Sentences with phrase «from going in the first»

A number of them will be put off from going in the first place.»

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Robert Herjavec remembered Rebecca's tenacity from her first appearance, her strong business sense and was not going to be happy until he knew he could jump on board with Rebecca in her next business venture.

His comments came the same day First Nations chiefs from Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia held a news conference in which they vowed to resort to large - scale civil disobedience if Kinder Morgan's controversial Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast goes ahead without the consent of local First Nations.

I was going from a record company to the airline business, so the key thing in that deal was that if it didn't work out, I could hand the 747 back to Boeing after the first year.

Ekati, the area's first significant mine, began production in 1998, spurring an influx of activity that would see diamonds go from a zero - dollar industry to one that represented 20 % of the territorial economy by 2002.

At first glance, some would assume that you are going to get less work from your staff if they aren't in the office for you to monitor, but there are a few reasons why this might not be the case.

First, Worth noted Tesla's massive run - up from double to triple digits in its first years after going puFirst, Worth noted Tesla's massive run - up from double to triple digits in its first years after going pufirst years after going public.

I've heard from several young people lately that they're excited by the possibilities of the technology sector and want to start their own businesses, but aren't sure how to go about learning the technical skills to help them succeed — or whether they need to know the technical side in the first place.

«We went from first party to third party merchants, so there was a group of people in charge of that.

Over the past two years, Groupon's stock price has gone from $ 26 a share on its first day of trading in November 2011 to less than $ 3 a share a year later.

Gravity was inundated with résumés — 4,500 in the first week alone — including one from a high - powered 52 - year - old Yahoo executive named Tammi Kroll, who was so inspired by Price that she quit her job and in September went to work for Gravity at what she insisted would be an 80 - 85 percent pay cut.

I joined as Buffer's first Culture Scout in October 2015, when we went from growing the team by 1 to 2 people per month to being on the lookout for 30 to 40 team members between September 2015 and April 2016.

First, if customers have had the opportunity to weigh in from the beginning and the offering has been developed accordingly, you're ensuring a built - in sales channel once the product goes live.

The SpaceX team didn't attempt to land on a barge in the ocean from the get - go, they instead practiced with lighter rockets, on land first.

First, your store, service business, or restaurant in Minneapolis isn't going to get a lot of benefit out of traffic that comes from Toledo, or Mexico City.

Beijing has given tech giant Baidu Inc the go - ahead to trial self - driving cars on city streets, even as the autonomous vehicle sector reels from its first fatal accident in the U.S. this week.

Role in PayPal: Joined from the world's first (failed) social network SocialNet to become a member of the board of directors, then went full - time to become PayPal's COO.

Toshiba wants to sell its share to offset massive losses in its Westinghouse nuclear power business, and Western Digital is leading a consortium that's bidding for that share, while at the same time engaging in a legal fight to stop the sale from going ahead unless it gets first refusal.

From the first magazine published in 1741, to the first billboards in the late 1800s, the art of getting the public's attention and turning it into sales has gone through a dramatic evolution over the past few hundred years.

In a blog post titled, «Google + is the social backbone,» Dumbill described the new project as the first major step toward integrating all social applications, much like e-mail went from a number of closed systems to incorporating one online communication standard as a foundation.

I first learned why a company needs a core purpose from Randy Komisar, who wrote the book The Monk and the Riddle, which was published just as the dot - com market went bust in 2001.

The case was the subject of «Serial,» the first spin - off from «This American Life,» and went on to be a sensation, with listeners debating whether or not Syed was in prison for a crime he did not commit.

From there, go to the first box, titled «Proceeding (s),» then type in «17 - 108.»

When Nike went public in 1980, the country saw for the first time that the «sneaker guys from Oregon» had built a company with annual sales of $ 270 million, net income of roughly $ 13 million, and annual production of 30 million pairs of shoes.

Within a year, Avis went from losing $ 3.2 million to earning $ 1.2 million — the first time it had been profitable in more than a decade.

The title refers to the distinction Thiel draws between transformative, «vertical» change — going from zero to one — and incremental, «horizontal» change — going from one to n. «If you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress,» he explains in the book's first chapter.

In the early days, Mr Yasuda collected disposed - of goods and samples from other companies, quickly becoming the first to gather information on soon - to - go - bankrupt firms to get hold of their inventory.

About 20,000 Pokémon Go players traveled from all corners of the world in July to Chicago's Grant Park for the first - ever Pokémon Go Fest.

You go through so much training in the military, but from that first year as a plebe, what the military is teaching you is how to be resilient.

Think of it like dating; before going on a first date how valuable would it be to know how the person acts in a relationship, what they have to offer you, how they treat people close to them and what they will need from you?

If we're going to be talking about partnering with First Nations for developments in the area, we need to understand how that's different from negotiating with the government.

He does not sit on any other boards (he resigned from TRW's in 2015), does not speak to graduation classes, doesn't give interviews (this was his first sit - down with a reporter, and he agreed to it only after it became clear that the article would be published whether he cooperated or not), and doesn't go to Davos.

Only 5.5 % of Verizon (vz) customers upgraded their phones in the third quarter when the iPhone 8 first went on sale, down from a 6.3 % upgrade rate last year when Apple released the iPhone 7, the carrier said as part of its financial report on Thursday.

The first place distinction went to Transacto, an app to organize transactions easily and categorize SMSs from bank accounts, followed by Smart Visit in second place, an app personalizing customer experiences during bank visits, and in third place, Bridg, an app enabling users and SMEs offline cashless payments powered by Bluetooth.

First voiced in the 1970s by Arthur Laffer, an adviser to the Nixon administration who came from the conservative Chicago school of economics, it was embraced by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and, consensus has it, went a long way to alleviating the stagflation of that era (though falling energy prices and interest rates, demographic shifts and yes, deficit spending contributed too).

I went back and forth from San Diego basically in 48 hours, convinced them, and we had our first million dollar sale — while I was still editing film.

But once I got over that, I was able to go from a kid at 18 years old that was always like a very average, underperforming student and then fast forward almost to the day 18 years later, I flew in space for the first time.

It's one of the first steps in the company's signature «Bootcamp,» a six - week introduction to Facebook that all engineers — from new college graduates to coding veterans — must go through.

With any other start - up, going from zero to a couple hundred million in sales in your first two years would be nothing short of a miracle — but here it's about getting to a billion, very fast.

Virgin Atlantic recently launched our new Dreamliners aircraft in Atlanta, and we livestreamed the first - ever concert over the Atlantic on one flight, so I couldn't resist pointing out to Willie that we're going from strength to strength.

Elliott had originally invested in the obscure financial stock as part of an arbitrage trade, but when a colleague saw that the company was laying groundwork to shield itself from activist investors, he went across the hall to Cohn for the first time.

We went from two to 20 people in the first six years of Shopify.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

The first stores went by the name Tote'm, since customers «toted» away their purchases, but in 1946, when the stores» hours were extended — from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. — they got a new name.

In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.

Founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple (aapl) first appeared on our famed roster in 1983, having gone from California garage to the front door of American business in a mere seven years.

And if it follows in the footsteps of another enterprise software IPO winner, Workday, an enterprise software - as - a-service provider whose stock popped from $ 28 to $ 50 on its first day of trading in early October and is now at $ 55, more such start - ups will go public in 2013.

The stock has gone from $ 18 when it first debuted in the summer of 2007 to the equivalent of $ 170 — which included a two - for - one stock split in 2011.

It's the first time since 1978 that the industry posted a goose egg, and it represents a huge drop from the 25 companies that went public during the same period in 2007.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.