Sentences with phrase «small upstart»

What if a small upstart company comes out with the best eBook reader device on the planet, built around open standards, so you are not tied to buying content from their store?

This is an example of the major publishers continuing to shoot themselves in the feet; — at once alienating wonderful new eBook sales operations and readers, while at the same time creating a terrific opening for their new, small upstart competitors.

It shouldn't take a Wall Street analyst to figure out that an automaker spending part of its hefty profits from pickup trucks and SUVs to develop battery electric vehicles with range and recharge times that will attract mainstream buyers has a much better future than a small upstart automaker with enviable advanced technology, but no way to pay for its development other than by raising more capital.

In a business where you have these big behemoth brands, small upstart brands can sometimes get short shrift.

Adidas was underperforming top rival Nike (nke) in the key U.S. sportswear market and even found itself confronting headlines that it was trailing Under Armour (ua), a far smaller upstart brand.

This tactic has been recommended by previous blue ribbon panels, but is opposed by the CRTC and big industry players, since it gives small upstarts a chance to get easy financing and shake up the wireless sector, where three companies control about 95 per cent of the market.

Small upstarts such as these have room to grow.

How will it feel to have a smaller upstart taking its spotlight away?

Not exact matches

Social media can level the playing field between industry leaders and upstarts, between multinational corporation executives and small - business owners, making peers of all participants.

OneJet isn't the only upstart that wants to scoop up well - heeled passengers in smaller airports.

Killing the «honour all cards» rule would create endless aggravation at the cash register and stifle competition too (smaller, upstart banks like Capital One have become major players in Canada in part because no matter the bank's size or reach, customers can rest assured that stores are still guaranteed to accept their cards).

Six years as a small, closely held, well - funded upstart haven't helped Square solve this problem.

The poor showing is tied to the cumbersome and expensive application process, which is particularly burdensome for small enterprises and upstarts.

Or are they going to lose share to smaller, more authentic upstarts that are better at connecting?

Platforms like Upstart and Pave allow entrepreneurs to crowdfund from accredited investors in exchange for a small cut of their future incomes.

In recent years Campbell and its Big Food brethren have gobbled up smaller natural food upstarts to respond to consumers who are eschewing processed fare.

Viva Aerobus, the smallest of the upstarts, is backed by Mexican bus company IAMSA and Irelandia Aviation, the investing arm of the Ryan family of Europe's Ryanair.

Donna Fenn is a journalist and the author of two books: Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack; and Upstarts: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business.

Mainstream media coverage: The research report was launched on May 14th, 2013 and received coverage in over 20 media outlets, including BusinessWeek, Forbes, Inc., Miami Herald, Yahoo! Finance, Christian Science Monitor, CNBC.com, Business Insider, Young Entrepreneur, Vator News, GigaOm, LA Times, Recruiter.com, CBS MoneyWatch, The Baltimore Sun, Small Business Trends and Upstart Business Journal.

The $ 840 billion consumer loan business is facing a shake - up as online upstarts like Lending Club, Prosper and even PayPal have begun offering small loans.

Heavy demand during the SXSW conference proved more than the small ride - hail upstarts in Austin, Texas — where the giants, Uber and Lyft, don't operate — could handle.

The flurry of deals for smaller food makers with more clean - label appeal shows bigger snack makers are ready to pay for innovative upstarts.

This allows you (and other small like - minded upstart companies) to collectively compete against much larger brands, despite having much lower advertising or distribution resources.

The names in this battle range from giant tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and Alphabet, to upstart competitors focusing on small niches within the home.

And smaller brands like Boll & Branch — data - driven upstarts aspiring to be the Warby Parkers and Dollar Shave Clubs of their respective categories — aren't typically coveted by giant ad agencies.

But if you want a smaller loan, such as $ 1,500, Upstart or Avant would be better bets, with minimum personal loan balances set at $ 2,000.

What also happened on the slippery slopes of France last week was a small epidemic of upsets by upstarts.

and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller clubs with very little expectations and less pressure and I can name loads of very very talented players who just don't have the big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure of delivering week in week out or be out of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him

Getting to a major conference and back is expensive — especially for someone with a small business still in «upstart» mode.

First, because it would be embarrassing for an anti-autonomy government if even a small number of non-residents of the upstart region supported the claim.

How is a upstart ultra minority party going to build support when the simple act of making a choice on a candidate is going to upset half of its already small base?

Now, upstart commercial companies like World View are launching smaller balloons that can remain in place by surfing stratospheric winds.

In the world of particle accelerators, laser wakefield devices are the small, but mighty upstarts.

Young Upstarts is an exciting opportunity that supports young people aged 16 - 24 to set up their own small businesses.

Even if these networks are joined by other wildly successful upstarts, only a small fraction of students in failing schools will benefit.

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And partly it's because of the fragmentation of America's primary - secondary education system itself — 14,000 school districts, fifty different sets of state standards and tests — that makes disrupting this industry, indeed even entering this market, such a challenge for small publishing upstarts.

But the upstart brand defied odds by combining a laser - focused design direction with a quirky marketing campaign featuring hamsters driving the flagship Soul small CUV introduced in 2009.

Then there was Kobo, an upstart spun out of a Canadian bookseller (Indigo), with the backing of a lot of smaller bookstores in the US, like the now defunct Borders.

Mike Lazaridis still thinks of his company as an upstart, a small Canadian firm taking on the established players.

The added exposure to small and mid-cap stocks and a lower fee (0.15 %) makes the upstart VUS preferable to the iShares S&P 500 (XSP), which has $ 1.56 billion in assets.

Young Upstarts is an exciting opportunity that supports young people aged 16 - 24 to set up their own small businesses.

Young Upstarts is an exciting opportunity that supports young people aged 16 - 24 to set up their own small businesses.

Stu Rose spent 12 years working at a small, unknown upstart called Blizzard Entertainment, making art and stuff for equally small and unknown games like WarCraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and World of WarCraft.

Legends of Pegasus is Kalypso's entry into the 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) space simulation genre, courtesy of upstart developer Novacore Studios, and the PC release spotlights a small fleet of warships that finds itself sucked into an unknown alien galaxy in the year 2231.

Having landed a gig at a small enthusiast site it wasn't long before he was recruited by Gamer Horizon to help the upstart become a full - time gig.

Where should we expect to find upstarts and not - yet - established talents on display, especially in a city as small as New Orleans?

The upstart view of one generation became the inviolable creed of the next... It would be unrealistic to believe that dogmatism in science ended... flagrant examples as the Nazi doctrine [eugenics] of Aryan racial supremacy and the Communist credo of dialectic materialism... less publicized instances... are known in every discipline in small or large degree.

While these firms are small now, they are chipping away at large firm work by being savvy enough to see the delivery of legal services in a new light, unencumbered by, as one upstart called them, «the barnacles of large law firm practices.»

Aren't all these upstarts too small and green to handle this type of work?