Sentences with phrase «lots of companies getting»

There are lots of companies getting in on the crypto asset craze by simply putting out press releases that they are now somehow involved in crypto tech.

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

We fetishize tiny startups, but lots of companies get big and keep their disruptive streak intact

«A lot of companies got into it thinking it's easy, which isn't true.»

We mostly associate the process with lenders, but lots of companies get and give data from and to the credit bureaus.

A lot of companies get confused about the difference between services and service.

Not exact matches

We initially backed that with our own reserves, which was a very scary thing to do, but then we got a lot of interest from insurance companies.

«I get a lot of credit, and my wife gets a lot of credit, but [Gilmour] is like the Steve Wozniak of the company,» said Erickson, likening Gilmour to Apple's co-founder who worked alongside Steve Jobs.

«We saw the cheap Chinese drones coming in and a bunch of new companies like 3D Robotics starting up, and getting lots of traction and VC money.

The problem in companies is when they expect a bottom - up approach to innovation to result in actually getting a lot of things done.

For a company that has a theoretical market value of about $ 1.5 billion, BuzzFeed doesn't get a lot of respect from the traditional media industry.

Whatever else was true of 2015, there was a lot of work to get done; any company that helped us do it more efficiently is a company for our times.

In the startup world, this means that companies that aim to improve the experiences of young white men get a heck of a lot more attention than those that spring from the experiences of pretty much anyone else.

«A lot of small businessmen take it personally if they get turned down for a bank loan,» says Leonard Leff, president of CDS Capital, a finance and factoring company in Lynbrook, N.Y. «They say, «Do I want to get another rejection?»

One company that's been getting a lot of positive attention is CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS).

At the angel investor level especially, Bearse believes, «it seems like a lot of companies are getting funded, and it may not be sustainable.»

With this space getting so much interest by all communities, there was a lot of pressure to grow quickly & companies began focusing on metrics such as onboarding more & more vendors, increasing queries per day by discounting.

«My thought was if the company could be more like a blog, we'd get a lot of attention,» he says.

• PE exits continue to slow: We've got all the ingredients for a seller's market — record high valuations, PE firms with lots of capital, a healthy corporate market and a growing, aging portfolio company inventory.

I see a lot of startup companies led by inexperienced entrepreneurs get into trouble from overspending because they are trying to adhere to a brilliant strategy in which everything happens in perfect order.

Elon Musk's vision for Tesla will require a lot of capital but Munster says he thinks the company will get there.

While the culture that works for one company might not work for another, you can learn a lot from companies who are doing it right, and get started on company culture hacks of your own.

Before customers can get their hands on new products like Google Glass or the Chromebook Pixel, Google staff do a lot of «dogfooding» — that is, getting acquainted with the company's software and tools before launching them.

Heck, getting a solid investor is likely to give entrepreneurs a huge ego boost too and not surprisingly, it takes a lot of ego to start a company.

There's a study that shows that after people become superstar CEOs — they get a lot of press attention, they write a book — their pay goes up, but the performance of their companies goes down.

«Companies spend a lot of time thinking about and getting feedback from customers about how to navigate to the basic content, but sometimes the search doesn't get the same level of consideration,» Sherwin said.

«We've got a lot invested in our brand,» John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, told a company town hall after the Amazon deal was disclosed.

«If you position yourself as the top company, a lot of people want to get in on that deal.»

With a lot of knowledge and a little money, one man made it his mission to help companies get site visitors.

«When I joined, a lot of people didn't understand why Zenefits would be this huge company, although I think they're getting it more now,» Sacks says.

Once we get established with these major retailers, it would be really nice to start a toy company in our town that could compete with the big guys and offer a lot of products for kids with allergies.

We can also give our support to those small companies that are trying to get a foothold in a very complex business that has a lot of barriers to entry and a slow adoption curve.

But we are certainly a company that looks across our market of competition and we've got a lot of respect for the work that Apple's been doing in the consumer space.

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«A lot of companies that are successful in the long term try to do things a little differently [and] get a lot of criticism,» Pearson said in an interview in August.

«Getting acquired by a large company will give you lots of opportunities for leverage,» Erramouspe says.

«We've got a lot more merchants to sign up, we've got a lot of banks to sign up and we've got the rest of the world,» Cook told the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference, in the company's most extensive comments on the blockade so far.

Electronic devices that are worn on the body and relay information are starting to receive a lot of buzz, but partnering with a big company is the key to getting the product to see the light of day.

A lot of entrepreneurs are probably watching the excitement over the approaching initial public offering of Twitter and wondering if they can get a similar valuation for their companies.

So it doesn't take a lot, even if you're a small company, to find some way to solicit feedback from either a large group of your customers through an email campaign with a SurveyMonkey link or even just kind of talking to customers on a regular basis over the fourth quarter to get some feedback.

A lot of big companies got started with this DIY kind of mentality.

«I believe there's a lot of pent - up demand, and it's about getting those companies comfortable enough to say, «OK, let's pull the trigger,»» Christofilos says.

Given that another website that received lots of mis - directed traffic yesterday was Dynamic Internet Technology, a Falun Gong - linked company that runs a service designed to help people get around China's Great Firewall, the Times and other outlets are reporting that experts suspect China was trying to block these websites but somehow accidentally sent lots and lots of traffic to them.

Adds Buzza, «If you're going to go after the biggest companies in Canada, you can expect that by the time you get to court, you're going to be up against a legal team with a lot of resources at its fingertips.»

«Once you get into a public company, if you're not throwing a lot of ability to do R&D, and to progress your technology at a very fast rate, then it's difficult to compete with [the tech giants],» he said.

There are a lot of great companies that no longer need a college degree to get a job.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

Getting lots of money from Spotify may be great for music labels and owners, but it's not doing much for Spotify: The company lost $ 200 million last year, and the massive payments it makes to record companies (which amount to more than 85 % of its revenues) are a big part of the problem.

We thought 3D printing had already had its day in the newbie spotlight during CES 2013, several companies introduced new innovations at this year's show that were intriguing enough to get lots of coverage from the tech reporters in Las Vegas.

A lot of companies are looking to use that cash for acquisitions because they're really getting it at 70 cents on the dollar.