Sentences with phrase «more failing companies»

Not exact matches

«When you have a drug company up against a difficult disease that many others have failed to cure, be more skeptical.

Despite becoming aware of the breach and having it reported to Yahoo's senior management and legal department, the company failed to properly investigate and did not disclose it to the public until more than two years later, when it was in the process of being acquired by Verizon Communication Inc, the regulator said.

The real estate scion - turned - White House advisor also failed to report loans totaling at least $ 1 billion from more than 20 lenders to properties and companies he co-owns.

Research released in September by communications company Digital Bridge said a third of consumers would be more likely to buy something after using mixed / augmented reality to preview products, but more than half think retailers are failing to take full advantage of the technology now available to them.

One is to regard capital as the fuel that is keeping our company alive for a finite period of time, during which one of two things will happen: 1) We prove our company to be a worthy proposition, which will bring it more investment or increased revenue and allow us to stay in business, or 2) we fail to create a worthy proposition, and it's time to move on.

site in 2007 and has transformed it into a media company that now includes more than 50 online humor sites, including FAIL Blog, The Daily What and Cheezburger, that generate more than 400 million page views every month.

When companies lay off large numbers of staff or fail completely, a fresh wave of talent is free to launch new startups that are more relevant to current markets and consumer needs.

More than 200 junior mining and exploration companies would fail to meet new listing requirements the Australian Securities Exchange plans to introduce later this year, a study has found.

Worse, the public companies failed to retain top inventors, who were 18 % more likely to cash out and leave post-IPO.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

If a company's Microsoft Office 365 app malfunctions, for example, ThousandEyes should be able to pinpoint what exactly caused it to fail so that IT staff can more quickly fix the problem, Lad explained.

After probing more closely, Reimer discovered the Norwegian company was facing government fines because it had failed to complete mandatory paperwork relating to the imports.

In the case of Facebook, not only have many users failed to opt out because the setting is difficult to find, but many more don't even know that the company filters their news feed, according to a study.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that more than half of all big - company hires like this fail inside a growing company.

These cloud companies use ThousandEyes to help them discover when their cloud software fails to perform correctly for their customers so they can more finely tune their products.

Like many first - time founders still getting a handle on their company's business cycles, Carson had failed to plan for the delay from when she made her products to when she could deliver them — or, more crucially, get paid for them.

Most companies do a great job of explaining what they do but fail when it comes to using more dynamic content (blogs, videos, infographics) to show how they can help.

The new rules provide more detail about what the company deems inappropriate and how it would now suspend user accounts that fail to comply.

Bombardier is in talks with the federal government to secure even more financial aid, and the market believes the company won't be allowed to fail.

We don't like to think interpersonal issues like that are unresolvable to the extent the company fails, but it seems that happens more often than I realized.

«It's a real boot camp,» he says, adding that the company teams newcomers with more experienced personnel to provide a quality fail - safe.

«When we first started Open Book we failed to meet or beat the financial plan for the period more than once, so the team started out failing,» says John Fischer, founder of StickerGiant, a company that practices Open Book Management.

-- Com Mirza, CEO of Fitness Expo Dubai and «The $ 500 Million Man»; failed in eight companies back - to - back and today runs a nine - figure empire with more than 600 employees

What's more, another 24 percent of companies answering the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's quarterly small - business outlook survey said they will reduce staff to under 50 employees to avoid paying penalties for failing to offer health insurance.

More customers will begin to shun companies that fail to grasp that, he believes, while businesses that practice gender equality and environmental preservation will inevitably become more profitaMore customers will begin to shun companies that fail to grasp that, he believes, while businesses that practice gender equality and environmental preservation will inevitably become more profitamore profitable.

Alternatively, those relationships can amount to little more than a series of missed opportunities if business owners fail to recognize the potential contribution that well - seasoned accounting advisers can make — especially to companies whose internal financial departments may be woefully understaffed.

An offer for the studio from a group of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.

The fact that you are more likely to fail is a fact of life for venture - backed companies, it is not an expectation for the VCs making the investment.

At that point, even if you fail, past investors and people involved with your company will be far more likely to fund your next project if they trust the way you work.

The classy thing for this failed emperor to do would be to step down, but he probably cares more about his reputation or worse, he has some perverted sense of duty to the company which he delusionally believes needs him.

The first company failed to meet the DMVâ $ ™ s requirements, resulting in the agency asking for more data.

Among this group, which invested in more than 500 companies, 45 % of their investments failed to return 100 % of capital, while 34 % returned less than half.

Current regulations allow a company to exclude a resubmitted proposal from its proxy only if it failed to receive the support of 3 % of shareholders the last time it was voted on; 6 % if it has been voted on twice in the last five years; and 10 % if it was voted on three or more times in the last five years.

But now, after blowing through more than $ 70 - million in investor capital and accumulating $ 72 - million in losses, while failing to reach $ 30 - million in annual revenues, Shop.ca is in bankruptcy court, trying to sell its assets for a fraction of what the company raised.

While NAFTA functions well for manufacturing and resource businesses, it leaves our policy makers believing that opening more international markets is the key to success for all sectors — even as that strategy fails to provide equitable results for Canadian companies competing to scale up their ideas globally.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

If the definition of success is a 10 - year survival rate, LBOs (PEs, whatever) do indeed «save» some companies (probably more than 50 %); however, they are also really good at recycling value and disposing of failed firms.

If one or more of these analysts ceases to cover our company or fails to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our stock could decrease, which may cause the trading price of our common stock and our trading volume to decline.

But for a lot of people, that adage never really sunk in until the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal in which the company was accused of misusing and failing to secure Facebook data from more than 71 million people.

Instead, this profoundly political move will make solar power more expensive for everyday Americans while propping up two failing, foreign - owned companies.»

The company's shares plummeted more than 10 percent today after investors learned that How To Train Your Dragon 2 failed to secure the number - one spot at the box office.

High prices are often a signaling mechanism to tell the market that your product is worth more than a competitor's, and trying to compete with bigger companies by cutting prices is often a mistake, as it undercuts your profitability while still failing to match the bigger brands» economies of scale.

What most bears fail to realize is that a decline in the chicken market, whether through falling chicken prices or increasing corn prices, is already (more than adequately) priced into the company's valuation, as we will show below.

But since the disaster struck, energy experts, legislators, and solar companies like Tesla have been arguing that Puerto Rico has a tremendous opportunity — a kind of tabula rasa — to rebuild its failed grid to be greener and more resilient.

Aussie Farmers abandoned IPO plans in mid-to-late November after failing to generate enough interest from investors, who were no doubt spooked by the fact the company had racked up losses of more than $ 52 million pre-tax since 2015 and could only keep trading with the support of its major shareholders.

Several companies and organisations led by chief executives who have vowed to do more to promote women in business and the public service failed to make a list of the best Australian employers of women.

For multiple years, the suit alleges, Chartwells was paid many millions of dollars more for meals than it should have been, even while the company often delivered food late, failed to provide the full number of meals at some schools, and repeatedly served poor quality or spoiled food.

This adds to the concern that Chartwells, whose parent company recently settled a $ 18 million court case for its failing to pass on rebates to NYC schools, is more concerned about earning a large profit margin than about the quality of the food it serves.

«Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE has failed dreamers and let the entire Democratic Party down,» Zaheed said.

The report, issued Monday and made public Thursday, came a week after Thomas was charged by the state Attorney General's Office with stealing nearly $ 13,000 in campaign funds and failing to report on his city financial disclosure forms more than $ 75,000 he received from individuals, companies and his inaugural committee.