Sentences with phrase «own lots of companies»

«We see a lot of companies come in with a lot of capital — really good business - minded people — but they're not enthusiasts or enthusiastic about the product they're selling,» says Cobb.

Lots of companies are top - heavy but once you deeper you see the teams are doing everything; the executive or manager is just taking the credit.

Like a lot of companies we work with, I kind of ignored it for a while because the business was growing and I was doing well.

He speaks all over the world, and he consults with a lot of companies on social media.»

And a lot of companies do not equate four years of military service to four years at a university or state institution.»

On Wednesday, the king of the cloud said Salesforce looks at a lot of companies and declines to bid aggressively on most of them.

A lot of companies just use stock photos, but it's more real, authentic, and personal when everything is custom and done by a photographer.

Lots of companies talk the talk on diversity — but it's the little touches that demonstrate how your culture really works

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

A lot of companies don't know the first thing about a wholistic Public Relations strategy.

CEO Jeff Bezos says a lot of the company's expansion is happening overseas — the growth is costing more than it brings in for now, analysts say, but Prime membership means loyalty and investors should be happy at the retention rates of over 90 %.

A lot of companies have stepped up.

At the angel investor level especially, Bearse believes, «it seems like a lot of companies are getting funded, and it may not be sustainable.»

«A lot of our companies are selling specific enterprise contracts,» Zilis points out.

A lot of companies that shed employees during the recession have opted not to staff up again, leaving work teams indefinitely stretched.

There's a real know - how there that not a lot of companies have.»

The consequence, says John Ruffolo, Deloitte's global thought leader for technology, media and telecommunications, is that «a lot of these companies had to bootstrap themselves and focus in on developing their business model.»

Automating marketing efforts can be a great solution for a lot of companies, particularly those who are growing rapidly.

'' [When it comes to] the skilled professionals, the people who have the brains in entrepreneurship to make a big difference, lots of companies want them,» he says.

But a lot of companies are playing another kind of game entirely these days.

«A lot of these companies have great promise, but not that many of them have converted that promise into great customer value,» Maxwell says.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly advanced and more widely adopted, we'll start to see a lot of companies - big and small - turning to AI in order to come up with better data strategies and win customer adoption, and to better compete against their competition.

A lot of companies let their rocketing growth shoot right out of their own control, but it was still interesting to me to hear a CEO admit to reaching his financial goals.

Once that news broke, Jassy recalls, «a lot of companies would say, «Well, if the security and performance is good [enough] for the CIA, then it's probably good enough for us.»»

«There will be a lot of companies that want to buy Toshiba «s businesses,» Ishino said.

It, like everyone, was hit hard by recession, and did what a lot of companies did: dramatically reduced costs, laid off workers, raised prices, and went back to customers and said, «I'm sorry we can't honor this contract...» The response from Wall Street was, «Wow, you've done a great job managing your costs!»

A lot of companies are trying to «re-permission» their whole customer base and are finding opt - in rates of 5 % to 10 %.

There were a lot of companies that were doing both and came up with the same bad results.

Yet, like a lot of companies that move into mature stages, it saw its growth begin to stagnate.

We fetishize tiny startups, but lots of companies get big and keep their disruptive streak intact

A lot of companies worry that raising the minimum wage will mean they have to raise prices, and that will push customers away.

Even though companies like IBM are bringing people back into the office, lots of companies are still looking for people who prefer to commute down the stairs rather than down the interstate.

Lots of companies opt for passive forms of volunteering, like donating technology or money — which is great and may sound like an ideal option considering the importance of ease of access.

«A lot of companies talk about «making the world a better place» but I feel like Etsy is one of the few which actually takes into account issues like sustainability, equality, humane treatment, etc. in all of its business decisions.»

Just like the amount of companies that offer freelance work, there are a lot of companies that will pay you for simply taking a survey at your own convenience.

«A lot of companies that are successful in the long term try to do things a little differently [and] get a lot of criticism,» Pearson said in an interview in August.

We're seeing a lot of companies wanting to use Rift.

And again, the tax cuts were a really monumental event, a onetime event that a lot of companies weren't even really expecting, and this will be the first quarter, post that tax cut.

«Like a lot of companies, we are challenged by how technology is changing our industry,» explains Tim Dyson, Next 15's CEO.

«A lot of companies build Facebook ads with advertising companies that might not be approved by Facebook, and they're using wording or running contests that Facebook simply won't allow,» notes Germano.

A lot of companies mistakenly associate culture solely with fun.

I've found through my own personal research that a lot of companies have blogs (meaning they know it's important to have one), but they haven't been updated in 5 months — or they're publishing short, 300 word posts that are read by no one.

«There's lots of companies taking older equipment and building connectivity into it,» says Alan Swain, vice-president of technology and operations at Wavefront, Canada's Centre of Excellence for Wireless Commercialization and Research.

«A lot of these companies are making product for mass consumption, not high performance.»

A lot of companies are looking to use that cash for acquisitions because they're really getting it at 70 cents on the dollar.

«A lot of companies are started and prepped for an acquisition,» he says.

But lately they have a lot of company.

A lot of the companies had no hiring positions open when they came, but after meeting our students, changed their minds.»

«We haven't had the opportunity to know if we have that problem or not because a lot of companies will get acquired before they can get to that stage.

«But I'm not sure the police are as up to speed on data protection as a lot of companies that have been focused on GDPR for years.