Sentences with phrase «get to the city for»

I also commute for almost 2 hours per day to get to the city for my consulting work and it would be great to have an ebook reader so I have a choice of reading.

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JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

For $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulFor $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulfor the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulfor many people's work schedules.

But when it comes time for an entrepreneur to build a team, having a ego can sometimes get in the way, says Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND, in an interview at the Entrepreneur 360 conference in New York City.

Business Insider combined five measures of labor - market and general economic health for the 40 metropolitan statistical areas with the biggest 2017 populations to get a sense of where those big cities» economies stand.

In an email to staffers later published on Twitter, Pichai denounced extremist violence: «Specific to Barcelona, our security team has helped several Googlers on the ground get to safety, and everyone we've heard from so far is safe,» the executive said, noting that the company has activated an SOS alert for those in the city, with news, a map, and local updates from the police.

«I believe the CEO of a small - to - medium business has three major duties: to make sure there is money in the bank; to get the right people in the right roles; and to guide the long - term vision for the company,» said Nick Gray, the founder and CEO of Museum Hack, a team - building company in New York City that counts major brands, including Facebook, among its customers.

Robinson, a New York City resident, believed that the best way to scale would be for her to fly to African countries to get the program off the ground.

We come along and digitize it all, and create a really easy way for cities to get that information out via the Internet,» McBride says.

A look at which major U.S. cities are the best for women business owners, and seven tips to help them get started.

New developments would allow connected cars to link up with smart city infrastructure to create an entirely different ecosystem for the driver, who is simply used to the traditional way of getting from Point A to Point B.

Then, of course, you need to get and pay for all of the permits for the city or town you operate in and board of health approval.

Problem No. 1: in New York City, permits for food trucks are distributed via lottery, meaning «your only real option for getting a permit is the black market... or [to] partner with an existing license holder.»

This meant that a single promotional campaign for the mRelief app (which was supported by all the concerned agencies and city services) could get the word out at a fraction of the cost that each organization or department would have to spend — assuming they had the money to do so.

The Challenge: Howard's is a small Kansas City grocery store, with a twist: The store, which opened in 2012, sells memberships for $ 60 per year; members get a door code allowing them to access the store 24/7 and pick from the locally grown produce and organic foods in stock.

«For them, unemployment, especially for those several hundred million who came to the cities to get jobs, is personally catastrophic, so they have a serious problem.&raqFor them, unemployment, especially for those several hundred million who came to the cities to get jobs, is personally catastrophic, so they have a serious problem.&raqfor those several hundred million who came to the cities to get jobs, is personally catastrophic, so they have a serious problem.»

People's behaviour will change immediately — from how they decide to seek medical attention for non-viral conditions (serious health issues may get overlooked) to how people move around within their own city, reducing spending in retail stores and restaurants.

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.

Just as Torontonians were getting used to shelling out 5 cents for plastic bags, Mayor Rob Ford — possibly angered by having to carry so many nickels and unwilling to suffer the indignity of paying for a reusable shopping bag — put forth a motion to do away with the city's plastic - bag fee as of July 1.

Why it's hot: This Midwestern city is preparing for an influx of innovation when it gets an instant tech infusion from Google Fiber, which will provide free, gigabit internet to 180 neighborhoods starting in October.

But instead of a big hit to drum up some hype in the city that never sleeps, Cirque's got Shpeel on its plate, and it isn't the sort of entrance the 26 - year - old company was hoping for.

These added features will allow you to maneuver through a busy city without thinking about losing your belongings or getting pickpocketed for them.

As I'm getting ready for the first - ever Innovation Congress in New York City this July (which, disclaimer, I happen to be co-producing) I thought I'd speak to some of the innovators speaking at the conference, to find out which podcasts inspire them the most, and why.

«If you are thoughtful about how you handle the process, you're going to get a lot more money for your business,» says John Bird, president and co-founder of Albion Financial Group, a Salt Lake City - based investment and planning firm.

«It actually doesn't matter, as long as we get to the right outcome, which is to not rush into doing anything hasty and banning this transportation option for the city.»

Based in New York City, the organization was labeled by Google as a «think tank» focused on developing technology to help people in emerging markets get online for the first time.

In fact, Musk has been working with Hawthorne city officials for over a year about building the tunnel, which was originally conceived as a way to get SpaceX employees across from the parking lot to the building safely.

Great news for the city's tech scene — not so much for the recruiters on the hot seats to get the job done.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

They give city - goers a new, healthy, and environmentally friendly way to get around, advocates argue, and can be left wherever is convenient once the user is finished with them, ready for the next customer.

Chiang Mai is the perfect spot for those who are seeking a beautiful and relaxed city, but also want to get somewhere exotic they've never been before.

In Miami, hundreds lined up for bottled water and cars looped around city blocks to get gas on Thursday.

What's more, same - day delivery is a way for Walmart to get more business from New York City customers, a market of 8.5 million people that doesn't have a single Walmart location.

He said that while a school like Harvard might have only 6,000 students a year but some 50,000 alumni in the city, each one of those grads is getting contacted by 100 students or more, asking to meet or go for coffee.

A few years ago, I got asked by one of my friends who is in PR, Heather West, to do some social - media consulting for Ramona Singer, a star from the Bravo TV show, The Real Housewives of New York City.

If we can get all these occupiers who slept in parks for a few months all to start creating cognitive dissidence in their cities and pull off surprise occupations everywhere, then there will be a sort of low - level rumble of discontent that keeps on disrupting business - as - usual.

Mayor David Bing plans to challenge the census findings, saying the city can qualify for more federal and state funding if it can get its population count to 775,000.

Before getting into the criticism of Trump's impact on veterans, Meyers gave the president «serious credit» for donating over a million dollars to building a Vietnam Memorial in New York City, which was completed in 1985.

It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.

Nowhere near as sophisticated as things are today, geo - targeting allowed marketing companies to hit a general area (usually a town, county or city) and drill down to the right people in that area using data mined from cookies, so, for example, farmers within driving distance of one of the many Springfields across our great land would get ads from the local Agway there telling them when there was a sale on farmer stuff.

For $ 1,650 per month (plus a $ 500 membership fee upfront), customers get unlimited flight access to Southern California cities like San Fransisco, Burbank, and Santa Monica.

We invited our Instagramers out for a day of shooting in New York City, during which we had our own cameras tag along to get an up - close and personal view of how they view the cCity, during which we had our own cameras tag along to get an up - close and personal view of how they view the citycity.

When staging an event when the goal is truly for the participants to get to know one another, the Library Room at New York City's Dream Downtown offers a great space just for that.

To get a sense of what it's like starting a socially - conscious startup, we reached out to three founders based at New York City's Center for Social InnovatioTo get a sense of what it's like starting a socially - conscious startup, we reached out to three founders based at New York City's Center for Social Innovatioto three founders based at New York City's Center for Social Innovation.

Martinez and Miller see the national tour as both an opportunity to raise awareness, as well as to get attendees to campaign for similar resolutions in their own cities.

It took more than two years for a smaller city, Stockton, California, to get out of bankruptcy.

Although these cities aren't renowned for their clusters of hopeful tech entrepreneurs, they hold new opportunities for those looking to get in the startup game.

And the system set up to pay for rides — a unique municipal subsidy that covers 20 % of any ride that begins and ends in the city, 25 % if it begins or ends at the local light rail station — has already gotten others cities in the surrounding Seminole County interested in replicating it, even though it just started running yesterday.

It also holds networking events in 60 cities, a pure marketing expense it highlights as a way for customers to get ahead in their careers.