Sentences with phrase «into fewer companies»

For instance, investors are pumping larger amounts of capital into fewer companies.

After looking into a few companies we decided on Healthy Paws.

Not exact matches

But Netflix management also made a few cryptic comments in a video conference following the company's earnings call suggesting that the company may get into the news business.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

Thus, convincing investors to put money into ventures with low profitability in the short - run but with strong potential in the future is something that only few companies are able to do

Michael Dell doesn't talk specifically about the companies he's interested in, but according to an April 2012 Forbes interview, Dell said he, personally, looks at over 250 companies every year that might fit into the company's acquisition strategy, even if the company only acts on a few.

WORLDWIDE Online Printing has had a turbulent past few years, with changes in ownership, a dip into administration, and consequent company restructure.

A few of the best ones will find a way to get there, but most young companies will have to fold their product or service into someone's else's success story.

A few months into construction, in early 2009, a person Nevsun describes as «a European or South African banking syndicate official» visiting Bisha told the company Segen might be using conscripts there.

Since taking Coach's reins in 2014, the 50 - year - old executive has done what few retail CEOs have been able to do: tapped into his company's successful past to help it compete in a difficult present.

When Nintendo launched the NES in 1983 in Japan, the company was edging out into a frontier that few others wanted to explore.

By incorporating just a few key strategies into your management style, you, your employees and your company's overall productivity could feel a boost.

He says, «Companies almost always overpay for their targets, hurting their shareholders and enriching few except the CEOs who do deals and the investment bankers who goad them into the next must - have merger.»

Because for the past few years, many gold companies have nearly run their businesses — and their investors» equity — into the ground, despite an incredible rise in gold prices.

The company's principals attended countless trade shows to generate brand awareness, and even signed up for a few trade missions organized by Canadian consulates in Boston and Washington D.C. Targeting government contracts, Novolker's team looked into obtaining U.S. security clearances and getting Prospero listed on a registry of approved suppliers.

The home console market was believed dead after Atari's fall, and few companies thought it a good idea to jump into the fray.

«You have to play up that aspect of the business [and tell a prospect] you're going to wear quite a few hats,» Smith says, unlike in a big company, «where you might be siloed into one specific business area, and there's a whole bunch of rules and regulations that you have to abide by,» Smith says.

I had to put a company of mine into the hands of an administrator (kind of like Chapter 11 in the USA) a few years back in the midst of a partnership dispute.

Feltheimer says the drop occurred in part because the company released fewer films than usual into what it believed would be a poor economic climate for movies — not because of the quality of the films.

Few, if any, boxing fans will have ever heard of NeuLion, (and, the company's name still won't be very visible on Saturday either) but the company's technology and manpower will play a pivotal role in getting the stream of the Mayweather - McGregor fight into the homes of millions of people this weekend.

Some entrepreneurs have applied for the money -; each company accepted into TechStars will immediately receive $ 118,000 in start - up capital -; but most of the strong candidates raised at least a few hundred thousand dollars even before they applied.

The real reason Waze commanded such a high price tag — and why Google, Apple, and Facebook have been chasing the company — is buried a few paragraphs into the company's Privacy Policy.

Businesses with several locations have a few options to add maps and multiple street addresses, including pasting the HTML code from their web site into an internal frame, using a third - party Facebook app from companies such as StaticHTML or GroSocial.

«A lot of companies talk about «making the world a better place» but I feel like Etsy is one of the few which actually takes into account issues like sustainability, equality, humane treatment, etc. in all of its business decisions.»

There is literally no limit to how far and wide the ideation process can go, but with a few simple principles in place, most companies can transform traditional group - think, eye - rolling meetings into innovative, genuine and honest sessions.

A few weeks ago, the company revealed that a Model S in autopilot mode crashed into the side of a truck on May 7, after it failed to see the truck against a brightly lit sky.

In the span of a few months the company announced that it would acquire both AOL and Yahoo as it works to load its formidable network still the most comprehensive and widespread in the U.S. with content in a bid to keep a highly competitive (and highly lucrative) market from turning into a commodity business.

«The night of sleep we were hoping for turned into a few meager hours before we rushed into the office to add capacity to the service,» he wrote on the company blog.

When startup founders drive the marketing campaign, companies tend to run into a few problems, especially when pitching enterprise - level clients.

Over the past few years, companies have invested over $ 1,200 per employee on direct learning expenditures, and this investment will continue into 2017.

Within the last few years, «idea guys and gals» who wish to turn their concepts into cash have a new low cost option — crowdsourced innovation companies.

The idea of augmented reality, the layering of computer - generated information over real - world scenes, has been around for a while, but recently, some new companies — Daqri, Blippar, and Layar, to name a few — have been transforming the technology from a novelty into a serious business tool.

Defending a newspaper empire amid scandal, splitting a global media conglomerate into two public companies, enduring a high - profile divorce, and struggling to repair frayed relationships with grown children — it's been a trying few years for Rupert Murdoch.

And then there is Dropbox, the popular file storage and file sharing company that ran almost entirely on AWS until it quietly moved 90 % of that workload into its own data centers over the course of a few years.

Also cutting into top - line growth according to the company: Fewer babies were born after the Great Recession hit in 2008.

Over the past few years, however, many universities have been working aggressively to build a bridge between these disparate groups in an effort to turn academic research into profitable companies.

Revenue growth has slowed as many companies sink more resources into developing the next blockbuster drug; what's more, the «patent cliff» for the last round of megabillion - dollar drugs — when generics firms typically see a sales spurt — happened a few years ago.

At first the shutdown was to last only a few days, but a few days stretched into an unprecedented six weeks at a cost to the company of approximately US$ 171 million.

At any point over the past few years, I could have decided to grow my company into a multimillion - dollar public - relations agency.

A few years into its run, the company ran into some obstacles and had to rethink its approach, like temporarily shuttering it's same - day delivery option in Los Angeles, and included a $ 9.99 delivery fee.

And it would not be until they questioned their own most basic assumptions about «the way Magellan's was managed» — the company's dependence on them, the heroic - leader model they'd brought into the company from day one — that they would have a shot at doing what few founders can when the wall confronts them: getting through it.

Kalanick went on to commission an «urgent» investigation into the allegations, to be headed by former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and including, among others, Uber board member Arianna Huffington and the company's chief HR officer Liane Hornsey (who has only been on the job for a few months).

However, if I were to pick someone from this list to bring into any company in any industry and make a high - level, lasting impact, there are few executives in the history of American business with a better track record than Lou Gerstner.

«The «winner takes all» dynamic of the tech industry concentrates more and more power into fewer and fewer companies.

In the end Guru.com settled on two firms: Greylock and August Capital, which along with a few other investors put into the company almost twice as much as the Slavets had said they hoped for in September.

More than 25 CEOs have stepped into the top spot at a Fortune 500 company so far this year, plenty of them within the last few months.

Companies like Google, Microsoft, and IBM have tried to get into the health IT space over the past few decades but haven't stuck around.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

In its first few years, Dancap sank money into a power generation company and Toronto's Porter Airlines, among others.

He added that very few companies in Ontario are currently building automated vehicles, but as the amount of technology that goes into a vehicle grows, innovative Canadians businesses will have a chance to capitalize.