Sentences with phrase «of business models which»

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The notes, which were photographed as one of his aides closed the binder during a short break from testifying, were extensive and covered issues of data scraping, data safety, and matters surrounding disturbing content on the platform, as well as broader issues of diversity, competition, Facebook's business model, Apple's business model, and «Election Integrity (Russia).»

Property insurance startup Lemonade has tried to create a level of trust not usually found in the industry by using a business model in which it has nothing to gain monetarily by denying a person's claim.

The industry's business model hinges on access to a large supply of free bodies, which often come from the poor.

We need to shift our approach from the old - school «outreach» model to an «in - reach» model, which actively cultivates and incorporates the thoughts of influencers and stakeholders in every facet of business, from product development to content co-creation to crisis communications.

No business models are exciting 100 percent of the time, which means there will always be a need for someone to handle the minutiae in your business.

I'm very inspired by Apple and if you look at our business model — we didn't steal Apple's — we definitely have a lot of inspiration with our «HQ Online,» which is our software that you can download and [where you can upload] your stats, and that connects to our online portal.

«Everything we make is part of our business model, which is to make cool shit and hope somebody out there is willing to pay you for it.»

With respect to analyzing the sort of models that gets investors interested in pumping - in funds to significantly newer entrants in the financial lending vertical, More explains that it was the customer experience focus over which the business models were developed.

But make no mistake: Business is one of Benioff's passions, and by creating a new model for selling software he's been able to build Salesforce into a fast - growing enterprise with nearly $ 10 billion in revenue — which helps the CEO focus on all those areas that need his attention.

The model is apparently so enticing that Goldman won hundreds of clients and, the company says, nearly eight figures» worth of business in 2013, which was RelSci's first year since coming out of stealth mode.

Business Insider nailed it when it wrote, «The new on - demand models have opened the door to real - time fulfillment of goods and services, which consumers have embraced with a frequency that is unprecedented.»

We are also looking at other areas, such as evaluating the possibility of associating with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Centre for Endowment Consultancy, which will be integrated into our business model.

Thinking about the sports - media market as a supply - and - demand problem probably also pushed Bleacher Report toward its original business model, which relied heavily on amateur bloggers producing prodigious amounts of work.

The most useful mental models and rules of thumb, in other words, are often dead simple, which is why an interview Adam Bryant of The New York Times did with Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston earlier this year is so helpful (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer).

«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.

The shift has squeezed margins in recent years because the cloud business model is based on subscriptions which take longer to pay off — in contrast to one - off, up - front software license payments that was the thrust of its business for decades.

Until the company can move away from an ad - driven business model (which accounts for 90 percent of revenue), it will continue to make people's data available to advertisers and potentially bad agents.

-- Tien Tzuo, cofounder and CEO of Zuora which creates cloud technologies that help companies build subscription business models.

Which means leaders have to be vigilant for what the report calls «fault lines» — the weakening foundations in your business model, or the shifting needs of your customer base.

In 2002, Berkshire bought the company, which sells its products through a network of independent consultants, mimicking the Tupperware business model.

But it is also true that Apple's business model is very different from Facebook's: As Mark Zuckerberg pointed out, Facebook is free to use, unlike Apple, which relies on the sale of relatively expensive devices as its main revenue stream.

Selling With a supermajority of iOS apps being offered for free — more than 90 percent, Blau says — companies have turned en masse to a business model in which customers pay for extra features.

At the end, rather than pitching their business plans to venture capitalists in a «demo day» — the standard model of startup incubators — the teams made «lessons learned» presentations, during which they explain how the customer feedback helped them shape their plans.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

This is determined by calculating the present value of its growth opportunities, which represents the proportion of market value that is not attributable to the earnings power of the existing assets and business model.

«It really comes down to the consistency of our operating model, which has enabled us to perform well in all parts of our business.

He points out that the company's business model allows it to turn its inventory around about twice as many times as its peers and its strong free cash flow — the company has about $ 4 of cash per share, he says — could be used to buy back stocks, which it has done in the past.

Brittany Hodak, co-founder of ZinePak, doesn't believe in a flat - out rejection of capitalism altogether, but rather an adoption of a «conscious capitalism» model, in which businesses commit themselves to giving back to the community at large in addition to benefitting from financial gains.

And when the owners are able to tap into a fitting business model and leverage it into a multi-unit operation — which is the case for 52 percent of franchise operators in the U.S., says Powell — the results can be as gratifying as they are lucrative.

The Broads are also longtime supporters of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is one of three museums that received a $ 450,000 federal grant to explore a new business model that has already allowed the Dallas Museum of Art to go mostly free.

The book exemplifies how people have gained and lost power throughout the ages, which is what I find really interesting: Learning from iconic figures from past centuries and applying them to our drastically different, hyper - modern business models of the present.

The Brooklyn - born financier cobbled together a $ 698 billion empire of seemingly unrelated businesses into Citigroup, which in the late 1990s became the model for the modern - day financial supermarket.

Debi Mishra, partner director of engineering and machine learning at Microsoft Corporation, pointed to the example of GE's aircraft engine business, which shifted its business model from selling machinery to selling engines as a service.

Investors are wary that Costco's business model, which mainly generates revenue through a niche membership club, faces increased competition from online giant Amazon.com, which has begun to shake up the grocery space with its acquisition of Whole Foods.

In 2016, critics cited the Oscars» snub of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama «Beasts of No Nation» as evidence that the industry was «turned off» by Netflix's business model, which debuts films on the streaming service simultaneously with theatrical releases.

A person close to the Delivery Hero IPO stressed the differences, arguing that Blue Apron's subscription - based business model was less attractive than that of Delivery Hero, which generates income by taking a commission on meal orders.

Icahn had already received permission to buy as much as 35 % of Herbalife stock in July, which he announced the same day the nutrition products company reached a controversial settlement with the FTC that imposed restrictions on its business model but stopped short of calling it a pyramid scheme.

The nonprofit organization, which uses a commerce - based business model instead of relying on donations, began selling incredibly fashionable metal whistle necklaces to encourage people to become «whistle - blowers for peace» in Congo and raise awareness about the deadly war.

It has increased the reach of journalists while badly undermining the newspaper business model, which depended upon high barriers to entry in the form of printing presses and the packaging of classified advertising with news.

Still, despite the fiduciary risks (which are outlined, in near - apocolyptic detail, on pages nine through 29 of the filing) buyers of Zipcar stock seem to believe that the company's business model will ultimately become a profitable enterprise.

And its «one for one» business model — which initially had the company donate a pair of shoes to needy children in the developing world for each pair it sold — has inspired scores of copycats.

Earlier this year, however, Medium announced that it was pivoting its business away from advertising revenue to a subscription - based model, which reportedly took a number of its publishing partners by surprise and made them rethink their desire to be hosted there.

So as far as the Apple lawsuit, which cuts right to the heart of Qualcomm's patent - licensing business model, Jacobs offers a strong attack on his company's adversary.

The History Channel's website has a cool story about the original fast - food chain, which not only made use of technology but depended on it for its entire business model.

That doesn't just include new technology or a new advertising model, but also the business model, which has always been the core of failures in businesses.

The tone is set by Benioff himself, who at Salesforce has pioneered a new business model (subscription software), a new technology model (storing a customer's applications online), and a new philanthropic model (which dictates giving away product, equity, and the time of its employees).

HealthEquity uses a so - called business - to - business - to - consumer model, which allows for distribution of its products through health insurance companies and, by extension, giant companies including Google and American Express.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

Sen. Hatch: «If [a version of Facebook will always be free], how do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?»

Companies use corporate venture capital as a compelling means to drive outside - in («open») innovation for: access to new and disruptive technologies, the development of new business models and participation in emerging markets, all of which may provide meaningful contributions to corporate growth.