-LSB-...] a very few of the biggest names get the kind
of traditional deals we grew up salivating over.
Whether you are a traditional author who wants to take a walk on the indie side, or an indie who would like to add the clout
of a traditional deal to your name, the future is looking bright for authors on all paths.
You're correct that many of the advantages
of a traditional deal are eroding.
Not exact matches
If you're thinking
of an ICO: You had better think about meeting
traditional standards
of good faith and fair
dealing, because you're going to be held to them one way or another.
As a society, we've stopped
dealing with a lot
of matters through the
traditional postal system in favour
of viewing our bills and accessing services online.
Discounts and
deals — the
traditional currency
of fast food marketing — simply don't work as well on this demographic.
There are disadvantages to turning away from the conformity
of traditional franchises — Weissman, who refuses to use bleached white flour, has had to
deal with confused customers looking for white breads they've found in other Great Harvest locations.
The
deal will help Salesforce open a new front as it look to take away more market share from
traditional software providers such as Oracle Corp. and SAP AG, both
of which already offer cloud - based ecommerce services.
Kureluk believes that Yardstick has to get itself in front
of potential customers in order to close a
deal, and that means working the phones in the
traditional way.
On top
of the risk
of federal prosecution, IRS targeting and asset seizure, cannabis entrepreneurs have to cope with the hazards
of conducting a business that
deals mostly in cash, since a majority
of traditional financial institutions — banks, credit card issuers, and payment transaction companies — won't provide services to the industry.
The duo say the most difficult adjustments leaders will have to
deal with are power structure changes, which will greatly challenge
traditional definitions
of their jobs.
Unlike a
traditional loan, you can not get out
of the
deal early.
Depending on whether you're looking at a line
of credit from a
traditional bank or an alternative lender, you might be
dealing with two pretty distinct loans.
Even though the two services are very alike, Hunt doesn't see the HBO house
of cards — my pun, please excuse it — toppling any time soon since it still makes billions from its
traditional cable
deals.
Forty - four percent want to receive mobile coupons and
deals, which, by the way, get 10 times the redemption rate
of traditional coupons.
Twitter's (TWTR) recent
deal with Live Nation (LYV), allowing it to exclusively broadcast live streams
of concerts, including those
of the Zac Brown Band, Train, and Marian Hill, shows the importance that the company now places on live video content in addition to its
traditional text output.
These
deals are expected to generate about 25 hours
of new daily programming, and mark the company's first real challenge to
traditional cable.
The digital company's decision to enter the brick - and - mortar space is a «pretty big
deal,» and «suggests stores are in fact important and not just some defensive point
of view that
traditional brick - and - mortar players have taken,» he added.
The House
of Cards
deal tossed that model out like so many catered leftovers, as Netflix bet on the product without insisting on the creative control that comes with a
traditional TV
deal.
Vice has said it wants to expand into offering more
traditional types
of programming in more than 80 countries this year, and has signed a number
of deals with media companies and telecom providers in the Middle East and Asia for distribution.
Under the terms
of the
deal, entire news stories from those partners will appear inside Facebook's mobile app and be able to be read there, as opposed to the
traditional practice
of news publishers posting an excerpt and a link to their website.
With the
deal, Indigo has cashed out on an investment that was expected to provide a buffer against the decline
of its
traditional book - selling business.
So venture capitalists have recruited unlikely new partners in the form
of traditional money managers such as Fidelity Investments (which led the latest
deal for Uber) and Wellington Management (which backed DocuSign and Moderna Therapeutics) to support unicorn - level rounds.
The
deal is a clear indication
of Uber's determination to ditch drivers in in its minicabs, and is the latest move by
traditional vehicle manufacturers looking to team up with Silicon Valley firms long seen as disruptive threats to their industry.
What a difference from the
traditional state
of affairs that most growing businesses have been forced to
deal with: no money at all for start - ups or companies that were too small or too old or too dependent on their founders or even too needy for cash (that is, unless they happened to fit onto the investment community's shortlist
of sexy companies du jour).
Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority
of these people don't score a
deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.
In all
of those cases, as with Axel Springer's investment in Business Insider, these
deals have been driven by the desire
of traditional or mainstream media entities to diversify into digital, mainly to tap into the growth that is lacking in their existing print and broadcasting businesses.
My response has been to be extremely disciplined at passing on
deals, even attractive ones, if the valuations exceed the
traditional limits
of seed stage investments.
SoftBank is behind all
of the $ 300 million investment — this is not a
traditional venture «round» — and none
of the money is going to buy out existing investors, according to a person close to the
deal.
«This is a first -
of - its - kind
deal which alters the
traditional funding landscape, and we're excited to be a part
of it,» added Highland Capital Partners» Manish Patel.
I have
dealt with a number
of people who, upon reaching 70.5 years old, must begin taking RMDs from their
traditional IRA accounts.
But if all the
deals Vice has struck are to work out, Mr. Smith may have to play more by the rules
of traditional media.
Craig Cecilio: We do have a lot
of traditional, offline real estate investors coming onto the platform because
of the scarcity
of deals out there on the market.
While
traditional lead scoring will rank prospects based on recent activity in owned web assets, the predictive approach scores prospects on the likelihood
of a closed - won
deal taking place.
In addition to its
traditional business, Google will now have to
deal with the business
of making hardware.
Submitting your investment opportunity, receiving approval, and funding can all be completed in a fraction
of the time required to
deal with banks or
traditional institutional funding channels.
Trend line: Digital health venture fund Rock Health notes in its half - year report that corporate investors outpaced
traditional venture funds in terms
of the number
of deals during the period.
That
deal could turn many
of the chain's stores into one - stop - shop locations for an array
of health care needs like blood work and eye or hearing care, in addition to their
traditional role
of filling prescriptions.
That same incremental mentality also means
dealing with a lot less
of the extended downtime that typically occurs during a
traditional (inevitably woefully off - track) web design.
Offering only numbers is something that
traditional brokerage firms do, and a lot
of time is leads to
deals that end up falling through the floor, because the amount
of money a business needs often has little to do with why they need it or the reasons their current financial situation is the way it is.
Regulators haven't quite figured out how to
deal with the newfangled fundraising method, which blends elements
of crowdfunding via cryptoassets and
traditional initial public offerings.
There are a few rising cities among the top ICO markets with growing amounts
of deal activity that are not on
traditional venture capital maps at all, including Tallinn, Estonia, and Kiev, Ukraine, to name a couple.
Although there will still be some amount
of buying and selling in the portfolio during that time (for instance, to
deal with things like new investors buying into the fund or selling a bond with a declining credit profile), it should be less than what would be experienced in a
traditional bond mutual fund.
These themes reflect a consistent focus on China's «new economy» segments, rather than its
traditional industries, many
of which are
dealing with structural issues and overcapacity.
In fact, the majority have done a great
deal of work to streamline processes, both online and in
traditional banking, to meet customer demands.
On top
of that, migrant workers have to
deal with the high cost
of sending money to their families in their native countries by using bank transfers or
traditional money transfer services.
I wonder if Han will allow that it has been progressivism's penchant for endless critique that has done a great
deal to diminish the
traditional authority
of non-economic relations, preparing them for colonization by the market.
Many
of the books reviewed in the regular «Book World» column
dealt with social issues, but the editors also included notices
of academic theological monographs and
of books on subjects not
traditional for religious publications: literary criticism, philosophy and psychology.
In terms
of his natural theology, Mascall does not hesitate to
deal with one
of the most controversial
of traditional doctrines about God, namely the doctrine that God is impassible.
We may go beyond the
traditional theories
of atonement and ask a radical question: «What account would be given
of atonement if we were to interpret it from the standpoint
of the most realistic analogies we know to human love when it
deals with broken relationships and the consequent suffering?»