Sentences with phrase «first as a success»

The film progresses first as a success story, hinting at something sinister, before going back and revealing unhappy going - ons behind the scenes.

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While Levy did achieve monetary success as a first - time entrepreneur, he soon realized that he loved so many other things about being an entrepreneur.

Dunham isn't the first actor or Hollywood celebrity to start her own media company: Gwyneth Paltrow has had some success with her newsletter and site Goop, but others have not been as successful.

The forums are already being used to let users answer each others» questions about the social software itself — a tactic that Apple has deployed with success in the as a first line of customer support.

Millman: We had bootstrapped the company with some success up until [this past winter], but realized that to take things to the next level, we needed an injection of capital and that as first - time entrepreneurs, mentorship would also be extremely valuable.

Though his beginnings working as a janitor in the U.S. were humble, it wasn't long before the future real estate mogul took his first step towards hard - won success.

Now, as Ko is building company No. 2, a fashion - forward sunglasses brand called Perverse, she's leaning heavily on the discipline that helped her find success the first time around.

Corporate Culture / Team Culture: Removing the Hidden Barriers to Team Success Not so much a step - by - step guide to making teams work as it is a first step, this book (from AMACOM, 800-538-4761, 1997, $ 22.95) focuses on whether a company has the culture to support teams.

Mak saw his first success a few years ago with Everyday Shooter, which was picked up and offered by Sony as a downloadable game over the PlayStation Network.

While the most substantial way to increase your campaign's ROI still involves increasing your account's overall average keyword quality score (as quality score and cost per lead metrics are directly correlated), your level of success in AdWords is heavily reliant on whether or not you have first acquired all the proper ingredients to create an overall bigger pie for yourself.

«I am very grateful for all who contributed to my success as a first time CEO,» Day says in her email to Fortune.

While the majority of the credit for their success over the first half of the season goes to their defense, Case Keenum has done an admirable job filling in as the starter.

As a leader, you'll be the first to blame for the blunders and the first for recognition on the success.

Whether it's your first day as an entrepreneur, or you're a creaky veteran of business, you know that finding, recruiting and keeping the right talent is essential to business survival and success.

It is unlikely you will find success as a book author if you haven't written a few dozen blogs first.

After the success of the first season, all of the lead female actors reportedly received «sizeable» raises, including a reported $ 1 million per episode for Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, who also serve as executive producers on the series.

Whether you're neck deep in your first entrepreneurial endeavor or your startup is just a nagging idea that won't go away, you should know that the area you choose as your home base will have a big impact on your prospects for success.

The first tip - off that a commitment to continual self - improvement is key to leadership success is the fact that nearly every business icon you can think of — from Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to Oprah Winfrey — describes him - or herself as a perpetual learner.

Whether we are starting our first job or have built an empire, the belief we have in our ability to achieve success is deemed as a main contributing factor.

Shares in Japan's Nintendo soared again on Monday, bringing market - value gains to $ 7.5 billion in just two days as investors cheered the runaway success of Pokemon GO — its first long - awaited venture in mobile gaming.

In the mobile gaming space, which the Japanese company entered as late as 2015 with a partnership with DeNA, Nintendo found success in 2016, first with the successful launch of the Niantic - developed Pokemon Go mobile game.

He had enjoyed early success as a venture capitalist, working with Fred Wilson to launch one of New York City's first VC firms.

«The day you find someone just as passionate about your goal to hold you accountable will be the day you make your first permanent step towards success,» he says.

«It's your responsibility as an employer to set your employees up for success, and making sure their values and work ethic is in line with your culture before extending an offer is the very first thing you can do for them and the rest of your workforce.»

But entrepreneurs whose companies had been liquidated or gone bankrupt had almost the same follow - on success rate as the first - timers: 23 percent.

After President Obama arrived in Israel, his first stop on Wednesday was to inspect an installation of Iron Dome, the antimissile system hailed as a resounding success in the Gaza conflict in November.

I would classify the first two razors as a success story.

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.

As always, the easiest first step toward funding success is learning how much small business funding you qualify for.

The first Prime Day was held on July 15, 2015, as a way to mark the company's 20th anniversary, and it proved to be such a success in boosting sales and bringing in new Prime members that the company did it all again on July 12, 2016.

Our first phase will focus on helping entrepreneurs in the salon industry achieve their highest success; but our ambition is to serve as a blueprint that other sectors can adopt to help truly accelerate entrepreneurship and financial dignity.

Issues with cash flow are the first and most immediate factor that can kill the success of an otherwise thriving business — so this factor will have a big impact on the salary you take as a business owner.

This is an unusual attitude, in a sector where success is most often measured in venture capital raised or length of time to first millions, but, as the mission booklet that every new Kickstarter employee receives concludes, «Fuck the monoculture.»

AfD seems certain to repeat its local success in a general election - in which case Ms Merkel's critics will see her as the German leader who paved the way for a racist and nationalist party to gain a toehold in the national parliament for the first time since 1945.

Brian began publishing online in 1998, and by 1999 he had his first entrepreneurial success — powered by what is now known as content marketing.

Success rates for first - time entrepreneurs are thought to be as low as 18 %, according to Business Insider.

As a partner and Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) for 17 years, her investment successes included NanoString (NSTG), athenahealth (ATHN), Lumenos (acquired by WellPoint, WLP), Achex (acquired by First Data, FDC), and NetZero (UNTD); Jennifer was also part of the investment team for Goto.com, acquired by Yahoo (YHOO).

Discover Financial Services posted a double - digit growth in payment services transactions in the first quarter of 2018, as its leadership reported early success from a new checking - and - rewards product.

Taking on a New Advisory Role to further NEM's Success I remember 2013; I was excited about Bitcoin and dove in head first to learn as much about it as I could, even though my...

«If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third,» he said, «that's when I've found success.»

Perhaps he oversimplifies the idea of human will: the «Big Book» of AA indicts the alcoholic as «an extreme example of self - will run riot,» the first requirement for recovery being that he becomes «convinced that any life run on self - will can hardly be a success.»

That is to say, any attempt to cover - up something about the situation would have seemed sort of irrelevant to me since I never really saw the success or failure of the emerging movement as particularly hinging on people like Tony in the first place.

'' As I look back on the great work that has been done during the past four years you will understand quite well that my first feeling is simply one of thankfulness to our Almighty God for having allowed me to bring this work to success.

For here, the «presumption» tends to give higher priority to what were classically understood as important but secondary criteria, like «last resort» and «probable chance of success,» over the classic first - order criteria: competent authority, just cause, and right intention (about which, to repeat, we can have a greater degree of moral surety).

After critical success during the first 15 years of his career, Scorsese found the industry pivoting as tent - pole franchises like Indiana Jones and Star Wars set box - office records and turned Steven Spielberg and George Lucas into household names.

The first view sees the Reformation as a completed fact, a success that has brought us freedom of conscience and worship and the worldly blessings of progress and democracy.

Swift, who won a total of three Grammy during the evening, told the audience, «As the first woman to win album of the year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there: there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.»

However, those who are aware of these developments and make changes to how they approach their career have the «first mover» advantage as they get a head start on everyone else taking steps to have success.

The success of the East Asian economies» first Japan and more recently the other East Asian market economies» shows that there is a crucial governmental role in providing services such as widespread education and health care, which it is quite possible for governments to do successfully at a fairly low level of per capita income.

But I have believed and believe, and have researched and found, that the first group in A.A. — Akron Number One, as Bill Wilson called it — provides the proper starting point for a look at A.A., its roots, its history, its nature, its successes, and its God — the Creator.