Sentences with phrase «idea a year ago»

Inside Google, Fallows had been the biggest champion of the Google Express project, after coming up with the idea years ago and then pitching it to management, securing what a source previously told Re / code was up to a $ 500 million budget.

I have no clue where I originally saw this idea years ago — but in today's blogging world, apple nachos have become just about as ubiquitous as raw ballz...

When I made it for the first time a few weeks ago, I asked myself: why did I not have this idea years ago?

«If he thought it was a great idea years ago he could have championed naming it after Jim Buckley.»

I don't know why I didn't think of this brilliant idea a year ago, because we all sleep like babies now!

My sister told me about this idea years ago in reference to happiness, and I think it really works.

CRPE researchers proposed this idea years ago, and Nelson Smith recently expanded on it.

We saw the same idea years ago with the Volvo Safety Concept, but this is better executed.

It was a great idea years ago but we cant» t continue to do business the same we did years ago.

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«Five years ago, the idea of a computer looking at a photo and telling you what was in it seemed impossible,» Henderson told Inc recently in a wide - ranging interview.

Ever since it was first floated a year ago, the idea of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable — two giant Internet and cable TV providers — combining in an $ 78 billion merger sparked concern in a number of areas.

The idea for it came from a paper published online nine years ago that unveiled bitcoin, the digital currency.

But the former dominatrix says the very premise all of her trainings is based on — the idea that hidden power dynamics often impact minorities and women in unfair ways — seemed totally foreign to so many would - be students five years ago when she started teaching.

The idea for 7 Cups of Tea came to him two years ago, after he downloaded with her about a stressful business trip.

And at her party, 100 - plus employees gathered for chips and heartfelt speeches from both Gimbel and Fandino, who choked up as she said, «I had no idea, two years ago, that working here would be so awesome!»

Since starting my podcast a little over a year ago, I've had the pleasure of interviewing some pretty brilliant people about business, money and the idea of success.

A spokesperson for the company told Fortune that the idea began organically at a single location about four years ago, and it has since expanded to about 100 of the chain's nearly 2,000 Chick - fil - A restaurants.

But that idea was a lot easier to buy into a few years ago.

Two years ago, Hawk was struck by the idea of a video game with a skateboard controller.

This idea was driven home to me a year ago, when one of my publishers came to visit me on Necker Island, which is in the British Virgin Islands.

Nearly 100 years ago, social psychologist Graham Wallas proposed that the creative process adhered to a four - stage cycle: Preparation (readying your cognitive muscles for new ideas), incubation (letting your mind unwind), illumination (letting your ideas crystalize), and verification (unleashing your ideas into the world).

«Hamilton» might be about statesmen that lived and died over 200 years ago, but the musical is so accessible that it's easy to relate to its characters and ideas.

Two years ago the company asked each of its 10,000 - plus employees for ideas to innovate and expand the business.

Both companies are betting that the same customer base who would have laughed at the idea of paying $ 6 for a cup of coffee 20 years ago but now does so daily can be persuaded to do the same for a carefully steeped cup of Jasmine Oolong.

A few years ago, I watched as my boss at one such title — an offshoot of a brand famous for ranking the nation's 500 largest corporations — proposed to his boss the heretical idea that we cover more startups.

What started as a niche concept just a few years ago has become a large - scale and viable way for people to invest directly in promising ideas, which creates a new pool of funding while allowing small investors to reap the financial rewards of contributing to successful ventures.

«For us, it's that sort of connection between ideas that were fringe years ago — out of the mainstream — are suddenly mainstream, and seeing the path is not hard to follow.»

This matrix thought - experiment is actually a bit like some ideas of Descartes and Berkeley, hundreds of years ago.

Planning for the Buffer Fest began in earnest about a year ago, after sketching out ideas for the previous 12 months.

The idea had its genesis just three years ago, upon Tetrick's return to the United States after spending seven years working for nonprofits and international organizations on education and food supply in sub-Saharan Africa.

I was last there 10 years ago for a Death Cab for Cutie concert, which should give you an idea of the events that usually take place at the venue.

A few years ago, the idea that a graphic icon of Stephen Curry — chewing on his mouth guard, or sweating profusely — could turn into a profitable business might have been laughable.

«Seven years ago, the idea that a car could drive itself wasn't much more than an idea,» company spokesperson Johnny Luu says via email.

But 32 years ago, one resident, Carlos Mario Montoya, had the idea that the city should celebrate not just the hustle - bustle of business, but also slowing down and enjoying life.

A dozen years ago, some customers approached him with an idea: They required highly automated paint shops in their plants, but the components — booths, ovens, robotic sprayers, conveyers, etc. — came from various suppliers, and were cumbersome to assemble.

Two years ago, when most American Gen Zers (defined as survey respondents who are 22 years old now) were still in school, they were distinctly cool to the idea of spending adulthood in an office, but that's changed quite a bit.

The idea that Facebook might be worth $ 1 billion — let alone $ 15 billion — seemed like near insanity only a year ago, which makes Microsoft's investment a huge coup for Mark Zuckerberg.

Arran founded MyKoolBox three years ago, personally investing # 30,000 of his own money into the research and development of the idea.

Two years ago Oakshire Mushroom's Gary Schroeder and three managers started playing with a seemingly ridiculous idea — selling a product to competitors — while trying to address how to stem the loss of the company's 40 % market share in shiitake mushrooms.

The idea for Jiffy on Demand came to Jaimie Grossman and his brother - in - law Paul Arlin almost two years ago.

«It's more about a passion to do something you want to do... and two years ago the idea was to start a lionfish distribution business from scratch and that's what we did.»

«We never really put two and two together, but about half a year ago we started thinking this would be a great idea, put a business plan together, and wound up invited to Moot Corp,» Koeris said.

Ten years ago, many consumers would have shuddered at the idea of putting personal and career information where anyone could see it, much less preferences and opinions.

Fine founded the company just under 2 years ago and their explosive growth is not only due to their idea, but clearly their ability to receive the support of some of the best VC's out there.

One year ago, the idea of a Bernie Sanders presidency was laughable.

Seven years ago the idea of appealing to people who were so unable to digest cow's milk that they couldn't eat their Wheaties didn't seem like a great way to generate buzz or business.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the idea behind Bitcoin was endorsed years ago by Milton Friedman, the shaman of modern free - market economics.

About four years ago, Lindzon got an email from a couple of young guys with a new idea: a stock brokerage mobile app that would let users trade for free.

The most interesting result, however, is based on an idea proposed more than 50 years ago by the German sociologist Theodore Adorno.

One ideology in particular, which took shape a hundred years ago primarily through the ideas and practices of U.S. - based management thinkers, continues to dominate the way we think about management.