Sentences with phrase «of niche companies»

Europe has lots of niche companies with 11 employees or less, while North America and Asia are home to a few huge ones like Hong Kong - based Bitfinex.

Yes, the niche product of a niche company.

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ONE of Perth's newest, and smallest, law firms is working with some of the world's biggest companies, capitalising on a niche area in which few other businesses in the Asia Pacific region have experti

Without widespread adoption of this zero - emission technology, the electric - car industry will remain a niche business and the demand for Tesla's batteries will never be large enough for the company to scale in a significant way.

In a recent interview with Fast Company, co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley explained this product is basically the holy grail of local discovery, and one that has the potential to turn Foursquare from a fun, though niche social check - in site, into a massive local data cCompany, co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley explained this product is basically the holy grail of local discovery, and one that has the potential to turn Foursquare from a fun, though niche social check - in site, into a massive local data companycompany.

Her Toronto - based company, Creative Niche, specializes in employment opportunities in technology, media and marketing — fast - evolving sectors that increasingly rely on a broad range of digital skills.

In fact, some of the fastest - growing private companies in America are reaping success by tapping into niche industries, or inventing entirely new ways to make money.

Uber is one of the fastest - growing companies in Silicon Valley history, spawning thousands of startups claiming to be the Uber of every niche.

If you really want to understand where robotics is heading, the following three themes — and the companies working on them, which generally are not well known outside their niches — can serve as a good introduction to the broader applications of this industry that are still yet to come.

But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize for firms that successfully win FDA approval for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another pharma company.

Opportunities for companies like Lunar have been increased by a fertile investment niche opened by a mismatch between the high degree of entrepreneurial innovation in today's economy and the changed demands of venture capital.

Who's in: The mass (Forever 21, Target) and the deeply niche (Culinary Teas, Glitzy Pet Jewelry) How it pays off: Merchants compensate the East Lansing, Mich., company by paying a percentage of sales, or paying to have traffic driven their way or their logo placed next to a big company like Target.

He had no problem with rapid growth, but he envisioned Seventh Generation's catalog, as he had that of Niche Marketing, as a distribution channel for small, independent companies whose products might not otherwise reach consumers.

«Small businesses tend to be more nimble and are able to react with more immediacy to a tricky situation,» says Andy Bagnall, executive vice president of strategy at PrimeMedia, a niche marketing company.

The company swallows the higher costs of manufacturing all of its garments in the U.S. while serving a fickle niche, constantly at risk of falling out of fashion.

One of the best examples of a visionary CEO is Steve Jobs who transformed Apple from a niche computer company into the most profitable company in the world.

Running a business was a blast, Newman found, and three years later, he launched a new venture — Niche Marketing, which advertised and distributed products for progressive companies and nonprofit groups, such as a militant left - wing T - shirt maker and a manufacturer of water - saving showerheads.

Lamar Villere, a portfolio manager at New Orleans - based Villere & Co., said that he has been reducing his exposure of small and mid-cap companies with international revenues and is focusing more on those that dominate their domestic niche in order to offer protection from the effects of tariffs.

You might think that with all their resources, large companies should be able to win all the best candidates, but they can't begin to offer the benefits that make small companies attractive: a well - carved niche, a fresh start - up story, a culture free of red tape, a ground - floor opportunity.

The company has been struggling to grow its user base for quite some time, and its product — sometimes described as «niche» — has received much of the blame.

A lot of those are payments from other fast - growing start - up companies — Fab, GitHub, and OpenTable, to name a few — a lucrative B2B niche.

Like many SaaS companies, Dyn started as a small niche player in an important corner of the Internet — Managed DNS — and slowly carved out a space, honing our product and beating competitors on service, pricing, relationships and added - value until we grew to be the market leader.

CEO Shah and his Cornell classmate Steve Conine started out with racksandstands.com in 2002 and quickly expanded, buying dozens of niche domain names and launching many from scratch—simplydogbeds.com, justshagrugs.com, dinnerplates.com — and in 2011 changing the company name from CSN Stores to Wayfair (700 employees went on a Boston bar crawl in Wayfair T - shirts to help market the new name).

A year ago, when Inc. named Slack its Company of the Year for 2015, it was essentially in a category of one, a niche product beloved among early adopters in the tech and media industries but relatively unknown in other parts of the business world.

When Dick and Mark started City Capital, they admit that they didn't have a concise business plan, but the one thing that they did know was their niche market of middle - market companies and how they were going to bring extreme value there.

To avoid sacrificing some of your precious deck real estate to the companies aiming for your same niche, you need to discuss them in person.

Meanwhile, as the industry continues to grow, «it can be tough to carve out your own niche,» concedes Soles, an early employee and now part - owner of the now 450 - person company.

He's put BlackBerry on track to serve a small but potentially lucrative niche of business clients and brought more focus to the company than it's had in years.

The leading companies that are dominating their markets make it a major priority to find their niche and then operate solely within the confines of that space.

Once an exclusive (albeit crunchy) club for the niche climbing community, MEC has become one of Canada's most beloved companies.

Many of the high - growth companies on our Inc. 500 5000 list have thrived in this niche area that offers a suite of services from document translation to website localization to multilingual court reporting to oral interpretation.

Then, if the company is operating within a niche that is either huge — greater than $ 1 billion — or is growing at a rate in excess of 20 to 40 percent per year, and the company is perceived to have the best and most competitive product to enter this niche in recent memory, then it might be worth an additional $ 1 to $ 2 million.

Having started nine years ago as a slide - show producer, the company has found itself in one cutthroat industry after another — from systems integration to photo - lab services to Web design, adding hundreds of services in nine different niches.

Finding a solid niche in a huge marketplace was key to the success of SunRx Inc., a Cherry Hill, New Jersey, prescription benefits administration company.

As a company dealing with the media - streaming - player niche, it's up against huge megaliths including Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Sony, all of whom offer not just similar devices, but also a host of related hardware and services.

The company found its niche as a «logistics» expert, helping confused corporate buyers with technical details and tailoring its operations to the needs of a small group of customers.

After less than a year in business, the company is bringing new technology to a pretty niche field in the world of investment banking and sparring with financial industry heavyweights in the process.

Heidi Messer, an entrepreneur who holds all - female poker games that have introduced early - stage female investors to female entrepreneurs, cautions those who write off these types of companies as niche players.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has left the realm of niche, experimental tech jargon to be fully embraced by leading companies.

To fill this niche, a handful of start - ups and payments companies are now offering small businesses a financing opportunity that works like an advance on sales.

Unlike large companies with many stakeholders, a focused entrepreneur in a niche market has a leg up in building community by virtue of their common bond around a narrow topic.

Reid founded the original company, Snapsort, in 2009 as a niche - oriented web publisher, with individual sites focusing on reviews of cameras, phones, cars and the like.

Here's how Vanscoy, also associate dean for business innovation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, zeroed in on a niche his company could count on.

Part of the company's challenge has been the likes of McDonald's and Starbucks stepping up their game in Canada, while newer entrants to the lucrative breakfast niche like Subway and Wendy's also try to get a taste.

He observed that the reduced costs of distribution over the Internet are making it easier for businesses to serve consumer demand for niche items, and that collectively, the niches added up to quite a significant market for companies like Rhapsody, Netflix, or Amazon.

The company does assemble the Mac Pro, one of its most niche products, at a factory in Texas.

Most of your job here boils down to effective marketing, but SaaS companies face unique challenges that companies in other niches don't have to worry about (or at least not as much).

His was a niche with no established players, and he saw the chance for a few companies to race ahead of the pack.

Unique Operating Niche — Many times it is assumed that a company has a sure lock on future profits because of a patent that will keep its product unique.

The book provides dozens of examples of companies large and small that have succeeded by putting people first: familiar names like Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Southwest Airlines as well as numerous entrepreneurs who are successful in their own niches, even if not widely known.