Sentences with phrase «n't run a firm»

I ask genuinely, because I don't run a firm and because I do my computing on a Mac with Spotlight indexing my drives, and so long as I don't mess with iTunes — : --RCB--- Apple won't learn what I've got on my machine.

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Bentall cites one client — a family firm run by a father and two daughters — that didn't want a succession plan but rather a partnership strategy.

Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.

Fadell continues to run Nest as a quasi-independent company, and analysts forecast the firm will leverage Google's reach and resources to extend its home invasion to the next wave of smart devices, like appliances and locks.

According to Wolfango Piccoli, from analysis firm Teneo Intelligence, the Five Star leader faces a dilemma: partner up with Lega and risk alienating his own party due to conflicting platforms, or run the risk of holding multiple inconclusive voting rounds and not end up with a speaker in the House.

Crucially, Alaskan firms aren't subject to the limits on no - bid contracts that apply to other 8 (a) s. And while the CEO of a regular 8 (a) must be a «disadvantaged» individual, the Alaskans are free to hire whomever they choose to run the business — and usually their choices are rich with experience in government contracting, particularly at the Pentagon.

The small details of running a business, managing workplace culture and making large investment decisions were not in his purview, according to those who worked at the firm.

Dan Weinfurter runs Capital H Group, a human resources consulting firm in Chicago, though he's not an HR guy but an entrepreneur at heart.

A recent report by the research firm Gartner asserted that as many as half of all PCs will not be able to run many of Vista's most sophisticated features.

But Jim Chanos, the founder of the world's biggest short selling firm, hasn't run for cover.

«If a business doesn't have the resources to raise capital when it needs to, manage tax situations effectively, or execute increasingly complex accounting issues [such as] revenue recognition, then they could run into some serious problems,» explains Calvin L. Hackeman, a partner at Grant Thornton LLP, a large accounting firm in Chicago that serves both small and midsized businesses.

Still, the market isn't entirely in the clear: severance packages run out, and oil and gas firms are not expected to hire in waves any time soon.

Regulator Transport for London last Friday deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service and decided not to renew its license to operate when it expires on Sept. 30, citing the firm's approach to reporting serious criminal offenses and background checks on drivers.

And venture is not alone; only 5 percent of the S&P 500 index has a female CEO; 3 percent of U.S. senior leadership teams are racially diverse; 8 percent of law firm equity partners are individuals of color; and 18 percent of the largest nonprofits ($ 50 million + budgets) are run by women, despite an overwhelmingly (75 percent) female employee base.

The trader, Sarao, was not part of a sophisticated firm that operated microwave networks or paid for colocation services but rather a single individual who tweaked a software program that he used to repeatedly run the same manipulative layering strategies.

His article, entitled «Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale,» provides a brilliant look into the behaviours and tendencies of entrepreneurs as their companies grow from single product firms run by small teams, to multi-product organizations with a staff list that no longer fits on a sticky note.

«In terms of liquidity, not only do our largest firms now have the right kind and amount of liquidity calibrated to their funding needs and to their likely run risk in stressed conditions, but they also are required to know where it is at all times and to ensure it is positioned or readily accessible where it is most likely to be needed in resolution.»

Trade is a great driver of productivity, and so the risk of growing protectionism concerns me.15 More open trade with the United States and Mexico in the 1990s gave Canadian firms access to much bigger markets and therefore greater incentives to invest — in both physical and human capital.16 Disrupting supply chains and reducing incentives to compete will not create more jobs and income in the long run.

FINRA has not done a great job leading the charge because — and I may be wrong — FINRA is overwhelmingly run by the big broker - dealer firms.

Furthermore, as if those weren't enough bad news for the quarter, the Canadian firm also said then that it was delaying the launch of devices running on its next - generation BlackBerry 10 (BB10) mobile operating system.

The social network will not reveal how much app install ads bring in, but firms that help marketers run ads on Facebook believe they account for more than half of its mobile revenues, which doubled to $ 2.5 billion in the fourth quarter.

Most industrial structures in the long - run end up with a relatively small number of large firms, not so many mid-size firms, and lots of little firms.

Classifying pensions as senior debt won't stop bankruptcies if a company can't change with the market, but that's no reason for johnny - come - lately PE firms to ignore unfunded pension liabilities so they can take the cash & run.

Becoming a broker does not require a degree, but there are many sources for reputable loan broker information — entry level positions at firms, night courses, and The Commercial Capital Training Group (which will give you the tools and introduce you to a network of lenders)-- to get the training and resources you need to start running your own business broker business.

That is, the firm won't have a bias toward women - run companies.

While hot tech firms have to come up with a new gadget every other quarter, Forever Assets don't run on this innovation treadmill.

Eric Sapp, who runs a faith - focused consulting firm with Strider, said he wasn't hired by the House and Senate Democratic campaign committees or by candidates for Congress or governor, for the first time since he started doing such work.

He does not teach us to run from violence; he teaches us to confront violence by standing firm and offering our other cheek.

It was one of the hardest scenes to watch in the show's five - year run, but I may just be saying that because I have a daughter and am relatively firm in my resolve to not burn her alive.

We want to draw firm conclusions and the dude who will be running the show come September wasn't even at the controls on Saturday.

The news will receive mixed reviews from the fans because although the Gunners are on a good run of form, it won't stop some fans from being firm WengerOut supporters.

Gilstrap, who appears to run a janitorial and facility management firm, did not return Voice calls.

The idea that the state runs things terribly and private firms run things efficiently is so deeply entrenched in all three mainstream parties that we won't see a change anytime soon.

But private firms don't run a quarter of the prisons.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

Don't forget to remind Hank to be on time for his Politics Online panel (I'll be running the hour with a stern eye on the clock and a firm hand upon the whip).

Probation was exempt from this rule as it's not a commercial operation, but now that they're run by private firms the rules have changed.

One of Red Horse's founders, Doug Forand, said the firm didn't run any of the above - mentioned campaigns, but rather did independent expenditure work (mail, field and phones) for labor unions, including the UFT, HTC, NYSUT, 32BJ SEIU, 1199 SEIU and AFSCME.

Silver is accused of directing Glenwood to hire a real estate law firm run by a former aide, which then paid him handsomely for doing no work, while Skelos is charged with directing the developer to pay his son's title insurance company $ 20,000 for work it did not do.

And Schwartz's main business is not governmental investigations, but a burgeoning business working for large corporations when they run into legal trouble and hire his firm, often as part of settlements to avoid prosecution.

Messer said he is not only going up against Stavisky herself, but the Queens Democratic Party and the consulting firm Parkside, which is partially run by Stavisky's son Evan.

It does not have enough oil refineries and even if the four it has were running at full capacity, they would only supply a quarter of the country's needs, says John Ashbourne, an economist at the financial research firm Capital Economics.

63 per cent of those polled would not be comfortable with private companies running police services for profit 60 per cent were not comfortable with private firms handling 999 calls.

«The WFP has operated most successfully as the left - wing of the Democratic establishment, not as a band of radical outsiders,» said Dan Morris, a Democratic consultant who runs the left - leaning Progressive Cities firm and has been critical of both the governor and mayor.

Federal prosecutors say Silver ran schemes using two law firms, one specializing in real estate, the other in personal injury law, to collect money for work he did not perform.

There's not a firm guarantee that winning upstate will ultimately help GOP candidates running statewide.

The attorney general's proposals do not directly address what he termed New York's exemption - riddled «swiss cheese» tax code, nor do they appear to limit the influence of powerful consulting firms that run politicians» campaigns and then represent business, labor and nonprofit interests seeking government benefits.

While Primma will be run out of PRI's headquarters on Long Island, the new firm will have different management and not include either Bonomo or his brother.

With the state in a budget crunch and losing $ 1 million in education money for every day the video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Race Track are not up and running, a spokesman for Gov. David Paterson said there is no deadline for selecting a firm to run the machines at the Ozone Park track.

It's also not lost on observers that Education Reform Now, the group that has been running an ad campaign accusing the UFT of blocking a measure to lift the charter school cap and causing the state to lose out in the first round of «Race to the Top» cash, is being repped by KnickerbockerSKD — a firm that also works for Bloomberg.