Sentences with phrase «of building a firm»

Three years ago, we launched Primary Venture Partners with the goal of building a firm that would set a new standard here in New York City for how early - stage investors engage with and support the operations of their portfolio companies.

Muscle «tone» comes as a result of building firm, hard muscles and burning off the fat that covers them.

I realize the importance of building a firm foundation of integrity and service.

I appreciate the worth of building a firm base of trust and service.

I recognize the importance of building a firm foundation of customer service and integrity.

Silk says the key is confronting all of these things on the front end of the listing so their expectations are fully set for what is to come and so you have the best chance of building a firm sale for them.

Not exact matches

Whenever Tencent sees a game they like — based on specific metrics, of course — it decides to either build it itself and improve on it, or invest and acquire the firm behind it.»

It's all in service of building Gillam's reputation as a focused and efficient general contractor that can manage tough jobs that typically go to much larger firms.

«I don't know what the hell that is,» Smith barked as he traced a stubby finger across a set of working drawings for the building, a development for WeWork, a U.S. firm that specializes in collaborative workspaces.

Strategies For More Authentic, Respectful Communication How to Build Better Business Relationships: Turn Blunders into Opportunities Admitting mistakes and correcting missteps will take you far when it comes to building relationships, says William Gregory O, who is the co-founder of Lex Scripta, a law firm in Illinois.

«At our client - appreciation events, I made sure that both the front - line team [of salespeople] and behind - the - scenes team [account managers] attended,» says business coach and inspirational speaker Nancy Brunetti, who built a successful financial firm with just 10 employees.

It all lends credence to Tehrani's claim that, from the outset 15 years ago, he sought to build a different kind of biotechnology firm — «a truly rational drug development company,» as he puts it.

Prior to joining Deep Systems in 2017 as chief operating officer, he spent much of his career building algorithmic trading systems for a number of firms.

At the end of the 1950s, the firm shifted its focus to West Hollywood, settling into an office on Third Street and constructing a series of apartment buildings and shopping centers, many of which still stand today.

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.»

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Shell is building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea; it's part of consortia installing solar farms in Oman and California; and it has bought one of Europe's biggest electric - car - charging firms and a major British electricity provider.

The order «hinders the ability of American companies to attract talented employees, increases costs imposed on business, makes it more difficult for American firms to compete in the international marketplace, and gives global enterprises a new, significant incentive to build operations — and hire new employees — outside the United States,» according to the brief.

One example from my past that helped shape my workplace beliefs comes from my time spent as head of EMEA operations at a firm where I was building experience before starting my own venture.

The gathering is intended to probe what companies from Johnson & Johnson to 3M to Samsung — as well as every leading consulting firm across the globe — have already discovered: that smart, creative, and bold «design thinking» is one of the most essential (if too - often - overlooked) pathways for companies to build better products, connect with customers, improve their collaborations, and make the day - to - day corporate processes that now drive most of us crazy less crazy - making in the future.

Judge slams deception by Hardie board Ten former directors and executives of building materials group James Hardie have been found to have breached their duties by making misleading statements about the firm's ability to pay asbestos compensation, in a decision that has wide - ranging implications for company boards.

In the early 1990s, Mr. Schilling started Quilogy in the basement of the building next to OPO Startups as a one - man consulting firm.

I graduated first in my class at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning in 1958, and after 52 interviews, I got a job for $ 2.50 an hour with the firm that designed the Empire State Building.

As a firm, we have dedicated ourselves to advancing the American dream of economic opportunity for all, including programs for our employees and our Corporate Responsibility initiatives to build wealth and economic mobility among families and entrepreneurs of color.

Green helped Weiss raise $ 2 million in seed funding, which she used to assemble a small team, including creative director Helen Steed, a beauty industry vet who'd helped build Bumble & Bumble, and COO Henry Davis, who came from the London office of venture capital firm Index Ventures.

Instead, the winning group will have a public - private partnership contract with the government which will allow it use of some state infrastructure, such as sites to build towers on and a fiber optic network owned by the state electricity firm.

(See the recent collapse of «revolutionary» blood - testing firm Theranos, which turned out to be built exclusively on hype.)

Retirement market research firm Hearts & Wallets reported in its 2014 survey of millennials that building an emergency fund was the generation's No. 1 objective and 52 percent of millennials were saving toward this goal.

Apple and Google are ecosystem - building technology companies with massive installed user bases invading one of the last spaces on which BlackBerry has a firm grip.

The South African - born accountant used the Bronfmans» company, Edper Investments, to make a series of daring acquisitions and built a sprawling conglomerate that owned real estate, resource companies and financial firms.

But fully half of all automobile brands are already building 1 Mbps Bluetooth connectivity into at least some of their models, says Phil Magney, co-founder and principal analyst of Telematics Research Group, a research and data firm in Minneapolis.

A few years on, the firm is considering abandoning the platform: «I can't point to one moment where I feel like we built business because of it.»

«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.

«Strikingly, around two - thirds of businesses in mainland China and Hong Kong think that foreign firms that do business in RMB benefit financially and build stronger trading relationships,» wrote Simon Cooper, CEO of Global Commercial Banking with HSBC.

But the idea of building a manuscript or a software company or an advisory firm is foreign and daunting, so it's wise to select carefully when sharing your dream.

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

IT firm ASG Group has built on its relationship with the federal government with the renewal of a new contract with the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development worth $ 23.8 million.

One of the best ways is to hire a firm that has blockchain built into every aspect of its service offering.

dPoint Technologies, which ranked 60th on the 2013 PROFIT 500, is the firm that grew out of Dean's desperate search for Plan B. Using specialized membrane technology, the company manufactures modules that reduce the air - quality problems that tend to occur in highly energy - efficient buildings with poor circulation.

After only a single day of work, McClure and his team at his California - based security firm, Cylance, gained access to the entire building.

From 1995 to 2000, Mueller was part of a TRW team of about 80 people that built an engine intended for the Delta IV, only to see his work abandoned when Boeing selected a competing firm as its engine supplier.

Applecross - based PDC Group has entered into an agreement for the sale of its building information modelling management business to a US construction services firm for an undisclosed sum.

Rizkalla insists that his defence - oriented training products don't compete with the full - scale cockpit simulators built by firms like CAE, which is a customer of Bluedrop's.

Another objective is «building an emotional connection» with followers, says Vasudeva, citing a recent study of 500 CEOs worldwide that his firm conducted.

But, he adds, the learning isn't about the specific tactic — a media relations blitz packed with juicy statistics about infidelity — but rather the broader importance of building brand awareness through whichever channels make the most sense for a given firm in a given industry.

Not content with designing iconic buildings in his homeland of Denmark, his firm, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), has crossed the Atlantic in a bid to revolutionize the way architects and planners think about high - density urban housing.

Engineering and construction firm Decmil Group has been selected to build a school in Christchurch for the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

The elevator industry, however, is a complicated world, says Reich - Rohrwig, whose firm focuses almost entirely on upgrading existing lifts in office buildings and apartment tower — with modern displays, digital buttons, etc. — instead of supplying fixtures to the inexpensively - made new models installed in condo towers.

«The growth rate (of non-energy exports) persistently was less than what we thought should happen and it's gradually building up to something that we have to acknowledge, and we have to say, «Either it comes back someday after firm creation kicks in more strongly» or something,» Poloz said.

«Since the inception of our firm, an unconditional principle of integrity has been a core value as we build a lasting franchise,» PJT said in a statement.