Sentences with phrase «few years of building»

For the first few years of building your insurance experience, a driver training certificate will help keep the costs down.

maybe after a few years of building up the soil in my garden... i'll get more brave.

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Since the EPAct wasn't renewed in 2014, designers of public buildings will only be able to claim the 179D for the next few years.

You'd think that, after a few years, it's a time that even a first timer starter - upper would get used to suffering through, but that's not how things work in the business of building new businesses.

A few years ago, I was desperate to rent extra storage space while we finished building a new warehouse for our customers» boxes of storable goods.

Back when Uncle Sam thought it would have to import increasing volumes of natural gas from abroad (which was only a few years ago), it built a number of LNG import terminals on the Gulf Coast, including the Freeport facility and the only other one with the same export permit, the Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana.

With that, she's built a company that will do about a billion dollars of revenue this year, and it will be profitable in a few years.

Over the last few years, she's built a multiple six - figure business while living out of a suitcase and visiting 69 countries.

Liu built a network of contacts with old - fashioned cold calls, and the new division was humming within a few years.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

Apple needed market penetration, which is why in the store's first few years it grew slowly as Apple was building its audience of device owners.

A few years on, the firm is considering abandoning the platform: «I can't point to one moment where I feel like we built business because of it.»

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

Pershing Square also dropped a few investments in the second quarter, selling off nearly 11.7 million shares of spirits company Beam, which sold to Japan's Suntory earlier this year, as well as roughly 3.7 million shares of apartment building operator Apartment Investment & Management.

By the looks of things, many of you have been so busy building wealth through your businesses in the past few years, you've forgotten something pretty important — namely, a succession plan.

A lot of work and development has gone into building on storage technology over the last few years, and as such, they've gotten a lot better.

While social platforms have established themselves as incredibly powerful resources for building that sort of relationship with fans, followers, readers, and loyalists, we've seen over the past few years that many of those platforms become pay - to - play.

The first half of 2005 - 06 has been one of the most active sales periods in the Perth CBD for many years according to Knight Frank, which has sold more than $ 50 million worth of buildings in the last few months.

I used this approach with a friend of mine a few years ago for a website he was building for his tutoring company - Genesis Tutoring.

After years of iPhone users getting let down by Siri, the first truly mainstream voice agent, Amazon billed the Echo as a speaker that, by the way, has a few smart voice commands built in.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

For a few years, he tried to build a theme park in Kobe, Japan, and traveled the world in search of compelling ideas.

A few years later, Rae transformed Syntenic into CloudOps when he decided to focus on the emerging cloud computing sector, leveraging many of his contacts in San Diego and Silicon Valley to build a customer base for the new firm.

This is one of the very few areas that require some in - depth understanding prior to launching into a new venture so that you don't get months, or years, down the road to find that the business you've been working to build isn't financially viable.

In the past few years, a new technological ecosystem built around Google's dominance in Web search and its decision to offer powerful software tools at no charge, has changed the economics of doing business on the internet.

That promises to unleash some of the pent - up demand that has built up during the past few years.

The hire is another coup for Coinbase, which has rapidly been building out its executive team as the more than 5 - year - old startup, now worth over $ 1 billion, attempts to fortify its reputation as one of few professional financial institutions catering to Bitcoin investors.

That building is the home of Omaha Steaks, the mega red - meat company (which sells its products through direct mail, catalogs, retail, the Internet, and telemarketing) that has exploded to become a nationally recognizable brand name in the past few years.

Patagonia has helped guide dozens of other companies through the process of becoming B Corps over the past few years, including Natura, a publicly traded company and Brazil's largest cosmetics manufacturer (see box «Building a «B Corp» Network» at the end of the article).

In the past few years, advertisers have started releasing versions of their TV ads in the weeks ahead of the Super Bowl to build up hype before the big game.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

A few years ago U.S. investor and highly - regarded author Barry Ritholtz summarized the multitude of instances where McKinsey strategists were embroiled in financial messes around the globe — the firm was once described as «the company that built Enron» and its advice has been connected to numerous corporate failures.

«Normally, one of the great disadvantages of investment - oriented life insurance is that front - end commissions are so high that it takes a few years to start building up any type of cash value.

Guest blogging services are cropping up everywhere (including here, at AudienceBloom) as the industry begins to realize that guest blogging, as a link building tactic, is one of the few safe havens left after Penguin demolished many of the lower - cost, higher quantity tactics that SEOs came to rely upon over the course of the past several years.

link building has been devalued greatly over the last few years because of search engines shift towards user engagement and social.

Over the past few years they built a team to deal with the growth of their ecommerce store from $ 100,000 in 2011 to $ 3 million in 2013.

Building your business credit profile during the first few years of your business should be a priority.

Just as the eco-friendly movement a few years back gave rise to sustainable building certifications, the wellness trend surrounding various aspects of life today has given rise to certifications that promote the creation of spaces that are human - focused and improve health and overall wellbeing.

Although I did publish a few articles that I think deserve a mention, you can find the best link building articles of the year on other blogs.

Having spent the past 7 years focused on building user experiences that have yielded thousands of users sharing, onboarding and inviting their friends to our client website's, we have learned a few things:

After years of working with entrepreneurs at accelerators where the goal was always to build a billion - dollar company, Saunders noticed that fewer than 20 percent of accepted participants were women.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

This article takes a comprehensive look at how link building has changed over the course of the last few years.

These days, earning links through quality content publication — both on your site and off — gets you substantially more value with zero risk, but it also costs a lot more than link building tactics of the past few years.

If I do decide to buy another property in the next few years, then I will plan to take that money out of my brokerage account, or start building a cash reserve once I have a new purchase goal.

«The large mobile carriers have spent billions of dollars over the past few years to secure spectrum for their own networks, which they've been building out at great expense.»

A video of a building on fire generates lots of views, but not many people would click on the headline «Fewer buildings burned down this year.»

Accordingly, a substantial pool of undrawn commitments built up over the last few months of 1999 and the beginning of this year, peaking at a level equivalent to just under 8 per cent of housing credit.

After opening its office in NYC a few years ago, Ozark is now one of the most implicated bank in condo buildings financing.

From our early roots of being the first company in the world to build a fully - integrated Bitcoin pilot system for a major bank, over the subsequent few years launching consumer wallets, exchanges, and merchant services to become the market leader in Southeast Asia and Africa, starting to build our UK presence in 2016 and now finally launching across the wider Europe: we are now one giant leap closer to our goal of bringing digital currency to everyone, everywhere.