Sentences with phrase «ideas are coming at»

New ideas are coming at a rapid pace these days.

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At first, I didn't think a website was necessary, but as I came up with more ideas, I grew passionate about the business I created.

And with good reason; millions of entrepreneurs and businesspeople have embraced the idea that carving out a slice of an existing market can certainly be effective, but finding new opportunities — finding blue oceans — is even better, since those gains don't have to come at the expense of other businesses or other people.

Here's a crazy idea when it comes to wireless roaming: how about Canadians being able to use their one and only cellphones with the same single numbers in whatever countries they want at a reasonable cost without having to jump through all kinds of hoops?

They're having margaritas at 5 p.m., the music is playing, they're coming up with ideas.

«I thought it was one of the most timely and disruptive of ideas that I've come across in my career, and I've looked at thousands of start - ups,» she told Variety.

Landy, a physician, came up with the idea while he was studying the smartphone habits of doctors at Stanford University in 2012.

What's most amazing is how many of our business and marketing ideas have come from our twin 8 - year - olds and our 11 - year - old right at the dinner table.»

Finally, every manager at every level should be responsible for promoting a culture of meritocracy, where great ideas are encouraged to come from all voices, male and female alike.

«One of the conversations that keeps coming up at these G7 and G20 meetings is the idea of how to help workers transition (to jobs or retirement) and that there is some fairness and equity in that transition.

«My intent was to take that department - store kiosk model and put it online,» says founder Sam Hogg, who came up with the idea while taking a Sustainable Supply Chain class at Michigan State University.

«A lot of people get discouraged about meditation because they like the idea of it, but then feel like they're «failing» at it because they just come face to face with the quality of distraction,» says Arden Pennell, Business Insider's program director.

When the time comes to show up in your boss's office and say, «I'm interested in a promotion,» it's important that you have something specific in mind — if not a specific job title, then at least a clear idea of what the responsibilities might include and how this ties in to your career goals.

Bell of GeoDynamics points out that if a corporate incubator agrees to give you funding to help you further your idea, it comes at a cost, whether it is equity, control or something else.

«You're extremely creative and you're brilliant, and you're wonderful at coming up with new ideas.»

Head gardener Sean Harkin said that his idea for the garden, which has been in planning for the past 18 months, came through talking to gardeners who used to work at the Palace.

The idea came to me while I was in LA in 2015 for Techweek and I saw a documentary called «code debugging the gender gap,» about why girls lose interest in going into STEM at such a young age.

«Whether we agree with them or not is secondary to the objective, which is to send students into the world with the understanding that they're not going to find every idea that comes at them palatable or comfortable.»

In fact, brainstorming works best when everyone comes together to share their ideas after they've had time to work independently, since groups tend to be better at shaping and building upon ideas.

As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, Fiance, who graduated in 2014 and now works for a startup, says that some of his best ideas came from constantly being willing to meet new people and attend social events.

If I was a CEO of some big company, I would look into the future and see some pretty heavy waves coming at me, and start taking very seriously the idea that the future doesn't compute, that this $ 1 trillion sloshing around the global economy each day has turned it into a casino that needs to be dismantled.

At the Virgin Group, we put a lot of effort into this: one example that comes to mind is that everyone at Virgin America — the CEO, the pilots, the accountants, everyone — attends an annual training program called Refresh to celebrate their achievements, build team spirit, encourage creativity and brainstorm new ideas togetheAt the Virgin Group, we put a lot of effort into this: one example that comes to mind is that everyone at Virgin America — the CEO, the pilots, the accountants, everyone — attends an annual training program called Refresh to celebrate their achievements, build team spirit, encourage creativity and brainstorm new ideas togetheat Virgin America — the CEO, the pilots, the accountants, everyone — attends an annual training program called Refresh to celebrate their achievements, build team spirit, encourage creativity and brainstorm new ideas together.

That was evident when Peter Thiel, the Paypal co-founder, audacious - idea advocate, and managing partner at $ 275 million VC firm Founders Fund, came to speak to the batch of YC founders.

It's more than often the direction you're pointed if you have an idea and talk to any old - school business person, corporate lifer or institutional banker — at least when it comes to getting your startup idea off the ground.

It was Schultz himself who came up with the idea of the red - white - and - blue wristbands — to be seen at Starbucks counters and to be worn by customers.

«He'll come in and say, «I had this great idea at three in the morning» — and it's not just an idea, it's a whole plan in excruciating detail.»

Here are some myths about where good ideas come from and ways to stimulate idea - generation at your company.

Dahl was at a bar listening to friends complain about their pets in 1975 when he came up with the idea of a pet rock — the perfect, easy - to - care - for pet.

«The idea came to me at three in the morning, three days before I was delivering my first child,» Blakely told CNBC.

Contrary to their portrayal in pop culture, entrepreneurs aren't purely «idea people,» dreaming up revolutionary new concepts and introspectively coming to profound conclusions about their industry — though they are that, at times.

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.

You might be finding it difficult to come up with the right idea at given point of time, but there might be an idea sitting in the heads of a person who isn't a marketer, but still has immense knowledge about the business, its target audience and the operational niche.

Shontell: And you know another thing that comes up too is this idea of a duopoly and when you look at where all the digital advertising dollars are moving, Facebook and Google seem to just keep coming up.

«I'm here at eMerge because I can relate with entrepreneurs, businessmen, especially being in the music business, because every time we come up with an idea or a new record, people are constantly telling us how it's not going to work, it's not as good as what you had before,» Pitbull said Tuesday on CNBC's «Power Lunch.»

Canada does well at coming up with ideas and making them work, Elgie said, but it's not so good at commercializing those ideas and scaling up production, often because of a lack of available capital.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

Given that great ideas often come from older, other ideas — I asked Berkun why there continues to be such prestige (at least in the U.S.) attached to original or novel concepts.

Denmark's flexicurity is also another one of those pragmatically human ideas that makes one wonder whether we're coming at things all wrong here in North America.

The genius idea that's getting the company through the recession — the $ 5 Footlong — actually came from a south Florida franchisee, who began pricing certain sandwiches at $ 5.

«It has to be something that says you didn't just sit at a white board and you decided it was fun to start a company and you came up with ideas to start something,» Kupor says.

MacKugler came up with the idea in 2013, when he was house - sitting for two weeks at a co-worker's house on a dairy farm.

Smart companies know that it's not only those at the top of the org chart who have something to share; great ideas, innovations and advice can come from even the most junior staffers.

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, the book that popularized the idea that mastery in a given field takes at least 10,000 hours of practice, had just come out, as had Geoff Colvin's Talent is Overrated and Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code, both of which emphasized the role of dedicated practice (and discounted natural - born talent) in excellence.

The notion of a journalist participating in an earnings call hosted by a company he or she covers is unusual, and it took us some time at Re / code to be comfortable with the idea — the first time this came up, we declined.

The goal for many entrepreneurs nowadays is not to create a company that will someday make billions but to come up with an idea that will produce revenue quickly, said Jerome S. Engel, director for the center for entrepreneurship at the Berkeley Haas School of Business.

«The whole idea was to get people to think more creatively, maybe come up with a new idea they wouldn't have if they were just in their office,» said Dale Alberda, the lead architect on the project at NBBJ, a firm that has also worked on building projects for Samsung, Google and the Chinese internet company Tencent.

It also allows me to focus more on more stressful challenges I may face at work because I am not necessarily trying to fit them in «before the clock» and if I come up with an idea during an off hour I can try it out.

In an effort to demystify the financial side of the business, and with the overarching goal of encouraging entrepreneurially minded engineers to come forward with their ideas, we at Primary are working to foster an open dialogue and empower more would - be / should - be technical founders to step forward.

The one solution I've found to coming up with more investment ideas is to look at all our missed opportunities and learn why we didn't pull the trigger.

The pullback in government support was often justified by the idea that employee stock ownership may be a risky substitute for fixed worker pay, but almost all the studies indicate that employee stock ownership in the form of ESOPs does not come at the expense of workers taking lower wages or other forms of compensation.