Sentences with phrase «good number of firms»

Of course you can use them for speculative purposes, and a good number of firms / people do but that's not really why they were invented.

He took a good number of his firm's employees with him.

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Gin Lane had never taken equity before, but Harry's had backing from a number of venture capital firms Shine knew well, and one of the Harry's co-founders had helped launch online eyewear company Warby Parker.

Perhaps best of all: The firm essentially has a number of regional monopolies around the country, and hence the pricing power to generate some impressive margins.

Many of those companies have promised to do better, but change is slow, as shown in the diversity reports that a number of tech firms now regularly publish that detail the demographic makeup of their employees.

This is basically the polling firm's best educated guess of what the number would be if it had asked the whole population.

After sorting through the dozens of entries, as well as consulting with a number of people on the ground — that is, those working in corporate offices and PR firms — we noticed two patterns emerging:

Mobike raised the latest round from Chinese internet giant Tencent and renowned Silicon Valley tech investment firm Sequoia Capital, as well as a number of other investors.

While it's good that manufacturing firms think that the United States is a great place to do business, their success in America will not have the same impact, in terms of providing a huge number of well - paying jobs, as they did a half - century ago.

The firm had a number of well - known analysts in the US, including banks analyst Mike Mayo, a fixture on the finance TV circuit.

Storage industry granddaddy EMC (EMC) entered the game by buying the firm ScaleIO in July 2013, and there are a number of competing startups, including Nexenta, Maxta, and Nutanix, as well as Red Hat Gluster and Ceph.

To honor the best of the best across a number of digital marketing categories, Firebrand Group (my firm) recently launched the Firestarter Awards.

But some argue there's another, less - well - known threat, in the form of private equity firms who have bought a number of major retail chains in recent years.

To illustrate, one report from research firm Aite Group demonstrated that better integration among teams» internal applications led to a deeper understanding of clients» needs, a 46 percent increase in revenue and a 57 percent increase in the number of clients served.

Here, consulting firm Great Place to Work, partnering with Fortune, has crunched the numbers on thousands of employee surveys to create a new ranking of the best companies to work for in the Bay Area.

The money comes courtesy of a number of well - known Silicon Valley investors, including firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, and individual investors like Y Combinator President Sam Altman (also a board member) and SV Angel's Ron Conway.

The firms that do well both in percentage terms and also scale well in absolute numbers of rounds are Greycroft Partners, with 22 percent and 36 rounds; Canaan Partners, with 20 percent and 33 rounds; Upfront Ventures with 26 percent and 21 rounds; Kapor Capital with 31 percent and 18 rounds; and Converge Venture Partners with 24 percent and 15 rounds.

A good solution for firms running multiple payrolls with a high number of employees, Crest Payroll pricing is based on the number of active employees in each client's business, with no additional per check or per payroll run assessed.

With the final numbers for the second quarter of 2015 now available, the research firm ETFGI today brought some long - anticipated news: the size of the exchange traded funds market has finally exceeded that of its older, more well - to - do cousins.

If you're not good with numbers, hire an accounting firm to keep track of things for you, so that you can show investors that you've got everything under control.

Instead, the fund is dominated by basic materials mega-cap SABIC, as well as a number of banks and other financial firms, some of which retain significant state ownership.

To date, the company has raised more than $ 8 billion from a number of investors, including Benchmark and Google Ventures, as well as large financial firms like Goldman Sachs and TPG Growth.

In addition, our Alliance Insights contains slide presentations and edited video clips from many previous Alliance Events, as well as a number of articles and white papers written by our Alliance Partner & Member firms.

The companies recognized nationally as a Best and Brightest Company to Work For are assessed by an independent research firm that reviews a number of key measures relative to other nationally recognized winners.

Nonetheless, in the case of a number of well - established US corporates, investors remain concerned about the extent of unfunded medical and pension liabilities and the equity prices of these firms have generally underperformed the overall market.

Polish firm CD Projekt, best known for its The Witcher series of video games, has convened an extraordinary meeting at which it proposes to introduce what appear to be a number of takeover defenses.

As noted in the recent 2016 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report — and in our previous blogpost — women - owned firms are continuing to grow in number and economic clout at rates well above the national average.

Katie is the author of a number of nutrition books, the mom of seven small children, and a firm believer that good food fuels strong families!

Seventy - two thousand players qualified for the initial pool of draftees, and that number was whittled down to 102 through increasingly difficult to reach benchmarks, as well as the help of a third - party analytics firm.

For innerspring mattresses, higher numbers of coils (generally above 150) are better and result in a firmer mattress.

Soft and airy mesh fabric The mesh fabric has a number of popular qualities: cooling, quick - drying, durable, color - fast and firm enough to give good support to your baby's hips, back, neck and head.

Diamond: «If members of the government were told our rates were high relative to others and took that to mean we couldn't fund - and in fact we were funding well - and it was clear a number of firms posting had emergency loans or were being nationalised and we were posting highest level, we would question whether other institutions could get funds... the implication...» Tyrie interrupts, reading from the Barclays statement quoting Tucker.

A number of vendors and polling firms also offer what seem to be quite sophisticated microtargeting - based voter / donor outreach, but I've also heard experienced direct mail database people say that the by far the best predictor of a person's propensity to give money to a campaigh is his or her past history of donating — people who've donated before are more likely to donate again.

The FSB believes this scheme will help to reduce the number of firms that are paid late as well as improving their working capital.

The small, invite only, forum at the Assembly's Manhattan hearing room brought together about a dozen cloud technology vendors, including major firms like Microsoft, IBM, Amazon and AT&T, and a number of other technology consultants and lobbyists, as well as Reinvent Albany and Common Cause NY.

Last year, P.R.I. retained four firms to lobby the governor and his administration as well as both branches of the Legislature on a number of issues related to medical malpractice law.

Founders of each firm participated in a brief conference call with reporters this afternoon to review the numbers: Global's Jefrey Pollock (perhaps best known for his cameo appearance in «The Place Beyond the Pines» and also for serving as a longtime consultant to former AG / Gov.

Question topics included the estimated time for completion of all of the Sandy recovery home rebuilding, the implementation of new flood maps, whether de Blasio's reported future endorsement of Hillary Clinton is tied to a longterm need for federal government assistance, whether in Secretary Castro's view the City could do better on any element of Sandy recovery efforts, communicating an increased sense of urgency to City agencies, significant variations in the reported number of Build It Back applicants, how the City will continue its increased rate of repairs, details on the construction firms used in the program and praise for developer Gerry Romski.

The UK's space industry employs about 4000 people, and as well as companies which actually build satellites, such as Astrium and Surrey Satellites, there are a large number of supporting firms, active in areas like software and systems, for example Logica and ESYS.

I am a firm believer in these ideals, and I have built the programs and products at Nerd Fitness based around what I believe will help the greatest number of people have the greatest chance for success at the three goals above (happiness, healthiness, and looking - good - nakedness).

Students who have a firm mental number line are far more able to manipulate numbers and have a better sense of when they're moving in the right direction in solving math problems.

By serving as a sort of mega-district for a large number of schools, and thus putting scale to good use, a for - profit firm could free up more education dollars for use at the school and classroom level.

The Audio Publishers Association released the results from their annual sales survey, conducted by the independent research firm Management Practice in the spring of 2015, which revealed that the audiobook industry is continuing to expand in sales as well as the number of titles being published in the format.

Key action is shallow but firm and crisp, and you have control over a number of tablet functions as well as pure typing on the keyboard — you can alter screen brightness, switch things like Wi - Fi on and off, and you can control music playback.

Although a number of these firms would like you to believe they are creating essays with an experienced team of writers, nearly all of these so called their writing is truly outsourced by essay writing services to other countries as well as India.

With the final numbers for the second quarter of 2015 now available, the research firm ETFGI today brought some long - anticipated news: the size of the exchange traded funds market has finally exceeded that of its older, more well - to - do cousins.

What you pay depends on a number of factors: Where you buy the bond — say an online broker or a full service investment firm; what type it is — U.S., Canadian, corporate or government; and how much of it you want — the price can go down the more you buy, so institutional investors usually get a better price.

Well, okay and that's certainly a strategy but when you crunch the numbers, you find out the cost of that payday loan, which you're only using for three days can be a huge amount and you certainly don't want to be doing that over and over again and unfortunately what we see at our firm at Hoyes, Michalos and Associates is that a lot of people don't just have one payday loan.

Their target investments include a number of firms whose share prices might be influenced by high insider buying, spun - off divisions, reduced float, and targeting by activist shareholders, as well as your basic «good buys.»

While the level of a company's stock price is arbitrary, because it can be manipulated by firms via adjustments in the number of shares outstanding, it's been well - documented that individual investors are influenced by nominal prices.