Sentences with phrase «leaky bucket»

There's lots more to share about Pumpkin Ridge Passive House — from Zola windows to plugging the metaphorical leaky bucket to busting the super-chunky Passive House myth.

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We also reached out to others who we thought were technologically savvy, so way before we launched, we were making sure they were on there, getting feedback, and making sure that they could see this is useful, and it wasn't just a leaky bucket.

An early lesson I learned from one of our investors is that you don't want a leaky bucket.

Startups pour all of their efforts into growth and new customer acquisition, and they lose half of those customers out of their leaky bucket faster than they can add new ones.

With low retention, or a «leaky bucket» of a product, you're going to lose more and more customers the more you ramp up your acquisition efforts.

Fixing that leaky bucket was my challenge.

Ray Zinn: It's called a leaky bucket phenomena.

It's called the leaky bucket effect and that's something you have to be aware.

I compare taking thyroid hormones to pouring more water into a leaky bucket but failing to plug up the leak.

But this is akin to putting water in a leaky bucket.

The teaching workforce continues to be a leaky bucket, losing hundreds of thousands of teachers each year — the majority of them before retirement age.

California could replace the leaky bucket on which it has wasted money and people in the past with a purposeful approach to recruiting and retaining well - prepared teachers in high - need fields, building a strong foundation for the future that solves teacher shortages once and for all.

Much like pouring California's precious water resources into a leaky bucket, this costly cycle of recruitment and attrition creates a shameful waste of human talent.

School districts and state policymakers have a role to play in stopping the «leaky bucket» of teacher turnover that exacts both a financial and academic toll on students and school systems.

Given the significant role that attrition plays in exacerbating shortages — accounting for nearly 90 % of the demand for new teachers — strategies that plug the «leaky bucket» of teacher turnover are particularly high leverage.

NPR this week notes that 8 percent of teachers quit every year and quotes the Learning Policy Institute saying the teaching force is «a leaky bucket, losing hundreds of thousands of teachers each year — the majority of them before retirement age.»

The teaching force is «a leaky bucket, losing hundreds of thousands of teachers each year — the majority of them before retirement age,» says a recent report from the Learning Policy Institute.

And they can look forward and say, you know, I don't know that it makes sense to try and put any more money in this leaky bucket any longer.

Those leads need to be going to an effective conversion tool, not a leaky bucket.

So, in reality, all these «iron glad» contracts devised by wholesalers is nothing but a leaky bucket, eye wash to get a seller to closing.

If you don't plug those holes then you are constantly filling a leaky bucket!