Sentences with phrase «taking public found»

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Murad Al - Katib founded the company in his Regina basement in 2001, and took it public (TSX: AGT) in 2007.

Founded by iconic TV presenter Dick Clark, host of the «American Bandstand» pop music TV show from 1957 to 1987, the eponymous firm went public in 1986 before being taken private 16 years later.

«So I took all the public data I could find and wrote a program that automatically spit out the kind of companies that excited me.»

And given the relative dearth in exits, the city does lack the kind of alumni network that can be found in the U.S. and the U.K. Analysts argue that Berlin needs more entrepreneurs to either take their startups public or sell them for a hefty sum, so that those players can reinvest in German startups.

He left Microsoft in 1996 and founded InfoSpace, an online email and phone directory company that he took public.

• TPG founding partner David Bonderman has scrapped plans to take the private equity firm public, according to the New York Post.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

There was one part of the movie I found particularly interesting: the firm took Steve Madden Ltd (NASDAQ: SHOO) public.

Born in Denmark, he spent time at Unilever and Novartis — not two companies associated with the high - tech boom — before founding SuccessFactors in 2001 and taking it public in 2007.

Founded in 2007, Magor has developed a collaborative telecommunications technology and Wesley Clover took the company public on TSXV last year in a qualifying transaction valued at $ 5.9 million.

Neither did Uber primarily target nonconsumers — people who found the existing alternatives so expensive or inconvenient that they took public transit or drove themselves instead: Uber was launched in San Francisco (a well - served taxi market), and Uber's customers were generally people already in the habit of hiring rides.

He made most of his money from phone company Excel Communications, which he founded in 1988 and took public in 1996.

And I realized years ago that I didn't want to be the CEO when the company went public... I realized I wasn't passionate about being the CEO who will take this company public and that I should find someone who will be passionate about it,» Libin told Recode.

Founded in 1980 by Stephen Gordon, who left the company in 2005, Restoration was a public company until Catterton took it private.

After he moved to Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital asked him to work out where in the city the most cardiac arrests take place, to find the most efficient places to locate public defibrillators.

These routes are taken by commercial planes flying from Southeast Asia to the Middle East or Europe and can be found in public documents issued by regional aviation authorities.

It won't be that difficult to find a solid executive to take Uber public, clean up its human resources troubles and get the company back on solid legal footing, Tusk said.

In October 2010, Zuckerberg took a bunch of Facebook staffers to a public theater to see «The Social Network,» the movie about the founding of Facebook.

Playboy, which had gone public in 1971, was taken private again in 2011 by Mr. Hefner with Rizvi Traverse Management, an investment firm founded by Suhail Rizvi, a publicity - shy Silicon Valley investor, who has interests in Twitter, Square and Snapchat among others.

But why not take the time to look through sites like Quora, Yahoo Answers, public Facebook Groups in your industry, or industry - specific forums to find the questions people are asking and the language they're using?

The idea for KettleSpace came about following a remarkably commonplace scenario: finding somewhere quiet to take a call in a public place.

HOOPP was an initial private equity investor at Teranet's founding, remained the largest shareholder when the company was taken public on the TSX, and eventually sold its stake into a $ 2.0 billion take - over bid in 2008; and Ducati Motorcycle Company, initially an NYSE / Milan listed Italian sport motorcycle manufacturer, which was the subject of a deleveraging capital increase, taken private and eventually sold to Volkswagen / Audi Group in 2012 for US$ 1.1 billion.

HOOPP was an initial private equity investor at Teranet's founding, remained the largest shareholder when the company was taken public on the TSX, and eventually sold its stake into a $ 2.0 billion take - over bid in 2008; Ducati Motorcycle Company, initially an NYSE / Milan listed Italian sport motorcycle manufacturer, which was the subject of a deleveraging capital increase, taken private and eventually sold to Volkswagen / Audi Group in 2012 for US$ 1.1 billion; and Novadaq Technologies Inc., a medical devices company in which HOOPP was the largest private investor, with such company completing an initial public offering on the TSX in 2005 and which continues today with a market capitalization in excess of $ 730 million.

He took over in January for Paul Palmieri, who founded and led Millennial from its days as a startup in 2006 to its debut as a public company in 2012.

Property rights and government takings have evolved with both real costs and benefits, e.g. Kelo allowing economic development as a legitimate «public use» v. the various cases finding in favor of property owners in the context of local government mandated dedications and exactions.

Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

If God is not much concerned about religion as a separate sphere of private or public life and if he is present where the needy cry out for help, then as Christians we can not fail to take most seriously the analysis of the concrete social situation in which we find ourselves.

Roger Harding, head of public attitudes at the National Centre for Social Research who produced a report into the findings, was quoted by The Times as saying: «It suggests people are taking their moral views from elsewhere.»

Christian Aid has taken a stand after a new ComRes poll found that 80 per cent of public agree it is morally wrong for banks to profit from investments that pollute the environment, while 77 per cent believe banks should be stopped from doing so.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

In the last half - century and more, we have found that to take an industry into public ownership in no way democratizes it — quite the contrary.

maybe special areas for those wearing turbans be arranged to keep away the humiliation one might find taking his turban or other head gear off in public.

The secular public has for the most part deplored these circumstances, looked for a scapegoat to take the blame, and found it in those in political or economic power.

Neither the public nor the government takes seriously the findings of several national commissions which have deplored this neglect of the younger generation.

If we now find ourselves obliged to raise precisely this question once again and to think it over afresh, we must first of all make it clear that we are here taking the concept of good in its widest sense, that is to say, simply as the contrary of vicious, lawless and scandalous, as the opposite of public transgression of the moral law, as good in contrast to the publican and harlot.

Having been founded on the distinction between knowledge and belief, fact and value, object and subject; public and private, Western culture is unable to take Christianity seriously.

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

It took five weeks longer than I originally expected, but Tebow - Mania is officially in effect and, whenever public money consistently bets one way, we'll be looking to «sell their high» and find contrarian value on the other side.

If Arsenal do make a good start to the campaign though, as we all expect them to, then there is going to be an absolute dead cert, although whether you can find a bookie to take your bet is another matter, and that is for Wenger and Jose Mourinho to have a public spat with each other.

NFL bettors who take advantage of sportsbook shading should be able to find even more value employing this strategy at public books as they typically shade even further off the market consensus.

It's incredibly rare to find the majority of bettors taking the underdog, and this level of one - sided public betting is unprecedented.

My research found that the majority of public bettors (more than 50 % of spread tickets) have taken the underdog in 16.1 % of regular season games, while the majority of public bettors have taken the underdog in 19.2 % of bowl games.

However, 60 % of early bets are actually taking the Redskins at home, which we found surprising since Green Bay is usually a public darling.

It's still early, but find out which side public bettors are taking in Super Bowl 51 and which props may be offering value.

With a large handle being driven primarly by public bettors, sharps have found multiple opportunites to take advantage of recreational action by buying back the opposite sides of those matchups.

I had always thought we would homeschool, but both years we took the time to visit schools (public and private and public «magnet» schools, etc.)... we found only one school that I could feel comfortable about.

«People are welcomed and encouraged to take public transportation if they find they don't want to pay parking fees,» said Jessica Maxey - Faulkner, Park District spokeswoman.

Her marketing and communications career has taken her into various public Montessori schools, where she helps them find new ways to educate other parents and their communities about the benefits of Montessori education.

Once you start «home» educating, you will find that you can work on just what you want, when you want, that it isn't expensive, that the children don't get lonely, that public exams can still be taken, and that it is possible to educate children with special needs.

Continuing Medical Education (CMEs) units will be provided to physicians who take the course as well as a «Recognition Database» that is searchable to the public in order to find a local physician trained in the most up - to - date training in the evaluation and management concussions.