Sentences with phrase «out of a spot of»

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«On the ride home, we get a phone call from Paul Graham to inform us that he'd like to offer us a spot in the Y Combinator program, and we later found out that the reason wasn't because of our idea,» said Gebbia.

Richard Branson is an iconic entrepreneurial figure, a high school drop - out whose knack for seizing opportunities, taking risks, spotting opportunities, and betting on himself and the people around him to build businesses in a variety of industries.

Actor Augustin Legrand is taking over the role of «The Most Interesting Man in the World» months after the 77 - year - old American Jonathan Goldsmith bowed out of the role he played for nearly a decade in TV commercials and other promotional spots for the Heineken - owned beer brand.

Your IT staff can be an excellent resource for, say, training employees to spot a phishing email or how to get the most out of a business app.

While it's recommended that people get seven to nine hours of sleep every night, it turns out there's a sweet spot when it comes to getting the right amount of sleep to put you at your happiest.

Figuring out what customers want is a $ 21 - billion industry in the U.S., according to IBISWorld, and many major brands solicit advice from polling firms such as Ipsos Reid or the legacy research arms of advertising agencies like JWTIntelligence to help them spot the next big thing before it arrives.

That contrasts with the tech industry's often fractious relationship to its host communities in the Bay Area, where newly minted multimillionaires have been known to buy residents out of their homes on the spot and complain to municipalities about homeless people marring their views.

Among those we spotted: Katy Perry hanging out with the cast of Modern Family, Elizabeth Banks entertaining a crowd at the bar; a very statuesque Nicole Kidman; Hayden Panettiere getting numerous compliments on her yellow dress; Bradley Cooper; and basically everyone else you've seen on TV this year.

Even if there are only 10 people applying for a spot you want to fill, wouldn't you rather that all ten candidates are adequate and you are choosing the best one, instead of choosing simply 1 out of 40 just because he is a little better than the others, even though not exactly what you're looking for?

Even if the stores were in out - of - the - way spots — and some of the locations in the Zellers portfolio certainly were — the company assumed the strength of the Target brand would lure customers.

While some viewers called it «gross» and «vulgar,» the spot racked up some 20 million YouTube views by the end of last year, at one point yielding one share for every nine views — proof positive that schoolyard humor never goes out of style.

She was on the short list of candidates to take over the top spot at Uber as recently as late 2017 but opted out of the running.

It's a simple, quick, and important habit that can «help you spot problems before they get out of control.»

So an inspector came out to the phony, empty office, but instead of turning the group down for having no security in place, or arousing suspicion about the obvious potential that the business was a shell company, he issued a license on the spot for a small amount of radioactive material.

By July, they had shown that they could tap into a sizable market: after just one 10 - minute spot on QVC, the shopping network sold out of its entire stock of 6,000 units; it took only five more spots for viewers to snap up 20,000 more.

Cloud computing, the buzzword sweeping the tech world, claimed the top spot in the most recent Hype Cycle report put out by Gartner Research, while a BusinessWeek cover story compared the technology's impact to the introduction of electricity.

As the federal government moves slowly but surely toward the decriminalization of marijuana, Shoppers is looking to stake out its spot in the future market for legal weed.

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Then, peeking out of the elevator on the 21st floor, he spots some big game — Sun Refining and Marketing Co., part of giant Sun Co..

«This footwear really sticks out, gives attendees an easy way to spot me during the rest of the event, and makes more of a statement than a suit and tie would,» he says, noting that red is also the color that represents the Crowdtap brand.

Edberg, a veteran infrastructure architect for Netflix, Reddit, and PayPal, has seen the movie many times: A software startup launches, catering to the millions of companies that use Amazon Web Services, and quickly attracts customers — and then Amazon, with its God's - eye view of its platform, spots it and trots out a cheaper product boasting full AWS integration.

We were doing wedding party photos, and everyone was dripping in sweat and about to pass out, so we decided to finish the rest of the pics in a nice shady spot.

China did indeed invest huge amounts of money in building out its 4G networks, and over a decade that took Huawei and ZTE to the number one and two spots when it comes to the number of radio transceivers that are sold to telecoms companies.

Last month, the highly sought - after gadget reached the No. 2 spot on the Amazon's list of electronics best sellers and it frequently sells out.

In the first published report of analysis since Amazon's official HQ2 short list came out, GBH Insights put Atlanta in the top spot.

Most tragedies happen somewhere: the spot where the towers fell on 9/11, the beaches where the waves came ashore during the Asian tsunami, the sunflower fields where the pieces of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 fell after it was blasted out of the Ukrainian sky last summer.

In February, Consumer Reports urged Tesla to change a feature within Autopilot known as Summon, which lets owners start cars and move them out of a garage or parking spot automatically using a key fob or a smartphone.

Stranger Things led the social - media pack out of 65 different brands, which ran 104 spots in 49 ad breaks on Fox for just under 49.9 minutes of dedicated ad time, according to iSpot.tv, which measures activity from more than 10 million smart TVs and tracks responses to TV ads on social and digital platforms.

All drivers have to do is press a button on a key fob to make the car pull in and out of tight parking spots and garages entirely on its own.

Meanwhile, the Stranger Things ad was fairly low - rated on USA Today's annual Ad Meter — coming in 49th out of 66 spots.

Twenty years ago, the entire industry was in danger of being wiped out by a virus called ring spot.

Judging from the company's 4.9 out of 5 - star rating on the career - rating website Glassdoor and Elite's host of awards for its culture — including the Ad Age's Gold Medal for Best Agency Culture, Crain's Best Place to Work and the top spot on Mashable's «Best Tech Companies to Work For» list — Kirshner's approach is working.

There are a ton of deals constantly out there — the trick is just to know where to spot them.

Hansen said the eastern and western edges of the Great Red Spot will be out of view, and that the northern and southern regions «will be foreshortened due to the viewing angle close to the top of the storm.»

Given the high failure rate of startups in their first year, a business plan is also an ideal opportunity to safely test out the feasibility of a business and spot flaws, set aside unrealistic projections and identify and analyze the competition.

The Titans are playing for a Wild Card spot on Sunday and with DeMarco Murray out for the game, a large portion of the Tennessee offense will be on the shoulders of Derrick Henry.

Within two days of making the offer public we had sold five spots and brought in $ 15,000, and by the time the class started we had sold out all 20 spots, bringing in roughly $ 58,000 (after some additional discounts we offered), and we had more people wanting to get into the course who we had to push off for the next one.

T - Mobile went all out with its Super Bowl commercials this year — hiring celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart and spending tens of millions on multiple spots throughout the game.

The sweet spot of digital technology plus direct - mail effectiveness is out there, just waiting for you to find it.

Out of the seven teams that have clinched playoff spots so far, the Ravens are in the worst shape, and yesterday proved it.

Personally, I've always had a soft spot for Jason Goldberg, because whenever I've interviewed him, he's been open and forthcoming about the ins and outs of Fab.

But Schoellhammer, along with other researchers coming out of MIT hope to use it differently, as a way to deliver drugs to a specific spot.

Calgarians flock to this Kensington take - out spot for the tasty and cheap eats — four pieces of fried chicken with French fries and two corn fritters costs a mere $ 8.25.

Out of the 23 banks surveyed, BMO's ranking in the Midwest plummeted from a top 10 spot in 2012 to second - last.

Though Blade started out with flights to the Hamptons, which remains one of its most popular destinations, the startup has expanded to offer flights in many weekend getaway spots, including Nantucket, the Jersey Shore, and around different parts of Los Angeles.

Though some of these seemingly out - of - left - field questions can be difficult to answer, they «test a job candidate's critical thinking skills, see how they problem solve on the spot, and gauge how they approach difficult situations,» Glassdoor's head of global recruiting and talent acquisition, Susan Underwood, said in a press release.

(Interestingly, though, the movie that finally pushed «Compton» out of its top box - office spot?

It's too early to say how the bank's foray south of the border will play out, but it's clear that a misadventure in the U.S. will leave BMO in the same spot it's in today: lagging its peers.

It's home to some great vacation spots, and you'll even find towns in the region that look like they're straight out of Europe.

Chocolatier Hershey is «falling out of the sweet spot» as people continue to shift toward healthier snacks, according to one Wall Street firm.