Sentences with phrase «firm number on it»

It's difficult to put a firm number on the economic value of an education, of course, but if high school graduates earn 33 percent more than high school dropouts, a 1 percent per year increase seems conservative.

Sales in the U.S. are targeted to exceed 120,000 units annually, O'Sullivan says, though he does not put a firm number on it.

A major goal of our research has been to identify and differentiate between the myriad possible origins of this variability, understand which are biologically important, which are not, and to put firm numbers on each of them.

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Last week, Dan Primack over at Fortune commented on the growing number of journalists heading to VC firms.

Also on Friday, oilfield services firm Baker Hughes reported the total number of rigs drilling for crude in the United States fell by 13 to a total of 400 in the previous week.

Fortune asked data analytics firm Affinio to run the numbers on who the next huge name in music would be.

The number of people using the online room rental service on the continent rose by 143 percent to about 765,000 guests in 2016 from the year before, said Nicola D'Elia, the firm's Africa and Middle East chief.

«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,» says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of technology firms.

«The small number of venture firms with female founders and / or an unusually high percentage of female partners invest at elevated levels in female entrepreneurs,» according to a 2016 CrunchBase report on venture capital funding.

Expanding a broad crackdown on fraudulent initial coin offerings, U.S. regulators have sent a number of subpoenas to firms they suspect might be violating securities laws, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

Medopad was one of a number of U.K. firms to join British Prime Minister Theresa May on her visit to China.

«As an investor at a large VC firm, I meet many founders who don't have a great handle on their numbers,» says Jeff Richards, partner at GGV Capital.

Peter Warman, CEO of research firm Newzoo, says the number of hours gamers spent watching EA's FIFA 16 on Twitch in January increased by more than 80 % since last November, while the number of hours gamers watched NBA 2K16 videos on Twitch more than doubled in the same period.

• Karin Klein of Bloomberg Beta writes that LPs should force their GPs to report data on how many female founders they back, how many female non-partner investors the firm hires, the number of female partners, and the composition of VC - backed startup boards:

Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.

There was an 18 % increase in the number of infomercials on the air since 2007, according to Nielsen, a market research firm.

After sorting through the dozens of entries, as well as consulting with a number of people on the ground — that is, those working in corporate offices and PR firms — we noticed two patterns emerging:

That places Vargas in a similar position to a rising number of Silicon Valley workers brought in by tech giants to work on third - party firm contracts, not only janitorial services and caterers that can be found in any corporate campus, but more specific roles created for contractors as projects evolve.

Netflix's latest subscriber numbers have beaten forecasts, and the U.S. firm now expects its international sales to overtake those on its home turf.

There was no comparison group for revenue growth based on U.S. census numbers because the firm - level data is either not available or not made public.

«Most systems will not handle the single bank employee just writing down on paper all the bank numbers they see that day — that's difficult to track,» said Guy Peer, a co-founder of security firm Dyadic Security.

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

From time to time, regulators may also conduct «sweep» examinations, where they focus on a particular area of interest or concern and conduct quick examinations at a number of advisory firms limited to that specific topic.

The firm had a number of well - known analysts in the US, including banks analyst Mike Mayo, a fixture on the finance TV circuit.

Social analytics firm SocialFlow said recently that the «reach» of a particular post on Facebook — meaning the total number of users who see it — has fallen for some publishers by as much as 52 % from January through July.

The chart is based on the number of firms that PitchBook Data has tracked as being founded in a given year.

«We learned that there's a gap on prototyping mass productions,» says founder Lucas Wang, who is also the CEO and co-founder of Taiwan - based venture capital firm, TMI, which works with a number of international original design manufacturers.

While many Harvard biz school soon - to - be-grads are off to investment banks and consulting firms, a good number seem to yearn to have a positive impact on the world.

Several months later, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identified a number of compliance problems with the company — problems that the CMS claimed were putting patients in immediate jeopardy — and imposed serious sanctions on the firm and its leaders.

Indeed, in the years following the end of the tech boom, SEP (No. 93 on the PROFIT 500, with $ 11.4 million in revenue) had ridden a wave of expansion as a growing number of firms moved to search advertising and other forms of digital brand promotion.

«We're seeing a growing number of instances where contractor personnel are being bribed to steal» data from their clients, warns Jay Heiser, a research vice president with Gartner, the IT research and consulting firm, who recently wrote a report on data security.

As Robert Graham, founder and CEO of the security firm Errata Security, demonstrated in a blog post, someone appears to have printed the document on a printer with the model number 54 and the serial number 29535218 at a certain time on May 9, 2017.

«The Brain uses a translation engine and can work in 29 languages,» says Adamson, who says the firm is working on adding to that number.

Social analytics firm Networked Insights ran the numbers for Fortune and found that during the four days of the tournament, there were 1.3 million golf - related posts on Twitter, blogs, and Internet forums.

The number of daily users on the platform also appeared to bounce back, indicating steady engagement despite backlash surrounding the leak of personal information to firms such as Cambridge Analytica.

Not only is Residential Capital Management the fastest - growing company in Atlanta, the four - year - old real estate firm secured number 147 on the overall 2014 Inc. 5000.

And such numbers, it was lost on nobody, also made diabetes a bright red target for drugmakers — one that, according to information services firm IMS Health, was worth some $ 54 billion in 2013, and expected to grow by double digits through 2020.

Companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple have released reports on the demographics of their workforce in recent years, so it may be unsurprising that 75 % of Fortune 500 firms publishing their numbers are in the tech space.

The number one reason cited for foregoing a formal quota system was concern that it would hamper the firm's ability to hire the best candidate based solely on their qualifications and skills.

One year on from the EU referendum, it is difficult to tell whether this number is shaping up to be correct: too many firms have not made public announcements, numbers have been vague and, with the terms of Brexit unclear, there are too many hypotheticals.

Aspect has since closed on a $ 150 million fund and gained some notoriety for being one of an increasing number of venture firms, run by women, willing to look at women entrepreneurs and women - run companies in a new way.

Here, consulting firm Great Place to Work, partnering with Fortune, has crunched the numbers on thousands of employee surveys to create a new ranking of the best companies to work for in the Bay Area.

While some of the firm's flagship treatments are facing patent expiration, Saunders has been on a quest to snap up a huge number of biotechs developing drugs for liver disease, Alzheimer's, and other conditions.

An increasing number of biotech firms are focusing on bringing «human - like» therapies to the animal world.

The Department examined the dataset obtained from SBA which contains data on the number of firms by NAICS codes, including the number of firms in given revenue categories.

She joins a number of other top AI researchers coming out of University of Toronto who have gone on to secure positions of importance at major tech firms; U of T AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who heads Google Brain's Canadian operations, is another.

The CLC estimate is what you get if you assume that the only behavioural response to an increase in corporate tax rates is that firms» CFOs will grit their teeth and put bigger numbers on the cheques they send to the Receiver - General.

This year, the number of transactions in Venezuela on LocalBitcoins has risen tenfold, according to Chainalysis, a data analysis firm.

The flurry of deals reflects Zillow's push to build an infrastructure of listing sources that'll limit the number of listings the firm's websites will lose once ListHub — a subsidiary of realtor.com that aggregators and distributes listing data — stops supplying listings to Zillow on April 7, when ListHub's agreement with Zillow expires.

On Wednesday, SEBI eased rules for angel investments in young, fledgling firms and increased the upper limit for the number of angel investors in a scheme to 200 from 49, halved the minimum investment threshold to Rs 25 lakh and allowed investors to put money in firms that are up to five - years - old compared with three years currently.