Sentences with phrase «much less a business»

They say it shows that venture capitalists, desperate to invest in the next Facebook or LinkedIn, are blindly throwing money at start - ups that have not shown they can build something useful, much less a business that can provide decent returns on investment.

Attempts to make book subscriptions analogous to visual media subscriptions just doesn't pass the common sense test — much less the business - sense test, such as it is.

Not exact matches

Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view of the fact that many multinationals pay much less than the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.

Tech companies with no profits (or even much of a business plan) soared to extreme valuations that were justified, in part, by the belief that future profits would be made faster and that equities were less risky than in the past.

In 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year period.

It's much easier (and less expensive) to plan teambuilding activities for smaller businesses, so take advantage of this and set up an afternoon out of the office.

But all they had were the theoretical underpinnings of a business — nothing close to a prototype, much less a product.

Running a business entails offsetting unnecessary costs - and the cost of maintaining something that works is much less than the cost of replacing the entire thing.

Talk to Goldman long enough, and it's clear that for all the hype around «social business,» we've barely begun to visualize, much less methodically exploit, the social networks everywhere around us.

Add to this that English is the official language, business laws are based on British laws with protections for investors, and the lower cost of living and you can enjoy a high quality of life for much less.

These come in the forms of patents, trademarks, and copyrights, but trademark and copyright laws are less favorable for small businesses, so they don't hold as much weight as a patent does.

Entrepreneurs need to spend much less time at their computer imagining their new business and more time out engaging with real, live customers.

Most new business owners also feel strongly that they need to do things like secure legal resources or an attorney, when often sites like LegalZoom give you access to legal professionals for much less.

It's much less likely that our business cards will spring to life via magic eyeglasses than it is that we just... won't carry business cards anymore.

Several turned to less capital - intensive business, such as wealth management, which finds much of its profit in collecting fees.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Planning ahead and following up make business travel more beneficial and much less frustrating.

Business owners calculate how much rent they can afford as a percentage of annual sales — generally, it's less than 10 percent of projected gross revenues, Fetscher says.

Even in its best years, its acceptance rate — often hovering in the 70 % to 80 % range — was much higher than the major business schools, which accept less than 20 % of their applicants.

A 2009 report by consulting giant Deloitte found that plans with less than $ 1 million in assets, like those of many small businesses, routinely were paying as much as 2 percent «all - in,» or the total of all fees.

As much as we'd all love to warm up to our work days with a morning catching the waves, starting your business from Waikiki Beach may be less than realistic.

While soccer only represented 10 % of Nike's business for the last fiscal year — much less than running and basketball — it was one of the faster growing parts of the business, with wholesale revenue rising 18 %.

Diamonds made better business sense than solar panels, which cost as much to produce but are less profitable.

Execution skills are crucial to building great businesses and for the less experienced entrepreneurs, this ingredient is much more challenging for us to assess.

With Chinese growth slowing, a paramount issue for President Obama and American business will be learning what the direction of Chinese policy will be — toward greater opening of its market in the tradition of Deng Xiaoping, or much less welcome alternatives.

And that, he argues, is what the times reward: «While Twitter is a lesser innovation than flying cars, it's a much more valuable business.

Ironically, this last point is largely why many others are avoiding the public markets — they don't want the public market scrutiny on their businesses, much less have to reveal anything they're doing behind close doors.

If you only have one product or service, your business is almost certainly not a viable business, but more like a hobby or avocation: You may make sales and get paid, but you will never grow very large or become very profitable, much less make a living off selling that one product or service.

Without these people, your business can not thrive, much less survive, in the online jungle of success.

When the BYOD craze started, company officials had no clue about network security, much less the best practices that would be necessary to reduce the risks introduced by employees using their personal computers, smartphones and tablets for company business.

«Via traditional finance channels we see women - owned and women - led businesses receive much less funding than their male counterparts and one of the most pertinent has to be the complete dearth of women in the traditional financing world,» she wrote.

There is no need for going to business trips all that often, as much of the communication can be done over the internet more quickly, and at a lesser cost to both the company and to Mother Earth.

Fiorina: One of the things we are really focused on [at Milstein] is how to provide a regulatory roadmap for small business, because it is virtually impossible for them to even know the rules and regulations they have to follow, much less navigate their way through them.

It became much less of a business product.

«In the beginning, you're almost certainly wrong,» says Cubbon, adding that discovering these truths in a course is much less painful lesson then in the business world.

«They are sending signals to the business community that there would be much less regulation, which is a tremendous force in business for being first out of the gate when a major change is happening,» he said.

Essentially our offer is that we handle the production & distribution and then share revenue with the people who help create the works for a period of time (12 months) in exchange for their work at half pay — As shoots only last a day or two max, there is very little risk for people to participate as it's a good deal and we already know everyone in the business so there is little downtime building any of the infrastructure or much less cold calling anyone

$ 50K - $ 150K gets the ball rolling but you'd own less of the business [much less than half].

If venture investors across the spectrum could pull back just a little — resist investing in that marginal deal, maybe not stretch quite as much on valuation or perhaps provide a little less capital to a financing (giving the entrepreneur a chance to build a business with more capital efficiency); it certainly would be of significant help.

For C corps, they can claim more tax deductions than a partnership may be able to, write off benefits for employees (like health insurance) as business expenses, and are at much less risk of being audited as opposed to an LLC or sole proprietorship structure.

«Business owners realize that if they spent more time working and less time trying to fix their technology issues, their business would be in much better shapeBusiness owners realize that if they spent more time working and less time trying to fix their technology issues, their business would be in much better shapebusiness would be in much better shape.»

Additionally, there are huge cost savings associated with work flexibility — for example, telecommuters spend much less (if anything at all) on commuting costs and business attire.

Fueled by web - based tools that speed up the application process, a new paradigm for evaluating credit worthiness, and the ability to leverage technology to help them determine eligibility (often in under an hour), these lenders may approve business loans that might be overlooked by traditional banks, and can typically do it in much less time than their traditional counterparts.

Our easy - to - use, ultra-secure online application takes only a few minutes to complete, and approval takes no more than two business days, typically much less.

I think probably to the dissatisfaction of our sales team here, I make all of our decisions based on what's going to matter to our community and focus much less on the advertising side of the business.

Being Green and basing your business in strong ethics will actually give you a strong marketing advantage in tough ties: your customers will be more loyal, a bit less price - sensitive, perhaps, and much more willing to evangelize on your behalf.

Would this article be published if TSLAs market cap was 1billion instead of ~ 50 billion.Of course not.TSLA is much less a story of innovation and technology and much more one of a stock where rampant speculation resulting from Central bank liquidity has pushed its stock to levels completely unrelated to its prospects as a company.Its silly stock market valuation allows it raise cash to keep the charade going much longer than the economics of its business would ever suggest.

If that sounds ominous, it should — the more one learns about Facebook's business model, the less appealing letting it run so much of the online world sounds.

Companies who abandon the priority of building a loyal audience are deciding — consciously or not — to build a much less ambitious business.

According to Forbes, in the months ahead you can expect to see much more organic content from people you know and less content from businesses, publishers, and brands.