We spent all this time and money
on building this product because we just knew it was what people wanted.
This enabled Google to focus its efforts
on building a product far better than anything offered by existing companies.
Holiday recounts the early days of Evernote, when the young company decided to bypass traditional marketing and advertising and instead focused all its attention and resources
on building a product that people would come to love.
Suh: I think the essential need is that most entrepreneurs want to focus
on building a product, getting customers and building their team.
They are typically so focused
on building their product, they don't raise enough capital to cover essential sales and marketing activities that will allow them to better attract additional venture capital down the road.
Fifty Years will invest at the seed stage, based
on a built product, and ideally some market validation.
Many people focus
on building a product first, and hope that the customers and sales will follow.
But as other retail channels and online outlets increasingly seek to carve out their own slice of the lucrative pet care market, it has become even more important for neighborhood pet shops to focus
on building product assortments that will set them apart while delivering real value to their customers.
«From across the U.S. and around the world, market participants were intent
on building their product lines and establishing new relationships with the wealth of resources uniquely available at SURTEX,» notes Penny Sikalis, manager of the show and vice president of trade show production giant GLM.
Behind that app is a relatively new, little - known internal Facebook team, referred to by some as the «Youth Team,» that is specifically focused
on building products and features for kids and teens.
We're focused
on building products that meet the needs of end users and their IT admins equally well.
So startups are «stuck trying to minimize the risk» of legal issues, Isakovic said, rather than focusing
on their building product and their user base.
He had earlier, also called on the Ethereum community to focus
on building a product rather a «navel graze».
Specifically, the company wants to expand its existing exchange with more payment methods into more regions, while continuing to focus
on building products and features people love, he said.
This program focuses
on building product knowledge and developing sales skills through training and development...
Wilcox is focused
on building products and services to help strategic partners in real estate and financial services better serve their customers.
Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses
on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the
build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect
on aircraft demand and
build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions
on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact
on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact
on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns
on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes
on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco
on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted
on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence
on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments
on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest
on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential
product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Ronald Southern
built an empire centred
on a single
product — the movable trailer, which provided shelter for workers in remote areas.
Using this methodology, you iterate based
on customer feedback at each step of the way, so that you know you're
building a
product, or delivering a service, that customers want and will pay for.
He and Fritz are
building a community of early adopters to test out the
product and report back
on which use cases they found most valuable.
For example, you could have them click
on a link of what interests them or link them to a blog post or eventually to a
product or service that you're selling, but you need to train them to
build a habit of clicking
on those links from the very beginning.
Ahead of weekly data, crude stockpiles were forecast
building last week while refined
product inventories were seen declining, a preliminary Reuters poll showed
on Monday.
May 1 - U.S.
building products company USG Corp
on Tuesday said it agreed to open talks to sell itself to Germany's Gebr Knauf AG, a takeover that could benefit Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, USG's largest shareholder.
Zuckerberg's insistence
on building a really great
product sage advice for entrepreneurs.
U.S.
building products company USG Corp
on Tuesday said it agreed to open talks to sell itself to Germany's Gebr Knauf AG.
It was his dedication to
building his company that made him a legend, not the name printed
on their
products.
The customer photos are a great way to
build brand loyalty when customers can see themselves using her
product on her social media sites.
If
on the other hand, you may are considering a
product into an industry in which you have no direct experience or connections to guide, you may be faced with an insurmountable challenge to the business and the time required to
build the right connections for success may be infeasible.
The feature appears to rely
on an API that retailers and mobile wallet providers can leverage to
build their own mobile in - store and commerce payment
products, and integrate security features like payment card tokenization and biometric authentication.
Instead of focusing
on your technology or trying to
build credibility, advocates can provide testimonials about how your
product or service has improved their business.
Your technological co-founder may have
built a beautiful
product, but he or she isn't focusing
on the critical component of how to market it.
And then, critically, the company began using Instagram to
build mini focus groups and quickly create
products based
on what they learn.
The partners» approach hasn't just been to differentiate their
product but to focus
on building exceptionally strong relationships with relatively few retailers.
«We had to make a decision: Either put out a mediocre
product following Apple's guidelines or do something really cool in the jailbreak space and focus
on building our brand,» says Samir Shah, a co-founder of the company.
«Knowing what my sales skills are and the
products that I am able to sell, I think I could find a job selling a
product that had enough commissions or rewards for me,» he says
on NPR's podcast, «How I
Built This.»
Then your not promoting and
building your brand, your simply promoting everyone's use of a common name
on a
product.
Facebook Inc. is working
on a video chat device for the home — the first major hardware
product from its experimental
Building 8 lab.
One government official says that top leaders met last spring to consider the worst possible scenarios and concluded they should
build new alliances with China, Persian Gulf states, and others, and begin creating their own
products in order to end their dependence
on the West.
Before Resco, Katie was a managing partner at Etho Capital; an asset management company focused
on building sustainable ETFs and other investment
products.
In the world of Seth, it is far more important to firstly
build a strong tribe based
on trust - one that is formed through meaningful connections - then develop the
products or services that they need (as opposed to making stuff and trying to flog it to anyone who will buy it).
What if all that admin work could go away, through software eating it all, and they could be in a position where they could spend all those resources
on building great
products faster?
He talked at length about business's responsibility to be aware of its affect
on the planet and shared the Patagonia mission statement to «
build the best
product, do no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.»
With an ever - growing history of innovative
products, a focus
on exceptional customer service, and a one - of - a-kind brand identity, Firehouse Subs is committed to
building profit for franchisees.
As a Microsoft
product, Skype opened its APIs in 2016, and developers from all around the world could now
build chatbots
on their platform.
The company largely relied
on other gadget makers to
build smartwatches running its software, but as it did with phones, may have to step in and make its own
products.
Gauge user reactions early
on and save time in development by heading off concerns and
building out features people like so that when the
product actually comes to fruition it's better situated to garner rave reviews.
With his boss's blessing, Cerilli quit his job at First Round, brought Matt Doumar — who had
built SinglePlatform's entire
product team —
on board as a cofounder, and got started
on a company that would eventually become known as Good Uncle.
By focusing
on relationship -
building, you're showing customers that they are much more valuable than the money they give when buying your
products.
Clearly EMC, like every other IT incumbent, has one nervous eye
on Amazon Web Services, the public cloud giant that became a huge success largely because software developers saw it as a cheap, easy way to get the resources they need to
build and test their
products.
At the time, TD was among the Top 10 banks in the structured -
products market, a business
built on arcane financial instruments that shift risk between balance sheets and was ultimately a compounding factor of the financial crisis.