Sentences with phrase «sold to the public as»

The «right to die» has been sold to the public as a triumph for personal autonomy.

From no carb, to moderate carb, to high carb, and everything in between, just about every scenario has been marketed and sold to the public as the magic weight loss formula.

The «silver bullet» of standards and testing tied to «accountability» was sold to the public as the path to school improvement.

During my years of teaching I watched the entire understanding of what was traditional in our city's lowest - income schools get sold to the public as FAILING: in just a few short years it was impossible to find advocates who would argue that they were not.

The program for which these vehicles were conceived also produced the HMMWV, which was sold to the public as the H1, which eventually begat the Hummer brand.

While the facelifted 2010 model was never officially launched, a very small number were imported for «evaluation» purposes, and sold to the public as demos.

And if I'm that licensee (a publisher) and I haven't licensed the audio rights from the creator, only text rights, can I distribute my text product to an entity like Amazon to enjoy and sell to the public as a text / reading?

Diversification has been sold to the public as a sure way to avoid losing money.

The underlying question is not whether anomalies are consistent over large distances, but whether average temperatures are, because that is what is being sold to the public as the basis for public policy.

Projects sold to the public as planet - saving turn out to be vehicles for people with government connections to get their hands on taxpayer - funded loans and subsidies.

Electronic monitors, such as GPS ankle shackles, are sold to the public as a way to reduce prison populations and end mass incarceration.

The reason many of these recent issues exist is because CREA has tried to sell us to the public as being «all the same.»

Not exact matches

An initial public offering — or IPO as it's most commonly called — is the way for companies to go from private to public and sell stock shares in their firm.

Originally they'd wanted to sell their shares for a big profit after a few years to the unsuspecting public, but since the idea of bankruptcy had been floated, that options was off the table, as the shares had plunged.

As new financial details are revealed, Uber's shareholders must consider whether to sell shares at the current $ 32.97 - per - share price that SoftBank has offered, or wait for a potential public offering in 2019.

Today, as even super-hot startups forgo IPOs (at least for now), and some public behemoths turn private, the time has come to recognize the hugely significant contributions of those corporations that choose not to sell their stock to the public.

CNBC reported this week that Dell was considering selling itself to VMware in a so - called reverse merger as a way for Dell to be listed on the public markets without having to go through the formalities.

So if you are treating Nova Scotia brewers as if they are New Brunswick brewers then Nova Scotia brewers can sell their beer to me and I can retail it to the public,» Dunbar said.

But even with scarce public and private parking options in New York City, parking rental prices are not nearly as steep as one would expect given that $ 300,000 selling figure, according to Trulia's research.

The startup, which has $ 51 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Silver Lake Kraftwerk as well as Autodesk's Spark Investment Fund, now counts Ford as a customer in the company's early access program for its device, which isn't being sold to the general public as of yet.

The name and glossy logo serve as the public face of a labyrinthine network of companies that have sold a bewildering array of products online, from colon cleanses to credit reports.

While HP continues to operate its cloud IaaS offering (HP Public Cloud), it now only actively seeks to market and sell this offering as part of a hybrid solution.

As for the perceived barrier to selling clothes online because customers aren't able to try on the garments, the buying public appears to see none.

No bank will be buying shares from the company and then selling them to the public, as is typically done in an IPO, so there will be no initial «price.»

Chouinard never took Patagonia public, and his iconoclastic ways have spawned a kind of cult around him and his business — a company that tells its customers not to buy what it's selling and ends up more in demand as a result.

A 2012 Gallup poll found that only 5 percent of US adults identify as vegetarians (down from 6 percent in 1999 and 2001), so the ability to convince the public that vegan products can be as flavorful as meat ones is an important sell.

Online food takeaway firm Delivery Hero said it would sell up to 39 million shares in its initial public offering (IPO), raising around 927 million euros ($ 1.04 billion), as it seeks to fend off new competitors such as Uber and Amazon.

The range of exit strategies includes taking the company public through an initial public offering (IPO), selling the company to a strategic acquirer, or recapitalizing and selling the firm to the management team, also known as a management buyout.

That aspect of him bubbled into public view with Compuware, the Detroit - based business software maker that eventually sold to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $ 2.4 billion in 2014 as a result of Elliott's campaign.

Selling a bill of goods to investors, partners, federal regulators, the media, patients and the public is not business as usual.

Now, as the company prepares to go public Wednesday, some investors are wondering: If GoPro keeps selling millions of cameras, then what other publicly traded companies could get a lift?

The cost of entertainment goods and services that are available to the public for free as promotional items or sold to customers, such as on a cruise ship or a dinner theater, are fully deductible.

It usually starts like this (at least this is how it started for me when I earned my scar tissue): you own or work for a startup that sells a product or service and are looking to contract out some work instead of hiring inside staff because, well, you're strapped for cash — things such as fulfillment, public relations and web design are all common applicants.

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Tencent sold shares to the public in Hong Kong in 2004 and is now China's largest internet community, offering services including chat, group messaging, news portals, and entertainment as well as e-commerce.

Howard Bancorp Inc. raised $ 36 million in its public stock offering as investors bought more shares than the Ellicott - City based banking company had planned to sell.

Spotify, which wants to trade as SPOT on the New York Stock Exchange, is taking an unusual path to the U.S. public markets, with a direct listing that will let investors and employees sell shares without the company raising new capital or hiring a Wall Street bank or broker to underwrite the offering.

Multiple sources further claim Spotify is taking the unusual step of filing for direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange rather than for an initial public offering, which indicates that the company wants to start selling shares without first putting on a series of presentations to investors in what's commonly known as a roadshow.

Toward debtor countries American diplomats work through the World Bank and IMF to demand that debtors raise their interest rates and impose taxes and austerity programs to keep their wages low, sell off their public domain to pay their foreign debts, and deregulate their economy so as to enable foreign investors to privatize local electricity, telephone services and other infrastructure formerly provided at subsidized rates to help these economies grow.

They will we involved any time the mutual funds are sold as retail to the public...

And internationally, debt - ridden economies are subject to pressure from inter-governmental institutions such as the IMF and European Central Bank to impose fiscal austerity on their labor force, cut back public spending and even sell off public enterprises.

As a future famous inventor, you might be required to make public appearances, be in the limelight, or «forced» to do marketing and selling, instead of enjoying the creative part of inventing.

Committee Member: «Mr Zuckerberg, why is it that suddenly you found the need only months before some of these revelations first began became public to not only increase your stated goal of selling your shares, but as these revelations have increased in both size and scale, so too has your selling of your shares?

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ouPublic Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

The trend is also helping spur growth at other local online retailers such as Karmaloop.com, which sells urban streetware over the Web and is also considering a public stock offering move to Wall Street in its near future.

His cousins, the Rives, had struggled to sell a fraction of this vision to Wall Street during their latter years running SolarCity as a public company; Musk did it in 14 minutes.

Our principal stockholders, funds affiliated with or related to Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. (which we refer to in this prospectus collectively as «Cyrus Capital») and affiliates of Virgin Group Holdings Limited (which we refer to in this prospectus collectively as the «Virgin Group»), as selling stockholders, have granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to additional shares of common stock at the initial public offering price less the underwriting discount solely to cover overallotments.

As of now, nearly three years later, the Security and Exchange commission (SEC) isstill in the process of reviewing the most debatable (and a game - changing) provision of the JOBS Act — Title III, which when in effect in an unclear future, will enable businesses to sell up to $ 1 million in securities to the public in a one year period.

The company is ramping up for a novel «direct listing» — where it would sell its shares to the public without using Wall Street banks as a go - between later this year or early in 2018.

Certainly the public is legally able to sell their property without the aid of an agent, just as most people are able to change the oil in their cars without a service station.