Sentences with phrase «of the few companies trying»

Hyperloop One, one of the few companies trying to turn Elon Musk's dreams into a reality, has moved one step closer to revolutionizing transportation.

«We are one of the few companies trying to do fiat - to - bitcoin payments, and we want to specialze in processing US dollar payments and paying in bitcoin.

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That could lead to a chaotic last few weeks of 2017, as companies try to best position themselves.

She discovered those MLM companies — the multilevel marketing, where, pyramid - style, one person recruits another and gets a cut of their sales — and tried out a few with varying success.

While most customers are happy when companies offer solutions and try to help, there are a few types of customers who will never be happy.

It's particularly true when your team is only a few people trying to build the kinds of bonds that will take them through the inevitable rough waters every company will have to sail through.

Gobs of venture capital money have been tossed at the taxi - app space in the past few years, as various companies try to make the process of ordering a cab more convenient and efficient.

That's also part of the reason that a few companies, including Jiff, are trying to separate from the pack by becoming platforms for wellness programs, providing a way to integrate offerings from multiple vendors, rather than focusing solely on serving up wellness services themselves.

To try and wrap our heads around just how valuable Uber is in the eyes of investors, we used the market caps of a few publicly traded companies as a benchmark.

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

After a few months of haggling where the price increased from $ 1.2 billion to $ 1.8 billion (and in which Jos. A. Bank tried to scuttle the deal by acquiring the parent company of Eddie Bauer), the two sides finally reached an agreement in March.

In the realm of acquiring ownership in individual businesses, it often includes avoiding a trap many investors find tempting: Namely, overlooking what one famed economist has called the «tried and true» companies that rarely change, are highly profitable, and pump out ever - increasing sums of free cash flow for the stockholders despite being so ordinary few give them a second glance.

when i got into investing a few years ago after graduating college, i tried the whole scheme of investing in speculative stocks like some biotech's and i have lost out on many of the great returns shown in the strongest companies.

A rejovinated sports manufacturing company Umbro is trying their best to get back on track in terms of market share and they have already struck up kit sppliers deal with a few premier league clubs.

We had a fair share of company in our home the first few weeks and I wanted some privacy as I tried to get the baby to latch on.

deadline to be pushed back to align with the USDA's coming GMO disclosure regulation — a measure that isn't likely to kick in for a few years (at least)... Gottlieb suggested during the hearing that he may be open to aligning the deadlines... You want to try to consolidate the label changes when you're making label changes as a matter of public health, he said, adding that requiring companies to update their labels repeatedly is costly.

I recently had the opportunity to try out a few pieces of clothing from the Sweet Peanut Clothing Company.

According to the state, Gutman has «tried and argued appeals in a wide range of complex, high - profile intellectual property cases» and served as lead counsel for companies like Intel, Cisco and Verizon, to name just a few.

For the past few years, tech companies and academic researchers have been trying to build so - called neuromorphic computer architectures — chips that mimic the human brain's ability to be both analytical and intuitive in order to deliver context and meaning to large amounts of data.

Although the bulk of the commercial manufacturing uses cultures of bacteria, such as Escherichia coli or Chinese hamster ovary cells, a few biotech companies are trying to produce therapeutic proteins in the milk of transgenic mammals (such as GTC Biotherapeutics, which is using goats; PPL Therapeutics, which is using sheep; and BioProtein Technologies, which is working with rabbits), transgenic chicken eggs (such as Avigenics or Vivalis), or even in transgenic crops (such as ProdiGene or Meristem Therapeutics); but it is early days for these «pharming» methods.

Keith, who has since helped launch a direct air capture company, says the modelers seized on BECCS because it was one of the few ways to simulate negative emissions — and negative emissions were one of the few ways to try to keep warming below 2 °C.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Monsanto Co's biotech seed patents on Monday, dealing a blow to a group of organic farmers and other activists trying to stop the biotech company from suing farmers if their fields contain a few plants containing the company's genetically modified traits.

Like with any other diet, there are many supplement companies that are trying to penetrate the market with useless magic powders that are overpriced anyways (the production of these powders just costs a few cents).

Hi Mike, I'm from the north east of England and been using various proteins for a good few years mostly sticking to whey protein mainly because I don't ear until a good hour or so after my work out, recently a colleague tried to introduce me to Herbalife but on research of this company I found it hard to find anything good about them via Google, you being American what's your opinion on them and their products.

In the rare event that your suit rips after just a few wears, your first line of defense should be to call the company; after that try taking it to a tailor.

With the help of Emily O'Brien, Assistant Manager of the company's Lincoln Park store, and Wardell, a Barbour Stylist, Mitch selected and tried on a dozen or so jackets... and he reluctantly let me photograph a few of them for the blog, hehe.

By and large, the business model doesn't model leadership of the line workers — Toyota, Saturn, a few companies have tried — but mostly the job of the line worker is, know what's expected of you and do it fast and well.

So either Nissan doesn't see the point of trying to compete directly with vehicles like the Lexus RX, Acura RDX, and Lincoln MKX, or the company feels that the Murano, especially in top - run Platinum trim, is nice enough to compel a few buyers away from those luxury brands.

With the state of traditional publishing at the moment, with the slush out - sourced, with editors tied by sales force demands, with companies barely holding on and trying to make changes to electronic sales, very few high - quality books with top stories are getting through.

Chen conceded in a blog post that the company has made some mistakes in the last few years saying: «It's tempting in a rapidly changing, rapidly growing mobile market to change for the sake of change — to mimic what's trendy and match the industry - standard, kitchen - sink approach of trying to be all things to all people.

Very few make it, but self - publishing companies do their best to try and woe them with untold riches and fortunes to extort money out of them (lulu, authorssolutions, Kirkus reviews)

The company also says that, in curating what apps go into its store, it tries to filter out bad - looking apps; the downside of this policy is that you end up with dramatically fewer choices than are available elsewhere.

Details on the forthcoming Dell Streak 5in Internet tablet / smartphone (previously called Mini 5) have been few and far between of late, and the company has been trying to keep things underwraps until it was good and ready for a UK unveiling.However,... Read more

However, he believes a few obstacles have held back most startups from trying to do the single price subscription model with e-books: «Any company that does this needs to be really good at technology, at product and on the partnership side of things, and building a core area of expertise in each of those.»

There are very few businesses where companies are trying their level best to lose the trust of their customers and make their customers hate them.

They are one of the few companies that aren't constantly trying to one up the competition everytime they release a phone.

After all, there are many payday loan companies out there with bad reputations, and for good reasons: exorbitant interest upwards of 700 % APR, hidden fees, confusing terms, poor customer service, misleading advertising, and overly aggressive collections practices, are a few examples of the kinds of bad behavior Operation Chokepoint is trying to eliminate.

You're probably unaware of it, but the credit card companies can use some sneaky tactics on occasion to try and squeak out a few more days of interest charges every month.

Use of stock funds, vs. individual stocks, is an easy and low - cost way to guard against catastrophic events that regularly impact individual companies and avoids trying to pick out the relatively few winners in a market composed mostly of losers.

We believe that altering allocations — even when using plain - vanilla index funds (which by the way are ultra low - cost and highly liquid)-- is a more powerful strategy than trying to understand business fundamentals of a few companies better than others.

«The best way to find the best loan is to try a few different companies and actually go through the process of applying to see the official rate you would be getting,» says Erik Kroll, a certified financial planner with Hilltop Financial Advisors.

I've tried to stick to great companies even more this year, after the debacle of ARCP and diversifying across few more sectors like technology, financial and healthcare.

Pros: It's much easier conceptually to see all the money as being equal no matter where it sits, and there are lots of resources to read that use this method so you'll feel like you're in good company and won't get confused when you try to refresh your memory in a few years.

Try to limit the amount of company you have for the first few weeks, to make the process less stressful for FIDO.

I tried a few of the companies above but it seems that the comments are a bit outdated because milesbuyer.com offered me much higher payouts.

Everything though was built upon what came before, and with this company they didn't try to go back and change what a few numbers meant, (kind of like Halo did).

One of the few standouts of companies trying to blend entertainment and education is E-Line Media.

I've tried a few on the 360 and Company of Heroes and a few other ones a while back on my ex housemates PC, but always found I lost interest within hours.

A few months later, the company revealed the official name, Breath of the Wild, and offered fans and critics a chance to try the game for the first time.

Rockstar has been very selective of its release dates for the last few outings, so it's clear that the company tried to pick a date that best benefitted its endeavors.