Sentences with phrase «of the few companies who»

«Most companies still run some of their own infrastructure and private cloud, and we're one of the few companies who can offer private cloud support globally,» he noted.

Because it's one of few companies who actually designs clothing specifically for women of all shapes and sizes (Plus Size Line too!)

They were one of the few companies who would send to an APO address.

This is one of the few companies who still offer barrel rolls (for an extra charge).

Especially with its universal products, Protective is one of the few companies who offer permanent insurance for all tiers of fully underwritten life insurance.

Not exact matches

But there are very few companies who have all of those characteristics.

As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

Every few months, it offers users new tools to mute racial slurs or report threats, but even though the company says it has stepped up its rules enforcement by an order of magnitude, users who report abuse typically hear there's nothing to be done about it.

«There are quite a few board members of public companies who never speak to the media,» says Eleanor Bloxham, CEO of board education and advisory firm The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance.

Bates, a Brit with a deep technical background and big - company chops, was perhaps one of the few executives — «a needle in a haystack,» Durban calls him — who could wrangle strong - willed engineers spread across half the globe.

He was repeatedly grilled by a shareholder about what he saw is a misalignment of interests with the board and management who owned few shares in the company.

To John Warrillow, the founder of the Sellability Score and author of the book Built to Sell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a company.

No wonder why there are so few introverts who run Fortune 500 companies — leaders need to be able to effectively communicate, collaborate, and step out of their emotional comfort zone.

While you'll certainly reach a larger audience online, sometimes there are huge benefits from gaining a few loyal customers in the early stages of your start - up who will act as brand ambassadors for the rest of your company's life.

Beyond that short - term sales bump, the Signature McWrap is an emblem of the company's larger strategy to woo back patrons who think their food has too much fat and too few vegetables.

That's according to Matt Buder Shapiro, cofounder and CMO of medical bill resolution platform MedPilot, who has boosted his company's traffic by 297 percent by implementing a few key strategies.

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.

Pharma is generally proud of its diversity: A few days before the Trump enacted the ban, J&J published on its website the story of employee Abdullah Al Hommada, who fled his native Syria for the Netherlands and now works at the company's Janssen division.

I've heard of a small company that missed its profit - sharing trigger by just a few thousand dollars due to an employee who was stealing merchandise; as a result, the company didn't give out bonuses and ended up with a very bitter staff.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

Very few small businesses are made up of people who have every skill for successful operation; this can be particularly true when the company grows quickly.

That's a departure from a traditional initial public offering in which a company and a few select investors first sell a limited amount of stock at a starting price determined by investment bankers who spend weeks gauging investor demand.

Large companies often flood the H - 1B application pool, while smaller businesses with less financial muscle make fewer bets on the people who are most critical to the future of their business.

«You get a lot of these companies such as Avigilon who will get the formula right for a few years and boost their market share,» he says.

A few questions caught Zuckerberg off guard, including one by Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, who asked him if data analytics company Palantir scraped Facebook user data to allegedly aid Cambridge Analytica.

«There are clearly signs of problems,» comments Jeffrey S. Levine, a certified public accountant whose firm, Alkon & Levine PC, is based in Newton, Mass. «A client of mine, who owns a very fast - growing temporary - personnel company, suddenly experienced a significant slowdown in payments from a few of his largest customers.

There are a few interesting companies I've been looking at in the last couple of weeks who have taken old industries and ramped up their functionality rather than change the business model altogether.

Easterbrook, who has vowed to remake McDonald's as a «modern, progressive burger company,» has been taking steps to bolster the taste and quality of McDonald's food by using butter instead of margarine on Egg McMuffins and switching to cage - free eggs and chicken from animals raised with fewer antibiotics.

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.

In an interview with Business Insider, EDF Climate Corps program director Liz Delaney dropped a juicy tidbit of information about the nature of green energy jobs: Of the 2.2 million Americans who work in energy efficiency jobs, 70 percent are employed by companies with 10 or fewer employeeof information about the nature of green energy jobs: Of the 2.2 million Americans who work in energy efficiency jobs, 70 percent are employed by companies with 10 or fewer employeeof green energy jobs: Of the 2.2 million Americans who work in energy efficiency jobs, 70 percent are employed by companies with 10 or fewer employeeOf the 2.2 million Americans who work in energy efficiency jobs, 70 percent are employed by companies with 10 or fewer employees.

Those who took to the microphone to ask questions of CEO Thorsten Heins and co. were often complimentary and polite during the meeting's Q&A session, but a few were still looking for an explanation as to the company's latest less - than - stellar quarterly results.

But while we wait for him to get back to us, we thought we'd indulge a little in the bravado of a few entrepreneurs who have reclaimed their companies from acquirers (or shareholders) that own them.

Besides truly gorgeous office spaces, Google provides its workers with a lot of perks, and some former Googlers, and a few who are still with the company, listed their favorite benefits on Quora.

A narrow plurality of offerors (49 percent) say the On - Demand economy should not be regulated and companies should compete to offer workers fair pay and benefits, even if it means less security, compared to 40 percent who say the government should regulate the sharing economy to guarantee independent contractors the same benefits afforded to full - time workers, even if it means fewer jobs.

Meet a few of the military spouses who have joined Starbucks since the company announced its commitment to hire at least 10,000 veterans, reservists and military spouses by the end of 2018.

I've also had the pleasure of working on a board of one of our portfolio companies with a private equity investor who is making a few minority investments.

Most of the company's reviewers are low - paid contractors overseas who spend on average of just a few seconds on each post.

It means that the riches will be split among the select few who have the education and skills to be at the heart of the new decentralized company.

Besides generating brand trust, their genuine nature and involvement of people who are in charge of the company (most include a few words from the CEO or president) show the world how your team works and solves the problem of your potential customer.

For most of the companies I've worked at, the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is has been anecdotal at best... meaning that if you ask sales leader who we sell to, they'll offer a few key titles, maybe a couple of industries.

«First, companies who believe their stock is undervalued, often because they have a few distinct businesses within their company, can spin off a division and unlock some of the part's value.

15 Reasons Why Brand Advocacy is the Bedrock of Your Business [Infographic] Although brand advocates are important for brand marketing — with referrals, user generated content, and positive online reviews being just a few of the benefits of brand advocacy, this infographic shows over 80 % of companies are not using advocates in their marketing strategy, and 58 % don't even know who their advocates are.

After arm - twisting by Gov. Ann W. Richards, who had lobbied to keep Apple from going to another state, Mr. Hays joined two other commissioners to approve nearly $ 1 million in tax incentives to Apple in return for the company's agreeing to build an office complex in this suburban county a few miles north of Austin.

Just under half (49 percent) of the people who took our survey work at companies with fewer than 10 full - time staff.

Andrew Smithers, one of the few other analysts who foresaw the credit implosion and remains a credible voice now, concurred last week in an interview with my friend Kate Welling (a former Barrons» editor now at Weeden & Company): «The good news so far is that the stock market got down to pretty much fair value or even, possibly, a tickle below it, at its March bottom.

While other companies are claiming to have started drone delivery services in other countries — such as one that launched in Iceland yesterday — very few have delivered more than a handful of goods, or are available to more than a few people who live in places where drones can land easily.

A few months later, Raffi Krikorian — the former vice president of engineering at Twitter who was hired by Uber in 2015 to lead its self - driving division — also left the company.

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It's the investors who think for themselves, own very few, carefully selected companies and develop the right behaviours (rationality, humility and patience) that become the Masters of Investment.

To make sure you don't start working with a partner who is on the verge of bankruptcy, Google the company and check out the first few pages to see what comes up, as well as the «News» section.