Sentences with phrase «initial lack of results»

Not exact matches

But Subway's decade of growth was also the result of sticking to its winning concept: The footprint for a Subway can be as little as 600 square feet, initial costs can be as low as $ 84,000, and a lack of griddles, fryers and drive - thrus means franchisees can open their restaurants almost anywhere.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Not distancing himself from his initial comments, however, he did continue saying there was a lack of respect in the NFL and that, as a result, this was the reason the league's ratings were down, another statement this weekend that was not based in fact.

On the allegation that the initial lack of light crude and gas in the country was as a result of the lack of financial capacity, we wish to remind ACEP that the supply of HFO to the KARPOWER barges is the responsibility of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) who has not failed to discharge that responsibility.

Contrasting patterns of responses to socially unfamiliar elephants in our initial tests of social knowledge could conceivably be driven by differences in social attitudes, if lack of opportunities to bond with kin in the original Pilanesberg population resulted in greater acceptance of unknown individuals [11, 29].

The Bionic was the most heavily modified of the lineup, having been based off of a combination of Motorola reference hardware and having LTE added in order to meet Verizon's requirements, though the initial lack of updates for the phone compared to its stablemates were almost exclusively the result of Motorola's Motoblur overlays and bundled software such as Webtop, which considerably left the phone behind in terms of major updates until last October, when the Ice Cream Sandwich update eliminated the former software bundle and left the device with improved performance as a result.

The result of the lack of initial sales meant that developers became wary of the Wii U, instead developing for consoles with a larger player base, like the PlayStation 4.

[3] I had some initial difficulty in running the authors» Matlab code, as a result of only having access to an old Matlab version that lacked necessary functions, but I was able to adapt an open source version of the Matlab PLS regression module and to replicate the paper's key results.

Most green roof problems we have observed result from poor initial design and lack of post-installation care and maintenance.

Semantics and the lack of the use of the phrase «concurrent group therapy» as its own separate modality may be one reason why initial search results were so lacking in the number of studies found.

Director of Real Estate: «Ed played a critical role in our being able to work through potential problems such as re-zoning issues, lack of available sewer, demolition and unusual site problems... The end result was that we sold the property for a price that, net of costs, was more than double our initial estimate.»