Sentences with phrase «larger buildings this year»

My biggest challenge in 2017 will be to obtain private financing and leverage what I currently own, especially when I have goals to purchase even larger buildings this year.

Not exact matches

It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large - scale government programs.

Five years ago, after being a year or so in business, the three co-founders of Indiegogo, the second largest crowdfunding platform in the U.S, were brainstorming about why they were passionate about their business and how they would build the company.

Howard Schultz, the leader of Starbucks, said on Thursday he would step down as chief executive next year, handing over to his personally selected successor the management of the company he built into the world's largest coffee business, with over 25,000 stores in 75 countries.

The company, founded in 2007, has provided for many years consumer backups (uploading your hard drive to the cloud), but had the technology built (their own self - built software and hardware to profitably create backup) that could handle large amounts of data, but also make sure the company still made money.

However, its acquisition of the Chicago - based user design and app building company is a hat - tip to the need for a well - designed customer experience, which has fueled acquisitions completed in recent years by other large companies.

«Cloudera has built its partner strategy out very well over the last year, and this is a key win, challenging the exclusivity Hortonworks seemed to have achieved in the nascent Hadoop - on - Windows world — one that is untapped so far but will become very large,» says Gartner analyst Merv Adrian, addressing Cloudera's pacts with Microsoft.

«The whole marketplace, our entire business, is built on the trust that consumers have in our platform,» he said «With a platform that does annually $ 370 billion GMV a year, you're going to see some issues with it because it's a large reflection of what's going on in the offline community, but we are taking a very draconian approach to cracking down on counterfeits.

Online building supply marketplace BuildDirect has pulled off the venture capital equivalent of Irish twins, staging two large funding rounds in the same calendar year.

Patagonia has helped guide dozens of other companies through the process of becoming B Corps over the past few years, including Natura, a publicly traded company and Brazil's largest cosmetics manufacturer (see box «Building a «B Corp» Network» at the end of the article).

Rive, a hyperenergetic, fast - talking 37 - year - old, says he has a plan to get there, which includes building one of the world's largest solar - panel plants in Buffalo — a move even many of his supporters say is crazy at a time when solar manufacturers have been struggling.

To be fair, Huawei is not «new» to servers: it's been building them for years and is ranked as the fourth largest server provider as measured by units sold by Gartner (it).

Over the past 10 years, as he was building the largest global social network, Zuck has had a lot of supporters, as well as critics.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

Intel has teased the large - scale release of these 10 - nanometer chips for years, promising they'd deliver better performance with lower power usage than chips built with the company's 14 - nanometer technology, which have been shipping since 2014.

Under Armour, founded by Kevin Plank in 1996, recently overtook Adidas to become the second largest sportswear company in the U.S. Plank told Inc. last year that he wanted to revolutionize the sports apparel industry by creating clothing with health monitoring apps built right in.

In less than seven years, Kimbrell has built the largest asbestos - consulting company in the nation.

Over the next 25 years Barbara would parlay that $ 1,000 loan into a $ 5 billion real estate business, building the largest and best - known brand in the business.

A year ago, after building a large following on LinkedIn and starting my business, I thought clients would come rushing in the door, and getting clients would be easy.

Non-residential building approvals have increased to be above the levels of recent years and there is a large pipeline of public infrastructure investment to be completed (Graph 4).

Each of the 3 had a decade or 15 years to build up to such a large valuation, since in the start they all had small valuations.

Last year, Vudu stopped making hardware and instead began offering its movie store and simple interactive service as a feature that the largest consumer electronics manufacturers could build into their devices.

One large area of focus for online travel bookers is the home - sharing business that helped build Airbnb into a $ 2.8 billion behemoth over its 10 - year history.

I've been waiting to build a large bond portfolio for a while and am surprised the 10 - year yield is surging to ~ 2 %.

Insiders expect large blocks to hit the market in the coming months and years as tenants relocate to newly - constructed buildings.

For Ripple Labs, 2014 was the year in which we not only clarified our strategy for building the Internet of money but also made large strides in turning that vision into reality.

The report: Years ago, when many advisors may have joined the industry, insurers sought to grow by casting a wider net building and acquiring capabilities to amass large product or geographic footprints in the mold of a full - service financial institution.

After three years, and 60 + investments closed on his own, Jeff built a team and raised a larger, $ 55M Fund III that invested in 55 companies.

In 1878, when the 36 - year - old inventor decided to focus on building a light bulb, 23 others had already invented early versions called arc lamps, some of which were being used commercially to light streets and large buildings.

Over the years we've helped both large and small businesses build momentum and further brand their business both locally and nationally.

Wholesaling Apartment Buildings — Some investors make their entire living off wholesaling just one or two large apartment buildings Buildings — Some investors make their entire living off wholesaling just one or two large apartment buildings buildings per year.

«The large mobile carriers have spent billions of dollars over the past few years to secure spectrum for their own networks, which they've been building out at great expense.»

3.4 % per year) and build a nice site income (if your investment is large enough).

In joining the board, David Marcus, vice president of messaging products at Facebook, will bring years of experience in building large - scale mobile products, according to a Coinbase statement posted yesterday.»

After having their largest net - short position on record in May, by late - September speculators had built - up their largest net - long position in four years.

Munk founded his most significant venture, Barrick Gold Corp., in 1983 and built it into the world's largest gold mining company in less than twenty - five years.

As equities have ground ever higher over the past year, very large short - volatility positions have been building in the markets — largely in volatility - targeting strategies employed by institutional investors and leveraged exchange - traded products geared toward individuals.

In some markets, a large increase in the supply of new dwellings is expected over the next year as new buildings are completed.

Alan has 20 years of financial and consulting experience, having served as Director of the Interfunctional Management Consulting Program at Rutgers Graduate School of Management, a program he helped build into one of the largest business school - based management consulting practices in the country.

The building would be the first major development to take advantage of the Midtown East rezoning plan adopted by the city last year, which allows companies to buy air rights from other properties in the area to build larger, modern offices.

When Lynas started down the path of building the largest rare - earths processing plant outside of China several years ago, the price of rare earths was at heady levels.

For example, if you currently have a high income but low retirement savings, you may choose to pay a larger annual premium for the first 20 years to make sure the policy is paid off then build up your savings, as opposed to paying a lower premium for your entire life.

Large companies can rely upon the cash reserves they have built over the years to help them meet current operating costs while waiting for payment on their invoices.

In fact, thanks to STORE's large amount of retained cash flow and its leading annual rent escalators (built into the leases), the REIT is capable of growing its AFFO organically (without external capital) by 5.2 % a year.

Late Wednesday morning, Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesman, said that «pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning» on a large building in downtown Seattle that was scheduled to begin construction later this year.

CMIT is looking for people who want to build a business that grows larger year after year, and to encourage franchise partners to continue to build, our royalty percentage declines from 6 % to 0 each year as benchmarks are achieved.

I attended one of the largest non-denominational churches in the US and I know for a fact their gas and electric bill was $ 50,000.00 per MONTH, and with the last capital campaign they had a few years back that raised $ 30 million from the members to build more buildings that year they could have used the $ 30,600,000 to help the community and SHOW the love of Christ instead.

It does so by becoming financially self - sufficient, by having its own building (often ethnic parishes remain in lease or rental arrangements for years — a sign that they have no physical or psychological territory in the larger church) and by providing both lay and clerical leadership in the multicultural society and church structures.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.