Sentences with phrase «get sold to the public»

During my years of teaching I watched the entire understanding of what was traditional in our city's lowest - income schools get sold to the public as FAILING: in just a few short years it was impossible to find advocates who would argue that they were not.

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Many of the CEOs and leadership teams I have worked with over the years have fallen into the same trap: they get overly focused on selling their company to a strategic or financial acquirer or worse, going public.

These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed time.

Within two days of making the offer public we had sold five spots and brought in $ 15,000, and by the time the class started we had sold out all 20 spots, bringing in roughly $ 58,000 (after some additional discounts we offered), and we had more people wanting to get into the course who we had to push off for the next one.

To get money back to the investors they have to be able to sell their shares in your company, either because you've sold shares on the public stock markets (called going public, or initial public offering) or because you've been acquired by another companTo get money back to the investors they have to be able to sell their shares in your company, either because you've sold shares on the public stock markets (called going public, or initial public offering) or because you've been acquired by another companto the investors they have to be able to sell their shares in your company, either because you've sold shares on the public stock markets (called going public, or initial public offering) or because you've been acquired by another companto be able to sell their shares in your company, either because you've sold shares on the public stock markets (called going public, or initial public offering) or because you've been acquired by another companto sell their shares in your company, either because you've sold shares on the public stock markets (called going public, or initial public offering) or because you've been acquired by another company.

After all, if you don't sell the fact that your PR strategy is working, it's going to be hard to get the support you need to build on your public relations success.

After nearly 150 years of catering to the wealty elite and helping fast - growing startups either go public or sell themselves to larger competitors, Goldman Sachs is finally getting into the consumer lending market, and will soon offer small personal loans.

Now, as the company prepares to go public Wednesday, some investors are wondering: If GoPro keeps selling millions of cameras, then what other publicly traded companies could get a lift?

Not only did he mostly get his way, but he faced little public criticism, even during his ultimately ill - fated defence of his company's right to sell cigarettes.

But unlike an IPO where you sold stock to the public and got to run your company, in an acquisition your company is gone, and the odds are in a year or so you will be too.

To do a marketing campaign in which to get PurseAid into public awareness such as appearing on QVC - HSN type television programs and possibly making a commercial promoting and selling PurseAid to the general publiTo do a marketing campaign in which to get PurseAid into public awareness such as appearing on QVC - HSN type television programs and possibly making a commercial promoting and selling PurseAid to the general publito get PurseAid into public awareness such as appearing on QVC - HSN type television programs and possibly making a commercial promoting and selling PurseAid to the general publito the general public.

The «tough sell to the public» was made tougher by appearing to give dishonest Wall Street executives a free pass by not, at minimum, loudly filing suits attempting to claw back ill - gotten bonuses.

«If you're in the B2C business, if you're selling anything to any consumer anywhere on the planet, you got ta believe that Amazon is gonna have a look at that opportunity to commoditize you to use scale to serve the public,» he said.

Sole proprietors in Texas that sell goods will be required to get a sales and use tax license from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.

You can sell your ports, your land, your public utilities, your railroads, your airports, anything you have you can sell to the Germans and at the end of this time you won't have a single thing and all we ask is that all you Greeks get out of our country, now that we own you.

Tampa, Florida (CNN)-- The task of selling a Mormon presidential candidate to evangelical America has fallen to a public relations man who's not even getting paid for what may be the toughest sales job of his career.

The task of selling a Mormon presidential candidate to evangelical America has fallen to a public relations man who's not even getting paid for what may be the toughest sales job of his career.

She's the same Oprah that teamed up with Bono to sell red iPods, went to a public school, and got upset because all the kids (since they look up to her) wanted iPods.

Today, What Pet Should I Get, which features some of the same characters as One Fish, Two Fish, is finally being sold to the public so that you can take a nostalgic trip back to the time when funny ryhmes and colorful illustrations were the optimal form of entertainment.

If you have a restaurant supply that sells to the public, that's where you want to go locally to get bakeware.

However, if Wenger is looking to bolster the Arsenal front line he could do a lot worse than get in touch with another French club PSG, who reports claim could be about to sell their Uruguayan centre forward Edinson Cavani after the public falling out the striker has had with his new team mate Neymar.

Plus if a major player was going to move, surely the selling club would make it as public as possible to attract more bidders and get a higher price?

Says Eric: «I wouldn't want to get involved in all that self - promotion, you know, constantly selling myself to the media and the public all the time like Spitz and Jenner have.

How an ad campaign looks when you've got people selling you on the concept of the campaign and when you have a concept of your product and you're looking at ways to put that concept across is totally different to how the ad looks to the general public.

The head of a Queens Little League is accusing the father of NYCCouncilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland of selling Mets tickets that he got for free and of charging to use public ball fields.

Thinking of pensions as something more akin to public goods such as education or infrastructure — where what you pay in and what you get out are basically uncorrelated — will be a tough sell to the electorate and will take a lot of political capital.

The head of a Queens Little League is accusing the father of City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland of selling Mets tickets that he got for free and of charging to use public ball fields.

WRFA public affairs director Jason Sample talks with Jamestown Mayor Sam Teresi to get an update on several city initiatives, including the proposal to sell the city's... [Read more...]

Rockland County residents say that repeated solicitation by real estate agents begging them to sell their homes has gotten completely out of hand, and demanded answers at a public meeting at Rockland Community College on Wednesday.

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

You want to make sure that you buy yk11 from a reputable site that gets 3rd party lab testing done on their raw materials before selling to the public.

Overall though, I think this is a great post to get some of the information out there to the general public about natural birth, something I think American women are sold short on.

The same thing started happening with the long time considered junk that is whey, when Greek yogurt started getting popular as it produces toxic levels of whey they have to work at responsibly getting rid of, so their conclusion was to sell it to a naive public.

Whey is actually a junk food, it is literally a scrap from the dairy industry and considered an environmental hazard so they have to find new ways to «responsibly» get rid of it and what better way than SELLING this toxic crap to the public?

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If you are a Nordstrom card holder you get early access to the sale a week before the general public and trust me, things sell out fast.

It would not surprise me a whit if some executives got together and said, «We need a high profile movie that will sell Armani suits to the public,» and thus American Gigolo was born.

Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep), publisher of The Washington Post, is going over a list of financial and legal documents once again, rehearsing her answers to the questions she will be getting from bankers about selling shares in the company to the public for the first time.

As chief executive of the new office of strategic partnerships, Ms. Kennedy, a best - selling author, public - service advocate, and the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, will oversee efforts to get the private sector more actively involved in the public school system.

Hartford Public Schools should be used as an example to students, parents, school administrators, school boards, and communities of outside of Hartford as an example of how odious things get when a district's leadership and school board sells out to corporate school reform.

Don says — Now that Brown has used Prop 30 to fund some of the pension liability (rather than to save public education as 30 was sold to the public) and dumped the rest of the liability on districts how much will students get?

It is a cynical policy that has sold out our children and public education in order to get a few dollars from the Feds through RTTT.

Nissan sells a home / public charging unit that is faster and more powerful: From empty, it takes about four hours to get a full charge.

Peugeot Motors of America, the company that advertises an invisible car, is invisibly trying to raise its profile.Without any public announcement, the importer of the French cars has begun shipping 1991 models, after essentially skipping the 1990 model year in order to sell off a glut of 1989 models.Peugeot also is selling its 1991 models at 1989 prices, even with added content, without hoopla.For instance, the $ 17,700 price of the Peugeot 405 - S sedan, which gets anti-lock brakes and a leather interior for 1991, has not increased since it was introduced two years ago.

«I often wonder if the business of professional selling gets in the way of what the public truly would prefer to read.»

Instead the success stories you hear are about that nobody who suddenly started selling tens of thousands of ebooks on Kindle (Amanda Hawking, Hugh Howey), or somebody else who was writing fan fiction in a public forum and somebody got in touch to help her publish it (E. L. James).

Setting aside that I think the idea that a talking book feature creates any sort of enjoyment whatsoever, while you yourself have the right to enjoy hearing creative works read on that Kindle in all it's robotic stentorian tones, it's probably the case that Amazon ain't got the right to profit from selling to many peoples (the public) the device or «the work through the device» made more valuable / sellable because those people (whether separate or apart) can listen to the Kindle read it aloud.

Sometimes having an alternative goal to selling books, like raising your public profile or getting pitched to do speaking engagements, helps authors because it is part of a bigger plan for their careers.

This is the company, elsevier, with spectacular profit rates, whch gets its material (papers, books) which have mostly been produced at public expense (university salaries, public research grants), do very little actual editorial work (one usually has to supply papers charts etc «print ready»), get academic reviewers to review the books and papers free of charge (well, paid for by universities or they do it in free time), depend on journal editors whose time is paid for by (generally publicly funded) universities, then sells the journals to the same universities, sometimes for subscription prices in the thousands of dollars.

This is why, as an independent audio book producer, I am working on getting the word out to libraries that I will sell to them our list of audio books at the same rate as to the public, and in packaging that rivals anything that is out there.