Sentences with phrase «from traditional firms»

Fieldfisher held off esteemed competition to claim the Law Firm of the Year award, sponsored by Fulcrum GT, in recognition of its efforts to harness technology as a way to differentiate itself from traditional firms.

offers you — things you'll never get from a traditional firm or even many other newlaw firms:

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In practical terms, that will free up the design staff to do more creative, speculative work because it will take fewer traditional «billable» hours from the staff to cover the firm's operating costs.

Since then, SoftBank executives have reportedly discussed various investments in the financial sector, from acquiring traditional investment firms to stakes in major PE firms like KKR.

A traditional venture - capital firm raises money primarily from institutional investors and high - net - worth individuals, while corporate venture capital uses cash reserves from a parent company to fund new endeavors.

It's a relatively new offering from the 25 - person firm, which has worked for traditional publishing houses for a decade.

For two decades, Noe Sanchez sent money from California to his father in Mexico City through storefront outlets of traditional remittance firms such as Western Union.

Paladin Research & Registry has compiled a list of five ways these new, so - called robo - advisors differ from traditional brick - and - mortar financial advisory firms staffed by... humans.

According to the company, there are about 28 million small businesses in the country, and the overwhelming majority are hidden from investors; they're too small for private equity firms to take notice, but not right for a traditional bank loan either.

Coupled with a «lack of interest in traditional conglomerates,» more spinoffs from GE, Johnson Controls, Honeywell and others are likely in the near future, according to the firm.

But data from research firm Morningstar show that whatever the reasons may be — lower costs, tax efficiency, better performance — passive investments continue to gain new money as traditional actively managed mutual funds watch money leave their coffers.

Whereas traditional investment methods require a firm to list in one country and utilize (at least initially) one exchange, creating and selling its own cryptocurrency allows a firm access to finance from anyone, anywhere, outside the normal constraints imposed by state - issued currencies.

Traditional VC firms have funds ranging from $ 100 million to $ 500 million.

Earlier this year, traditional brokerage firms launched proprietary digital advice platforms, which have not yet stolen much business from the upstarts.

The law followed now - familiar protests from traditional taxi firms, furious at the competition posed by services such as Uber, which do not adhere to the same licensing standards and can offer lower prices by having drivers bear the costs of their vehicles.

In addition to these traditional competitors within the global alternative asset management industry, we have increasingly faced competition from local and regional firms, financial institutions and sovereign wealth funds, in the various countries in which we invest.

One of the best investment strategists from one of the largest international asset management firms just declared that a total cryptocurrency market collapse would hardly affect traditional markets.

So taking angel money from a traditional venture investor is a bet on that firm funding your Series A. Unfortunately, if that doesn't work out, you're back is up against the wall.

While investors across the venture capital spectrum, from angel investors to traditional venture capital firms, may engage in seed investments, the industry has recently witnessed a proliferation of dedicated seed funds and firms.

At the core of our firm, you'll find multiple independent investment teams — each with a focused area of expertise — from traditional to alternative strategies and multi-asset solutions.

The read across here is that discounting will carry the day, and streaming media will help differentiate the firm away from its «traditional niche» of delivery systems.

Using PRIME's proprietary social media analytics methods and technology, the research firm identified 13 million relevant social media posts from March 2013 to December 2013 on the subject of mobile payment innovation in the context of MasterCard and its industry peers; sentiment analysis shows the majority of posts were driven by news - story sharing 92 % positive / factual, only 8 % negative tone overall which is a reflection of the original content as it appeared in traditional news outlets.

If you do not have at least a contract to pursue a field test, then you will have difficulty raising money from traditional venture capital firms.

Instead of traditional venture capital firms investing in startups from PowerPoint to IPO, there are angel investors and seed rounds on one end and traditional public market investors investing in private unicorn rounds on the other, with venture capital firms somewhere in the middle.

B&C Transit, a public transit firm in Oakland, switched from a traditional broker to Zenefits in August.

Brahm Eiley, president of Toronto - based firm that completed the study, says he expects the industry to lose another 97,000 in 2015 as the shift away from paying for traditional TV services continues.

The venture investing team has come almost entirely from outside Microsoft, from a diverse set of backgrounds including traditional venture firms, corporate venture arms, and startups.

Tesla and scores of others from traditional automakers to technology firms are all competing for a slice of China's fast - growing new - energy vehicle market as the country looks to impose tough new tariffs to encourage production of «green» cars.

With the final closing of this latest fund from Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital for $ 123 Million, the firm is now actively looking for investment opportunities that make traditional energy cleaner, as well as new sources of alternative energy.

Uber has drawn capital from a wide variety of investors, including traditional venture capital firms, mutual fund giants like BlackRock and wealthy clients of firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Mark43 is emblematic both of what a government tech startup can do and the rising interest from traditional venture capitalist firms.

The Carlyle Group Shifting gears from the traditional banking business, The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is an investment firm with exposure to private equity, hedge funds, bonds, and a variety of other direct and indirect investment vehicles.

The world's biggest banks aren't immune from cryptocurrency euphoria, with a range of projects underway to explore how traditional financial firms can benefit from the innovation.

They are subject to Nietzsche's charge that «the traditional Western metaphysico - epistemological way of firming up our habits» can be regarded as «an attempt to avoid facing up to contingency, to escape from time and chance» (PAP 14 - 5).

A traditional Chinese medicine company and a waste management group have joined the flood of firms from China aiming to list on the ASX.

This does two things: 1), prevents them from burning on top and being mushy on the inside, 2) keeps them from drying out like goods can made without traditional flours when baked at high temperatures, and 3) helps them continue baking at a continuously decreasing temperature without overheating them so they firm up perfectly and turn golden in color.

Growing up in a house filled with spicy aromas and traditional home cooking, Mindi Keane, the brains behind this new and exciting culinary delight simply reworks a firm family favourite from her childhood, bringing her love of cooking with spices into everyday meals.

From comments I get and articles I read there seems to be a misconception that if you take away the firm rules and punishments of traditional type parenting then all descends into chaos.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

All of the best Sugar relationships take time, coupled with a firm understanding of what to expect from each other, be it emotional, financial, or any other element of a «traditional» relationship.

The Boston market - research firm found that the traditional industry sectors — for - profit schools, learning products, and educational services — had healthy revenue - growth rates in 1999, ranging from 8 percent to 12.3 percent.

A January 2012 study conducted by Eduventures, a consulting firm that has studied online teacher training programs, found that principals are just as willing to hire from online programs as from traditional ones.

The company's traditional policy on appropriateness of change was reflected in developing the Bentley Mulsanne by phasing in major technological advances into the Bentley Mulsanne S. Firmer suspension enhanced the Bentley Mulsanne S's roadholding and interior features from the Bentley Turbo R were incorporated.

These models are a far cry from the large, European saloons and coupes produced by the marque before its 1961 bankruptcy, so a smooth coupe concept will likely use the firm's traditional image as inspiration.

Often overlooked in favor of the more popular offerings from the German firms, the Peugeot 208 GTi is actually a traditional hot - hatch in Europe, having its roots in the 205 GTI of the 1980s.

While Apple can take some solace from the sale of its iPad devices, Microsoft is yet to establish a firm foothold in the tablet and smartphone segment while its traditional forte, that of desktops and notebook / laptops, is fast eroding.

Since the financial returns from self - publishing per book are so many times greater than the royalties paid by traditional publishers, I could easily cut the marketing firm in on the returns.

This crucial difference might be the reason why traditional publishing has not felt much direct impact from the tech firms.

As I've noted before, traditional publishers can take part in Kindle Unlimited, although many are choosing not to do so at the moment, and they get paid differently from self - publishers in that trad firms get the normal royalty rate for a buy when one of their books is borrowed.

A new «goal - based» online investment management firm called Invisor.ca is trying to distinguish itself from traditional robo - advisors — the digital - advice services that allow you to build a low - fee ETF portfolio that's maintained by a computer.