Sentences with phrase «like scales for»

Also connect with problem areas and things that may seem counterintuitive or unimaginable to people's lived experience — like scales for instance: of time, of large magnitudes and finiteness, of how seemingly small percentages of compounds or changes in temperature can have large impacts.

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For something large - scale like Snapchat, yes, VC money is needed to handle the rapid scale.

Having worked for companies like Microsoft and Expedia, Gutfreund has an incredible perspective on marketing at a large scale.

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?

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.

While Cramer still thinks that Disney's stock is too cheap vis - a-vis the company's potential, he likes the deal because it gives Disney the scale it needs for its stock to keep climbing.

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).

An acquisition of an insurer like Aetna could give CVS more scale to bargain better prices for the prescription drugs it sells on its counters.

Mobile World Congress, the world's largest gathering for the mobile industry, was held in Barcelona in February 2017, while smaller - scale events like Barcelona Startup Week celebrate the best of Barcelona's disruptive startups.

The two - storey Landscape House — a flat, looping figure - eight form — will be constructed by an industrial - scaled printer using sand and a binding agent to create marble - like six - by - nine - foot slabs for floor and ceiling.

Perhaps not quite as tight and sharp as a Porsche Cayenne or Macan, but the suspension in dynamic mode (there are also comfort, auto, and individual modes, which can be customized) likes to dig in, keeping the sway into the curves under control, which is something for a vehicle that tips the scales at over 4,000 pounds.

Getting to an emission - free future will require a real commitment to research and development, technology development, and support for technologies as they enter the market — like ARPA - E, but at an even larger scale.

The results go a long way to fulfilling the promise that the likes of Spotify have been making for years — that, given enough time and scale, streaming can be even more lucrative to the music industry than their previous distribution systems.

«While carrier customers like the idea of buying infrastructure from large global suppliers, it's not obvious to us that amassing scale for the sake of it makes sense for the vendors,» analysts at Jefferies said in a note Wednesday before the deal was announced.

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.

Like Netflix and Spotify wrote the book on pay - to - play movie and music streaming, Surf Air offers members unlimited flights in exchange for a monthly fee - albeit on a much larger scale.

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.

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.

The price and scale issues have led clean - meat companies to aim in both directions, developing laboratory - grown replacements for cheaper grocery - store staples, like ground meat products — burgers, chicken nuggets — and also steak tips.

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia speaks about North Korean cybersecurity operations growing in scale and the new «rules of engagement» for cyber risks from those groups and those from places like Russia and Iran.

And finicky foodies probably don't like to think about how Trader Joe's scale enables the chain to sell a pound of organic lemons for $ 2.

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.

But for tech entrepreneurs, this means always anxiously feeling like a product is never really «done» despite successfully scaling sales and operations.

If scaling up is the limiting factor for cellular ag, the key challenge in making viable plant - based meat is more rudimentary: getting ingredients like sorghum to taste like sirloin.

But beyond using activity trackers, there are other options for managing chronic illness, like glucometers or wireless BMI scales, that provide useful data.

At some companies, this could mean scaling back on perks like free lunches and massages or offering less reimbursement for continuing education, says Breslin.

When it comes to everyday items like children's toys or the casings for TV remotes, mass - scale injection molding in China is still significantly cheaper.

Ad - based models are not working, even for large digital players, because «publishers enjoy far less pricing power, and even the largest of us are dwarfed by those who dominate the field, players like Facebook and Google whose immense scale allows them to undercut everybody else.»

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.

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

The biggest challenge facing the new government will be the scale of its Soviet - like subsidies for shale gas development and the missing science on hydraulic fracturing.

It's still likely to result in a bill that scales back federal support for insurance coverage and overhauls Medicaid while cutting taxes for the health care industry — but if any plan can pass the Senate, it's likely to look something like that.

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.

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J.Hohn, your argument applies for manufacturing industries that use natural resources, or perhaps natural resources like wind turbines and drone peat afforestation that have room to be scaled.

As a result of this change since the scaling agreement many people in the community want to avoid conducting the upgrade in November for the 2 x part because they don't feel like there's really a need for it anymore because now people were doing these off block transactions and it's freed up all the space and people aren't having to add the tips and the fees if you will.

However (if done all at once on a large corporate - size scale), repairing a software issue on servers for a giant database like Equifax could knock them offline for several days.

On the far end of the scale, there are franchises like resorts and luxury hotels, which employ can employ hundreds of people, plus subcontractors for cleaning services and maintenance, and can cost millions of dollars.

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.

That's about what I'd figure for a mature company like AT&T; however, large - scale acquisitions (as noted prior) cloud the picture here.

But even if you don't launch a full - scale social customer service program like these companies have, it behooves you to vigilantly monitor your social presence for customer service issues.

The tendency for these firms to leverage things like open source software or outsourced development to accelerate growth and scale tend to put them at a greater risk of committing intellectual property and copyright infringement.

Tax cuts always effect assets prices, regulations are estimated to account for up to 35 % of building new construction costs for homes in some locations and though federal deregulation may not impact local regulations as much it does have a multiplier effect on the economy just like a tax cut does and anticipation of an infrastructure plan the scale of this administration's, though it hasn't been passed, would also have an anticipatory effect on leading indicators like stocks and other commodities that raise costs, which we have already seen.

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.

An accomplished specialist giving start ups what they need — vision and revenue, Tom has spent two decades successfully generating early growth on a large scale for analytics companies like Informatica and customer experience providers, Empirix and Avoke.

«A major storm like Irma can tip the scales for a family that was already living month - to - month or week - to - week,» Pagliarini said.

3) The discussion about scaling vs. keeping it small is a very interesting one: I liked that the author presented real - life cases for either scenarios for food for thought instead of advocating one or the other (e.g. presenting a single «formula» as the golden rule that all shall follow)-- I can see how this particular decision can be case sensitive and there really is no «right» answer as long as it works for the entrepreneur!

Still, other companies like Equifax's Small Business Credit risk Score for Financial Services, which uses a rating system that ranks scores from 101 to 992, ascribe to alternative rating scales.