I don't have a million assistants, and I don't build models.
Sir Arthur Eddington, the distinguished scientist who championed relativity and whose career spanned the intellectually fecund turn of the century, claimed that no scientific theory was comprehensible if you could
not build a model of it.
Since he can't build model airplanes or invite his buddies over for a hand of poker, he does doggy things - like chew, dig and bark.
Your comments leave me scratching my head because really I am
not building models in math space in some abstract exercise but talking about observed natural variability.
Not exact matches
Not only does it represent a potential conflict every time an advisor
builds a portfolio for his clients, it also recalls some of the worst practices of the brokerage
model - like «shelf space» fees wherein a mutual fund company engages in a payola of sorts to make it onto a brokerage firm's platform or «recommended list.»
«The business
model of an oil and gas company in the future is going to have to be
built around the abundance
model, where your returns are
not going to be made by commodity price increases,» says Munro.
«We didn't want to go work for XYZ company and
build financial
models.
When we
build our business
model here, it's
not going to be on the backs of the publishers, it will be with the publishers — you know we're going to make money with them
not off of them.
«You should
not be
building a business if the
model does
not lead to sustainable operating income and cash flow out of which a salary can be taken in a reasonable period of time,» says Frances Spark of Spark Consulting LLC, a New York firm that provides business consulting, operational restructuring and interim CFO and COO services to entrepreneurs and small to mid-size companies.
Penda hasn't
built the treehouse yet, but it prototyped a small
model of the modular bamboo system in 2015.
I want to have plenty of runway so that I can
build the business
model and the product the way that it needs to be
built and
not be forced into a situation where we have to break the glass of the nearest business
model just to survive.
Something happened in terms of the voter turnout that we did
not anticipate or
build into our
model.
You don't have to
build houses in the developing world, launch a trendy e-commerce company with a one - for - one
model, or subsist on Ramen noodles if you want to start a venture that will help others.
«This is about learning and ensuring with our dealer partners that we're
building a business
model that's sustainable for the longer term and
not something that's going to be a fad for this year.»
Murano isn't simply a new vehicle
model, it represents Nissan's push to
build more products where its customers live.
«To be clear, this recall does
not apply to any
Model X or
Model 3 vehicles, only to
Model S vehicles
built before April 2016.
Quitting Korea would, however,
not be an easy call for GM as it relies on those plants as a key export hub -
building vehicles for the United States and Latin America, although it could
build models such as the Chevrolet Trax elsewhere.
«Don't pick a
model that has failure
built into it and requires that you constantly drain a finite resource.»
From college dorm rooms to apartment «offices» across the country, Gen Y entrepreneurs are
building new businesses with social responsibility infused directly into the DNA of their business
model — as a forethought,
not an afterthought.
When he's
not sculpting clay
models of cars for Ford Motor, Steven Bock
builds bikes by hand under the moniker Detroit Bicycle Co..
«Our car needs to be designed and
built with such accuracy and precision that, if an owner measures dimensions, panel gaps, and flushness, and their measurements don't match the
Model 3 specs, it just means that their measuring tape is wrong.»
Not only is Globalization Partners disrupting the professional employer organization industry, but the way she went about
building the company turns the whole high - growth business tech
model on its head.
If we were
building spaceships or something capital - intensive, no, our
model wouldn't work.
The kingpin of a fictional drug enterprise may
not be your typical business role
model, but Breaking Bad's Walter White can teach you a thing or two about what it takes to
build an empire, including when
not to delegate important tasks.
You might have the idea, business
model, revenue
model, design, and customers that outline a lucrative new product, but without the software
built in, you won't ever be able to see your vision come to life.
Their
model does
not build fan relationships but just continually asks for hand outs.»
Male leaders need to
not only participate in the discussion about diversity issues, but also move with urgency to
build the
models for change that others can follow.
There are companies that don't follow this
model, like Mail Chimp and Survey Monkey, which have very unconventional approaches to
building long - term, sustainable businesses.
Beyond their debts, they have a business
model that is in trouble (brick - and - mortar retail) and they didn't invest enough to
build a vibrant online brand... they have ceded that to others.
In fact, I'd argue that the other potential contenders — Twitter, Pinterest, Dropbox, Uber, etc. (Tumblr, SpaceX, and Foursquare would make the list, but they're
not in Silicon Valley)-- don't have Square's potent mix of a visionary founder,
built - in / scalable business
model, and enormous market potential.
This «
build it and they will come»
model has led to a massive graveyard of good technologies and even good ideas that didn't meet customer needs or expectations.
And its corporate campuses are mostly
models of how
not to
build cities, with mega office parks (and spaceship designs) dependent on cars and detached from their neighboring communities.
While he didn't invent the agency holding company
model, he made it an unstoppable force,
building the planet's largest ad agency company from an ownership stake he took in a British maker of baskets and household wares in 1985.
When you've
built a business
model that works only up to a certain size, your
model can't sustain growth.
«If you looked back five years ago, I don't know that we'd be so willing to do this; why let the clients
build the
models themselves when we
build the
model and we'd like to sell the
model?»
Not surprisingly, there are several notable standouts in our 2017 list, including Nehal Raj who leads TPG's multi-billion-dollar technology investing practice globally to Alex Soltani who embraced a bold approach to deal making when successfully starting his own firm in his late 20s to Dominic Ang who purpose -
built a fund to dramatically accelerate portfolio company growth through his proven operating
model.
They encouraged their fans to record shows and trade tapes; they
built a mailing list and sold concert tickets directly to fans; and they
built their business
model on live concerts,
not album sales.
These simply are
not built into the
models and they're
not even
built into the statistics.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds
models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant
buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has
not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who
built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
The Canadian News Media Association quickly distanced itself from the report, stating the Public Policy Forum's recommendations «won't do much to help us
build out sustainable new business
models.»
I believe strongly in the need to go through the exercise of
building a financial
model (can focus mind and expose hidden assumptions and flaws), and agree that the focus should
not be on formal financial documents or even on the resulting numbers themselves (that is, until you are up and running and have real numbers).
The old construct for
models relies primarily on analysts who cover a small number of companies and independently
build models that don't all work the same way.
While
building a simple financial
model can help us better understand a company, it's clear that the people we refer to as the Investment Masters do
not rely on 5,000 line spreadsheets for their ideas.
If that's
not possible, start the company as a consulting practice while you finish
building whatever it is you need to execute on your main business
model».
So why don't the Investment Masters spend their time
building 5,000 line spreadsheet
models like most Wall Street analysts do?
It's remarkable how negative hype mounts when you're running the world's hottest car company, and can't seem to hit production targets for your best - selling — actually, that is the most - ordered, since Tesla can't sell them until it
builds them —
model, the $ 35,000 - and - up Model 3 s
model, the $ 35,000 - and - up
Model 3 s
Model 3 sedan.
As such, our partnership with Alibaba will allow Nestlé to develop an innovative business
model, as it
not only provides online sales solutions but also
builds up an ecosystem where brands can intrinsically combine branding, marketing, sales and customer care together.
It doesn't help that 10 - year bond yields are still lower than the prospective operating earnings yield on the S&P 500 (the «Fed
Model»), not only because the model is built on an omitted variables bias (see the August 22 2005 comment), but also because the model statistically underperforms a simpler rule that says «get in when stock yields are high and interest rates are falling, and get out when the reverse is true.&r
Model»),
not only because the
model is built on an omitted variables bias (see the August 22 2005 comment), but also because the model statistically underperforms a simpler rule that says «get in when stock yields are high and interest rates are falling, and get out when the reverse is true.&r
model is
built on an omitted variables bias (see the August 22 2005 comment), but also because the
model statistically underperforms a simpler rule that says «get in when stock yields are high and interest rates are falling, and get out when the reverse is true.&r
model statistically underperforms a simpler rule that says «get in when stock yields are high and interest rates are falling, and get out when the reverse is true.»
If you believe that adding salespeople is the key to accelerating growth, you're
not building an effective
model.
Ford has
not said how many self - driving vehicles it expects to produce on an annual basis, or whether it would adapt one of its current
models or
build an entirely new vehicle.