven to be a bit more challenging.

As the company seeks its best prospects and opportunities for growth in the next few years, it feels that its biggest priority is to play a role in what it sees as the greatest challenge of our time: feeding the world.

Thomas notes that the last few years have been challenging and rewarding at Gel Spice.

2015 may have been one of our healthiest years yet with a few sugar - free challenges and personal health goals.

It's been on my «to make» list for a few years, and the Daring Kitchen challenge this month finally gave me a reason to try it.

I'm actually a little sad to be posting this challenge, because it is the very last one: participation in the Daring Kitchen has been on the decline for the past few years, so the group is shutting down and it's time to move on.

Yet we face enormous challenges over the next few years - Brexit, continued intense competition in the retail sector and the consumer's demand for ever higher quality food at very competitive prices,» he said.

Last year, Elizabeth from Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary started to co-host the challenge — this year, because Kate is tied up with a few other things, she's taken over completely and has invited a number of us to guest - host for her each month.

Over the past few years, though, the market has been pretty thoroughly saturated with vegan options — to the point where the new challenge is, not finding an appropriate vegan protein powder, but selecting from the many available products.