Sentences with phrase «scrappy upstart»

At home, it faces rising competition from big, deep - pocketed rivals like Huawei Technologies and other scrappy upstarts like the Chinese brand OnePlus.

This trend has made it difficult for scrappier upstarts that depend on online ad sales to find their footing and develop sustainable business models.

There are still a lot of rough edges here that need tuned up if Honor expects to draw U.S. consumers away from what they're used to getting from Samsung, HTC, Google and scrappier upstarts like OnePlus.

According to a number of recent news reports, German media conglomerate Axel Springer is considering either dramatically increasing its stake in or acquiring all of Business Insider, the scrappy upstart news operation co-founded by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget.

Slack is no longer a scrappy upstart; it has more than six million active daily users, two million of whom pay for the privilege.

In a little over a decade, it had expanded from a scrappy upstart into a thriving outfit with dozens of employees, a database of 1,500 contractors and such industry giants as Lowe's, Home Depot and Canadian Tire as clients.

It's like the sale of any startup to a major corporation: The new parent company offers valuable marketing and distribution muscle, but the scrappy upstart runs the risk of losing its soul.

And after meeting with founders Taylor Ablitt and Dean Elkholy, Stewart discovered an opportunity to do something new to her: to shepherd a scrappy upstart through the process of becoming something potentially massive.

How should you think about the relationship between established, large businesses and scrappy upstarts like the one you're trying to build?

The inherent risk with such acquisitions is that the parent company swallows up the scrappy upstart into what food industry veteran Alan Murray calls «the machine» — a hidebound, groupthink corporate enterprise — rather than learning from its entrepreneurial culture.

His move from fine dining to scrappy upstart is emblematic of the direction many cooks are going today — ditching their pricey tasting menus and oh - so - serious kitchens for a chilled - out, affordable, and approachable style of dining.

The sharp rise of A24 reminds a lot of insiders of another scrappy upstart: Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Miramax, a bold disruptor with a penchant for edgy films like Pulp Fiction.

One fascinating slice of a day in the life of Kobo, May 21st 2010 showed them selling ebooks into over 150 countries, which is frankly amazing and shows you what a scrappy upstart can do.

Chase is the scrappy upstart, trying to challenge American Express when it comes to mileage rewards.

This scrappy upstart has migrated from its origins on the Lower East Side to the Nu Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn.

In that time, CMCA has grown from a scrappy upstart presenting shows in barns and backrooms to become the state's preeminent contemporary arts organization, hosting a slew of internationally - known artists along the way.

Pei wants you to believe that OnePlus has learned a thing or two over the past few years, that it's a more mature company and not just a scrappy upstart.