Sentences with phrase «first understand who»

Before diving into all the technicalities, let's first understand who really controls Bitcoin?

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Pacioli, a Franciscan monk who published the first balance sheet in 1494, understood the power of data to transform the way companies make decisions.

If we want things to get better, the first step is to clearly understand the problems and then to start thinking about what we can do to shut down the click - bait con artists, viral vultures, and other BS hucksters who are clogging up the critical arteries of the Internet with their cheap tricks and phony features.

«I've always had my wife LaTanya, who's my harshest critic,» Jackson told The Guardian «She'd say, «You're so intelligent that the first time you read something, you think you understand it intellectually and emotionally... But there's no blood in it.»»

People who read my LinkedIn summary understand that I'm a lifelong storyteller, and many remember the tale of how I got my first (and only) typewriter in kindergarten:

If you have a high potential employee who is too eager to climb the corporate ladder, for example, you can use the five levels to help them understand how they can gain more autonomy over time by first earning the trust of their manager.

We started pitching VCs in the winter of 2014, but the first two dozen of them — primarily affluent white men who lived in New York or California and shopped at Whole Foods — didn't understand what we were trying to do.

Before any business foundations can be in place, you must first understand and realize who you are.

Crabill says they fall into three categories: disgruntled 35 - 45 year olds (like me) who see cable as a fundamental rip - off and now refuse to pay for it; low - income or penny pinching folks who decide they can't afford $ 100 cable bills; millennials who like TV, but don't understand why people would sign up for a cable contract in the first place.

Barak Eilam, a first - time CEO who leads $ 1.3 billion company NICE, explained it this way: «When you manage a company of six thousand employees you need to understand that in order to shift this large boat five degrees to the right, you need to invest a lot of energy and power, and sometimes overshoot and then correct to the left.»

Today we'll look at some of the major considerations for first time business insurance clients, with the aim of giving the people who run small businesses a head start in understanding and purchasing their coverage.

«The pilot in Aberdeen is a first step to help us understand the barriers women and girls face - and to help us develop a sensitive and dignified solution to making these products easily accessible to those who need them.»

Create a Sales Plan First, define your market as accurately as possible so you have a deeper understanding of exactly who you're selling to.

Understanding who needs your focus first is a valuable skill in the office, as well.

When you gain a new customer or a new lead, the first step is understanding who the lead is.

«We're excited to add lead investors Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, who think long term and understand the fundamentals of our developer - first, platform business model,» said Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio.

The senior Israeli official who defended Iron Dome said he understood the skepticism because the world's first antimissile war — which erupted over Israel in 1991 during the gulf war — did produce exaggerated claims of success.

Top tip: Your first marketing dollars should be spent understanding who your users are, and what they find valuable — don't guess or assume.

• A product / services that addresses a large market need (not a nice to have) • Team that can execute who has a solid understanding of business and challenges • Validation / proof (de-risk) • Some are seeking social impact or to balance impact with profits The Investment Process • Pitch deck is bare essential • Meet and greet is only the first step • All investment basics must be met • Due diligence review • Terms negotiated • Close (in person) What are investors looking for?

A. First, you need a senior champion who understands the importance of uncovering opportunities and the strategic value of buyer personas, and will make sure tools get built to help sales and marketing execute on the insights.

Although content holds potential for gaining attention (and by extension, business) this potential can only be realized if you understand two important things first: what your brand is / stands for, and who your audience is / what they want.

I think sometimes when I watch him operate, I think he might be one of the first people who really understood the genius of the wisdom - of - crowds idea, that he — so you know, ask a bunch of people what they think about something, and then why.

One of the first steps you should take is to think about, and better understand, who it is you're actually targeting with your products or services.

Anybody who's been in the business for 20 years will understand this boom and bust nature; first of all — commodity prices and then, the prices of equities that are tied to commodities.

Do you want to be high end, for businesses / homes, how deliveries will work out, etc... Your end customers are the key to understanding who to contact first.

These payments are NOT intended to be sources of substantial profit to recipient organizations; they are rather intended to cover some of the costs involved, with the understanding that anyone who participates in the scheme will have access to a unique opportunity to participate in Ethereum 2.0 development, with close collaboration with core Ethereum researchers, and be part of the development of one of the first clients that will be available when the sharding mainnet goes live.»

To understand my investment philosophy, you have to first understand the basic investment principles from the four investors who I've learned the most from: Ben Graham, Walter Schloss, Joel Greenblatt, and Warren Buffett.

I even thought I understood it better than most business people and mused that it would be funny to name a pet (or a kid) Vilfredo, after the Italian economist who first identified the unequal relationship between inputs and outputs.

One who seeks to better forecast the future must first understand the forces that will cause the future to unfold.

The first will take place in April and be led by U.S. Small Business Administrator Maria Contreras - Sweet, who will then sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Argentina's Ministry of Production.

I understand and agree that remaining holders should not be disadvantaged by those who bug out at the first sign of trouble, but individual circumstances change unforeseen, people retire and need to draw down, get sick and ultimately have their estates settled if they die.

While some moves by the networking giant seem to give the signal that it is going out of the way to endear itself to people — like Zuckerberg holding an open Q / A session for the first time, explaining why they made the Facebook messenger a standalone app, making the privacy policy shorter and simpler to understand, others make it more than obvious that they care two hoots for the people who make up the site!

Those who would stop them need first to understand that the absence of the word «God» does not mark a person, a discourse, or a policy as «secular.»

@ everyone else who really wants to know the truth and meaning if life: read the Gospel of John but first ask God the Father to help you understand what it means.

And the wondering goes on and on, but not needing to understand the reasons for what God has done and does, does not make your statement: «This is not the attitude of a person who wonders why God makes the rules in the first place...» valid.

Your article was the first thing I read this Sunday morning before going to church and I wanted to extend a special «THANKS» not only for the support you provide to those who actually need it most but also for your wonderful message for those family members who think they need to hear and understand it the least.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

Beneath all the pathos, the subtext remains the same: Woman's chief adversary is Unreliable Man, who does not understand her sexual and romantic needs and who walks off time and again at the first sashay of a younger thing.

It has been nearly 30 years since this song was played on the radio for the first time and I still sing along with it (in the Russ Taft back up part) as an act of praise to a God who knows my weakness and helps me «understand my strength» in the process.

I eventually decided that instead of using everyone, to help with the assessment, we would first start with the more educated who would understand the questions easily and would be able to give a measurable response.

I like how in you're very first sentence, you yourself lash out at a group of people who's perspective you don't understand, without defending your religion at all, then in the very next sentence say you'll «stop here for fear of retaliation for defending your religion».

Perhaps a more thoughtful translation would be for us to understand that Paul did not want believers of the first century partnering with unbelievers who would impair the work of spreading the «good news» to build the early church.

Anyone who has someone cheat on them should understand how God feels when we sin, we are choosing to please us first, God has no part.

Likewise Jesus is asking those of us who have been called first to understand the nature of the kingdom that has been initiated with his coming, and to be workers with him.

In fact, those who understand it will see the event in its present context immediately following the first prediction of the passion and Peter's confession of that which never comes by observation of flesh and blood but only by revelation (16:17).

First, people who argue that we must obey the Mosaic Law do not understand what Jesus Christ accomplished in His life, death, and resurrection, do not understand the Gospel of grace, and do not understand the difference between Israel and the Church.

First, he who understands the world and himself as created perceives both as real and valuable.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

Those who take the time to peruse it carefully will find two things far more significant than transitory euphoria: they will understand why the constitutional period was the most compelling episode of political reasoning in our history; and they will realize how clearly a discussion of «first principles» is necessary for rescuing American politics from its parlous state today.

The first readers would not have needed the admonition, «let the reader understand,» but for the disciples who heard Jesus the allusion would have had no meaning.