Sentences with phrase «like scale with»

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The digital platform we're experimenting with, designed by Waterloo - based Plasticity Labs, asks us to make daily estimates of our happiness on a scale of 1 - 100 and to occasionally answer questions like, How often do you make time for things that make you happy?

Once virtually placed, the product appears to - scale and the consumer can get up close to look inside items with an opening, like a vase, or view intricate but minuscule details like stitching on clothing.

When she went ahead and added these sorts of risks to the scale — things like cooking an impressive but difficult dish for an important dinner party or buying a ticket from a less reliable airline — lo and behold women suddenly seemed just as comfortable with risk as men.

For big food processors like Maple Leaf, the only way to offer that and still make a profit is by consolidating into big, modern plants, so you can benefit from scale and keep up with the pack, because, Grier warns, not doing so would guarantee failure.

I've discussed the topic of scaling corporate culture with many CEOs, there are countless books and I have my own experiences running similar service - based companies like 352 Inc..

The way Hirshberg sees it, partnering with a Goliath like Danone means he can do good on a grand scale.

As media companies like BuzzFeed and Vice Media continue to try and become as large as possible, some media executives are warning that the race for scale may be a mirage (Digiday gets a relatively paltry 2 million unique visitors a month, but says it is happy with that number).

New Leaf Paper, which must cope with huge economies - of - scale issues in order to compete with the paper manufacturers that use virgin fiber, has formed alliances with various large stable companies like Old Navy Clothing, Nike, and Hewlett - Packard to ensure that its orders are of decent volume.

Dan Ciporin, Canann Partners: «Scale is increasingly a competitive moat, with established players like LendingClub and SoFi now competing much more with bank offerings like Marcus from Goldman Sachs.»

With large - scale competitors like Amazon, small businesses can't just sell someone else's product anymore to gain a competitive advantage, says Eichelberger.

Rizkalla insists that his defence - oriented training products don't compete with the full - scale cockpit simulators built by firms like CAE, which is a customer of Bluedrop's.

Setting aside the physics, the bureaucracy of acquiring land rights between large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco and dealing with all the legal issues around large - scale infrastructure construction could be significant hurdles, regardless of who builds a prototype system.

The two, like others in the insurance industry, had sought out scale to better negotiate costs with hospitals and PBMs.

Hence an app called UA Record, a kind of overall health dashboard that relaunches this month in conjunction with the co-branded HTC devices — a Fitbit - like wrist strap, a chest - worn heart - rate monitor, and a connected scale, all sleek black and knobby red plastic, with scoreboard - inspired readouts.

As Priceline.com cofounder Jeff Hoffman, co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back, likes to say, «Your business plan is more about the questions you ask and get yourself to struggle with than it is about finding the «right» answer.»

Shapiro got the idea for Glowforge after experimenting with an industrial machine called the CNC Laser Printer Engraver, used by companies like Apple and Boeing for large - scale manufacturing.

Independent bookstores, which were already threatened by big chains, like Borders and Barnes & Noble, knew they would end up having to compete with Amazon's wholesale prices and scale.

That technology combo aligns closely with traditional data center configurations but was (and still is) less applicable to the massive scale of something like AWS that must support lots of different users on shared infrastructure.

Ahmed believes that, like WhatsApp (which had just 55 employees but sold to Facebook in February for $ 19 billion), Talkray could scale to more than 100 million users with a «low double - digit» number of employees.

«There's truly getting to be a few companies at such a scale, like Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Alibaba and Tencent that the world is going to be like a barbell, with a large gap in between with humongous tech and IT service providers on one side and everyone else on the other,» Townsend said.

Shoppers can go fairly low on the clarity scale before inclusions or blemishes are visible to the naked eye, but cuts with large flat surfaces (like emerald shapes) are often less forgiving.

«No other media company understands Hispanic American audiences like Univision and this promotional partnership speaks to our ability to reach and engage our growth consumer with unmatched scale and depth,» Univision president and CEO Randy Falco said in the press release.

Most pitches involve small - scale manufacturing like plastic deck chairs or magnetic schedules for children, with entrepreneurs looking for the seed funding to get their dream venture off the ground.

But what's most interesting now, as we have talked about LIFE, is that major manufacturers in the power industry, architects and engineers who do large scale integration and the like have come to us and are working with us to try and think about how to put this together.

In contrast to Ong's product - based approach, Roosegaarde's work has mainly taken the form of large - scale installations, among them a fluorescent bike path that glows like Van Gogh's night skies, giant kites that can supply up to 200 households with green energy, and «the world's largest vacuum cleaner» to suck up air pollution in public spaces.

«When you're working with economies of scale like we do, these savings add up,» he says.

With the proliferation of undoubtedly useful sales automation tools like Prospect.io and Reply comes a natural trade - off: You gain some in productivity and scale from employing these kinds of services that do automated outreach on your behalf, but you also lose some when it comes to the personal touch that can often make all the difference.

Scaling up to 125 employees by 2001, CORE competed for contracts with larger, more established names like George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic, landing dozens of feature film jobs, among them Hollywood blockbusters like X-Men and Doctor Doolittle.

Tech giant Atlassian, which makes popular team collaboration products like Jira, Confluence and Trello, has seen all that comes with scaling digital products.

Things that have achieved dramatic scale have open platforms with open standards and open - source technology that anyone can adopt, like Bitcoin.»

It's why I spend time early with great partners like Byron who have deep SaaS skills and global practices because as you scale a business you need different skills, different resources, more and different relationship.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

«People buy from people they know, like and trust and social media is the best vehicle I have ever seen to allow businesses to do that at massive scale and with blinding speed.»

Perhaps a large - scale decision by investors, and large investing companies like Vanguard and Fidelity, could affect change by declaring they will not invest in companies that have anything to do with guns.

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

I've been lucky enough to make games with large - scale organizations like McDonald's, which has a presence in over 100 countries.

There is a lot of things the network has no control over and these are great reasons that scaling things like our FiSync with the core platform are so powerful.

But there is little or no discussion in Unions Matter of current intergenerational tensions in the union movement: the movement toward two - tier workplaces, like Air Canada's Rouge Airlines, which aims to hire new, mostly younger workers at a lower pay scale and with fewer benefits than are enjoyed by older, established workers.

With an increased number of savvy startups disrupting distinct product categories, packaging designs and distribution channels within the CPG industry, corporations like Unilever are tapping into large - scale innovation platforms, like MaRS, to say ahead of the game.

Food > Smart Farming Utilising technological advancements like drip agriculture and access to real - time weather data is helping both large - and small - scale farmers produce more with less.

If we assume it's still early days of this ecosystem where Bitcoin can process seven transactions per second, then just how energy efficient and sustainable will it be as we begin to imagine scaling out Bitcoin so transactional throughput and volume can compete with the likes of VISA and its 24,000 transactions per second?

As strategic public players in the US continue to see limited growth making large scale M&A difficult, private equity players have filled some of the gap, particularly for enterprise companies with SAAS - like models.

What it's like working with big clients like VW and Proctor and Gamble Getting buy - in from all the departments on SEO Leveraging automation and tools to collect and process data Link building at scale The impact of machine learning on rankings The most important types of backlinks to focus on The problems

Second, Facebook is focusing much more on being an advertising platform with massive scale than can also target — kind of like cable TV, but better — as opposed to a measurement machine that targets individuals and tracks them to the grocery store register.

Large corporations want to work with professional corporations that are like them; they want professional - level amenities; they want size and scale so they can sign a contract with someone and put their people in 20 different cities around the world.

Its business, like that of all modern central banks (but unlike that of, say, the Gosbank), is that of keeping the overall scale of credit creation within bounds consistent with macroeconomic stability, while leaving private financial institutions as free as is consistent with preserving that stability to decide how best to employ scarce credit.

An acceleration in ACFFO growth could materialize with company reaching new heights in scale, but even just a continuation of 8 % annual underlying business growth provides a lot to like.

Over and above, the Street Food industry is a profitable industry and it is open for any aspiring entrepreneur to come in and establish his or her business; you can choose to start on a small scale in a street corner like the average mom and pop business or you can choose to start on a large scale with several food carts covering key cities with the view of selling franchise in future.

«It's outrageous, it's like the deli guy with his thumb on the scale,» said a spokesman for New York watchdog group Menu Police who insisted on anonymity.

While Microsoft Ventures is committed to act as a strategic partner for budding startups around the world, his role to garner startups in a country like India, where Entrepreneurs are yet to gauge the value - worth of market intelligence and market insights, is a hard - hitting task with a single focused objective — build locally, scale globally.