Sentences with phrase «start buying a company»

Before you start buying a company's stock, you have to have a platform on which you can do so.

Not exact matches

Cramer said Newell's situation started going south when the company spent $ 15 billion buying Jarden, the company behind an assortment of brands including Mr. Coffee and Yankee Candle.

He's started producing original scripted comedies, and it's no coincidence that most of the companies buying them haven't traditionally produced or aired comedy, so don't view him as a threat — at least not at the moment.

The company accuses him of downloading 14,000 confidential files before quitting and starting Otto, the self - driving truck company bought by Travis Kalanick's Uber last year.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

Investors in highly valued start - ups have been concerned about the willingness of public market investors buy into those companies at or above those high valuations, said Smith, also an IPO exchange - traded fund manager.

«Many of the companies we back start out as little features,» says Roloef Botha, a partner with Sequoia Capital who led the company's investment in YouTube, which Google bought for $ 1.65 billion last year.

Moreover, a handful of acquisition - happy tech companies have shown a willingness to add services by buying tiny, money - losing start - ups for tens of millions of dollars.

Shortly after buying Odeo, Williams wrote a blog post that announced his intentions to sell the podcasting part of the company — a New York start - up paid a reported $ 1 million for the service — and focus on Twitter.

Then, the company you bought from starts emailing you every day.

«Even people buying the stock at this price think this is a great opportunity,» says Heather Beach, Siebel's director of sales operations, who started out as the company's office manager and loaded up on options largely in lieu of salary in the company's early days.

He also started buying furniture companies right before the housing boom.

CEO Shah and his Cornell classmate Steve Conine started out with racksandstands.com in 2002 and quickly expanded, buying dozens of niche domain names and launching many from scratch—simplydogbeds.com, justshagrugs.com, dinnerplates.com — and in 2011 changing the company name from CSN Stores to Wayfair (700 employees went on a Boston bar crawl in Wayfair T - shirts to help market the new name).

Its attempt to buy U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International was blocked at the start of this year by U.S. officials on national security grounds, a blow to Jack Ma who had promised President Donald Trump that he would create 1 million U.S. jobs.

Now, Oculus wants to give people a chance to experience the VR headset in person at 48 Best Buy locations across the United States starting May 7, the company said in a blog post.

It's also almost a sure bet that the company will start buying back even more of its shares.

RadioShack started looking for other opportunities to throw itself into, but rather than focus on improving itself with the offerings it already had, the company tried out new concepts with new stores to address customers» needs: Computer City to sell computers, Famous Brand Electronics for refurbished electronics, McDuff and Video Concepts for audio and video, Energy Express to sell batteries, and Incredible Universe, which showed a strong resemblance to Best Buy.

Companies have started hiring data scientists and building or buying software that predicts who will leave and who will make the best senior vice president.

That's the company's sales strategy, Taylor says — start with a small team, get them excited enough to evangelize the product internally, and watch other departments buy in.

But, as I mused a while back, what's to stop the company from buying a smaller Internet provider such as Teksavvy and using that as a base upon which to start building triple - play services?

The question actually spans two categories: The first addresses an entrepreneur who wants to buy an existing company and manage it rather than launch a start - up company.

Having recently sold his second start - up, Mohsenin was scanning the landscape for a new business venture and playing with one of the toys he bought with the spoils of his company's sale — a new digital camera.

People stick their money under the mattress, they don't put it to work,» says Leo Piccioli, who used to work at Officenet, a stationery and supplies start - up bought in 2004 by Staples, the US office supply chain store, and is now that company's Argentina country manager.

As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 28 - year - old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room.

It used to be that startups had to buy a server or get server time somehow, but now you get it off the cloud, and if you have an idea in the morning, you can start a company in the afternoon.

BlackRock is raising around $ 10 billion to start a new venture that buys and holds stakes in companies, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Samsung moved to play catch up in October by buying Viv Labs, a company started by Siri co-creators Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer.

Everything: Live in a commune, create a magazine, buy a nightclub, breed budgerigars, build a recording studio, start a business, crash that business, build a train company, launch a space - tourism company, start a racing team, create a cosmetics line, travel around the world in a hot air balloon and live on a private island.

Those companies that had already made plans to buy new tankers — rather than wait for regulations — are starting to look prescient.

It's also been buying up startups and big companies alike to jump start demand for its Watson cognitive computing business.

The dispute between the two companies broke out after Apple started using modem chips from Intel (intc) in about half of new iPhones last year, instead of buying all its chips from Qualcomm.

First came news of the drones, and now, there's a real possibility that the retail company may start shipping your purchases before you click «buy.»

He started with a single Boston Pizza franchise in 1968 and bought the entire company 15 years later, alongside George Melville.

E-mail management company Return Path, a 2006 and 2007 Inc. 500 honoree, has bought start - up OtherInbox, which also focuses on e-mail delivery.

Olympus Corp ended up 6.6 percent to 1,985 yen, reaching the 2,000 - line at one point for the first time since October 2011, after UBS Securities started its coverage with a «buy» rating and a target price of 3,000 yen as the company on Monday submitted to the Tokyo Stock Exchange a written affirmation on the internal control system as stipulated in the securities listing regulations.

So he started buying directly from schools and booksellers, and today the company processes more than four million pounds of books a year — sorting through 50,000 books in a busy week.

IMDB In anticipation of breaking into online video, Amazon bought the film and TV database company, started as a pet project eight years earlier by a U.K. - based cinephile computer programmer who continued running the company under Bezos.

Cable companies Comcast (cmcsa) and Charter Communications (chtr) that are starting to offer wireless service themselves wouldn't draw much antitrust scrutiny if they bought Sprint, but now «appear less interested in outright ownership,» Niknam added.

Mobipocket Two years before launching its first hardware device — the Kindle — Amazon started making investments in the e-reader's underlying technology, which included buying this Paris - based software company that developed an e-file format for physical books.

Nintendo's alarming 70 % and 25 % reductions of its full - year forecast of Wii U and 3DS sales, respectively, have sparked endless debates about the future of the company — should it abandon hardware altogether, start making mobile games, or buy its former rival Sega?

Over time, open source software, the rise of the next wave of web startups, and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software — they could start a company on their credit cards.

I'm deeply proud of what we've managed to accomplish over the years, starting almost 30 years ago when I bought a controlling interest in the company.

The government of United Arab Emirates (UAE) started buying the taxis the day after Tesla announced that the company's vehicles would be available in Middle Eastern markets as well.

Ken Courtright has built his company on buying under - monetizied websites that have eye - popping returns from the start.

The country's newest tech unicorn Canva has made its first acquisition, buying Sydney - based interactive presentation software company Zeetings, in a move that sees the start - up expand into presentation designs.

When I first started investing, I'd buy about $ 1,000 of each company.

At age 25, he started construction company Inmobiliaria Carso, and he invested during the Mexican debt crisis of the 1980s, buying interests in tobacco, copper and mining.

Uber raided Carnegie Mellon University for its best roboticists, spent $ 670 million to buy autonomous truck company Otto, and, last August, proudly started picking up Pittsburgh passengers in robot - driven cars.

But after the S.E.C.'s rule change, companies started using more of their profits to buy their own shares, in the process giving their shareholders a bigger piece of the company.

If you want your employees — including your salespeople, to know that engagement in the mission and vision of the company is valuable to you and your business, getting rid of the prima donna who feels he or she is above «buy in» could be the place to start.