Sentences with phrase «learning a year if»

Since the Colorado Growth Model compares students only to those who had similar test scores in the past, a student can show «high growth» by gaining five months of learning a year if the comparison group is only gaining four months.

Not exact matches

If half of businesses fail in the first five years, what are the other half doing right and what can entrepreneurs learn from them?

In a meeting with his boss, Maynard, who will graduate from St. Mary's University this spring, learned that the company where he had been working part - time for nearly a year wanted to help him pay off his student loan — if he had no objections, of course.

What do you learn about raising geniuses if you track 5,000 super high - performing young people for 45 years?

Even the more impressive challenges, like learning to speak passable Mandarin or coding a rudimentary A.I. system to operate devices in his home, are the sort a smart person can expect to accomplish in a year if he sets aside enough time.

Since Google created Area 120 roughly two years ago, it has launched a handful of apps, but Enthoven knew she wouldn't learn as much about recruiting or scaling if she stayed within the tech giant.

If we've learned one thing about the TV business over the past year, it's that almost everything that was once written in stone is now up for grabs, including who is in control and what they see as their end goal.

If you're looking for a way to become financially educated this year, one way to accomplish your goals is by reading popular money blogs that make learning about money fun.

If you want to work at whiskey company WhistlePig, which sells luxury, 10 - year old rye, you're first going to have to learn how to feed big, burly pigs and read historic philosophy texts.

VR has a bright future, to be sure, but if there's one thing that we've learned from the last five years of VR being «The Next Big Thing» each year, it's that VR's handicaps make fuller adoption limited and leave the door open for a much less invasive technology with a much brighter future: augmented reality, or AR.

If you haven't deliberately tried a year without flying, you haven't had the experience to learn from.

If you were surprised to learn that Barbie could get the R&D tax credit, then maybe it's time to rethink whether your company could be eligible as well for the biggest tax credit for business — approximately $ 10 billion dollars a year.

So if marketers need to learn a new skill set every year or so, why invest a ton of money into a CMO with decades of experience?

From there, if the writers like the program, they are invited to join our year - long marketing program to learn how to make the most of their book and coaching program.

If you're like me, you may have noticed an interesting phenomenon in the last year or two: more and more of your colleagues have mentioned a business - centric podcast that you ought to check out, or you've overheard others talking about something they learned from a podcast.

We've learned a great deal over the last couple of years, which lets us continue to set the curve and raise the bar for what really matters if you want to help entrepreneurs build better businesses.

If you're anything like me, you and your team make your way to quite a few industry events and conferences throughout the year to speak to, connect with, and learn from others in your space.

Break it down if you must into 6 months to learn a gig, master it for 18 months more, then a year (or maybe two) for an opportunity to arise.

If an employee knows that every three years they'll have an opportunity to test the market value of their skills there's a higher likelihood they'll make the investment to learn something new.

To get the most out of your sales team, see if these principles I've learned over the years can benefit your company.

As you plan your year, a huge part of being an entrepreneur or part of a startup is figuring out if and how you will get to conferences to make connections and learn more about business, entrepreneurship, technology and beyond.

Online banking began over thirty years ago, and mobile banking took off more than ten years ago — which means that there are at least one if not two generations that haven't experienced the old fashioned passbook savings account, nor have they learned financial responsib...

And it was only last week, years after learning of the breach and days after the emergence of these explosive reports, that Facebook finally announced it would conduct an audit of Cambridge Analytica to see if it had actually destroyed the data.

And if we've learned anything over the last few years, it's that expected returns do not equal realized returns, and expensive markets don't have to crash in order to reach some sort of equilibrium.

More than a year ago, the TSA contacted Carin, who has worked in the field of deep learning, to ask if he was interested in developing the desired technology, and subsequently connected Carin's research team with Smiths Detection Inc..

If I have learned anything from the first year of the tumultuous Trump presidency, it is this: While our pugnacious Commander in Chief doesn't seem interested in picking his battles, I have to pick mine.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

If you want to learn more about what is driving demand, and why these companies are worth watching, take a look at this presentation by Sid Rajeev from this year's VRIC.

1) Diversify into heartland / flyover states and away from coastal city real estate 2) Conviction is HIGHER now that the new tax plan has passed with the $ 10K SALT cap and $ 750K mortgage cap 3) Invest in the fund with 12 — 16 deals, b / c they are picking the best deals on their platform and have a high incentive not to mess things up if they want to raise new funds 4) Learn from the investments of the fund and eventually invest in specific deals w / real capital (1 - 2 years away)

If you're thinking of doing it please a) read my book (http://bit.ly/5starangel), b) only invest money you can afford to lose, c) take your time, making small bets for the first year or two while you learn.

One of the things we have learnt over the years is that you don't let the stock price tell you if you are wrong.

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Last year our lead theme of How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bond favoring longer - maturity debt was right, even if for the wrong reasons.

I'll join for a year or two, and if even half of what they told me is true, I'll learn how Facebook does it, and then I'll start my own company.»

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It's fun seeing what you can learn if you would have held on all of these years.

If you have been around in marketing or sales even just a few years, you know that what you learned in college still looks the same.

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If all that has been learned by organisations and the public about child abuse in the last 15 years had been known in 1999 and 2004 I would certainly have acted differently.

We've learned over the years that if the gospel isn't good news for anyone and everyone, there's something wrong with that gospel.

Maybe you'll also learn a little history as well... if anyone has been intolerant over the last few thousand years, it's the religious people of the world.

And over these 10 years if there's one thing I've learned it's that if that is your motivating factor you'll shrivel up and die spiritually.

This game of seduction may or may not result in a longterm relationship, but if it does, I would be willing to bet that even ten years down the road there are still things that this man and woman are learning about one another that they didn't know previously.

But if I were told that what I am writing will be read in twenty years time by the children of today, and that those children will laugh, weep, and learn to love life as they read, why then I would devote the whole of my life and energy to it.

If you doubt the accuracy of the Bible, then how was a man named Job able to say with precision that «the earth hung upon nothing» (Job 26:7) some 3,600 years ago, since the most learned men even a thousand years later held to the belief that the earth was held up by elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle?

If not for a single year of schooling, she might have never learned to read at all.

«My Bible is crowded and if I've learned anything through the years it is that I can never read the Bible alone.

«If I've learned anything over the past five years, it's that doubt is the mechanism by which faith evolves.

«If there is one thing I've learned about loving people in the last five years, it's that nobody wants to be featured as a prayer point in your newsletter.