Sentences with phrase «out of it a few years»

They even made a feature movie out of it a few years back, but it wasn't very good.

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Local Motion has spent the last few years (initially out of Lemnos Labs, the hardware incubator) developing a small module — a box — that essentially eliminates the need for keys in fleets of cars.

Or is there something we all can do to wring at least some accomplishment out of these last few weeks of the year?

Outsourcing has become one of the hottest topics in the business world over the past few years, with so many tasks in the workplace now capable of being carried out by outside parties.

These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.

A restaurant may have a few good years but then lose its clientele and go out of business.

The Dick Smith chain of technology and electrical goods shops is probably a poor example of the wider problems confronting retailing but its collapse this week is a reminder that the shake - out which has rattled the retail world over the past few years is far from over.

As Fain points out, «The ability to more fully describe and understand a consumer's behavior is more complete than ever before, and that kind of data will make AI marketing tools even more effective over the next few years.»

A few years ago video resumes, where people sat in front of webcams spelling out their qualifications and showing a bit of personality, were all the rage.

Over the past few years a growing number of entrepreneurs have forged a quiet revolution in compensation plans, jettisoning traditional salary structures and carving out bold new incentive programs for their entire organizations.

Over the last few years, she's built a multiple six - figure business while living out of a suitcase and visiting 69 countries.

Over the next few years, you'll ideally see them harvest the profits out of those investments.»

If a new technology is developed in the next few years that radically extends the life expectancy of human beings, odds are good that it will come out of a company backed by Peter Thiel.

«As more people move out of their parents» basement — and there's still quite a few living there — we expect to see continued healthy demand for homes,» said Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow, which found millennials made up 42 percent of homebuyers last year.

And year - to - date, XLK has still eked out a gain, which makes it one of the few sector winners among S&P 500 stocks.

So I graduated from Harvard, class of» 97, and the internet was just a couple years old then and, of my graduating class of about 1,600, probably fewer than 10 people moved out West to work in tech.

«Instead of a few years out, I'm now looking quarter to quarter,» she says.

Over the last few years, Apple has sold out of its initial supply soon after pre-orders have gone up.

The beauty of bots in 2016 is that, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphone screens, consumers aren't fazed by chatting with a robot when picking out their Christmas shopping or asking about a product return the way they would have been even a few years ago.

Despite this threat, and looming competition from a new Gilead Sciences HIV drug, GSK sees growth strengthening over the next few years, helped by the roll - out of newer medicines.

«If you go back a few years, we rented a little place that literally had a garage, and we were working out of there,» Heraud says.

The earliest stages of your company's growth are the most vulnerable to insufficient capital, but that doesn't mean you're out of the woods once you've been around a few years.

Clayton Christensen, author of the «Jobs to be Done» theory of innovation, pointed out that of 20,000 products launched between 2012 and 2016, fewer than one percent thrived within two years.

Commercial litigation has been spread thin, as it was last year, with a few names standing out such as Tony Siopis SC from Francis Burt Chambers, Steven Penglis of Freehills, Paul Fitzpatrick of Clayton Utz, and Kirsty Sutherland of Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

Wagz, which has been in stealth mode for a few years before releasing a smart collar, is getting ready to roll out its line of smart tech.

Meanwhile, Axelrod points out that Basel 3 could actually generate a false sense of security because few people realize it introduces no changes whatsoever for two years.

It's worth noting that French broadband provider Free tried turning on network - level ad - blocking a few years back, in a bid to get money out of Google, but the government told it to stop.

Take just a few minutes out of your day to watch this short trailer announcing Firsts, a multi-media project from TIME featuring candid interviews with 45 extraordinary women, more than a year in the making.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

Freenome, headquartered in South San Francisco, is one of a slew of so - called liquid biopsy (i.e., blood test) companies to break out over the past few years.

The EPA has historically doled out fewer than ten hardship exemptions per year to U.S. refineries, according to a former U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A few years ago, the firm that cleared trades for Questrade when markets closed went out of business.

A: There's an inflection point that you hit where if you only remain focused on your core business you might be out of business in a few years.

It's been a long haul these last few years and I wasn't reaching them, and we just figured it was probably a good night to pull a trick out of the hat and do something different.»

Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based events.

Money managers that rolled out smart beta ETFs in the last few years have received just 5 percent of cumulative investor inflows since 2012, with the bulk of new money going to the largest companies, the Goldman report said.

At CEIBS and other top business schools, few MBAs start businesses right out of school, but around a third do within 15 years, says entrepreneurship professor Rama Velamuri.

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

Neanderthal bones found in a Spanish cave have been dated to 430,000 years ago, suggesting their ancestors left Africa nearly half a million years ago and ventured across Europe as far as southern Siberia before dying out only a few tens of thousands of years ago.

The hire is another coup for Coinbase, which has rapidly been building out its executive team as the more than 5 - year - old startup, now worth over $ 1 billion, attempts to fortify its reputation as one of few professional financial institutions catering to Bitcoin investors.

«If you see a few more months of improvement of this magnitude, it is a clear sign that the labor market is tightening and is poised to break out next year,» said Ryan Sweet, senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

As a small business owner, you may think that hiring someone fresh out of college — maybe even fresh out of high school — could be a good change of pace for a position that normally requires a few years of experience.

He quietly told some of the staff that the company would put out one catalog fewer in the year ahead so that he and Gloria could cut back their hours.

But even the staunchest of hold - outs are likely to have their minds changed as some real health benefits of Internet - enabled mobile devices make themselves clearer over the next few years.

Microsoft has come out with a number of great computers over the past few years, and the Microsoft Surface 3 has been hailed for its top - quality performance and its slim and portable design.

Instead of unveiling its latest phone in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as it has done for the past few years, Samsung is holding out until March, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Thanks in part to his example, over the past few years, several high - profile CEOs have come out against the norm of constant busyness.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

It wasn't our very worst pick this year (see CVS, above), but we're singling it out here because it's one of the few stocks we recommended twice (in our March restaurant stocks story, and in our Midyear Investor's Guide in May).