Sentences with phrase «few years of doing»

I will never have a partner dump a difficult or annoying client on my desk, nor will I have to suffer through a few years of doing research on inane areas of the law which I have no interest in ever practicing.

After a few years of doing murals with cartoon figures and representational painting in the 1940s, he moved in the 1950s to New York City because he said he «got» what de Kooning and Franz Kline were doing.

After a few years of doing the whole working at a desk thing, Jess and Julie decided it was time to drop the mic.

The company only sells roughly about 300,000 units of e-readers in the first few years of doing business there.

Within a few years of doing yoga I felt in the core of my being that I wanted to be a teacher.

Not exact matches

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

Or is there something we all can do to wring at least some accomplishment out of these last few weeks of the year?

Having done more deals in more businesses than I can count, I've got a few simple rules that have saved me tons of money, helped me dodge more than a few bullets, and added a few years to my life.

Dr, Klaus claimed that if you constantly applied this idea - of only doing your most valuable work and then spending time creating more of your most valuable work - you could double your income in a few years.

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

In the absence of decisive, quick action to tackle this slow - motion crisis, the best - case scenario for the next few years is that America becomes a much riskier place to do business.

Just a few months ago, this column's critique of one company's marketing professionalism was met with a vigorous defence on Twitter, even as the company was posting a recruitment ad for a marketing manager requiring just two to five years» experience (which didn't even have to be in marketing).

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

If Microsoft does the same, we could wind up writing this story again with different names — or maybe some of the same ones — a few years from now.

Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.

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.

Netgear's (ntgr) stock has done fine, but trailed the S&P 500 index for most of the past five years until a big rally the past few months, largely over excitement about how well Arlo cameras sold in the holiday shopping period.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

«A few years ago I would have dismissed this kind of deal as too expensive, but I did the analysis and was pleased to find it will only take a few midsize deals to pay back the investment,» McElaney says.

However, that doesn't mean you can't look to others for ideas — a number of business people have inspired me over the past few years.

I have done a lot of policy work in the last few years on a national and international level.

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

Keywords don't hold the same level of importance they did even a few years ago.

When tech entrepreneur Kieran Snyder analyzed performance reviews done by a diverse group of managers at a variety of companies a few years ago, she found that constructive feedback given to women included strong elements of «negative personality criticism» that were all but absent from the suggestions for men.

They hadn't gone back to raise money in a few years, so maybe that would have been a good time to go to market and raise a war chest and set aside a bunch of people to try and do the full innovator's dilemma salvation plan.

The good news is that by doing a few simple things, such as planning to withdraw no more than 4 % of your portfolio each year, you can lower your risk significantly.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

With over 10 years of experience and roots in Silicon Valley, Swenson and Larson offer many of the same services that traditional startup coaches do, but with a few unique exceptions.

The earliest stages of your company's growth are the most vulnerable to insufficient capital, but that doesn't mean you're out of the woods once you've been around a few years.

Clayton Christensen, author of the «Jobs to be Done» theory of innovation, pointed out that of 20,000 products launched between 2012 and 2016, fewer than one percent thrived within two years.

For the last few years, there has been a lot of work that's been done and that's leading to improved results like Macy's and Bloomingdale's.

For all of Musk's talk of master plans and Mars trips, it doesn't hide the fact that his companies hit quite a few rough spots this year.

In my four years of startup life, I've had the opportunity to experience a few hard - learned lessons that many entrepreneurs would do well to avoid.

A few years ago, I got asked by one of my friends who is in PR, Heather West, to do some social - media consulting for Ramona Singer, a star from the Bravo TV show, The Real Housewives of New York City.

«We've been doing these kinds of jokes for a few years now, and I think the key thing that we're learning is to trust our gut a little more than we usually do.

Mark McQueen, president and CEO of venture firm Wellington Financial in Toronto, recalls asking Balsillie at a conference a few years ago about what RIM was doing to help grow the tech scene in the region.

Similarly, the average citizen does not see that a large proportion of the benefits they receive is via the $ 60 billion or so the sector pays each year to governments nationwide, without which that citizen would receive fewer services or pay higher taxes.

A newly launched engineering design, manufacturing and distribution company had fewer than 30 employees and had never done more than $ 825,000 in sales in any of its first three years.

From the integration of media services like Netflix or «reading apps» from the likes of The Guardian, to the Like button that aggregates all of a user's online activity in one place, everything the social network has done over the past few years has suggested that it wants to be the go - to entry point of the Internet.

After we've met a few times and they've done some homework that I've given them, I ask them to come up with projections of sales and expenses by month for the first year.

I asked Dunbar what he made of social scientists» claims that people have fewer close friends today than they did years ago.

Automation is the all - purpose bogeyman of today's workforce: millions of jobs could be taken over by machines in the next few years, experts say, and the big question is what to do about all the humans left behind.

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.

It's been a long haul these last few years and I wasn't reaching them, and we just figured it was probably a good night to pull a trick out of the hat and do something different.»

Last year, a record 18 % of Stanford MBAs founded companies, but few of those startups were created to do launch an app.

As a part of Inc.'s annual look at the best industries for starting a business, we decided to highlight the niche sectors that are projected to grow during the next few years and that don't have an industry leader dominating the market.

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.

At CEIBS and other top business schools, few MBAs start businesses right out of school, but around a third do within 15 years, says entrepreneurship professor Rama Velamuri.

Anne - Marie Slaughter, president of the New America Foundation, declares that Olympic athletes don't have a coach for a few years when they are young.

On average, 27 percent of small - business owners say they receive fewer checks today than they did three years ago, according to the survey.