Sentences with phrase «says our friend from»

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According to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial gifts or support from family or friends (29 percent).

Since Zuckerberg is saying that Facebook would like most updates to come from friends, we estimate that publishers will on average see an 80 percent reduction in page reach, clicks, and engagement.

Say 80 percent of revenue historically comes from initial wedding packages sold to couples, 10 percent from additional sales after the wedding to the couple, and 10 percent from post-wedding sales to friends, family, etc..

«Firing your close, close friend and someone who built this thing with you from nothing is hard emotionally,» Zechory said.

While Metcalfe generally is in awe of Jobs and grateful for what he has learned from the tech icon, Metcalfe says there was one downside to being friends with Steve Jobs.

«We started getting complaints from users about seeing too many political stories shared by their friends, probably due to all of the Trump - related scandals,» says Jonathan Abrams, Nuzzel's CEO and co-founder.

In fact, according to Nielsen, 92 percent of consumers around the world say they trust earned media, such as recommendations from friends and family, above all other forms of advertising.

In a survey from Credit Karma, 39 % of millennial respondents said they spent money they didn't have to attend social functions with friends.

While we may regularly receive advice from friends, coworkers, significant others or mentors, Williams says no one holds our best interest at heart as much as our parents, making their opinion all the more valuable.

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.

He turned away inquiries from others looking to turn an insurance claim into a reno: «I can't in good conscience give you a new kitchen when I have friends with no kitchen,» he'd say.

A Times story in July was so laden with quotes from disgruntled customers and staff that Price's worried friends called to say he always has a place to stay if things don't work out.

His passion for bitcoin, he said, didn't ignite until a friend of his from Argentina asked him to send him some of the virtual cash for a project that they were working on.

It took her a couple of minutes to get over the shock and start recognizing faces, says Ezon, but the crowd included family and friends from all walks of life, some of whom she hadn't seen in decades.

While some 270,000 people are said to have used the personality - quiz app, Wylie said it was able to harvest data from 50 million Facebook accounts through the friend networks of those participants.

Branson takes off from work to spend time with his friends and family — which is a key component to keeping him healthy and happy, he said.

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

I found out about the subreddit from a van dweller who works as an engineer at a major tech company, and who says he made friends with other Bay Area - based, van - dwelling techies through the group.

And, in the wake of the «Access Hollywood» tapes, CNN anchor Erin Burnett recounted a story from a friend who said she met Trump in 2010 and he popped some Tic Tacs before leaning in to kiss her.

«Tonight,» says Leah Nathan, a friend of Petersan's from the animal protection community, «we showed everyone veganism is not just about weirdo food.»

Sister forbade us from going through the room, saying she didn't want anyone going into it until it was dinnertime, essentially leaving my wife and I sitting alone outside, while she and her friends had a chocolate fountain & open bar.

Seventy - one percent said that they derive a sense of self - worth from family and close friends as opposed to their jobs.

«From above, you see the Sacred Valley stretching out for miles on either side of you, and across you see more of the amazing Andes mountains,» says Scott Carr of Tulsa, Okla., who visited in October 2017 with his fiancée, her daughter and a small group of friends.

«From the minute we opened on day one,» Jerry says, «we bent over backwards to win people over, know people personally and treat them like family and friends.»

«We are hearing loud and clear from people that they are valuing vacation experiences more than ever as an opportunity to spend truly meaningful down time with family and friends and they want to be able to have shared experiences that are genuinely fun and memorable,» said the spokesperson.

At the heart of the issue is that this data trap for 300,000 users led to the misuse of data from their friends and family on the social network, and — it must be said — the data trap worked.

Research from Nielsen says while just 15 percent of people trust what a brand says, 90 percent will trust the word of a friend, peer or family member.

That's from a blog post by Facebook's Joel Seligstein, who says that the newly unveiled Facebook Messages will sort through your inbox and attempt to separate the messages you care about (those from your friends) from the bank statements, spam, and job queries.

Whether this is a blog or a friend, knowing that you'll be held accountable can keep you from spending irresponsibly, Klontz said.

Respondents to Fairfield's survey ranked partners and pets as important sources of support, but Zuckerberg says she was surprised to see that random acts of kindness from strangers ranked higher in value than interactions with online friends.

Michel said part of the inspiration for the drone study stemmed from a barbecue with friends in Long Island.

«Now the discussion is how can we ensure — and when I say we, it's we in Congress — ensure that from a trade perspective we are moving forward, forward with our relationships with our friends and allies.»

Saszi then heard about sales with bitcoin from Frigerio at Lamborghini Newport Beach, who he says is a friend and colleague.

In one change earlier this year, Facebook (FB) said that it was going to de-emphasize articles from mainstream media sites in favor of posts from a user's friends and family.

«Sometimes I feel like maybe it's a fluke that I even made it in, because my friends aren't that different from me,» says Martina Abrahams, an African American woman who works at a financial tech company in San Francisco and previously worked at Google.

Creator Arber Puci said the app spawned from the idea that everyone has friends and family who are amazing cooks and can use that talent to make some extra money, while consumers will find it cheaper than restaurants, take - out joints or other food delivery services such as Uber Eats.

The new revelation about Comey's uneasiness with Trump brings to mind a posting last month by Comey friend Benjamin Wittes on his Lawfare blog, in which he said Comey «saw it as an ongoing task on his part to protect the rest of the Bureau from improper contacts and interferences from a group of people he did not regard as honorable.»

Even some of my friends used to request stuff from me because they knew that I couldn't say no.

Strike Debt doesn't buy individual debtor's debts, but instead buys bundles of anonymous debt from banks through what it says are friends on the debt broker side (apparently, the banks won't deal with anyone who isn't established, and most brokers won't sell to non-collections agencies because of liability issues).

About 26 percent would reduce spending on other things, and 28 percent said they would either borrow from family or friends or use credit cards.

It can, says Arnold Sanow, co-author of You Can Start Your Own Business — if you have excellent time management skills, strong self - discipline and support from family and friends.

A man said: «I just got home from the Pulse club... My friends texted me (to) tell me there is a shooting going (on) A lot of my friends got shot.»

Though she isn't saying much about her business idea aside from the name, CarBuckets, Esteve has raised $ 50,000 from friends and family so far.

In early 2004, former classmates said, the normally sociable Zuckerberg all but vanished for a week, emerging from his room to urge his friends to join a new creation called The Facebook.

The company said that it will alter its news feed algorithm to prioritize content from users» friends rather than brand or publisher pages.

«Our operations director is running surveys from the beach, our [senior vice president] of business development is having lunch with a friend in Connecticut because he is working from home, and our [senior vice president] of product development is taking a break to tend to his goats in Vermont,» Fitzgerald says.

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

Zuckerberg said that Facebook could move far beyond its roots as a network for friends and families to communicate, suggesting that it can play a role in five areas, all of which he referred to as «communities,» ranging from strengthening traditional institutions, to providing help during and after crises, to boosting civic engagement.

It wants to make sure it has the right balance between «organic» posts — or content from friends — and adverts, Chief Financial Officer Dave Wehner said on a July earnings call.

Starkman said he would hear the same thing from friends and co-workers who backpacked across the globe.