Sentences with phrase «starting higher is»

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DAKAR, April 24 - Congo's state miner Gecamines is starting legal proceedings to dissolve its Kamoto copper and cobalt joint venture with a subsidiary of Glencore, blaming the commodities giant for high debts that have weighed on the mine for more than 10 years.

Sandberg says many women are hesitant to push themselves forward — to pursue higher positions with more work and more responsibility — because they anticipate starting a family (even if they don't yet have spouses) and don't want to doom the possibility of work - life balance.

The start - up's premiere product, the Thin Ice vest, uses cold therapy to target areas of the body with high concentrations of thermoreceptors, which are nerve cells that are able to detect the presence of hot or cold temperatures.

Since he often starts working with these clients on Fiverr, it's easier for him to close high - end deals.

«Maybe they are starting to realize their original $ 2 trillion valuation may be on the high side and so have decided to postpone,» Varga said.

Hourglass Cosmetics isn't exactly a household name, but the high - end brand is starting to make its mark as a reliable, high - quality standard in Sephora, Nordstrom, or Bergdorf Goodman stores.

Editor's note: People over 50 are among the country's most active entrepreneurs, starting businesses at rates higher than their young counterparts.

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

Even if Canada doesn't start dropping payloads of cash itself — something Cooper says he does not foresee in the next three years, at least — the ripple effect of a central bank explicitly targeting higher inflation and adopting formerly verboten measures to get it would be felt on these shores in the form of increased global volatility.

While it's natural to take a breath, reflect, and count your blessings during the holiday season, it's still possible to also end your year with a feeling of real accomplishment, so that you'll start 2018 on a high note rather than with a horrifically backlogged to - do list.

All of my current colleagues who have been around since I started have ascended to high - level positions within the company.

What could possibly be wrong with big customers (or high profile VCs) and why would any sensible start - up say no to one?

«Just in the last few days Ethereum has started to move, and I actually think it's going to put a new high soon,» Novogratz said in an interview on Bloomberg TV Tuesday.

Its earnings were adversely affected by start - up losses at the Sydney campus of Curtin University, managed and operated by IBT, and higher corporate costs.

McKeown suggests being frugal when starting up, as Fox was in starting his high - end rental company in a prime real estate location for less than $ 100,000.

That may be one of the reasons many veterans opt to start their own business; in fact, a higher percentage of veterans than nonveterans are self - employed.

He emphasizes the $ 100 - million fund is just a start — that amount is merely the price of entry to lead Series A rounds, after all — and naturally, he's aiming high.

«The machine can be used both as a home console and handheld device so the higher price is understandable to some extent, but there aren't really enough software titles to justify that start price,» he said.

Dunn concedes that the low conversion rates and high bounce rate are problematic but says that makes sense, given that the goal of the start - up's website has been to tell the Bonobos story.

To support growth, what's needed is earlier educational opportunities for young engineers, starting in junior high school, Goldstein says, as well as increases to the H1 - B visa caps, for qualified foreign workers.

Russia is not the only country sending high - powered delegations to the I.S.O. technical committee focusing on blockchain standards, which got its start last year.

Instead, we're very focused on the sacrifices,» Jennifer Allyn, managing director in the office of diversity for PricewaterhouseCoopers has said, chiding high - achieving women in particular to stop beating themselves up and start counting their blessings.

Crunch Franchise was founded in 2010, but despite its relative youth as a business and relatively high investment price tag, Crunch had already grown to 184 units by the start of 2017.

The move made plenty of sense, too: Since 2009, two - thirds of Benchmark's investments have been in start - ups within San Francisco, and the firm believes the number may only get higher.

Entrepreneurial interest is high: A 2014 Bentley University survey reports that nearly two - thirds of Millennials hope to start their own business at some point.

Although high - end purchasing surged again by 2010, giving the retail side an operating profit of about $ 14 million for the year ending Jan. 31, 2011 (compared with a loss of $ 15.7 million the year before), Gannicott started to reconsider whether the retail game was worth it.

As gifts, gadgets and gizmos are going to be in high demand in the run up to Christmas, the few months before that fateful day represent an ideal time to start an ecommerce business.

At the start of a new year, that first look at annual goals can be intimidating for some employees — especially if the bar has been set high.

When he started his business, which sells high - end homes and properties, he was advised to form it as an LLC, which he did.

At the start of the new gourmet food - truck craze, Los Angeles was clearly the place to find such high - end dining.

Last month, conservative news outlet Daily Caller published a story with a headline that read, «It's High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He's In the White House.»

Your 40s: Catching Up By your 40s, you may find you're finally starting to get some financial traction, as your salary is likely higher, and your mortgage and family are not as financially demanding as they once were.

For me, one of the most important, and surprising, discoveries over the last few years has been that choosing the best approach to balancing business and social concerns starts with a decision to make shareholder interests the higher priority.

«There's evidence that there's just a presumption that [U.S. Immigration] is going to give higher scrutiny to start - ups,» he says.

For one, the high - end smartphone market is starting to get saturated.

The country also boasts the highest government backing per capita for start - ups, though that tends to be skewed in favor of Korean nationals.

They found that candidates with additional education or specialized training are generally favoured by Canadian companies, and that often translates to higher starting salaries than their less - decorated peers.

January's preliminary figure is down from $ 702.7 billion at the end of September, but up from $ 632.4 billion at the end of March, when the start of a bull market began sending stock prices higher.

What's ironic is that while YouTube started purely as a repository for user - generated content, the company has recognized that it needs higher quality videos to draw the kinds of advertisers it wants — which sounds a lot like television's model.

The service and its comparably high prices - starting about $ 10,000 a year, according to many reports - are the reasons it did not place among our best services.

Even though tax increases can be phased in, they'll still need to start at a high plateau because we've waited so long, and they'll rise from there.

«I really want to give back now and figure out how I can help other teenagers start changing the world now, while they're still in their high school classrooms.»

open rate high, I'm going to start running this section on Fridays.

She was 23 and had just started her first year as a high school English teacher.

Hoffman and other high - ranking officials took turns filling the void, but he says it was «only so long before clients started to feel there was no one giving them full - time attention.»

Low costs and high - volume purchasing is a little tricky especially for a start - up.

It's only when this sort of low - tech approach is combined with modern high - tech preventative and medical technologies that our pets will really start to see improvements in their longevity, Thurston says.

Following comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday, markets have started to price in a higher interest rate path in the U.S., which is set to ultimately impact firms» costs.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

That's something that Gerdes learned well during her years doing marketing for various high - tech start - ups, including WordPerfect Corp., PI Systems, and Documentum Inc..