Sentences with phrase «of business years»

Really, obscure e-book site that probably should have gone out of business years ago?

And the cloud servers you relied on went out of business years earlier.

This search engine marketing company is celebrating 10 years of business this year and five years on the Inc. 5000.

«Imagine it's coming to the end of the business year,» the survey asked half of the participants.

The second method is to have the equipment purchased and installed at the beginning of the business year or quarter closest to the time when you'll actually need the equipment, allowing time for training and working out bugs before the equipment is placed into full production.

Third, on the cost side, with the acceleration of the business this year, we view some additional SG&A in the form of commissions and some investments in our people, structure and organization.

Management change the divisional allocation of businesses every year.

To pick new stocks for your portfolio, we build financial models of hundreds of businesses every year.

The surprising revelation was that, according to one official estimate, the nation's pornographers do more than four billion dollars worth of business a year — more than the combined incomes of the often supportive movie and music industries!»

Tikes toys are a major part of the world's economy, generating billions of dollars worth of business every year.

A big part of our business this year — and I suspect for many years to come — is going to be looking at how we can effectively educate investors about ETFs and iShares, and some of that is going to come through partnerships like the iTrade program.

To pick new stocks for your portfolio, we build financial models of hundreds of businesses every year.

The WTM Latin American Hosted Buyer Program is invite - only for buyers conducting more than US$ 500,000 worth of business every year.

Not exact matches

My developer who has been with me for two years has been a friend of my family for 10 years and I trust him to support me and my business.

That business suffered badly last year and in early 2015 because of labor strife at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego.

It may not sound like the most exciting topic, but it's fundamental to business and will continue to be a core focus for years to come, because the sheer volume of information flowing through companies today is incredible.

Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva graduated from the University of Southern California last year having earned not just a degree, but perhaps a more important credential: their own business.

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.

Jackie Stone, CMO of MiMedia, a personal cloud storage company, told Business News Daily: «I've worked in digital media for more than 20 years, and as we become more connected, more people have decided that staying «on» 24/7 is socially acceptable — and it's not.»

In the past 20 years, CNBC's «Managing Asia» has spoken with some of the top business leaders in the world to drill down the recipe for success in the region.

To start, he needed both people and funds — futuristic home doodads don't invent themselves — so he secured $ 12.5 million in subordinated debt financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada and Quebec's Fonds de solidarité FTQ, with flexible five - year payment terms (the latter a reward for years of solid financial management).

The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.

LinkedIn recently joined the gig economy earlier this year when they launched ProFinder, a service that enables freelancers to promote their business and be found by those in need of their services.

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

Before you break into a sweat over the small business requirements in the health - care legislation signed into law last month, take a deep breath: Many of its provisions will take months if not years to go into effect.

Thomas Thurston, the founder of Growth Science in Portland, Ore., has spent the last seven years building databases and algorithms aimed at finding commonalities between businesses that thrive and fail.

«In order to meet the growing challenge of a tough market last year, I was forced to consider alternative options to keep my business viable,» said Dr. Alan Glazier, the company's founder and CEO.

After graduating from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business, she spent five years working in international operations management.

Even after more than 20 years in business, the world's biggest streaming video service experienced some of its fastest growth ever in the first quarter, helping to give its stock a big lift.

According to Arif Mulji, vice-president of business development, Amur's fortunes vividly reflect some of the forces that have dominated Canada's economy in recent years: Its customers tend to be people looking for short - term mortgages, home renovation loans or debt consolidation.

How many of these businesses would've succeeded as brick - and - mortar shops just 20 years ago?

According to the report, Foursquare is now back on track to beat sales expectations by the end of the year, and the business development team has been successful in attracting several new advertisers to their «post-check-in product.»

If half of businesses fail in the first five years, what are the other half doing right and what can entrepreneurs learn from them?

The potential deal sent both stocks soaring as it would tie up two giants from Quebec and give Metro an expanded foothold in the drug business, mirroring Loblaw Cos.» purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart four years ago.

This new form of equity crowdfunding — which is the result of the new Title III of the JOBS Act — allows companies to raise up to $ 1,000,000 each year, from investors for their businesses, using crowdfunding platforms.

Businesses with more than 50 employees that do not offer coverage will be taxed based on the size of their payrolls, but the cost will be significantly less than the cost of providing insurance benefits, and the tax is not set to go into effect until the 2014 fiscal year.

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

We also decided to wind down our activities in the wind pitch control business by year end, resulting in a charge of $ 0.72 per share.

Optimism among small business owners has also remained around the 70 percent point since the beginning of this year — important to note since this group tends to act on its instinct.

Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

The new management team at accounting firm Lawrence Business Management has agreed to buy the business for $ 7.3 million cash from listed company Countplus, after two years of restruBusiness Management has agreed to buy the business for $ 7.3 million cash from listed company Countplus, after two years of restrubusiness for $ 7.3 million cash from listed company Countplus, after two years of restructuring.

While I was cleared of all charges four years later, I wound up filing for bankruptcy protection and lost a personal fortune in business equity to the tune of about $ 3 billion.

The Small Business Success Index, as it's called, is the third in a series of surveys the pair have done over the past year.

In pre-budget consultations this year, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business pushed the government hard to lower the rate again.

In the past 20 years, «Managing Asia» has spoken with some of the top business leaders in the world to drill down the recipe for success.

According to research by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 46.6 percent of startups launched in the U.S. that are still in business after five years are founded by «user entrepreneurs.»

Four years on from a period of scathing reviews and business upheaval, C Restaurant is gearing up for one of its busiest days of the year.

Beyond this sense of optimism, seven out of 10 business owners said they fared the same or better than they did a year ago in the fourth quarter.

The advantage of having a small business with a smaller customer base is that you are better able to provide your clients with the attention they deserve — the kind of attention that will keep them satisfied and loyal to you for several years.