Sentences with phrase «much bigger companies»

Nextbit has done something quite impressive with the Robin that much bigger companies with much more resources have for the most part been unable to achieve in recent years.

Does your management system work for your driving school like they do for much bigger companies?

The end of this story, which has yet to be proven, is that we can grow much bigger companies that will either exit at much bigger values or will go public on the NASDAQ and become large, significant global technology companies.

The Virgin Group has started many businesses with the goal of prioritizing people, the planet and profit equally, and they thrive despite occasional economic dips and competition from much bigger companies that were specifically built to bring in cash.

«Small businesses both feel and are disadvantaged when dealing with much bigger companies,» says Susan Onaitis, the New York — based author of Negotiate Like the Big Guys.

Priest put his company philosophy in place «as soon as I was hiring a full - time employee because I was hiring her from a much bigger company and her question was, «what do you stand for,» so she challenged me.»

I took a big hit to my income and a move from a VP to a director in a much bigger company.

But Klein insists they're not interested, remaining focused on building a much bigger company over the long haul and turning down short - term, quick - buck opportunities.

Investors understood early on, we were going to lose money in order to build a much bigger company»

«Matching Asian people in North America is still our main product, but 60 percent of the world's population is in Asia so in order for us to become a much bigger company and help more people find their life partner, it makes sense to enter Asia,» Tokioka explained to TechCrunch.

There were many years that I was a one gal show even though many assumed we were a much bigger company.

But now a much bigger company is messing with Facebook's name: adult social networking company FriendFinder Networks, which has launched FacebookOfSex.com.

Until the law changes companies like Apple and Google and pretty much every big company will keep on «avoiding» taxes.

«Our goal was to grow the mutual fund company into a much bigger company,» says Rabusch, who took over as Wells Fargo Advantage Funds president in 2003.

That last fact remains true despite rumored acquisition interest from Microsoft itself, along with pretty much every big company in the sector you can name.

Not exact matches

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

Much of this success can be attributed to fast - fashion giant Zara, the company's biggest brand.

«I think it will take three to five years to see how much better the [bigger] beverage companies will get working with stevia,» Sicher said.

In the true indie spirit, though, none of the company's principals are much interested in making the big money through getting bigger or selling out in an acquisition, like many of their forebears did.

«Are bigger companies really getting much better job matches than their mid-sized competitors?

Hint: It's about the people, for the people, and by the people — and you can translate the big ideas to your much smaller company.

What about small businesses, the biggest companies have the financial clout to make their calculated good dead, but is it too much of a gamble for small business owners.

Adidas and Nike's shoe offerings are a much bigger overall percentage of sales for both companies when compared with Under Armour.

The head of Western Australia's biggest industrial company says he's still having fun in the top job and has spoken in depth about how much he enjoys the role.

And it was a big part of me thinking that if I could get the whole company to behave that way and care about that customer so much, that we really could be different.»

Yet analysts have given the big phone company high marks for allowing AOL to operate independently and folding in other recent acquisitions without much drama.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

That could allow the company to play a much bigger role in the European market, particularly when coupled with the company's existing cross-border expertise.

If big companies with heavy traffic are allowed to exempt their services from data caps, overall «official» traffic counts will be much lower.

The company's shares fell as much as 8.1 percent in after - market trading as sales of its premium non-invasive device, used to replace diseased aortic valves without open - heart surgery, is its biggest growth driver.

That can be as much as $ 1 million in states such as California, which is a pretty big amount for most new companies.

Of course, the big payoff comes when the holding company sells an asset, though much of that money often gets funnelled into the next purchase.

In a state where there are 600,000 citizens and few jobs with big corporations, starting or working in a small company is not so much a choice as a necessity.

Better yet for the company, advertising sales were a «strong contributor» to Amazon much bigger - than - expected profit in the first quarter, said Brian Olsofsky, Amazon's chief financial officer, on a conference call with investors on Thursday.

It was only after Tim Cook took over the company as CEO in 2011 — and after investors such as Carl Icahn called for much a «bigger and immediate» buyback program in 2013 — that Apple's dividend and buyback programs ballooned to the current sizes.

Even Buffett marveled at how their business models, built on intellectual property rather than tangible assets, are «so much better» than the industrial core of yesteryear's biggest companies.

Much of the company's revenue is coming from licensing the technology to big customers such as Salesforce and Hootsuite, although consumer brands, financial institutions and PR agencies are also subscribing to its $ 99 - a-month direct service.

For a company that's struggled to expand its user base and whose advertising revenues have been left in the dust by Facebook, its much bigger rival, it's a very attractive strategy.

When other companies imitate our product, it not only undermines the creativity that goes into designing it, but more importantly, our mission; we're building something much bigger than ourselves, and we're proud of it.

The best way to manage a big workforce is to let them understand they are part of the company as much as the top manager.

«Soylent is much bigger than a beverage company,» he says.

Ilharco, who has had internships at Facebook, Google, Amazon and, currently, Quora, says that one of the things that surprised him most during his time at FB was really realizing how big the company is and how much it's working on.

As a result, they may avoid companies that are likely to need much bigger follow - on investments than he can provide.

Fast - rising startups like Nutanix and Simplivity have garnered much attention for their own hyperconverged appliances, which has led to big tech companies like Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe) creating their own competing products.

It means that unlike in big companies startups are guessing about who their customers are, what features they want, where and how they want to buy the product, how much they want to pay.

Twitter is quietly raising big bucks — pegging the company's value at as much as $ 7 billion.

There is a much bigger opportunity in between, and Hyman says her company has always had its sights set on it.

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.

Founder Travis Kalanick has much bigger ambitions and is growing the company's food delivery and self - driving - car efforts.

We may know it now as motion gaming — think the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect (also invented by an Israeli company, PrimeSense)-- but it will soon play a much bigger role in the world at large, according to Intel.