Sentences with phrase «own 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.»

All in, a back of the envelope calculation suggests that Amazon contributed a little under 5 % of the Seattle region's economic output during this period.

Their preferred investments have a universe of less than 10 and you would think they know those stocks very closely instead what has become clear is the standard of their research is back of the envelope stuff.

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.

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

My back of envelope calculation is approximately $ 10 Billion Aussie Dollars.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark..

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.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Arc.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships larger than the D - Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the ark.

Sometimes I use an app (ahem), sometimes the back of an envelope.

those teams were 60 % which is really good (back of envelope / eyeballing it....

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.

Can you even begin to do the back of the envelope math for how many times you've bathed, diapered, and sunscreened your kids?

Back of the envelope calculations using the advertised levy rates for commercial and private vehicles (from 20 for private cars all the way to 200 GHS for heavy duty trucks), show that RSML could make $ 50 million dollars a year (ignoring surcharges) should they succeed in ensuring a 75 % fee payment compliance rate among motorists.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

You just indicate the amount you want to donate to the programme at the back of the envelope against the column marked «Amount», he explained.

There is a lot of back of the envelope devil in the detail in my view, which is why cutting out normal scrutiny is poor.

Back of the envelope estimates of the possible over-charges range up to several hundred million dollars.

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».

Jeremy Corbyn's proposal that a third of the SC could be elected by the members is, in my view, just another back of an envelope idea for which no serious rationale has been offered.

«Much of this so - called policy document has a «back of an envelope» feel about it.

Have you ever seen a more incompetent, hopeless, u-turning, pledge - breaking, make it up as you go along, back of the envelope, miserable shower than this government and this Prime Minister?

The back of the envelope calculation below (click the graphic to enlarge it for easier reading) outlines how the kind of civil service recruitment freeze suggested by John Redwood could save about # 6bn a year by its third year of operation...

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.

«Back of the envelope [calculations] suggest that what we're going to lose from this spill is nowhere close to the background rates of wetland loss,» says Alex Kolker, a coastal geologist with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin.

And you can't incorporate feedbacks through a back of the envelope approach.

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?

Milloy and Monckton (whoever they are) have used the S - B formula to provide a decent «back of the envelope» estimate to the temperature increase in response to more CO2.

That simple back of envelope calc suggests CS = ~ 1.5 k in the absence of other unknowns.

I think Paul Beckwith's back of the envelope calculation on sea level rise is what makes the most sense; models keep trying to catch up with reality, even Eric Rignot says it but in different words.

As TC / HDL and SBP aren't remotely independent, just adding them would yield an overestimate of their aggregate effects, but this is a just back of the envelope guestimate for how much Cox risk adjustments would effect the outcomes.

So, my back of the envelope calculations definitely = boots!

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.

These are back of the envelope numbers, so you could quibble with them, but not enough to matter, in my opinion.

Back of the envelope math suggests that selling 100,000 copies a month at $ 1 to $ 3 a pop and keeping 70 %, Hocking can make millions per year, straight to her pocket.

Back of the Envelope 6 % shows what you need to do to withdraw 6 % (plus inflation) indefinitely.

My simple back of the envelope estimates show the 10.6 % tax efficient investment (based on our combined 401Ks) will be approximately 8 % in five years, or roughly $ 80K (growing at an estimated 7 - 8 %).