Sentences with phrase «first year of spending»

The Discover Cashback Match card did away with the spending requirement, instead offering a dollar - for - dollar match of all the cash back you earn during the first year of spending.

Not exact matches

This involves taking the estimates that clients have come up with for what they expect to spend in retirement — and then running a simulation of what would happen to their portfolio if they spent 25 % more than that over each of their first 15 years.

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

EBRI found that 46 % of retirees spend at a faster rate in the first two years after leaving their jobs than they did before retiring.

Even if you spent your latter years of college grooming your network and making good business connections, you can't expect your first freelancing jobs to come to you.

Kelly, however, initially refused to play in Buffalo, instead signing and spending the first couple of years of his career with the Houston Gamblers in the upstart USFL, where he had tremendous success.

As someone who spends thousands of hours in the air each year, I know how isolating traveling can be, especially when first starting out.

She admits to naively thinking she'd be able to turn a profit right away, but for each of the company's first four years she spent about $ 30,000 more than she brought in.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent the first years of his mandate shunning China on human - rights grounds, but as the global economy has shifted he has become «Mr. Panda Man» — a reference to the PM's fawning over two cuddly Chinese ambassadors.

The two have already swapped staff in a number of cases, including Gawker editor John Cook, who spent a year as editor of First Look before returning to Gawker, and Alex Pareene, who worked at First Look before returning to Gawker.

About 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs spent the first few years of their careers developing a strong foundation in finance, according to a study by consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.

So instead of hiring developers and producing software out of the gate, Smith started small, spending the first year — and just $ 75,000 — talking to potential clients and refining the business plan.

We spent the first five years of our business in a constant state of anxiety, culminating in a near - disaster; in 1989 our bank kicked us out and we lost our line of credit.

«I have a technical degree as an engineer, but spent the first 20 years of my career driving revenue through sales and sales leadership roles,» Chris Cook, president and CEO of Delphix, shared with me.

Much of the rent and the consultants» work were paid for in DenOptix stock, meaning that the company spent only $ 45,000 of its precious cash during its first year of business.

But the first lesson of business school is to tap into your natural network, and veterans, who have often spent years overseas cut off from regular society, often don't have the contacts they need to make the transition into civilian business.

The first: That Intel (intc), after all these years and billions of dollars spent, still hasn't created market - leading mobile chips.

People playing games on their mobile phones will spend more than the hardcore audience of PC gamers for the first time this year.

After getting inspired by Ron Chernow's biography of the first Treasury Secretary, Miranda spent six years of his life writing «Hamilton,» according to Fortune.

The irony is that I spent the first 10 years of my business constantly raising money.»

In this in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

Drew Nordlicht, partner and managing director of investment advisory Hightower San Diego, says the tepid GDP growth in the first half of the year has already dampened IT spending by companies of all sizes.

The network will spend the first half of the year engaging in paid media ads — «before anyone else is on air,» said Seidel — and will begin deploying a grassroots effort in the late summer and early fall.

As part of the spending plans for this year, UPS will open or retrofit 18 ground delivery facilities in the US, including three new major hubs, the first ones added to its ground network in two decades.

Take 38 - year - old software engineer and blogger, «Mrs. BITA,» who asked to remain anonymous, of «Bayalis Is The Answer»: From 2008, when she first started using Amazon, to 2016, she managed to spend $ 41,000 on more than 1,400 items.

While completing his dissertation, Clark spent two years working for the central planning ministry of the then - socialist African nation, and the first of his four children was born there, with only a midwife present to support the birth.

Some 11 % of Wharton's graduating full - time MBA class of 2013 spent the summer between their first and second year either at an early - stage venture or working on their own.

First there was Julian Assange, who spent a good portion of the year hiding out in the Ecuadorean embassy in London as a way of avoiding an arrest warrant.

He was also the first guy to spend 20 years thinking of ways to make shipping more efficient.

Most of the money spent in its first year went directly to political ads or grants to other groups.

He bought the factory buildings for $ 190,000 and expects to spend two million dollars over the next year in getting the factory up - to - speed and the first wave of 2,000 bikes into stores.

Many North American producers have already spent 75 % to 90 % of the per - barrel cost of a project before recovering their first barrel, and in the case of the oilsands, it might have taken 10 years.

To support these efforts, Chobani plans to spend 35 percent more on marketing next year, with the bulk of spending occurring in the first half of the year, said Chobani's chief marketing and commercial officer, Peter McGuinness.

After graduating, he spent the first 14 years of his career working toward that goal, rising to head of research at the Bank of Canada, before leaving for a short tenure in the private sector.

Telecommunications companies amortize the costs over years of contracted services, eventually making back the money they spent getting people on the grid in the first place.

In this all - new in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

The original plan was for us to spend the first year establishing the brand and experimenting with different types of reporting techniques.

The title spent the first 18 years of its life in mixed case, and returned to it for a brief period in the early 1950s.

That can push spending above preretirement levels in the first years of retirement.

CEO Óscar Grau, director of football Raül Sanllehí, and first team squad director Javier Bordas have travelled to the UK willing to spend $ 120 million (# 108 million) on the 25 - year - old.

So Rodgers has spent the first half year of his term doing triage.

This card, which carries an $ 95 annual fee after the first year, also doesn't assess foreign transaction fees and offers 25,000 points if you spend at least $ 3,000 within three months of opening the account.

But to the government's credit, it has hit most of its spending targets in the first few years of the austerity program Flaherty.

Foreigners spent more than $ 5.4 billion on travel in the first quarter, compared with about $ 5 billion over the same period a year earlier and $ 4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2014.

«I got my first job out of college just over a year ago, and I've spent a lot of time reading finance materials.

The team spent the first five years of the company's life building out what co-founder and CEO Jason Kelly describes as a «giant compiler, debugger, and programming language for genetic code.»

It's easy to spend a bit too much during your first few years of retirement — particularly on vacations, Plessl and Houser note, as people want to travel while they're still healthy.

Solo act: Barr spent his first year in business as a one - man show — designing the product, managing the website, taking care of order fulfillment and everything in between.

The first year they had Morgan Freeman and spent a ton of money on effects to fill the plane with a bunch of Morgan Freemans.

I spent the first 13 years of my professional life doing what was more akin to art than to business: commissioning, writing, directing, producing radio, television, films, and music.