Sentences with phrase «many failed business»

Serial entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley hop from one failed business to the next and billionaire entrepreneurs like Richard Branson wax on publicly about their failures almost as much as their successes.

When failing businesses in the industry cut corners to save money, the consequences for the families of donors can be emotionally wrenching.

Richard Bell went from a failing business and living on his mother's couch to hitting it big in the surplus home finishing business.

It's responsible for more failed businesses, blown careers, and financial debt than you can imagine.

Some people even believe that as we get closer to 2015, the percentage of failed businesses will increase.

Earlier in my career, I sunk $ 8,000 into a failed business concept.

During the course of Sam's three failed businesses, there was something he wasn't doing.

Here's how they took failing businesses and turned them into huge successes:

How Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney turned failing businesses into some of the largest companies in the world.

When you're young, you have less to lose from a failed business attempt than you will ever again.

After Britton's first failed business, he tried to absorb as much as he could while employed at Youthstream.

Undercapitalization is a big driver of failed businesses.

«That advice has probably resulted in more failed businesses than all the recessions combined... because that's not how the vast majority of people end up owning successful businesses.

In fact, many venture capital investors evaluate potential partners on how they reacted to a failed business, seeing it as a test of character rather than a mark against them.

For retirees who are still paying off large loans (think failed business ventures or real estate deals), a guaranteed level - premium term life policy is ideal, said Scott Simmonds, a fee - only insurance consultant in Saco, Maine.

Accordingly, the rejection of labor contracts «has not been the mechanism of last resort to save a failing business,» the Air Line Pilots Association told Congress in 2010, «but instead has often been used by employers as a business model to gain long - term economic advantage by unfairly gutting the wages and working conditions of airline and other employees.»

A failed business may simply cease operations; with the owners and investors absorbing the losses (if any); a troubled business on the brink of going under may seek to merge with another company that has the resources to keep it afloat and out of bankruptcy; or a dying business may be bought up by another, stronger company, seeking to breathe new life into it or simply to acquire its assets.

Be willing to kill failed business ideas, even to shutter big operations you've been in for a long time, but never give up on the idea of building a great company.

If it can't compete on its down it means its not good enough for the market and its not our duty to have to compensate for their shitty product and failed business model.

His business experience also covers selling and acquiring businesses, helping company start - ups and revitalizing failing businesses.

They decried pure - play online retail as a failed business model being propped up by endless streams of venture capital that, in the end, would collapse under its own weight.

The chasm between the image of being financially set for life and owning a failed business was painful.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

Let's start with the main reason given for propping up this failing business: jobs.

What are the signs and symptoms of a failing business?

The target of the pensioners complaint is approximately $ 2.9 billion in special dividends paid out to Sears Canada's shareholders between 2005 and 2013 despite the company's failing business.

Larian first made his interest in the company known last month, when he launched a $ 1.0 Bn Kickstarter campaign to save the failing business.

Ben Stiller plays a failed inventor and entrepreneur who has trouble holding a stable job partly because he keeps investing so much of himself into failed business ventures....

@CM, you would run a failing business and cause all to lose their jobs with notions such as yours.

Rather than stifle competition for the sake of existing industries, governments do better to stand out of the way so that people and money released from failed businesses can flow into more productive, expanding sectors.

But to say that the UFC is a «failing business» is just hilarious.

In response, Cuomo spokesperson Dani Lever said in a statement, «We'll put our economic policy, which has helped create a record number of private sector jobs in New York — against Donald Trump's long record of bankruptcies, failed businesses and Ponzi schemes disguised as diploma mills any day of the week.»

Cuomo's spokeswoman Dani Lever offered a stronger reply after Trump's denunciation: «We'll put our economic policy, which has helped create a record number of private sector jobs in New York — against Donald Trump's long record of bankruptcies, failed businesses and Ponzi schemes disguised as diploma mills any day of the week.»

Not only are there huge social costs to this experiment: — the failing businesses — the closed libraries and children's centres — the tragedy of another lost generation of young people out of work

You had 17 candidates to choose from, Governors, ex governors, senators and other failed business exec's and Rump was the best candidate?

But the career enhancing skills even from a failed business venture are sizable.

We all make similarly irrational arguments about decisions in our lives: we hang on to losing stocks, unprofitable investments, failing businesses and unsuccessful relationships.

In order to grow our company without compromising quality, we have to pass some of that cost to our customers, or we will end up as a failed business with a huge heart that did not make meaningful change for people and the planet.

For example, rethink purchasing a vintage desk from a failing business.

Scammers will tell you that they need this money in order to help them with an emergency (illness or a failed business), or for plane tickets to come see you.

After a few failed business attempts, his daughter suggested the idea of a dating website for geeks.

In «Her,» the audience follows Eleanor back into the protective arms of her family in Long Island, where her parents (William Hurt and Isabelle Huppert) and sister (Weixler) try to help her recover from tragedy; «Him» keeps McAvoy in the city, with his best friend (Bill Hader) and semi-estranged father (Ciarán Hinds), breaking down amidst a failing business and crumbling marriage.

Suddenly his failing business springs back to life.

Ironic that Bryne and Carnavale just co-starred side - by - side in Paul Feig's underwhelming Melissa McCarthy vehicle Spy as arms dealing peers and they here play another side to partners in crime as a husband and wife duo who must make room for Kroll when a failed business investment forces him out of the big city.

Bridesmaids stars Kristen Wiig (Whip It) as Annie, a single, thirtysomething woman with a failed business and bankruptcy behind her, a sales job that barely pays the rent of the apartment she shares with a creepy brother and sister (Matt Lucas and Rebel Wilson) and a going - nowhere relationship with an egomaniac (Jon Hamm, Mad Men).

Noël Wells (from Infinity Baby, Mr. Roosevelt, Happy Anniversary) stars as a «childless, single, broke, stoner» who attempts to salvage her failing business and love life while falling for a married man.

It hired the New York City consulting agency of Alvarez & Marsal, which specializes in turning around failing businesses, to get its fiscal house in order.

Those hesitant about replacing turnarounds with closures should simply remember that a failed business doesn't indict capitalism and an unseated incumbent doesn't indict democracy.

Without sponsors, great content, consistent communication, and transitional support, your budding learning culture will struggle and become another piece of paper at the bottom of the pile of failed business initiatives.

Now, the argument could be made that if this were to occur with enough frequency the school would either have to improve to attract and retain students or it would continue to lose funding and, in time, like any failing business, it would fold.