Sentences with phrase «of competition team»

At the end of first day of competition Team  «2 Horse Power Yamaha» managed to beat Team  «Southwind Boys» by only nine seconds; coming in third was Team  «Coast Guard» just eight minutes behind second place.

The State of Competition team has released Issue 16 - Australia's small business sector: «Not for the faint of heart».

Like herself, most of the human halves of the competition teams have day jobs, and must do «more formal training in a single class and on weekends.»

Not exact matches

Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND, says that competition is good because it motivates entrepreneurs, but if left unchecked, it can become a hindrance in creating a team.

Telfer is also a big presence on the Canadian case competition circuit, playing host to the first annual Diversity and Inclusion MBA contest in 2016 and sending teams to the John Molson School of Business tournament every year.

It's also important to remember that funding comes in at the end of the four year competition, if you win — so it's up to competing teams to fund their entries up to that point.

The school is also set to play host to the Stu Clark Investment Competition in March 2017, with teams of graduate students competing for cash prizes and a spot at the 2016 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition at the University of Texas at Austin.

On the day of its launch in April 2014, Cotopaxi held a competition called Questival in Utah that asked teams to compete for prizes by completing challenges like hiking or volunteering at a local soup kitchen.

It turns intrinsic competition between individuals and teams into a vital part of company culture.

He was a member of the first high school team to enter the International Aerial Robotics Competition, the longest - running event of its kind, and he continued on the circuit while studying engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Moon Express is one of a handful of teams from around the world competing for the $ 30 million Lunar X Prize, a competition organized by the X Prize Foundation and sponsored by Google.

Google is using its dominance of the search market to limit competition in the online travel business — for its benefit and that of some major hotel chains it's teamed up with, the Wall Street Journal charges in a new editorial.

To select its judges, Next 15 management didn't simply go with the most senior people in the organization; instead, they put up a diverse team selected on the basis of actually being good at judging such a competition: a panel defined not by job title, but by skill and expertise.

A contingency plan is a plan based on the worst - case scenario that you can imagine your business surviving — loss of market share, heavy price competition, defection of a key member of your management team.

What - if plan: This is a contingency plan — in case your worst case scenario happens, such as market share loss, heavy price competition or defection of a key member of your team.

He was also the captain of the winning team in the Collegiate Starleague Dota 2 video game competition, beating out of 500 competing universities.

UCLA Anderson B - school students bested other MBA teams at this year's North American preliminaries for the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup, one of the biggest amateur wine tasting competitions.

For all the talk of EMC Federation companies being able to sell both with each other and against each other, it's hard to see how this will work in the field given that Team EMC faces prodigious competition from Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (MSFT) for these accounts.

With the competition around the Cavaliers in the East catching up, including a surging Raptors team that currently sits two games ahead of Cleveland in the standings, James will need to keep his career pace up if he wants to make it to NBA Finals for an eighth consecutive time.

TEAMS from a range of Perth businesses will don the lycra and sweat bands to compete in the Spin to Cure Diabetes competition this Friday to raise money for juvenile type 1 diabetes research.

Because many of their team members are life - long athletes, their culture is strongly tied to competition.

In addition to this public challenge, the company hosts inter-office competitions, breaking their staff of 16 into small groups and tracking the number of employees who cycle to work, offering lunch, a beer or latte to the winning team at the end of the week.

The festival is so popular, and the competition so fierce, that the main sponsor, Coca - Cola, produces both red and blue colored cans for the event to broaden their appeal and ensure supporters of both teams buy its products.

The U.S. Men's Basketball team is the most successful team in international competition, winning medals in all 18 of the Olympic games it's competed in.

At the Dal competition, one of the cases teams had to address involved a company trying to recover from a string of bribery crises.

For those not familiar with the concept, a case competition is an event in which teams of business students (typically four per team) are presented with business scenarios and tasked with giving a presentation, recommending to a panel of judges (playing the role of a board of directors) how the company should deal with the crisis.

Hinton, whose team and startup were later acquired by Google, won the competition with a test error rate of 15.3 %, compared to 26.2 % for the second - place winner.

Convolutional neural networks have become the basis for almost all of the computer vision research done today, after a team of researchers led by Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto, used that technique to win a competition where image recognition algorithms vie to be most accurate.

Disruptive ideas should not aim to gain the attention of the competitor's legal team — they should aim to get the attention of your competition's customers.

The competition is structured so that each of the 42 teams is guaranteed to take home cash prize money.

However, our small, enthusiastic team at Virgin Live beat competition from giants within the industry and won the right to promote the Rolling Stones» 50 & Counting series of shows.

A team of medics led by Cpl. Eric Smith, assigned to the 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, negotiate a wire obstacle while transporting a «casualty» to a waiting helicopter during the best medic competition this week.

The swimming competition at yesterday's Olympic games was full of indelible visuals: Katie Ledecky crushing her own world record in the 400 - meter freestyle, 21 - year - old Ryan Held crying on the podium after his team's victory in the men's 4 × 100 - meter, and Michael Phelps» shoulders, which were dotted with large, wine - colored circles.

The allure of becoming the next big gaming star is already sparking fierce competition to get into the market, said David Ng, head of Super Generation Investment, which owns the EDG e-sports team.

Skating a stellar routine in the women's free skate portion of the team competition, Nagasu began with a clean triple Axel and then went on to nail eight other triple jumps, including a triple flip and triple Salchow combination as she helped America claim bronze.

A team of medics led by Cpl. Eric Smith, assigned to the 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, prepares to transport a «casualty» through a culvert during the best medic competition this week.

The two advertising stalwarts are teaming up in a $ 35.1 billion merger to fight off digital competition from the likes of Google, Facebook and hundreds of ad - tech startups.

Twelve teams of scientists submitted proposals to the contest, which is called New Frontiers - 4 (since it's the fourth such competition held by NASA).

Finally, right behind market fit and team problems, in terms of fatal startup failings, comes the substantial risks associated with strong competition (existing or emerging), which drives about 20 % of the new companies out of business.

Velloso says eSports has been a major focus for his team because that gaming community already uses the platform to communicate in real time as they watch livestreams of tournaments and competitions.

Yesterday, I was a witness to the newly created H1Z1 Pro League, which is a new 10 week competition that includes 75 gamers representing a total of 15 teams who will battle it out over the course of the schedule in Las Vegas while earning roughly $ 50,000 per player guaranteed, plus benefits.

«The majority of the structure, the documentation, the training, and the support has been established by me and my team,» he says, and that he's been able to «faster than the competition in identifying new products and releasing them into the wild, we've been able to target largely underserved market segments (like tech - savvy millennials), and we've gotten to choose the best tech for our suite of productivity tools (like Shopify Plus, Slack, Sublime Text, Todoist, and Mailchimp), whilst quickly retiring those that haven't worked with minimal disruption.»

Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five - person team at Yale that competed in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France.

Even with a new CEO and management team at the helm, Valeant was forced to lower its 2016 expectations again as it faces slow sales of certain products, greater competition, and new problems including a recall of irritable bowel syndrome drug Librax as well as an FDA warning about one of its manufacturing facilities.

The team at The Guardian asked me a couple of questions about the OpenBookChallenge.com, our competition to fund seven social networks with $ 100,000 each.

SpaceX's second Hyperloop Pod Competition ended last weekend and WARR team won with a top speed of 201 mph (324 km / h) achieved in 0.8 mile in SpaceX's 1 - mile long near vacuum tube.

By combining the talents of a lean sales force, a small marketing crew, and a scrappy product team, boutique firms can outdo the competition and close large - scale sales.

A team of five MBA students from the Haskayne School of Business won the prestigious John Molson International MBA Case Competition, beating out 35 other teams from Canada, the U.S. and around the world.

The program will take the form of a competition, attracting teams of healthcare providers and technology vendors.

The competition follows the new, streamlined procurement approach, and encourages the procurement of validated solutions by offering up to $ 50k in awards to the teams that developed them.