Sentences with phrase «of years struggling»

Twitter, which has spent the past couple of years struggling to boost user growth and ad revenue, recently listed the space through brokerage firm Cresa San Francisco.

The rest of the year you struggle with the day - to - day consistency and never find your own high energy that comes from adopting to a new lifestyle.

After spending the first half of the year struggling for ideas, I have a lot of them calling out for attention.

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That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

In the U.K. and Brazil, where it is downsizing to the tune of hundreds of locations, the company has struggled for years.

You read about the struggle of 13 - year - old Clarisse Kambire working a cotton farm, subsisting on one meal a day or less, and you despair.

Following 15 years of struggling with increased competition, sluggish demand, and a high - valued Canadian dollar, many manufacturing industries are not yet prepared to take full advantage for the U.S. rebound.

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

The couple have struggled over the years from almost getting shut down by the police, to losing their home and dealing with the wrath of angry customers, but stuck with it and became multi-millionaires!

Only time will tell if Under Armour can return its shoe business to the growth of a year ago, but it doesn't bode well that such a young category for the company is already struggling.

Vietnam Airlines will struggle to be profitable on non-stop flights between Vietnam and the United States due to a lack of demand from business travelers, but it may launch those routes anyway as early as next year, the carrier's CEO said.

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

After years producing premium electric vehicles in smaller volumes, it is struggling to ramp up the production of its Model 3 sedans.

Vietnam Airlines will struggle to be profitable on non-stop flights between Vietnam and the United States due to a lack of demand from business travelers, but it may launch them anyway as early as next year, the carrier's CEO said on Monday.

Kottke offers a memorable quote from photographer Clayton Cubitt to illustrate this truth: «I think back to my struggles clawing my way out of the trailer park, the violence I survived, all the sh *** y jobs I had to work and the sh *** y bosses I had to tolerate, the extra 15 years it took me, and I find the renewable energy of gratitude for my survival.»

About 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs spent the first few years of their careers developing a strong foundation in finance, according to a study by consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.

In the intervening years, I watched in disbelief as the Timberwolves struggled to win more than half of their regular season games.

Yet it is still struggling to stop the bleeding from its actively managed equity mutual funds; investors pulled $ 58 billion out of the products last year.

Ride - sharing app Lyft, which has seen its market share surge in the last year as rival Uber has struggled, is expanding outside of the U.S. for the first time with plans to launch in Toronto.

And even as exports have struggled, a measure of China's trade in services is at its highest level in almost a year.

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

But Groupon has struggled significantly since then, and after posting a loss of $ 81.1 million in the fourth quarter of last year, its board axed Mason.

Wynne, who is struggling in the polls, must call an election by June of next year.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

Those kinds of struggles had led 53 percent of those small businesses to apply for funding or credit lines over the past five years — and more than one in four said they had sought loans multiple times.

Its investment unit has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

Gates is certainly not alone in the entrepreneurial world — in fact, most successful entrepreneurs, especially in the tech sector, were only able to reach those heights after years of struggle and countless failed experiments.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

Beyond that, United has struggled to stave bad press for a number of other incidents during the past year.

We have access to thousands of accounts spending billions of dollars on PPC advertising, and over the years consistently found that small to medium - size businesses struggled to manage their accounts in a way that was cost effective and earned them the best results.

Long associated with older industries, Osaka has struggled to get out of the shadow of Tokyo as a start - up hub, but it has upped its game in recent years with new start - up investment funds, downtown university campuses, incubators and pitch events.

Working out of a dozen corrugated - metal buildings in a dismal windblown patch of desert in Mojave, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, it has rolled out 26 new types of manned aircraft in 30 years, many of them rule - breaking and innovative; most big aerospace contractors, by contrast, struggle to get a single new aircraft out in an entire decade.

But that leaves retailers struggling to replicate the Black Friday magic during the rest of the year.

Some people struggle emotionally this time of year.

After having struggled with her weight for years early in her career, Peters lost 70 pounds by carefully restricting the amount of food she ate.

Buffalo Wild Wings's struggles led to a fight with Marcato Capital that forced longtime Chief Executive Officer Sally Smith to announce that she'll step down by the end of the year.

While Canada's economy as a whole struggles to move forward — GDP growth is expected to hit around 2.3 % this year — the country's fourth most populous province will grow at about 3.7 %, according to the Royal Bank of Canada.

While casual - dining chains have been struggling for years, the industry is now on the cusp of a new restaurant recession — and casual chains will likely be hit the hardest.

Like many of the big cryptocurrency exchanges, Poloniex has struggled to service an influx of customers over the past year, as has been well documented in complaints on online forums.

Lack of planning can lead to plenty of financial struggles, from late payments and credit problems to extra months (even years) in debt.

Those early years of sacrifice and dissatisfaction and struggle create the foundation for later success... and create a lifelong competitive advantage.

This got him thinking about the hack day that had led him to Twitter — and then about the two years in which he had struggled to build anything, despite having plenty of money and all the hype in the world.

Hsieh's sudden embrace of the city seemed to come out of nowhere, even to those who had spent years trying to develop the struggling downtown.

Despite a focus on mobile, social and video under CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo struggled to keep pace with the rise of digital ads on Google and Facebook, seeing its market share slip to 1.5 percent of the worldwide digital ad market this year, eMarketer estimated.

«We're on our second or third generation of entrepreneurial executives now,» says Charley Polachi, managing partner of the recruitment firm Heidrick & Struggles / Fenwick Partners in Lexington, Mass. «They've been moving around for a few years.

Alliance, the granddaddy of the industry, would be taken out by a company that just five years ago was a struggling wholesaler of CDs, DVDs and videogames watching its business quickly become obsolete.

The findings, based on an online survey of 26,000 consumers in 26 countries, are potentially good news for major smartphone makers, which have been struggling to maintain the rapid growth of previous years.

«I think one of the things that this team is lacking that hurts them the most is not having the true leaders like we had last year and guys that, when things go bad... I feel like when things go bad, this team struggles a little with bouncing back and making good plays.»