Sentences with phrase «on back of the envelope»

If you jot down a paragraph on the back of an envelope describing your business strategy, you've written a plan, or at least the germ of a plan.

Based on back of the envelope calculations and estimates from Fundstrat, Bitcoin valuation could shed another $ 37 billion in the near future, falling to about $ 99 billion in market capitalization.

A useful business plan can be any length, from that scrawl on the back of an envelope to more than 100 pages for an especially detailed plan describing a complex enterprise.

On the back of the envelope was a list of several ways to donate: check, cash, credit card, online, or via the Hillsong app.

And as you can see from my story, a business plan doesn't have to be a lengthy, well - thought - out proposal — it can be as simple as some notes in a notebook, or a scribble on the back of an envelope.»

As prospects turn the envelope over, copy on the back of the envelope could help clinch the decision to open it, so don't let that valuable real estate go to waste.

Twenty - five was the number suggested, and I have breezed past that, and I see that the next item on the list I quickly scribbled on the back of an envelope is Chateaubriand's Mémoires d'Outre - Tombe, which suggests that I was beginning to lose all sense of proportion.

The three of us sat at a corner table in one of those between - mealtimes when hardly anybody was there, and Sandy started working up some figures on the back of an envelope.

This seems to be what will happen this time, but I'd very much rather that it wasn't written down on the back of an envelope.

It shows why he should have listened to business leaders, headteachers and experts in the first place and not come up with a plan on the back of an envelope,» said shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg.

And the report also quoted shadow justice secretary justice secretary Sadiq Khan as saying the bill of rights plans «can only have been cobbled together on the back of an envelope».

Scottish ministers insist # 2.5 bn will be enough, but Menzies Campbell says sums were «done on the back of an envelope»

Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Lib Dem leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said: «The SNP have done their sums on the back of an envelope.

As I sat up waiting for him, I scribbled the mileage and the upfront costs of his journey on the back of an envelope.

But it was Frisch and Peierls who actually wrote pretty much on the backs of envelopes how you could do it.

Would any of your findings put these made on the back of an envelope calculations for Antarctica's contribution to SLR in doubt?

If you have been lucky enough to play with a LittleBigPlanet beta and have knocked up a good - looking level, make sure you sketch it on the back of an envelope or something.

As Milo blasts Blondie's «Denis» in his apartment, he slits his wrists and slides into the bathtub, leaving a disturbingly comical suicide note on the back of an envelope on his table.

I wrote down the deposit amount on the back of each envelope, and I keep track of my spending using a note - taking app and the calculator on my smartphone.

Just on a back of the envelope basis, the whole FG industry earned about $ 2 billion per year.

Don't do this on the back of an envelope: it's worth hiring a fee - only financial planner to run the numbers.

Abel leaves notes on the backs of envelopes for her current husband: «Jack — this is yesterday's coffee — in this cup — Also please take 2 large dead dogs today Thanks Love U»; «Hope you feel better today.

No wonder a lot of their shows look the same, like they were thought up in hotel lobbies, written on the backs of envelopes, and emailed to assistants.

Out of sympathy for the shelterers, Moore does not make any direct sketches underground, instead taking descriptive notes on the back of an envelope before returning to his studio to draw from memory.

That Arrhenius and others worked out the basic physics 100 + years ago, almost on the back of an envelope, has been completely lost to sight.

I do not think our theories are strong enough to resolve this on the backs of envelopes or on desktops.

Everything we need to know to justify world wide decarbonization can be figured on the back of an envelope.

Still, it is easy to show on the back of an envelope that there is no chance at all of Himalayan glaciers being gone by 2035.

Anyone can make a formula on the back of an envelope without any real data analysis that says «If person X has Y attribute then Z is the outcome our organisation will choose».

It can be as simple as «writing it on the back of an envelope with pen and paper,» he notes, or more sophisticated, using budgeting sites like Mint.com, where you can visually track your spending.

«Simon surprised us with his very creative ideas — literally sketched on the back of an envelope,» the owners recall.

Not exact matches

Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in a back - of - the - envelope calculation, speculate that, if it can make $ 1 a barrel on that flow, Glencore will earn $ 400 million over the five years --» a very compelling return on $ 323 million in equity.»

Apple has not disclosed Watch sales figures — either in dollar values or unit shipments — but Wall Street analysts and other dedicated Cupertino Kremlinologists have generally settled on a back - of - the - envelope consensus of slightly over $ 1 billion.

Based on Schissel's conservative, back - of - the - envelope calculations, a team of four rotating security agents would cost about $ 18,000 per week.

To make the calculation back - of - the - envelope friendly, we'll assume the Fed will raise rates by 25 basis points at a time and only on the day of a scheduled FOMC meeting.

You might even start doing a little back of the envelope math on run rates.

with the pieces currently in place («Back on the envelope» calculation — this takes the average proportion of the salary cap devoted to corners and multiplies it by the projected 2018 cap number with no assumption for a rainy day fund).

It doesn't matter if you've scribbled on the back of a receipt or envelope.

I mean write it down on the back of an old envelope) of when she naps during the day.

On the other hand, my back of the envelope calculation produces a similar to most current forecasts (e.g. here, here and here) and to the average of some earlier academic forecasts, summarised here.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

The method was immediately assailed by campaign finance expert Prof. Michael Malbin, who called it «little more than back of the envelope arithmetic based on incredible assumptions.»

Now, flailing around for an answer on energy, Cameron announces a back - of - the - envelope plan to «roll back» green levies (60 per cent of which were introduced by his own government).

On Thursday, however, Mangano appeared to be angry as he looked toward Singh, slowly rocking back and forth in his seat as Singh testified that Mangano came to see him one night, asking Singh to swap bills in an envelope of cash Mangano had received from a contractor for a different stack of bills.

He said he used official figures and plausible assumptions to reach the estimate, but a government source dismissed that figure as based on «back - of - an - envelope calculations».

The mailer was not a typical campaign glossy, but was instead typewritten, front and back, on two pieces of yellow paper, and was folded like a letter inside a yellow envelope.

Griffin won't put a price tag on going to Mars, but NASA has released enough information over the years to permit some back - of - the - envelope calculations.

Normally their anxieties come up during private meetings, amidst much scribbling on the backs of used envelopes.

Ridgwell told New Scientist he had done «back - of - the - envelope» calculations that show that given the current price of carbon on the European carbon market, these credits could be worth $ 50 billion a year over 100 years.

Your story on enhanced rock weathering to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (7 April, p 4) quoted some «back - of - the - envelope...