Sentences with phrase «of huge buildings»

It does not function in an enclosed space which is a little inconvenient as there are a number of huge buildings where it is difficult to find a particular spot.

The explosion of Amazon.com as a catch - all supplier of everything from snack foods to high - end electronics has resulted in the construction or repurposing of huge buildings to become warehouses for their enormous stockpile of consumer goods.

Incredibly enough, the United States is full of huge buildings full of books that are absolutely free for you to peruse and enjoy at your leisure.

No - one else would be able to afford their own stadium and feast at the top table because of the huge building costs.

For a down - town, in the basement of a huge building version of a similar technology, see Jeremy's post here.

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When companies build relationships with their clients and suppliers, «it's a huge competitive edge,» said Kathy Homeyer, the director of supplier diversity for UPS.

Ryan Smolkin built Smoke's into a national poutine chain through clever branding, huge portion sizes and sheer force of personality.

In ye olde pre-Internet days, we used to have a certain level of privacy protection built in, because it was such a huge pain to amass any significant amount of data on someone.

It takes huge amount of discipline to follow through on everything, but once you build a cadence, it becomes natural.

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

Sukrit Vijayakar energy consultancy Trifecta said the rising options to sell were a result of huge amounts of long positions that have been built up over the past months of rising prices.

In a nutshell, BuzzFeed has been building a giant engine for understanding content flows and sharing behavior online, thanks to tools like Pound and The Hive — a kind of huge, real - time database that can ingest and track BuzzFeed content wherever it is shared across multiple platforms.

The fact that there are women who are building companies that directly address a pain point for that female consumer is a huge opportunity magnified by the fact that the vast majority of the venture world is ignoring them.

It's a huge part of learning to build and grow your own business — you learn on the job.

The rise of cloud computing, in which companies buy computing capacity on demand, means that businesses don't have to build huge data centers.

This is a huge source of power and it's the same principle that many organizations are built on.

«A huge benefit for us was going through the process and understanding what raising money looks like, and all of the details of building a business with investment,» Bergman says.

«Amazing design that's built on deep data is making a huge impact — whether it's from who wish to create content for the next generation of storytelling as well as enterprises who wish to deliver a great experience,» he said.

In recent years, tech companies have begun to build centres in colder climates to offset a huge portion of the energy bill.

China did indeed invest huge amounts of money in building out its 4G networks, and over a decade that took Huawei and ZTE to the number one and two spots when it comes to the number of radio transceivers that are sold to telecoms companies.

«There's so many interesting applications out there, yet for me, there's still [a] very small number of apps that are fundamental for my day and my week,» Pincus told the FT. «Even if you're a big huge company, or a scrappy entrepreneur, you still have to build a product that resonates with people.»

What happens next depends directly on the expensive and complicated business of reworking a North American pipeline and refining infrastructure that was built to serve the needs of an era defined by huge imports of light, sweet crude.

REI (or Recreation Equipment Incorporated) was created by a group of mountain - climbing buddies and has since built a huge following while staying true to its roots.

«Social media may be a huge opportunity for your employees to help build your company's brand, but let's not forget that there also exists a tremendous risk for individual employees to inadvertently damage the company's brand and by defining a set of guidelines you help mitigate that risk.»

It's easy to believe that someone who's won a lot of awards, built a huge social following, and bylined a load of articles is someone with influence worthy of your trust, time, and budget.

For decades, urban governments have built information systems that trafficked in huge amounts of data in - house — everything from GIS mapping systems to huge amounts of hoarded traffic stats.

It's a huge source of strength for a leader and a powerful tool to build genuine trust by providing a safe space in which to discuss, experiment, fail, and innovate, according to experts.

In the 1880s, the most sophisticated railroad managers and some economists argued that railroads were «natural monopolies,» the inevitable consequence of an industry that required huge investments in rights of way over land, constructing railways, and building train engines and rail cars.

With the estimated cost of the project as high as $ 12 billion, including as much as $ 10 billion for cement, the contract would likely be a huge win for a local building company.

Determining the purpose of your business is a huge key to building a successful venture.

Successive explosions from the building storing the fireworks sent huge chunks of concrete flying as far as a kilometer (a half mile), according to resident Jayashree Harikrishnan.

Porat attributed this huge spike to its $ 2.4 billion purchase of New York City's Chelsea Market building, as well as investments in data center construction.

Starting about a decade ago, the Chinese, who now control 90 % of the photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing market, built up huge overcapacity that has been driving down prices.

I had been a huge admirer of what Martha built on so many different levels because I think it was a very smart business model that she had.

Instead of building displays designed to move merchandise quickly, with huge racks of records and no place to sit down, we brought in big, comfy cushions and built listening booths — it was a place where you could chat about music with your friends and share your favorites with them.

«The next thing you know, you have this company built around all of those decisions and you're successful and you have real money, but then it takes a huge revolution to make change,» says Poon Tip, who was at a loss for how to manage the company that had grown beyond his original vision.

They attribute the sticker shock to two factors: first, there is a proliferation of Web - design freelancers and moonlighters who offer their services at bargain prices on job exchanges like eLance.com; second, some huge companies have run ad campaigns claiming they can build a legit Web presence for a low starting cost.

Given that global TV advertising spending totaled $ 350 billion in 2012, according to researchers Nielsen, the scale of the opportunity for Shazam is huge, said Fisher, who hopes the TV business will help build the company into one suitable for a stock - market listing.

We've designed and built three huge skateboard parks in Southern California — one of them is the largest in the world.

Never has Nintendo built a «Legend of Zelda» game this huge.

While these aren't huge numbers, Khan says 30 percent of the $ 50,000 Linjer raised on Indiegogo in the first 48 hours is a direct result of building its email subscriber list.

And what's even more interesting for existing media companies, a traditional title like National Geographic has been able to build a relatively huge following with millennials through social media, using many of the same techniques BuzzFeed and Vice employ.

But the amazing success of Shopify highlights the major role that Canadian companies have played behind the scenes of digital shopping, with a huge chunk of sales running on Canadian - built platforms.

Redstone and daughter Shari have been trying to get rid of Dauman for months, arguing that he has failed to build value at the company and has presided over a huge drop in the share price (VIAB).

The big challenge for a new owner will be figuring out how to balance growth efforts between residential sales (say, a $ 1,000 skylight for a bedroom) and lofty projects (like a $ 385,000 contract to install a huge 10,000 - square - foot skylight in the roof of a landmark building).

Not to mention, raising venture capital takes a huge chunk of your time that could have gone to building the business.

Great technology firms were built during the last dry period and we saw the huge wealth creation of Facebook, Twitter, Tesla and others.

Besides owning trains (BNSF Railway), planes (NetJets) and automobiles, Warren Buffett also wholly owns or controls huge stakes in food (Heinz), restaurant (Dairy Queen), beverage (Coca - Cola), banking (Wells Fargo), insurance (Geico), furniture (Nebraska Furniture Mart), real estate (Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices), building (Benjamin Moore) and clothing (Fruit of the Bloom) companies, to name just a few.

And business — along with laws that have helped build a market system — has been a huge part of that.

A model carbon - capture plant being built in Mississippi has encountered repeated delays and huge cost overruns that will make it one of the most expensive power plants ever built.