Sentences with phrase «idea works by»

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Regular biofuel production works by fermenting the sugars stored in crops such as sugar cane or corn, but the team's idea is to instead transform the sugar found in the cellulose of the residual crop material — the stalks, stems and leaves.

Having worked closely on major diabetes treatment medications like metformin and Sanofi's flagship insulin Lantus, Chew was taken with the idea that such treatments, however innovative, don't have to be necessary by default.

«With GoSquared, I always have a decent idea of what is going on and by extension know how well our advertising is working or if there is a problem,» he says.

«We've cut the amount of work we do, but we can go much further by focusing on fewer and better ideas that last longer.

When you have a great new business idea or have thought of ways to profit by expanding an existing business, accessing the right finance you need to make the step is as important as making sure your plan works.

That's because 1) you're judged by the company you keep; 2) they can provide useful feedback, ideas, and perspectives; and 3) those people can become early evangelists, helping spread the word about you and your work.

Toronto is one of the municipalities embracing the idea of solving transportation issues by working with startups.

To keep the initiative rigorous, Moonrocks is working with Cheskin Research, in Redwood Shores, Calif., specialists in the market segmentation, to ensure that ideas picked up by Lunar are aimed at sufficiently promising and well - defined markets.

I also suggest The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein, which gave me the idea for the Google Lunar XPrize and the work we're doing with Planetary Resources to prospect and mine asteroids.

Leaders thrive when they strengthen relationships with their people by spending more one - on - one time with them to hear their suggestions, ideas, problems and issues as well as talking about performance issues and their work.

«This might seem inter-intuitive,» admitted Busque, but by sharing her idea, she was able to find an advisor in CEO of Zipcar Scott Griffith, who helped raise money to fund TaskRabbit and allowed her to work out of Zipcar's office.

I know that I drive people mad by refusing, point blank, ever to rate their work or new product ideas a perfect 10.

You show others what can be by promoting the ideas, talents and contributions of those you work with.

If you're intrigued by the idea of working on applications that millions of people could potentially use, then you'll want to take a look at the growing group of software engineers who are researching, designing, evaluating, integrating and maintaining software applications, technical environments, operating systems (you can thank these guys for all those Apple iOS updates), embedded software, information warehouses and telecommunications software in both the private and public sectors.

The organization calls the commitments generated within these working groups «turning ideas into action,» by creating clearly articulated, concrete goals to solve a problem in a measurable way.

«Cohen's directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and «corporate responsibility» work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states,» Assange said, referring to an e-mail leaked by WikiLeaks claiming to discuss Cohen's activities as Google Ideas chief.

In spirit I like this idea, but usually it's executed by carving out a day here or a day there — or every Friday, for example — to work on your own projects.

But in an interesting twist, a developer who was hired by Reddit to work on the idea of a «crypto - currency» — a form of Bitcoin that users could receive in exchange for contributing content, or as a way of distributing some of the shares that were issued in the site's fundraising round — said in a post on Medium that he was working on a plan to de-centralize Reddit in just this way before he was let go.

This is the same philosophy held by the late tech innovator Steve Jobs, who said thinking that a great idea is 90 % of the work is completely wrong.

With that, she circles back to the idea that the best way to work through failure and rejection is by looking past external validation.

By delaying your launch, you're giving the competition a chance to come forward with the same idea, rendering all of your hard work obsolete.

«By bringing your whole self to work you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of you,» said Saint John.

By letting our team off early that day, we showed team members that we value their ideas and want them to enjoy working together.

By the time they get to work, they have a pretty good idea of what's going on in the world.

Separate from creating products that simply work, startups achieve virality and real success by catering to potential users of the product first through creating an appeal or purpose that people can align and relate to or an idea they believe in and will want to share with everyone in their circle of influence.

By the time you work on this part, you should have a renewed excitement for your business and a better idea of what you're working toward.

The Harvard paper cites a 2000 study by Bhide that finds «a substantial fraction of the Inc. 500 got their idea for their new company while working at their prior employer.»

The Best Workplaces in the Bay Area and the Best Small and Medium - Sized Workplaces in the Bay Area, recently announced by Great Place to Work and Fortune, offer business leaders across the country fresh ideas for inspiring employees and helping them reach their full potential.

The Art Science of Negotiation, a scholarly work by Harvard Business School professor Howard Raiffa that applied game - and decision - theory ideas to business, came out the following year.

The idea is to avoid thinking by analogy — let's make this car look like that car, just sort of different or better — and instead deal with problems by stripping them down to the core and working your way up.

So, I listened with fascination as Mr. Zuckerberg answered a battery of questions posed by members of Congress (many having absolutely no idea how social platforms work) regarding the exploitation of Facebook's user base as a motherlode for data mining companies like Cambridge Analytica.

Maven was founded by Kate Ryder, who came up with the idea for the app when she was working at a venture - capital fund in London.

So if you're going to forsake your career, and give up the opportunity to learn and gain experience by working for others, it's a good idea to know upfront what you're up against so you have the best chance of winning in the end.

The new smart magazine feature builds on the idea of custom magazines, McCue said, but instead of users having to do all the work, Flipboard does it for them by automatically creating personalized collections on topics that interest them.

That's according to a tidbit of wisdom in the business book Dinosaur Brains: Dealing With All Those Impossible People at Work unearthed by Farnam Street, a consistently interesting blog dedicated to hunting down just these sorts of fascinating ideas in out - of - the - way places.

Commenting on his entrepreneurial journey with Wrappup, Salman said, «It's been a wild ride for sure, from a simple idea at a hackathon, to a working prototype in 24 hours, to the current state of the platform driven by predictive A.I. and voice commands - it's been an incredible experience.

The bold thinkers at the core of these companies are able to work as they see fit — they can stand for phone calls, sprawl out on a couch to decompress, hold meetings outside or close all the doors for focused work when they're really motivated by a new idea.

All 24 hourly employees now have their own «paid - time - off (PTO) banks» — an innovation suggested by Liebegott's partner, Jerry Feijoo, who had seen the idea work well for his former employer, a large engineering firm.

That's why Nike's ad campaign about out of work goalies, played by real actors, is such a simple and brilliant idea.

Many innovative companies, from Google to Intuit, embrace their employees» passion by incorporating unstructured time into their work week during which employees can pursue ideas independent of company objectives.

To get a rough idea of how much you'll be spending each year in retirement, you can start by calculating what percentage of your working income you'll need to replace.

But whatever happened in the boardrooms of Apple, his next piece of advice is a valuable one for any good leader who wants to surround themselves with top talent and retain those skilled workers: «If you want to hire great people and want them to stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to be run by ideas, and not hierarchy.»

To meet this political and economic meta - challenge, the hot new idea is the universal basic income — using some of the wealth generated by all this new technology to guarantee everyone a baseline income, whether they are working or not.

The idea here is essentially to work out how to set up cross-border mutual - fund type structures to invest in bonds issued by regional governments and quasi-government authorities, and to show the way with a modest amount of central bank money.

By leaving room for risk, you open yourself up for new ideas — from new marketing channels to new data application — to test and learn what works for your brand.

By taking an idea — and using talent and professionalism — to build a worthwhile business, without backing from investors or having little or no starting capital, takes great dedication, sound work ethics and pure single - mindedness to achieve this.

If you want to start putting these findings to work, you can improve your knowledge retention and make new ideas and concepts stick by introducing novelty into your learning process.

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You can even illustrate your point by showing how a typical workweek would look for your potential employee so he can get an idea of how to balance his work needs and his personal ones.

Sure, more people than ever have probably heard about bitcoin, and they may have heard about some of its closest rivals by market cap, such as Ethereum and Ripple, but they don't have the faintest idea what purpose they serve or how they really work.