Sentences with phrase «in scrappy»

We're a startup, and we approach our work seriously; we tackle problems in a scrappy and disruptive fashion, yet we build for scale to support our clients at big data volume.

Central Park, located on the sixth floor of the Park Central building in downtown Los Angeles, embodies this kind of entertaining unpredictability one would see in a scrappy minor league baseball team.

Soft - spoken and shy, he works alone, without assistants, in a scrappy one - room studio in East London, where canvases, oil paints and debris cover the floors, and irons and sticks are strewn everywhere.

In a scrappy greenbelt along the bank of the Mississippi River, two stacks of antique tables by Jennifer Odem (Rising Tables, 2017) refer bluntly to the rising water table, and the stacked furniture that served as makeshift rafts and saved many from drowning.

Spring WorkshopFounded by American expat Mimi Brown, Spring is both gallery and art colony, offering live - in residencies for local and international artists in the scrappy — but rapidly developing — Wong Chuk Hang district.

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It's more organic in feel than before, flowing down roads that the old car often felt like it was taking in scrappy chunks.

He earns cash helping out likable old racing hand Del (Steve Buscemi), who enters horses in scrappy local competitions, sometimes with the help of former It jockey Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny).

Like Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm or Matt LeBlanc in Episodes, the Irish actor Aidan Gillen plays an actor called Aidan Gillen in this scrappy, low - fi meta - musing on fame and life as a jobbing actor.

He finds cash - in - hand work helping out likeable old racing hand Del (Steve Buscemi), who races horses in scrappy local competitions, sometimes with the help of past - it jockey Bonnie (Chloe Sevigny).

Inspired by an incredible true story, comes the gritty, affectionately humorous, yet stirring comeback tale of the unlikely boxing hero, «Irish» Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), and his half - brother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), who had to come apart as opponents before coming together as brothers in a scrappy fight to win a long - shot championship and strengthen the bonds of their family.

At my firm, PR Hacker, we know a thing or two about how to spread ideas in scrappy and surprising ways: we're hired to help brands like Budweiser, Milk - Bone, Smucker's and Del Monte create marketing content that can spread quickly and «go viral.»

Arsenal managed to beat Newcastle 1 - 2 in a scrappy game on Saturday afternoon.

Spurs turned in a scrappy display in the first leg at Rodney Parade and were saved embarrassment by Harry Kane's late equaliser that took the tie to a replay.

Grzegorz Krychowiak smashes home the winning penalty for Poland in a scrappy encounter between Poland and Switzerland.

Sergio Ramos» headed goal secured Real Madrid a 1 - 0 win in a scrappy Liga encounter against Getafe at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez.

Ligue 1 Having managed to avoid defeat since a 3 - 1 loss at home to Marseille in Week 10, Lille's resistance finally buckled when they fell to a 1 - 0 loss in a scrappy and otherwise unremarkable game at Montpellier last Sunday.

The second period started in scrappy fashion, with the back - and - forth football of the first 45 minutes being replaced by a battle for midfield supremacy.

Then the body blow to Arsenal's title ambitions was delivered in scrappy style by defender Williams.

In this scrappy city, in this contrary rivalry, the shift from green to blue can require more than a New York minute.

Plays well in a scrappy game like this one.

The Three Lions seemed to badly lack some flair in their side again over this international break, winning 1 - 0 in scrappy encounters against Slovenia and Lithuania.

In a scrappy game between Liverpool and Tottenham where both sides played a number of youngsters and fringe players, it was hard to pick out individuals who truly excelled.

Lovely and colorful, this green salsa has nice, medium - sized chunks of the varying components — onions, green bells and poblanos and accented by flakes of cilantro all in a scrappy solution that's thankfully not too watery or drippy.

In the scrappy but sunny corner storefront, the daily menu is written on a strip of butcher - block paper: custardy quiche and the flakiest croissants in the morning; delicate super-seasonal plates of, say, shaved squash with nasturtiums or ricotta gnudi with black - chickpea hummus at lunch.

Take the essay in Scrappy Little Nobody that tackles Kendrick's first boyfriend.

There are a lot of ways to do this in a scrappy fashion.

And, having played ultimate throughout summer camp as a kid (often with Marc), briefly in college, and for two seasons in a scrappy New York City league (yes, I realize I'm officially coming out of the nerd closet here), I was invited to play Thursday.

Manchester City should be able to roll on to yet another win in this one because they have shown lately that they can dig a little deeper in scrappier, frustrating games to get the job done.

Not exact matches

The club has prided itself, since its founding in 1899, as Catalonia's scrappy counterpoint to its bitter rival in the capital, Real Madrid — a living embodiment of Spain's fierce political tensions.

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

According to a number of recent news reports, German media conglomerate Axel Springer is considering either dramatically increasing its stake in or acquiring all of Business Insider, the scrappy upstart news operation co-founded by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget.

A small, scrappy company in Burlingame, California, is quietly rethinking the way the car sharing industry will function in the years to come — and it just got a big boost from one of Silicon Valley's premier VC firms.

A great office doesn't need to be large; in fact, there are plenty of benefits to being scrappy that large companies try to imitate.

Then, in April 2014, Schaaf and the scrappy Imgur team decided that bootstrapping was over: They accepted $ 40 million in investment (primarily from Andreessen Horowitz).

Five months after being whipped by the broadcast goliaths at the U.S. Supreme Court, the scrappy streaming TV startup has finally thrown in the towel.

In their heyday, infomercials were certainly an innovative, scrappy way of bringing a product to market.

In the coming years, look for the role to grow exponentially as more established corporations take notes from the scrappier, more flexible startup companies.

And what does the star investor and tech industry veteran (who made his first millions when he sold his computer consulting firm Microsolutions to CompuServe in 1990, before a lot of the kids in the audience were born) think about scrappy young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs trying to compete with him?

In a little over a decade, it had expanded from a scrappy upstart into a thriving outfit with dozens of employees, a database of 1,500 contractors and such industry giants as Lowe's, Home Depot and Canadian Tire as clients.

Pitching such a varied list of products through multiple distribution channels will certainly be a challenge for a company so scrappy, according to Ali Partovi, a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist who has recently been investing in startups, including Hampton Creek.

Miguel McKelvey may be the co-leader of a multibillion dollar venture, but at heart — and if his beard is any indication — he says he's still the scrappy businessman he was in the late nineties.

Almost without exception, exemplars are scrappy young businesses whose brands were born on the same clean sheets of paper as their products were, whose history is measured in months or years rather than decades, and whose founders still show up for work in the morning.

Writer Tom Foster, in «Reprogramming Retail,» depicts what is being called a «post-Amazon world,» in which scrappy, inventive retailers use quality, high - touch service and an appeal to customers» hearts to compete with the online giant's massive economies of scale.

That's because in the world of Amazon's series, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, the Axis powers won World War II and occupied America, where a scrappy resistance movement is taking shape.

In this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely gooIn this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely gooin Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely good.

Barnes argues that the smaller amounts, typically $ 20,000 or less, allow students to run their companies and stay in school — as well as boost their entrepreneurial education by forcing them to be scrappy and resourceful.

In short, if you want to grow without sacrificing innovation, don't lose track of your scrappy startup roots.

Of course, taking a scrappy Canadian startup public comes with its own set of challenges — how do you maintain the same energy and innovation when your staff is in the hundreds, instead of the dozens?

Now, the U.S. Justice Department is taking sides in the legal fight — and not with the scrappy startup.