Sentences with phrase «less than the revenues»

There can be no assurances that our costs of producing and delivering the Model S will be less than the revenue we generate from sales at the time of the Model S launch or that we will ever achieve a positive gross margin on sales of the Model S.

An early indication that you've found the right business model is when you believe the cost of getting customers will be less than the revenues the customers will generate.

Hopefully, the cost of the services will be far less than the revenues that are created.

Not exact matches

Moreover, Quattlebaum, a biotechnology entrepreneur himself, estimates that only 20 percent of high tech or biotech companies ever generate revenue, and less than 10 percent will be profitable.

Less than two years ago, men's clothing sales made up just 8 % of Lululemon's revenues.

I mean, as you see consultancies — like they say the big three accounting firms are now — bill less in accounting revenue than they do in consulting revenue, particularly in the marketing and advertising space.

But here — as elsewhere in a tech sector that's being driven by billions in less - than - discriminating venture capital dollars — revenue hasn't necessarily followed.

In less than a year, Weiss went from hashing out the formulas for each product with a team of 15 to banking revenue in the multiple millions (she declined to be more specific) and managing a staff of 30.

For those who export, two - thirds said they did so to increase company sales and profits, and roughly 70 percent said they devote less than 5 percent of annual operating revenue preparing to export.

Here's why: Forrester Research states that less than 1 % of leads ever generate revenue for B2B companies, which means B2B marketers doing traditional lead gen waste 99 % of their time, energy, and money marketing to people who will never become customers.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a company with annual revenue of less than $ 500,000 is exempt from FLSA requirements.

Verizon's legacy wireline business generated about 29 percent of company revenue in 2015, down sharply since 2000, and less than 7 percent of operating income.

Nike CFO Andy Campion gave some extra clarity about future orders on the company's conference call, saying there had been less correlation between orders and revenue than in the past, and thus Nike would change how it would report those figures in future quarters (likely to de-emphasize Wall Street's attention to those numbers).

Lower revenues mean less money for expansion and hiring, and forecasts suggest will be less than one open position per job seeker by 2022.

While Franco - Nevada is making less per ounce than it once was, the company has increased both the number and size of its revenue - generating interests, says Shane Nagle, an analyst with National Bank Financial.

The decline was less steep than the drop in revenues recorded by its peers.

Amorepacific's European revenues, including Goutal, were less than 50 million euros ($ 60.2 million) annually but were expected to rise by 20 percent in 2018, Maman said.

In 2007, FCi Federal, a company that provides back - office support for federal agencies, had less than $ 2 million in revenue and only 35 employees.

It's far easier and less expensive to sell to existing customers than to acquire new ones, Herjavec added, so maintaining a robust customer mailing list is a good way to increase your revenue at a low cost.

The creators of Shake Weight, the exercise tool with the oddly sexual infomercial, recently announced they sold two million units in less than a year, garnering $ 40 million in revenue.

Defense projects make up less than a third of Boeing's total revenue and have been flat for the past few years.

It was a smart bet; after less than year, the line makes up 11 % of the company's total revenues.

International revenue, where Twitter has said it expects to derive most of its future growth, increased 200 percent to $ 66 million, although that makes up less than one quarter of Twitter's total revenue.

Federal regulations mandate that most contracts valued between $ 3,000 and $ 150,000 should be reserved for small businesses, generally defined as companies with fewer than 500 employees and less than $ 7 million in annual revenues.

The draft, seen by Bloomberg, was circulated on Friday and outlines how a targeted levy on gross revenues would increase the tax bill digital giants face, as the bloc seeks to raise money from an industry it says provides less than it should to public coffers.

For most, self - publishing revenue remains humble; one survey found that half of all self - published authors bank less than $ 500 for their efforts.

Companies that spent at least three hours per month managing each rep's sales pipeline realized 11 percent greater revenue growth than those spending less than three hours per month.

Due in part to its packaged coffee partnership with PepsiCo, Starbucks now captures nearly 20 % of US coffee sales annually, while the Dunkin' Donuts share has shrunk to less than 10 %, despite the fact that category revenue has been growing at over 6 % per year since 2011, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation.

Less than a year ago conglomerate General Electric Co combined its oilfield business with Baker Hughes, creating the second largest oilfield services company by revenue.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

A social cause, be it a one - to - one business model or donating a portion of revenue, is no more or less an investment than that of a new piece of equipment, a new sales manager or a new office.

Implementing these simple tactics and investing less than $ 600 could increase the restaurant's revenue by over $ 10,000 per year.

Nelson had just $ 27,000 in sales prior to appearing on the show, but less than three years later, the business is generating annual revenue of more than $ 3.1 million.

Currently, certain kinds of small businesses are exempt from paying employees the federal minimum wage, such as businesses with annual revenues less than $ 500,000, companies that transact within a single state, seasonal businesses, or companies that rely on contract workers.

Small companies with less than $ 100,000 in revenues applied for loans from online lenders 30 percent of the time.

For most of the films that were offered in both two and three dimensions this summer, the enhanced versions accounted for less than 50 % of opening weekend revenues.

Less than half of Canadians agree with Alberta's habit of spending almost all resource revenues on day - to - day operations (47 %), and more than a third do not agree with this (36 %).

By the time the company abandoned print, those editions accounted for less than 1 % of the company's revenue.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

In our new book, A Great Place to Work For All, we discovered that organizations that foster the most consistently great experience across all demographic groups grow revenue three times faster than their less inclusive counterparts.

Between 1995 and 2007, bank lending to companies with less than $ 10 million in annual revenue averaged about 37 percent of total bank commercial loan portfolios, according to Shapiro's research.

With manufacturing kits that retail for less than $ 1,000 a pop, MakerBot's nearly 3,000 initial orders have generated enough revenue to cover the company's overhead, pay its 22 employees» salaries, and turn a small profit for Pettis and his two co-founders, Zach Hoeken Smith and Adam Mayer.

In 2009, it made less than $ 5 million in revenue; it brought in more than $ 80 million in 2013.

Now Uber is worth more than GM and Ford by tens of billions of dollars, despite generating approximately $ 145 billion less in revenue.

Equifax reported that revenue ticked up 4 % year - over-year in the third quarter to a less - than expected $ 835 million and that net income plunged 27 % to $ 96 million due to the initial costs related to the most damaging consumer data hack in US history.

Say you're a pharma company with a key product which brings in about $ 1.49 billion in annual sales, or a little less than 10 % of your revenue stream.

Business owners calculate how much rent they can afford as a percentage of annual sales — generally, it's less than 10 percent of projected gross revenues, Fetscher says.

Only about 200 patients or fewer will take Valeant's branded version of the migraine drug this year, amounting to less than $ 1 million in sales (about 0.01 % of the company's annual revenue).

In 2016, capital expenditures dropped from 25 percent of revenue to less than 6 percent of revenue, and EBITDA went from flat to several million dollars.

So if your business is tiny (less than $ 1 million in revenue), unprofitable, or just barely scraping by, it is not (yet) a candidate for sale to an ESOP.