Sentences with phrase «of more companies»

The number of profiles continues to grow as we document the practices of more companies.

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The company wanted to take a more data - driven approach to pricing, because it needed a better idea of what the market would pay for equipment.

In the case of Netflix, investors cheered the company's international growth on Tuesday, and more or less ignored the fact that it missed its U.S. forecasts.

For more than two decades, Springboard's Millman has contended that we needed vast societal changes before we'd have masses of women building fast - growing companies, cracking the very top ranks of entrepreneurship.

More than 750 companies had VC units as of last fall, CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports.

While Lyft never operated services in China, the complication adds heat to a U.S. market some say is winner - take - all, where one company has a valuation more than 10 times that of the other.

More than anything else, BuzzFeed is the poster child for the multi-platform approach to media — according to the Fast Company piece, as much as 75 % of the site's output never appears on its website at all.

Less celebrated are these innovative companies» contribution of powerful but low - tech productivity hacks to help managers and owners get more done in less time.

Marissa Mayer of Yahoo famously rolled back the company's telecommuting allowance in 2013, citing that employees are more collaborative and innovative when working in proximity.

In BlackBerry's case, however, investors have sent the company's share price up more than 12 % so far today after a dismal set of earnings were released this morning.

Running a breakneck - growth company, of course, means even more demands on Smith's time.

«I think companies should probably go public earlier because the way they are built, they will have more success in the public market, so it's sort of a mixed bag.»

«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.

Companies mostly pass those costs on to households, who effectively devote more of their take - home pay to supporting the 286,000 workers employed in steel and aluminum.

Passport Capital sold 325,434 shares of the social media company, cutting its stake by more than one quarter.

More than a tenth of the names on the 2017 PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies are headquartered in and around the city.

The company boasted it could develop psychological profiles of consumers and voters which was a «secret sauce» it used to sway them more effectively than traditional advertising could.

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.»

If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $ 650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $ 55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).

For more than a quarter century the federal government has approved almost all foreign takeovers of Canadian companies.

All companies, and especially small firms, must be clear about more than just their budget before they can start designing their offices, says Richard Shugar, the principal and owner of 2fORM, an architecture firm based in Oregon.

Will Caldwell of San Diego is the co-founder and CEO of Dizzle, a mobile real - estate tech company that helps real - estate professional generate more word - of - mouth leads.

And regardless of whether the investments themselves return a profit, the infrastructure could give these economies a long - term boost, making them more important markets down the road for a global - minded company.

According to a Kissmetrics survey, 81 % of people are more likely to give a company repeat business after a positive customer service experience.

Blogging not only creates more «pathways» for people to find your website, it also increases their trust of your company.

«U.S. stocks are probably among the more overvalued companies on a global scale,» says Luc de la Durantaye, managing director of asset allocation and currency management at CIBC Asset Management.

Although more than half of the company's stores are outside the U.S., the international business brings in only about a third of revenue.

When something brings in more than 95 % of revenues, it should come as no surprise that a company will go to great lengths to obtain any information it can to boost those revenues.

Therefore they'll be much more likely to think of your company when they need a service from your industry!

«In order for that to have any hope of holding, these companies need to be more transparent.»

Consensus estimates indicate several more quarters near that pace, but it will be difficult for companies to maintain that at this relatively late stage of the economic cycle.

-- Art Saxby, CEO of Chief Outsiders, a strategic marketing consulting firm that has worked on the management teams of more than 600 companies across more than 60 industries

He?s a former software executive, entrepreneur and fund manager, and has founded or financed more than 40 companies that have launched more than 100 products with transactions exceeding one billion dollars of capital.

Shell is listed on the London Stock Exchange with a market cap of 193 billion pounds — more than any other listed corporation on the exchange and one of the highest of any company in the world.

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

Legere likes nothing more than to travel around the country to the stores and call centers where most of the company's 51,000 U.S. employees work.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

The ecommerce company has been executing its plan to offer a bigger selection of products, new brands and more small - business sellers on its platform.

In a report for the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Nicole and Mark Crain of Lafayette University explained that the per - employee cost of federal regulatory compliance was $ 10,585 for businesses with 19 or fewer employees, but only $ 7,755 for companies with 500 or more.

Silicon Valley could benefit from learning more about the companies and innovations coming out of China.

Ferrick's lawsuit sought at least $ 200 million on behalf of copyright holders from Spotify, a private company which says it has more than 75 million users and has been valued at $ 8 billion.

More than half of those openings are at one company, Accenture, which is looking to fill a large number of entry - level roles including consulting analysts and software engineers.

Just six percent of those surveyed think the medium has hurt their business more than it has helped it, with 17 percent expressing concern that it gives people a chance to criticize the company publicly.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank spoke to graduates of his realization that he wanted to do more than just be a «cog» after leaving the military as a youth and joining a big tech company.

The company is one of China's darling unicorns, with more than 260 million users in 2,000 cities across the country.

That section laid out that a change in accounting rules now required Alphabet to include the change in value of any shares it owned in private companies, such as Uber, in its profits even if just held onto to its stake and didn't buy or sell any more shares.

According to the research site Statistica, Amazon's third party sellers accounted for more than 50 percent of the company's sales during the third quarter of 2017, generating close to $ 23 billion in revenues.

People who are invested in building a career, however, are much more focused on finding ways to learn and gain experience in their work as a way to go further toward fulfilling long - term goals, which might be running a company or starting one of their own.

The smaller the company, the more important it is that employees can think on their feet, adapt quickly to shifting priorities, and do whatever it takes, regardless of role or position, to get things done.

By its own admission, McKesson's monitoring program — which assigned customers monthly thresholds for controlled substances and involved three levels of review — was geared more towards reporting suspicious customers than isolated suspicious orders; the company believed this was the more practical approach to identifying and preventing diversion.