Sentences with phrase «much less a company»

Just to give you an idea, assuming that Netflix is able to maintain a 50 % growth in profits per year (a VERY high growth rate for any company, much less a company with $ 7.6 B in sales) they'll need 5.7 years to increase their profits by 10x.

Not exact matches

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

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.

It's unclear why the company would need to raise so much more money less than a year after a previous fundraising round, Recode reports.

Much of what we love about Slack is timeless: The problem the company set out to solve is one that Butterfield and his founding team faced themselves, and their product is less of a quantum leap forward than a stunningly effective set of improvements on what came before.

Research by the Bank of Canada that Poloz unveiled in his lecture suggests that if Canada's companies have spread out across the globe, rather than simply doing the bulk of their work at home, then the domestic economy will be much less responsive to subtle changes in borrowing costs and the exchange rate.

Today's consumers have become much more intelligent with their buying habits, less loyal to the companies they frequent, therefore it's important to be honest about your intentions and cater to the needs of your audience or you're more likely to lose their interest.

A monthly subscription that's less than a car payment (apparently average in the US is $ 489) offering Zipcar - style car access and on - demand rides with a lower per - mile rate is really compelling, and makes it much easier to insert the autonomous vehicles these companies are working on anyways.

Third - party contracting firm benefits aren't only less generous, but the exorbitant Silicon Valley housing prices and rents make life as a contractor so difficult workers from contract companies often can't afford to elect a benefits package, because doing so will take too much out of their paycheck.

Very few entrepreneurs manage to take a company from start - up to IPO — much less to acquisition.

But when there are 10,000 or more their individual value amounts to much less than at a small company.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

You can grow without new products — AT&T sold essentially the same telephones for decades while becoming the world's largest telecommunications concern — but most small companies will find it difficult to grow at all, much less rapidly, without a constant stream of new products that meet customer needs.

There are still regulations, of course, but all - in - all, the process is much less complicated than setting up a bank, credit union, or traditional loan company to cater to people's financial needs.

The company believes that makes it much less harmful than cigarettes.

Now the company once valued at as much as $ 95 million in market value during the peak of Bitcoin fervor last December is trading 92 % lower on less regulated and less prestigious over-the-counter markets at a value of $ 7.4 million.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

Today, the people who run the most successful companies have learned that helping workers balance their lives on the job and off results in a healthy environment with less stress, much higher productivity, and much lower employee turnover.

Plus, your company is much less likely to have any «unpleasant surprises,» he says.

As any local tech company grows, it must eventually confront the fact that the Canadian talent pool, in terms of both executives and engineers, is much smaller and less educated than those in Silicon Valley, Seattle or New York.

Outside of Silicon Valley, technology company employees were even less likely to contribute, with employees at Finland - based Nokia giving much less to candidates.

When it was time to lease office space, the company passed on the trendy area next to Twitter's offices in San Francisco, settling instead on a much less expensive space in the North Beach area.

Currently, 90 % of CEO pay is linked to company performance of three years or less and based largely on stock price, much of which owes more to market forces than management acumen.

So - called bonus depreciation is set to expire this year, and rules (in Section 179 of the tax code) that allow small companies to take big deductions for many expenses are set to become much less generous.

«Because there is so much demand, people walk to other places, and companies are often forced to put in people who are less talented because they have no choice and need to get the work done.»

Companies like Aimclear explain how psychographics are expected to eat the traditional display ad budget by showing how much of typical display ad spend is wasted attempting to reach the wrong people and how much less can be spent with Facebook's detailed behavior targeting.

Currently, they pay less than developed countries for drugs, so companies don't make as much money there.

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.

«If you anticipate the kind of huge appreciation in your personal wealth that could come from an IPO or a company sale, the best thing you can do is transfer stock to your heirs before the sale, because it will be worth much less then, and that minimizes the tax liability,» explains Allan Landau, a partner with Boston law firm Sherburne, Powers & Needham.

A $ 23 - million construction - equipment and - supply company, Albany Ladder specializes in serving carpenters, roofers, and small - time contractors who've never borrowed money from a bank — much less established a history of responsibly repaying it.

Not bad for a company that went public less than four months ago amid much fanfare.

That's as much as 24 % less than the $ 25 billion valuation for which Snap was reportedly aiming, which was also the Snapchat company's private - market valuation as of its latest funding round.

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.

Cable companies Comcast (cmcsa) and Charter Communications (chtr) that are starting to offer wireless service themselves wouldn't draw much antitrust scrutiny if they bought Sprint, but now «appear less interested in outright ownership,» Niknam added.

Galloway said companies like Uber — with a valuation of $ 70 billion according to recent company press releases — would likely be worth much less if subjected to the scrutiny of the public market.

This is information that is seldom divulged outside of mortgage applications, much less to new technology companies people haven't heard of yet.

Although black consumers spend $ 1.2 trillion every year, companies often underestimate how much their brands depend on black consumers, and are therefore less inclined to reinvest their profits in those communities, explains Evans.

The $ 18 million investment is much less than the company was looking for last spring, when it was contemplating numbers that ranged from $ 35 million to $ 70 million.

U.S. companies, however, are spending much less on strategy consulting.

But Valeant's stock soon came crashing down as the company was besieged by scandals, leaving it with less currency and too much leverage to pursue further M&A purchases.

Outside investors contemplating buying Uber shares, however, have indicated they think the company is worth less than its current $ 68 billion valuation — perhaps much less.

In the years since oil prices cratered — and subsequently began to rise — energy companies have become much more efficient and have learned to do more with less.

Less than a year into his job, in which he was tasked with turning around a company considered on the brink of bankruptcy, Joly said Best Buy's program had given employees too much independence.

Smaller companies have much less bureaucratic red tape, and the ability of one person to see his or her idea put into action has an important motivating effect.

Under this provision, a state adopting the Act will set an asset threshold, below which a company will qualify for a provisional registration that is much less cumbersome than the full licensing requirements.

Ironically, the trend of companies raising less capital actually enhances the importance of the initial round buy - in (both because that initial buy - in becomes less diluted meaning the first round price was that much more important and because even if an angel wants to buy up more in later rounds they'll have less of a chance to do so; I also believe that along with the trend of companies raising less capital we're also seeing earlier and somewhat smaller average exits — also enhancing the value of initial round buy - ins as fewer investors are truly swinging for the proverbial fence).

Often, angel investors don't participate in future rounds (or if they do, they do so at a much less meaningful percentage of the round) meaning that their initial buy - in forms the basis for the majority of the shares they ultimately own in a company.

After all... How much risk is there if you could take a company private for way less than the amount of cash it has in the bank, cease operations and pay out the cash as a dividend?

The company isn't afraid to take risks, which means that it's going to sometimes strike out, but it's also much more likely to hit an occasional home run than companies that are less innovative and play it too safe.

New U.S. oil drilling has produced loads of crude oil, allowing companies to purchase it domestically for much less than it was selling for overseas.