Not exact matches
Leader - Chivée also recommends that companies be willing to
go out and be
public with valid claims, so the perpetrators
go on to new jobs, with NBC's recent move to dismiss Matt Lauer swiftly as one example to follow.
The
public broadcaster
went out of its way on Monday to clarify that commentator Cokie Roberts has more leeway to make personal comments than the usual NPR staffer does because Roberts co-authored a newspaper column labeling Donald Trump as «one of the least - qualified candidates ever to make a serious run for the presidency.»
Sure, there's the rare self - motivated individual who prefers fitness videos over all else and works
out every morning, but for the general
public, having someone to yell in your face when you don't want to do another set of burpees is
going to increase the likelihood of success.
It's worth pointing
out that Box's decision to
go public may be tied to one of its biggest competitor's decisions to
go public — Dropbox.
Nor can the company really
go flat
out in
public and admit that it's trying to dump the stock and lock in enormous profits without triggering yet another spin or two of the vortex that keeps sucking down Uber's stock price.
When it became
public that his name was in the records of a Capitol Hill escort agency, Vitter put
out a written statement of contrition,
went into a week of seclusion, emerged and, with his wife (who happens to be a prosecutor), made a brief
public apology, then refused to answer questions.
I'm in the spotlight, you
go out in
public and people can takes pics — it's not that annoying part.
I was born to two parents in South Carolina who
went into debt to send us to private school because South Carolina's
public school system is ranked 49
out of 50.
The two will now fight it
out if Airbnb and Uber decide to
go public, the Financial Times reports.
Part of your brand is you — if you are
out in the
public with a shirt or vehicle with your company logo on it then
go by the same rules as any other company would.
Every few months, the ongoing upheaval in the digital - music business forces its way into the
public consciousness — Rdio
goes bankrupt, Pandora hangs
out a «For Sale» sign and then gets rid of its CEO, artists and labels ramp up their criticism of YouTube.
As Bloomberg pointed
out last month, Spotify's recent deal to raise $ 1 billion in convertible debt valued the company at roughly $ 8 billion and put additional pressure on the streaming service to
go public.
(Block points
out Sino - Forest
went public through a reverse takeover on the Toronto Venture Exchange long before the current wave of companies.)
Since 1980, tech companies have
gone public with average price - to - sales ratios of 5.8, so by that measure valuations aren't
out of whack.
The CBC story rightly points
out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to
go topless — entirely topless — in
public.
At
public speaking events in recent years, he's often opened by thanking organizers for inviting a Canadian banker to speak — «In most places right now in the world if you're a banker you don't even
go out at nights.»
Webvan flamed
out in less than three years after burning through $ 800 million,
going public, and filing for bankruptcy.
They were lucky, they got the timing right, and after a painful couple of years figured
out product / market fit, and
went public.
Percentage of this year's CEOs who had an exit strategy when they founded the company: 40 % Percentage of those CEOs whose exit strategy was to
go public: 33 % Percentage whose exit strategy was to sell
out to another company: 53 %
The news organization also said that Dell was also considering buying
out the rest of VMware if it doesn't
go public, or holding an IPO for its Pivotal software development business unit.
What's more, a white paper
out Tuesday from e-commerce company PayPal, which
went public last week, sheds light on the enormous middle class who seem to still be buying, with a particular focus on U.S. - made goods sold online.
It's a less costly process for the company
going public as it cuts
out the underwriters and the hefty fees that come with them.
Existing tax laws around equity - based compensation can even drive a company's employees to let their options
go, and miss
out on the future windfall when that start - up
goes public or is acquired at a good price.
But when a plane crashes, there is enormous
public and economic interest in figuring
out what
went wrong.
By
going public, Pandey said, Nutanix stands to gain more global customers that are more willing to do business with companies whose finances are
out in the open.
We've got some legislation
out there, but I think the
public is
going to have a phenomenal impact on this whole issue.
«My guess is pharma is waiting to see how it plays
out and which side the
public opinion
goes,» said Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School.
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Here's a look at the 9 entrepreneurs and (and one investor) that got filthy, stupid, absurdly rich in 2011 by cashing
out or
going public.
That's a disservice not just to the
public but to journalists across the world who
go out every day and do everything within their power, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to get the story right.»
A Forbes profile of the billionaire says that years later, after dropping
out of the City College of New York, Adelson «built a fortune running vending machines, selling newspaper ads, helping small businesses
go public, developing condos, and hosting trade shows.»
«We are extremely saddened to learn of the collapse of abuilding complex in Bangladesh and our condolences
go out tothose affected by this tragedy,» Julija Hunter,
public relationsvice - president for Loblaw Companies, said in an email.
After
going public in 2011, Demand was hit by an update to Google's indexing algorithms, which the company said was designed to weed
out «low - quality» content.
That works
out to about $ 3 billion of added market value a year, on average, for the titan of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, which
went public in 2002 in an $ 82.5 million offering.
Although the terms of the Knowingly purchase haven't been made
public, sources who looked into buying some or all of the assets said the initial price for the editorial part of the company was $ 6 million, but eventually that was reduced to $ 1 million, and still many bidders backed
out — in part because the editorial staff had all been let
go.
Spotify didn't need to raise money, but it did need to
go public to satisfy its stakeholders and avoid paying
out chunks of equity that diluted its shares.
«There's nothing like walking from the 1st floor of a modern looking expensive, trendy restaurant until you get
out of the
public area and
go down the creaky unpainted wooded stairs and find a basement with damp stone foundation walls, puddles of water on the ground, and a crew of people cooking soup in a 10 gallon pot which is on the ground at the time.»
People who start companies tend to be goal - oriented: They'll set
out to accomplish a big «it» — making a better product, hitting a huge revenue target,
going public, whatever — and then spend all of their energy (and most of their waking moments) in its pursuit.
VMWare was acquired by EMC Corp. in 2004, but in 2007, EMC spun
out 10 percent of VMware in a billion - dollar IPO — the biggest since Google had
gone public in 2004.
King points
out that Alaris, which
went public in 2008, is not a private - equity company.
After remarking he has always been «philosophically» opposed to
going public, Karp explained that it is becoming increasingly difficult to let employees cash
out their shares at a fair price.
David Simon is fond of pointing
out that only three of his 10 top tenants from 1993, when Simon Property
went public, still exist in their current form.
Ultimately you want something everyone will identify with and enjoy saying over and over so your word - of - mouth advertising will
go along smoothly and your branding won't be hard to get
out to the
public.
Likewise, he has no interest in
going public — «We think we're the best stewards of our journey» — and, while he says he'd never categorically rule
out selling the company, it's clear the price would have to be very, very right.
The early investor cashed
out big when the company
went public in 2012 — the IPO raised $ 16 billion, making it one of the largest IPOs of all time — and turned Thiel's initial investment into over $ 1 billion.
Startup America will use these goods and services to train and mentor entrepreneurs, increase the number of high - growth firms that create quality jobs and economic growth, and inspire the greater
public to
go out and «build great American companies.»
For the inaugural Founders 40 list,
out in April, Inc. showcased some of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. that
went public in the last three years.
I like the idea of
going public mostly to get the word
out for how special the experience is, to build awareness and improve people's health and fitness.
«This is
going to work itself
out on its own,» says William Hambrecht, a pioneering underwriter whose eponymous investment bank helped take Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)
public in 2004.
«The question is who's
going to be able to figure
out the model where the costs of producing high quality journalism and high quality information in the
public interest don't exceed the revenue that you can generate from it.»