Sentences with phrase «private companies making»

Only private companies making less than $ 3 million a year or less than five years old are eligible for the program.

The launch was also the first to be livestreamed by Rocket Lab, a trend among private companies made popular by Elon Musk's SpaceX over the past decade.

Yet his vision of «open research,» whereby genetic insights would be made public while a private company made money, was doomed.

Not exact matches

The much - anticipated international listing of Saudi Aramco — the world's largest oil company — is likely to be delayed until 2019, but that decision makes sense given that oil prices are expected to head to $ 80 per barrel, a private equity investor said.

What environmental difference does it make if a private or public company pumps it?

Private investors poured $ 3.9 billion into commercial space companies last year, with over 120 firms making investments.

A wholesale supplier of packaging and shipping supplies, Trinity Packaging Supply knows from fast growth, having made the Inc. 5000 list of fastest - growing private U.S. companies in both 2016 and 2015.

«It was just something that I was making in my kitchen because I didn't like sugar,» says Woolverton, whose company, Halo Top Creamery, has landed at No. 5 on Inc.'s 2017 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. «It wasn't until later, when I got an actual $ 20 ice cream maker, that I was like, «Oh, wow, there's something here.»»

In fact, some of the fastest - growing private companies in America are reaping success by tapping into niche industries, or inventing entirely new ways to make money.

The 250 - employee company made the Inc. 500 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. the past two years.

The company engineered two three - month loans, totaling $ 300,000, from a private party — «a friend of a friend,» says Anderson — who required the owners to put up 10 % of their equity as collateral and make principal and interest payments of $ 75,000 a month.

Also important, companies will need to make sure the customer's data is secure and private.

Apple is fighting the order, arguing that complying with the request would weaken the security of all iPhones and create an open - ended precedent for judges to make demands of private companies.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that an investor group consisting of venture capital and private equity firms are combining resources to make a bid to acquire the Internet phone company from eBay.

While Cole was already aggressively interviewing for her next opportunity to run a company, she made the decision to stay at Hooters because she knew that having a front - row seat at the table when a private company was sold would be incredibly educational.

Joyent is one company that has monetized its data organization and collection services, using the public cloud and private cloud software to provide businesses with a ready - made infrastructure for harnessing data.

At a time when a stock market rally has made private equity firms reluctant to take companies private for fear of overpaying, the deal illustrates how activist investors have the potential to drive corporate boards to explore such deals and accept a price that makes a leveraged buyout possible.

Meanwhile Waugh is setting up a private investment company with a focus on making direct investments in small and medium - sized companies.

Major U.S. computer company Dell Inc said on Monday a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for hackers to access users» private data.

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

Baker invests in Tesla (tsla) as well as Uber, one of several private companies that make up 3 % of his fund.

SpaceX will launch a crewed mission beyond the moon for two private customers, according to an announcement made by the company Monday.

The stability and certainty of the company's activities are attractive to a lender; the strong customer base combined with the potential to grow make the company attractive to the private equity fund.

The startup that wants to make flying in a private jet affordable is partnering with one of the industry's largest jet - charter companies.

Though going public is something of a rite of passage for a company of Facebook's size, it isn't easy to pin down why it's choosing this moment to do so.c It's true that, through its many private offerings, the company had acquired nearly enough investors to legally require it to make public much of the information in the IPO filing.

For decades, if not centuries, talking about one's salary has been the biggest taboo in capitalism, which is why the idea of salary transparency — the current «it» strategy among progressive young private companies — makes so many people uncomfortable.

The company consults with a range of clients, from private firms to government offices, advising facility managers about how to make their workplaces safer, or, at the very least, how to «harden the structure» to make it more difficult for a dangerous individual to gain entry.

He has also expressed some regret that he had to take Tesla public in order to raise capital to build the company, noting in an interview with Rolling Stone, «I wish we could be private with Tesla... It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.»

LONDON, April 12 - GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy drugs to private biotech company Orchard Therapeutics as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker's pharmaceuticals portfolio.

Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial aims to raise $ 9 b in a private funding round, which would value the company at $ 150b, making it the world's biggest start - up, ahead of Uber.

At VMware's VMworld event in Las Vegas on Monday, Michael Dell pledged that the combined company will make private cloud «easy.»

Before Cathy passed away in 2014, he made his children sign a contract agreeing that Chick - fil - A will always remain a private company.

Importantly, an analysis of the break - up or private transaction value of a company that shows a higher value than where the stock is trading does not oblige a company to make a sale.

«The majority of private companies can accomplish most or all of their important goals by forgoing options entirely and instead making use of a phantom - stock technique,» says Jim Scannella, a principal in Arthur Andersen's human - capital - services group.

This would make SpaceX one of the most valuable venture - backed private tech companies, behind just Uber and Airbnb.

«The future of the company is to make sure that we diversify, go heavily into private sector work, and grow nationwide and internationally,» says the entrepreneur, who's been able to focus his talent for construction and engineering on building a thriving business.

The more - than - billion - dollar capital investment we are making in our facilities around the world this year is easier for a private company than a public one.»

For some companies with only a few coveted private offices, growth means making a full transition to modular workstations.

If eShares succeeds, it will give startup founders a way to keep companies private long - term, without harming early backers or employees who want to exercise (and make money from) their shares.

The company says the LLC will «pursue its mission by funding nonprofit organizations, making private investments and participating in policy debates, in each case with the goal of generating positive impact in areas of great need.»

The only reason governments don't want a private company managing lotteries is that the private sector will do it better and probably make more money at it.

It is in China's interest to respect private intellectual property rights if it wants to move beyond being described as the world's factory: if it wants would want to move from «made in China,» where goods are largely produced under foreign companies» control, to «made by China,» where Chinese companies own the brains behind the manufacturing and design of goods.

Ever since Dell, who has a 16 percent stake in the company, earlier this year made it known he wanted to take the company private he has faced shareholder backlash spurred by the price of the buyout.

Back then, shells — that is, companies with ticker symbols but no operations — became synonymous with so - called pump - and - dump schemes in which stockbrokers artificially inflated share prices after a shell merged with a private company, without making financial statements on the acquisition available to investors.

Seedrs makes money by taking roughly 6 per cent commission on funds raised, and then a share of any increase in value when the company is sold — similar to the «carry» earned by private equity firms.

Since then, the 18 - year - old business has grown apace (it recently made it onto the Inc. 500 list of the nation's fastest - growing private companies), thanks in part to Buschman's painfully learned lesson on the importance of comprehensive number crunching.

SecondMarket made a name for itself as a destination for trading shares of private companies like Facebook and Zynga before their IPOs.

Creating a company - wide network such as a Slack thread or a private Facebook page that makes it easy to share stories and industry updates is a good starting point.

Take the private - equity marketplace, a broadly defined investment sector that includes venture capitalists, large and small angel investors, hedge funds, private investment pools, and even insurance companies and other institutional players that either participate through money - management funds or make direct capital investments in growth companies.

That is going to make life a lot harder for private companies, particularly the so - called unicorns.