Sentences with phrase «own lore»

Local lore suggests the pastel - colored exteriors made it easy for drunk sailors to recognize their guest house, while others suggest shops used the hues as a form of advertising.

According to local lore, back in the 1800s the governor of the Dutch colony decided that the color white caused his migraines.

The Sunset Marquis is inextricably linked with rock»n' roll lore.

According to island lore, local fisherman started painting their homes in bright colors — hues of orange, red, yellow, and purple — so they could see them while out fishing in the fog and could follow their colors back home.

(Industry lore holds that Coach got the leather cheap from a supplier with excess stock to get rid of.)

Lore has been frank about the fact that Jet will need to raise a ton of money to achieve scale.

What it is: Marc Lore, an e-commerce veteran who used to be CEO of Quidsi — the website behind Diapers.com — has been working on a mysterious, stealthy new e-commerce startup called Jet, which is rumored to be an Amazon - killer.

Marc Lore, Mike Hanrahan, and Nathan Faust founder / CEO (Lore), cofounder / CTO (Hanrahan), cofounder / COO (Faust) Jet.com

Lore told Re / code's Jason Del Rey at the time that the company switched business models because Jet noticed people were buying more per visit than anticipated, and dropping its membership fee could actually help widen the startup's appeal.

Lore has promised Jet will be a «new kind of e-commerce experience, uniquely grounded in transparency and customer empowerment.»

The lore is that Morgan Stanley, the underwriter for the Netscape deal, was caught off guard by the demand for the deal.

As the lore goes, he started out in entrepreneurship by selling hats on the streets of New York City.

In the United States, where e-commerce entrepreneur Marc Lore has been heading Walmart.com, digital sales rose 50 % last quarter.

And if you can get enough of Twitter lore, check out the profile I wrote on the company three years ago, when the top source of revenue at Twitter was subletting empty desks in its office.

That surge has been the result of moves such as buying Jet.com (which Lore sold to the company in 2016 before becoming Walmart.com CEO), expanding its marketplaces, further integrating stores and e-commerce, improving its mobile shopping app, and equipping more stores as pick - up points for online grocery orders.

Jet.com — a buyer's club for consumer products slated to launch in «late spring» — will have a lot to do with it, says Jet founder and CEO Marc Lore.

«The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago,» he wrote, invoking one of the most infamous board blunders in tech industry lore.

«We're behind,» Lore admitted, speaking at the Code Commerce conference in Las Vegas last month.

Lore was last year tasked with leading Wal - Mart's e-commerce division, when the retailer acquired Jet for $ 3.3 billion.

The opportunity came via Marc Lore, Fleiss» long - time mentor and the founder of Jet.com.

And it's not all internet lore.

«It turns out 4 to 5 percent is enough of a discount for shoppers,» CEO Marc Lore said, discussing the results of tests the company ran over the past few weeks by raising the prices of some products.

But he wasn't the one to come up with the character: Ub Iwerks, a lesser - known figure in Disney lore, did.

Over the past several months, Lore has focused on capturing market share from Amazon, by acquiring retailers including ModCloth (fashion) and Moosejaw.com (outdoor gear.)

In the year since it acquired Jet.com for $ 3 billion, Walmart has also purchased a host online retailers, including Bonobos, ModCloth and MooseJaw under the direction of e-commerce head Marc Lore.

Lore was the co-founder and CEO of Diapers.com parent company Quidsi, which he sold to Amazon for more than $ 500 million.

Given today's six - under par performance at the British Open, John Daly's career isn't done yet, but when it is, it will go down in sports marketing lore.

According to Apple lore, Jobs and company realized during the early days that the ideal arrangement was to break up areas based on consumer interactions: an area for checking out how a camera and printer worked with a computer, another space for multimedia - focused tasks and so on, with an emphasis on hands - on demos, so consumers could handle the goods themselves.

According to company lore, one interviewee responded that he'd find the building's janitor and then offer the janitor the barometer — in exchange for information about the building's height.

What's more, Lore said that pay transparency effectively eliminated salary negotiations during the hiring process.

The only way to earn more, Lore told Shontell, was to get promoted to the next level.

Though negotiation lore has it that you let the other side go first, a growing body of evidence suggests that a well - prepared first mover has the advantage.

Lore's firm advises hedge funds and private equity groups in the crypto - space.

It's unclear that complete salary transparency is the right move for every organization (which Lore acknowledged).

podcast, Lore said that at Walmart — a company with more than two million employees — he can't have salary transparency.

Here's Lore:

«I think the sell - off this year has more to do with short term concern than any long - term general distaste for the asset,» Lore said.

Prior to meeting Mr. Nash I only knew him through his work and of course through lore.

That included the salary of the company's CEO, Marc Lore, who is now the president and CEO of Walmart eCommerce in the US.

How I Did It,» Lore told US editor - in - chief Alyson Shontell that the decision to disclose pay data reflected one of the company's core values: transparency.

«I think the next [e-commerce] wave [which is predicted to grow to a $ 300 billion market] is going to care more about price than service,» Lore told Inc.'s Christine Lagorio - Chafkin.

The company is based in Hoboken, New Jersey, a town with a strong drinking culture, and founder Marc Lore runs a vineyard.

(Post-financial-crisis lore has taught us that these instruments are sometimes used to bet against things, but CDS are most often used as hedges against bets that the world won't end.)

The founder is serial entrepreneur Marc Lore, who sold his previous venture, Quidsi (the company behind Diapers.com and Soap.com), to Amazon for $ 545 million in 2010. Jet.com has already raised $ 220 million (from heavyweights like Bain, Accel, Goldman Sachs, and Google Ventures) and boasts a $ 600 million valuation.

Remember: Young David of Biblical lore knew not to fight until he had two things — his sling (innovation), and good aim (execution).

On a media conference call, NRF's Shay quoted Wal - Mart's head of U.S. e-commerce, Marc Lore, when saying, «Online retail is simply intended to make us better merchants.»

The Business: Popular lore may say it takes a village to raise a child, but conversely, it could be that all one needs is a group of kids to raise a profitable business venture.

The lore of the «Halo» series is loved by a fraction of that overall fanbase, and it's games like «Halo Wars» that help keep that dedicated fanbase loyal.

The legends and lore of these dynastic families can cast a long shadow over members of the next generation; they are expected to repeat the successes of their parents and grandparents and are always seen in relationship to their family legacy.

Either blow teams out right off the bat or wait until the perfect time to mount another comeback that will go down in NFL lore.