Sentences with phrase «of upstart companies»

A new wave of upstart companies think they've found cheaper, quicker ways to build a second sun

Just outside of Uber's spotlight are a handful of upstart companies in the person - moving space whose safety policies are not mere afterthoughts but integral to their offerings.

Not exact matches

The question is — despite MacMillan's conversion on the road to the Internet — can his upstart firm genuinely move beyond the comfortable verities of the 1,000 - channel broadcast industry and become a company that competes in the deep space of the online world?

The CEO and Chair of Futurpreneur argue in a new report that large companies have lots to learn from upstarts

Trade shows are an opportunity for upstart companies to show their stuff and make vital connections but the cost of entry is steep.

Hackett has focused on streamlining Ford's core vehicle business while also recasting the company's message for investors who are captivated by self - driving cars and the arrival of upstart competitors such as Tesla.

These are some of the tweet - friendly products unleashed by San Francisco - based online fashion upstart Betabrand, whose founder, Chris Lindland, is on a mission to create the world's first truly social clothing company.

It's like the sale of any startup to a major corporation: The new parent company offers valuable marketing and distribution muscle, but the scrappy upstart runs the risk of losing its soul.

Then, of course, there will also be the usual spate of product announcements as EMC seeks to retain its leadership in data storage, fending off upstarts like Pure Storage (pstg) and Nimble (nmbl) on the one hand, while it also seeks to prove its relevance in the emerging cloud computing era as Amazon (amzn) Web Services rents out computing capability, storage, and networking from a massive bank of shared infrastructure to companies of all sizes.

It's the latest in a relentless parade of damaging news for the Silicon Valley upstart, which was valued last year at $ 9 billion, the most of any venture - backed company working in health care today.

But companies want to list where they can be assured of reaching investors and liquidity, and that's a difficult hurdle for upstarts to overcome.

The upstart trading and exchange company, backed by financial heavyweights like the Royal Bank of Canada and Barclays, is now accepting applications from companies and issuers of investment products, offering an alternative to the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The Upstart 25, CNBC's first - ever list of promising start - ups, features companies building brands and breaking barriers.

When asked about regulations they'd like to see eliminated, changed or created, many of the founders of companies on the first - ever CNBC Upstart 25 list called for regulations they'd like to see created, not stripped away.

At least three of the Upstart 25 companies found this unacceptable.

The theory, popularized by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma, warns that successful companies are inherently vulnerable to being «disrupted» by new entrants, and the only way to avoid such a fate is to replicate the risk - taking, pizza - devouring culture of upstart firms.

To determine this list, LinkedIn's data team analyzed billions of searches by the site's more than 500 million members, considering employee growth, job seeker interest and engagement with the company on the platform, as well as how well these upstarts were able to attract talent away from the established players on LinkedIn's Top Companies list.

After the first denial - of - service attacks (attacks that block legitimate users from accessing sites or applications) in 2001, a number of upstarts and existing security firms rushed to market with technologies to thwart so - called DOS attacks, and companies quickly moved to implement them.

Viva Aerobus, the smallest of the upstarts, is backed by Mexican bus company IAMSA and Irelandia Aviation, the investing arm of the Ryan family of Europe's Ryanair.

In the past, one of the ways that companies would gain insight into what upstarts in their industry were doing would be at traditional trade shows and industry conferences.

In what would be the biggest change to its music strategy in years, Apple is pressing ahead with a sweeping overhaul of its digital music services that would allow the company to compete directly with streaming upstarts like Spotify.

Most of China's tech giants, including instant messaging and gaming company Tencent, mobile handset maker Xiaomi, portal and microblogging giant Sina, and the country's video streaming sites YoukuTudou, iQiyi, and LeTV, all have rushed into the rapidly growing space, joining upstarts such as Panda TV, an e-sports streaming app owned by Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Jianlin, China's richest man, a real estate mogul with aspirations in media and entertainment.

This tactic has been recommended by previous blue ribbon panels, but is opposed by the CRTC and big industry players, since it gives small upstarts a chance to get easy financing and shake up the wireless sector, where three companies control about 95 per cent of the market.

Thus, while it initially appeared that the bill was designed to foster entrepreneurial development of decentralized systems, such as the Ethereum network, to allow individuals to reclaim some power from large companies, the bill does not accomplish that aim as it treats public and private blockchains (and possibly even legacy payment systems) equally.By opening this loophole in the definition of blockchain, Nevada does not appear to be showing any more support for the blockchain upstart community than it shows for multinational financial institutions and banks at large.

With his theory of disruption Christensen offered a compelling explanation for how it was big company managers, equipped with the best education and aided by the best consultants armed with the latest in best practices, fell prey again and again to upstart competitors with seemingly inferior products; technologists took it as a manual.

Get Me is an upstart ride - hailing company in the model of the multibillion dollar Silicon Valley darlings that was given a rare opportunity.

Another feature that makes Upstart stand out among personal loan companies is that you can use your loan to pay for college or grad school — most lenders restrict the use of funds for postsecondary educational purposes.

A mix of factors is already hurting the companies» ability to control prices and maintain market share: upstart online brands, the growth of retailers» private label brands and a fractured shopping landscape.

The company also faces increasing content costs, because the big Hollywood studios and content owners are not thrilled about an upstart rival gobbling market share on the back of their products and are raising their prices.

The company joins a frenzy of upstarts seeking to speed up investment in China's electric - car sector.

More Spray Tan than Substance Start - Ups offers a handful of genuinely valuable moments — an insider's peek at when employee - turned - entrepreneur Kim Taylor decides to leave her job and start a business of her own, for instance; or when the unfocused upstart Ben Way mentions to an investor that he has over 40 companies, which comes off as amateurish bragging.

Economists are rightly skeptical of moral arguments about market abuse, as such arguments are usually followed by legislation that protects companies of the old, stodgy type from young upstarts or that just feathers a nonmarket or quasi-market nest.

Over the years, we've worked with a major Midwest supermarket chain, a large player in the frozen aisle of grocery stores nationwide and disruptive upstarts such as AeroFarms, a vertical farm company based in Newark, N.J. Throughout those engagements, we conducted extensive shopper research — both quantitative as well as in - depth ethnographic «shop along» interviews.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) recently concluded a deal with Singapore - based life science upstart Asia Pacific Genomics (AP Genomics), giving the company exclusive rights to exploit its proprietary type - specific dengue fever diagnostic primers.

The bull market of the century sent venture capitalists scurrying around for upstart companies that could build cheap rockets.

The group included Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, whose estimated personal wealth is greater than $ 46.5 billion, and Niklas Zennström, the upstart CEO of the Internet - based phone service Skype Technologies, who recently sold his three - year - old company to eBay for $ 2.6 billion.

In 2014, the Silicon Valley upstart reached a valuation of $ 9 billion, the most of any venture - backed company working in health care.

Over the last 10 years, however, as the internet expanded, low quality overseas manufacturing spawned numerous upstart sauna companies importing containers of infrared saunas with little to no understanding of the therapeutic benefits of infrared therapy.

The upstart service boasts the largest user base — 9 million registered users, 154,000 paying subscribers at $ 29.99 a month — of any of the 28 sites owned by its parent company, Spark Networks.

The permium cable company announced today that a third season of Nic Pizzolatto's crime anthology True Detective is happening and it's found its director in Green Room / Blue Ruin upstart Jeremy Saulnier.

Marc Danon is leaving Lionsgate Entertainment to become president of acquisitions and co-productions at the upstart indie distributor Broad Green Pictures, the company announced Thursday.

Before the advent of Uber (and similar upstarts like Lyft), competition between taxi companies occurred only within the rigid structure of bureaucratic taxi fiefdoms.

In the past four years, UPSTART has initiated over 100 company projects of which many are now operating businesses.

Plug - in automotive upstart Fisker Automotive have had their share of delays, but the company is still working on expanding its product portfolio, even though the first customer cars have still not been delivered.

When Amazon Publishing, the book giant's retail arm, announced over a year ago that they would pay their traditionally published authors monthly instead of quarterly, a number of critics scoffed at the idea that this upstart company would change a four hundred - year - old system.

Mike Lazaridis still thinks of his company as an upstart, a small Canadian firm taking on the established players.

Just six months after forging a partnership with the American Booksellers Association (ABA) to help independent bookstores sell ebooks, Canadian upstart Kobo has shown that it can crush the competition — even when the competition is one of the world's largest and most admired companies.

Another feature that makes Upstart stand out among personal loan companies is that you can use your loan to pay for college or grad school — most lenders restrict the use of funds for postsecondary educational purposes.

With great rates and benefits, Upstart lands in the 4th spot of our best personal loan companies.

Shrugging off pressure from the Reagan administration to choose a bid from an American company, Fox and his team awarded the rights to the first private cellphone network to an upstart company that later became one of the three dominant players in Canada's wireless sector: Rogers.