Sentences with phrase «started as a group»

What started as a group of women just linking up and sharing outfits has blossomed into lifelong friendships.

It started as a group of pilots with an idea.

They started as a group of volunteers.

It started as a group of pilots with an idea.

He also has provided support for several community albums based on video games, and is a member of the Materia Collective, an independent record label that started as a group of musicians who originally paid tribute to the music of Final Fantasy.

It started as a group of people - de Kooning, Kaldis, Milton Resnick, and maybe a couple of others - who would meet in Washington Square at night after work and then go to Stuart's Cafeteria on Sixth Avenue near Eighth Street.

Prior to her current role, Dr Inderst had a successful 17 year spell at SwissRe, the world's second largest reinsurer, starting as a group compliance director in charge of legal and compliance advisory work for EMEA including competition law, data protection and privacy law, bribery and corruption.

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Nashville, TN About Blog Crushing Iron started as a group of 5 guys training together for Ironman Wisconsin.

It started as a group of pilots with an idea.

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As the founder of The Eurich Group, she helps companies from start - ups to the Fortune 100 succeed by improving their leaders» and teams» effectiveness.

Plotkin says he started the group as an alternative type of networking event for start - up folks.

Meituan started out as a group - buying site, but it has quickly become the world's largest online and on - demand delivery platform.

Inside our down bags, we were snug and warm, but the group's mood was a bit dour as we started to accept that the weather was unlikely to improve for our planned 4 a.m. start up the glacier.

We spoke with Naeem Zafar, who teaches entrepreneurship at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as CEO of startup Bitzer Mobile, to walk us through the steps you should take to assemble a group that will start you on the road to profitability.

In fact, the researchers found that for certain groups of people — such as those who started out with a certain minimum amount of vitamin D already in their blood — adding more vitamin D was actually tied with a slightly greater risk of hip fractures.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

Companies in Ireland pay low corporate taxes — 12.5 percent — which is part of the reason the World Bank Group recently ranked the country as the No. 13 best place to start a business in the world.

Jay, the eldest of the group, said that he had just come along as «the driver,» but that he was starting to come around to Paul's message.

Saildrone started as a nonprofit endeavor with the Schmidts» philanthropic foundation, but in August 2015, Jenkins decided to turn it into a for - profit venture and raised $ 14 million from venture capital firms Social Capital, Lux Capital, and Capricorn Investment Group.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

To help identify the most promising industries for start - ups, a team of Inc. reporters hit the phones and scoured the data — from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and from private research groups such as Sageworks, IBISWorld, and AnythingResearch.com.

Cramer first heard about suitability when he started working at Goldman Sachs as a summer intern for the group helping small businesses and individuals.

As for the credit card market, Toronto - based Islamic financial institution UM Financial Group will start shipping its iFreedom Mastercard by Aug. 15.

Young adults today, as a group, have it tougher than previous generations did when starting out.

When Microsoft (msft)-- number two in the public cloud market after Amazon — joined the group the following month, some wags started referring to the CNCF as the «Everyone - But - Amazon (amzn) Cloud Foundation.»

But it will likely be a different story next decade when this age group starts shrinking, as occurred in the 1990s when the baby boomers approached middle age.»

Having started out as a single shop in Tokyo with the provocative moniker The Thieves Market in 1978, the group has expanded to about 300 stores nationwide.

Average growth rates tell a more dramatic tale; here the best - financed companies at start - up pulled far ahead, expanding sales by 2,074 % in five years, nearly 60 % faster than the «less than $ 1,000» set and 82 % faster than the «$ 20,000 or less» group as a whole.

WowWee Group Started by Canadian brothers Richard and Peter Yanofsky, the Hong Kong - based company originally manufactured toys such as Power Rangers.

Polling is «an interesting laboratory for testing out methodologies,» he says, such as who tends to respond to telephone versus online surveys, or different demographic groups» values, which are starting to be recognized as an important factor in consumer decisions.

What started out as crude internet forums have led to more sophisticated interest groups sharing content around common interests, such as food reviews on Yelp or book reviews on Amazon or sharing pictures on Pinterest.

New decisions start off in small, relatively specialized groups that spring up informally within the community as needed.

The modern Super Bowl halftime show as we know it started in 1991 with New Kids on the Block (previous shows featured a theme with marching bands and various performance groups), and it's stayed relatively consistent since: A pop star (or stars) takes over the field with props, backup dancers, probably pyrotechnics, and possibly even a live band, and goes through a rundown of their hits in a handful of minutes.

«Younger consumers are more likely to watch shows on mobile devices but life milestones such as the purchase of a home or starting a family will increase adoption of TV sets for this age group,» says Barbara Kraus, another director of research at Parks Associates.

Led by Geiser, Meta Watch started in 2004 as the Watch Technology Division within the Fossil Group, Inc..

Though the group started as an online community, each attendee spent our own money and time away from family to learn from and share with each other, in person.

Then, when Target and Nordstrom's earnings kicked into high gear and both companies raised their holiday sales forecasts, Cramer started to suspect a genuine turn in the group as a whole.

BIBA, as Milchen's group is known, started in 1998, which makes it the oldest known alliance promoting local independent businesses across the spectrum.

As executive chairman of JMC Steel Group, Barry Zekelman transformed what was a small company started by his father into North America's largest independent pipe and tube manufacturer.

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- The two men running WPP following the shock exit of Martin Sorrell said they would look at restructuring the group and may sell parts of it as better than expected results provided a positive start to life without the company founder.

Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

Even though we had a great start, if you don't have the muscle of being a big magazine group, people just take as long as they feel like to pay you.

Police officers start letting people, in groups, into sectioned - off areas known as «party pens» just before the New Year's Eve bash begins at 6 p.m. (though many people wait around hours before then to get a good view of the ball drop).

Immigrants to the U.S. are nearly twice as likely to start businesses than native - born Americans, the group found, and more than half of privately held American companies worth $ 1 billion or more (so - called unicorns) had at least one immigrant cofounder.

When I started Firebrand Group, I turned to coworking spaces as a viable, future - oriented way to start our digital consulting agency.

However, Zoomer would be aimed at a slightly younger boys group — starting as young as 4 — and targeted at girls 5 to 8.

The goal of TRX is to find like minded individuals who don't have the time, the credit, or the start up costs that are necessary in acquiring an income producing property on there own, but wishes to reap the benefits as part of a group who does.

Other companies started identifying this same need, and a new group of technical worker known as developer operations, or DevOps, emerged in the last decade or so.

CVS Health, which also recently signed an agreement with Anthem to help the insurer start its own internal pharmacy benefit manager, is looking to protect its business with Aetna as it fends off rivals like UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx and others.