Sentences with phrase «like business investment»

Like any business investment, malware and viruses take time and manpower to develop.

However, the bank noted export growth was uneven and that there were signs of weakness in areas like business investment and within underlying employment indicators such as hours worked and wages.

Not exact matches

And like any prospective investment, brands should still begin with their bottom line business goals and then use those to orient communications goals and strategies.

If you're not careful and you don't have a process like that, then everything that runs your current business and drives all the revenue gets all of the dollars and investment, and you end up killing any possibility of new things coming along.

As rivals like McDonald's ramp up their own efforts to take over the $ 100 billion delivery business, it's about time that the chains made an investment in figuring out how to deliver fast food.

It's not unusual to see companies trading well above 20 times earnings these days, especially more bond - like businesses, such as dividend - paying consumer staples, utilities and other defensive equities, says Arthur Heinmaa, chief investment officer at Cidel Asset Management.

Not that you'll hear frank talk like that from most investment bankers, business consultants or in corner offices in the West.

The volume of paperwork facing small businesses is staggering: Beyond hiring and firing employees, HR encompasses the benefits that attract and retain staffers, like healthcare packages, investment options, vacation time, transportation subsidies and retirement plans.

«A huge benefit for us was going through the process and understanding what raising money looks like, and all of the details of building a business with investment,» Bergman says.

The deal would be structured something like this: The SP agrees to make an investment in your business — to help you cover what the government subsidies don't — in exchange for getting the government to grant them the rights to conduct more business in their country.

It is noteworthy that the focus groups appeared to be okay with subsidizing businesses directly, rather than cutting their taxes or making investments in things like infrastructure.

VistaVu's decision to move closer to the decision - makers located in the Texas oil capital offers some valuable insights on how to establish a profile and grow your presence in a dense business hub like Houston, which is for the oil industry what Manhattan is for the investment banking sector.

During his tenure, conservative groups like the Cato Institute lauded his prolific tax cutting on personal and business investments, property, and some business capital investment, though they criticized his increases in state spending.

Washington policy makers would like nothing more than for small business to boost hiring and investment.

In Northeast Ohio, this came in the form of universities, local groups and foundations getting involved, providing resources like mentorship, business plan competitions and student - lead investment funds.

During one event attended by the prime minister that week, an investment seminar hosted by the Japan External Trade Organization and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at the Pierre Hotel, Dr. Ziad Haider, special representative for commercial and business affairs at the US Department of State said, «Secretary Kerry... likes to say that foreign policy is economic policy, and in saying that he's referring to that interplay between foreign policy, foreign affairs, economic issues, and it's certainly true with bilateral diplomatic relations, as well.»

Others, like Kessler, say the economy could grow beyond its recent sluggish pace if domestic policies encouraged investment in large infrastructure projects, such as upgrading aging transportation and power networks, which in turn would put more businesses to work.

Next, most franchisees aren't interested in seeking late - stage investments like some small businesses.

«If we feel like being in control keeps us safe then it can make it difficult to take a big leap in business or make a risky investment that's worth it,» says Lowbridge.

Several existing federal programs like the Community Reinvestment Act and the Small Business Investment Companies program are supporting the growth of impact investing funds.

Despite expensive cuts in corporate tax rates, private business investment never really recovered after the 2008 - 09 recession — and some key components (like machinery and R&D spending) continued to fall.

But on the debit side, Japan's machinery orders fell, a rough proxy for Asian business investment, fell by 25.8 % on the year in November (offsetting any enthusiasm for the Japanese yen, which is normally in demand as a safe haven on days like this.)

Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.

Michael Underhill, Capital Innovators» chief investment officer, likes the business for its diversity, but also because it converted into a REIT this year.

The program works like this: for the first year, seven Ontario scientists have been given $ 50,000 each in one - time funding, plus dedicated business and management training in areas like patent registration, marketing and investment.

Now, Google discloses revenue and profits within two categories: Google (comprised of the core ad business as well as revenue from cloud, hardware, and Android), and «Other Bets» (sales from businesses like Nest, investment returns, small contributions from its Verily life sciences business, and the secretive X innovation lab, among other initiatives).

My uncle took over the U.K. business, Associated British Foods, following a strategy that ultimately divested the retail business and increased investment in ingredients — oils, flours, sugars and the like.

The Bank of Canada now projects that business «fixed» investment in things like infrastructure and equipment could spur GDP growth by 0.9 % this year, an increase over its previous projection of 0.6 %.

«Investments in mobile search, mobile cloud, location - based services and consumer produces like mobile games are helping to build a moat around Baidu's business.»

This is a business tax deduction, and it's being hashed out among Republicans in Congress who will figure out the trade - off between encouraging capital investments by businesses by retaining or expanding tax preferences like these, and cutting business tax rates overall.

Local rivals like Didi Kuaidi — itself valued at $ 16.5 billion with backing from Chinese behemoths like Tencent and Alibaba (baba)-- have kept pace with Uber's investment in the country (Uber's China business is valued at around $ 8 billion based on its latest funding round in January).

Additionally, Symphony CEO David Gurle said in an interview with Business Insider last year that there are something like 6 million investment professionals in the US; Morgan Stanley estimates 327,000 people have Bloomberg Terminals.

Just like with any business investment, you want to make sure that hiring a VA brings a positive return on investment for your business.

«Dealing with someone like Andrew is invaluable because his depth of knowledge and expertise reaches across such a huge array of people and businesses,» says former colleague Howard Davis, who is now a managing director at the Shemano Group, a San Francisco investment bank that provides services for small and midsize companies.

Collectively, these businesses account for hundreds of millions in annual sales, and have attracted investment and other support from the likes of Mark Cuban, NASA, and the lauded film director Darren Aronofsky.

While developing a dedicated app for your business is easier and more cost - effective than ever, largely thanks to platforms like Firebase and BuildFire, this task still requires a significant investment of resources — especially in terms of maintenance and updates.

That's one reason America's largest bank is now steering some $ 250 million annually into community - building investments like small - business development, job - skills training, and neighborhood revitalization, and deploying a «service corps» of advisers to help those investments bear fruit.

No one expects this from their health insurance company — or from their investment manager, or local bakery, or any other business — but when it happens it makes the world feel like a warmer place, which is good not only for the soul but also for the bottom line.

Like investments, your top priority in growing your business should be to diversify your sources of revenue.

Henry, like Buffett and Bezos, believes that improving the newspaper business will take investment, not continued cuts.

The rest of the investment money of $ 11,640 is to be used for ancillary products like business cards, gasoline, purchase of work truck (used) bought through Craigslist, and vehicle maintenance and upkeep, as well as employee uniforms (silk screened polo shirts with vendor bids for least expensive) and Dickies work pants.

Types of businesses that run into a problem with this pillar are factoring companies (which the IRS considers to be an investment of capital) or more passive investments like a single real estate property you intend to rent out.

If the Securities Exchange Commission implements the crowdfunding exemption of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), which it may by early next year, average - joe investors, not just well - heeled ones, will be able to participate in investments like those brokered by PRIMARQ.

We would like to see the improvement in business investment consolidate and a continuation of job growth at a rate at least sufficient to absorb the increase in Australia's workforce.

For example, they may not be used to fund an investment or any passive business activity, like purchasing a building that will be leased to another business.

In contrast, dwelling construction continues to pick up, the period of business - sector deleveraging looks like it has come to an end, and investment in the resources sector is at very high levels.

But his investments in businesses like Apollo Tower, a cellphone tower company in Myanmar, are the model for the new effort.

If your business values early adoption and innovation and thought leadership and user experience and eCommerce and investment — if this sounds like you — then everything should be crystal clear by now.

In one paper he co-wrote in the spring of 2002, just months after he joined Goldman Sachs to lead its effort to win investment banking business from European governments, Mr. Draghi argued that governments might use financial derivatives like interest rate swaps «to stabilize tax revenue and avoid the sudden accumulation of debt.»

It feels like everything is on autopilot: investments, savings, passive income streams, business.