Sentences with phrase «of company money»

In fact Steve Jobs had declared that he was ready to spend any amount of the company money in order to destroy Android.

But, to put a large amount of company money to publicly push your social agenda is unacceptable.

A talented IBM junior executive once lost $ 10 million of company money in a risky venture, then slunk into company founder Tom Watson Sr.'s office expecting to be fired.

He obtained a substantial summary judgment, and proprietary vesting orders, in a claim against a director fiduciary for misappropriation and misapplication of company monies in LS Systems Ltd v Scott [2015] EWHC 1335 (Ch).

Not exact matches

In the summer of 2015, Wilcox had sunk most of his money in a decentralized file storage company he founded called Least Authority.

«What this has done is really allowed for more pools of money to be available to entrepreneurs, so that's the really big news about all of this,» says Geri Stengel, founder and president of Ventureneer, a digital media and market research company that, among other issues, specializes in crowdfunding.

Smart companies have turned Twitter into a money - making machine by making their followers part of the creative process.

«Mad Money» host Jim Cramer doubles down on his praise of Apple after the company's second - quarter earnings report.

He always found resourceful ways to make money, and after he graduated from college, he opted for entrepreneurship rather than wait for an internet company to take notice of him.

When they get venture money, these women - led companies generate revenues that are 12 percent higher than those of comparable male - run tech companies.

Big insurance companies spend a ton of money trying to make people feel they're the best option.

«One does not want to own part of a company when the majority shareholder is running out of money.»

The company plans to use the money to meld the best features of social media and video streaming.

This is a logical extension of the company's «acceptable ads» scheme and a new way in which Adblock Plus can make money from that program — a useful move for the company due to a recent court ruling in its home country of Germany.

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

The rules for equity crowdfunding, whereby an entrepreneur can raise money by selling a piece of his or her company for cash, changed in May.

Unless you manage to become the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, when you're an employee you can only make so much money.

Freelance work can allow them to get real world experience and earn some money until they land a full - time job, he said, although relying solely on that type of employment can also mean there's a lack of corporate identity — for the company as well as for the freelancers themselves.

Companies such as Uber and Instacart stand to save a ton of money on labor costs — up to 40 percent, according to one study — by continuing to classify their workers as independent contractors rather than as employees.

In the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did it.

Its NES Classic and SNES Classic have been surprising hits for the company, a lesson in the power of nostalgia and appealing to Millennials with money to spend.

They outsourced the watch design and production to a company in China that failed to deliver and — Tan writes — walked away with a good portion of their money.

The company later halted construction due to lack of demand for the product, an Intel spokesman told CNN Money.

At the other end, funds such as OMERS Ventures and Georgian Partners, two of the country's most prominent VCs, are capable of investing large amounts of money in more mature companies.

It's no wonder that companies pay a ton of money to be featured in the «getting ready» scenes between Q and James Bond.

Some of the tactics show Intel's ability, as a large company, to invest a lot of money in trying to fix a problem.

Ecobee is a close partner of Amazon and has raised money from the company's Alexa Fund, too.

Pebble is one of the first breakout successes from Kickstarter, where companies raise money from fans and supporters often in return for early versions of the product.

... I think that creates a lot of positives, and banks are doing well because investors know all these new companies will be borrowing money.»

Despite that, almost every insurance company I talked to was spending an incredible amount of time and money trying to get people to think about their insurance company more often.

In every case a huge amount of fixed costs up front is overwhelmed by the ongoing ability to make money at scale; to put it another way, tech companies combine fixed costs with marginal revenue opportunities, such that they make more money on additional customers without any corresponding rise in costs.

We feel very strongly as a company that our role and responsibility in addition to making money and building shareholder value, as you know, is to demonstrate a level of social impact in the communities that we serve.

The legendary company has built much of its business on helping immigrants and refugees send and receive money to and from their families for nominal fees.

«Shell companies are perfect for owning assets or opening bank accounts without leaving a trace of whose money it actually is,» Business Insider previously reported.

«We're used to saying Bell and Telus and Rogers (TSX: RCI) are big companies and they make a lot of money, but if they go up against Verizon — it's not an even fight.»

Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

Tilt doesn't charge individuals who send or collect money for events on its platform; the company says that it gets most of its revenue from businesses paying for its enterprise service.

Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments and companies get a sum of money today and pay interest on it over time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»

No. 2, you must also consider the biggest and most consistent competitor around, a guy who affects all companies of all sizes in all markets — his name is «I just want to keep my money,» and he does particularly well in a tough economy.

«We saw the cheap Chinese drones coming in and a bunch of new companies like 3D Robotics starting up, and getting lots of traction and VC money.

Foreigners are coming in and buying up property with anonymous shell companies and some of that is perfectly legitimate but some of it is clearly money laundering and corrupt officials and other people using their cash to park it in property and making it impossible for the people who live there to afford it.

In the true indie spirit, though, none of the company's principals are much interested in making the big money through getting bigger or selling out in an acquisition, like many of their forebears did.

The New York Times reports that the impending public offering of the company formerly known as Snapchat is drawing excitement from many of the city's money managers, eager to assist Snap's 1,900 employees as some of them prepare to become millionaires for the first time.

With money in the bank, it's easy for your marketing team to think they can be anywhere and everywhere: attending every conference, marketing to companies of all sizes from SMB all the way up through enterprise accounts... but you can't do it all.

The corporate rate cut would give U.S. transportation companies of all sizes more money to upgrade their fleets with fuel - efficient vehicles.

«With EEDAR estimating current League of Legends revenues to be more than $ 1 billion per year, this means that the value of Riot is significantly higher than $ 1 billion and Tencent would have paid a lot of money for the remaining 7 % of the company's shares,» Walker says.

For all we hear about 20 - year - olds dropping out of Stanford to raise trunk loads of venture money, most entrepreneurs need industry knowledge and connections to start a company.

Red packets, which are gifts of money from married to unmarried people, have propelled the growth of China's tech companies like Tencent.

Diveboard makes money by charging premiums to dive shop members who use the e-commerce portion of the service, which lets them create online shops using a basic widget that they can embed within their main company website.

But he has a «pattern» of using shell companies to purchase homes «in all - cash deals,» as WNYC has reported, and then transferring those properties into his name for no money and taking out large mortgages against them.