Sentences with phrase «than an idea with»

After all, it's usually the Founder who took the company from nothing more than an idea with a few thousand dollars in cash to where it is today.

If we segment these ideas into distinct buckets, we can see that ideas with a higher than average word count return almost 10 % less than ideas with a below average word count.

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Along with Harris, the two pitched the idea of a standalone political news and commentary site to the Washington Post in 2006 but were ultimately disillusioned with the response, so they took the idea to Allbritton — and eventually hired more than a few senior reporters and editors away from both the Washington Post and other newspapers.

Pub restaurants tend to have less expensive menus than most other restaurants, so once you've savored ideas over lunch you can offer to buy your client a drink at the bar — but plying them with drink shouldn't be part of your sales pitch...

Rather than seeking others to develop their ideas, founders would provide their startups with big benefits if they could rely upon their own fundamental coding skills.

You need to listen to ideas and inputs from your clients because they have worked with their own customers longer than you and can make your efforts more efficient.

If you want a job, looking in a geographic area with unemployment rates lower than the national average is probably a good idea.

After all, chances are no one will be able to take your idea and run with it faster than you might.

They asked participants to create a six - second scary short — promising a chance for the winner to develop the idea with Roth — and received more than 15,000 submissions.

The idea of vacation is (unfortunately) antiquated when you are carrying around a phone with more power than the Apollo space mission had.

And succeed she has: In the 10 years since, Jahshan's idea has grown into a loose - leaf empire with annual sales of more than $ 20 million (and growing) and 9,000 salespeople peddling tea and accessories across North America — enough to earn her the No.

Rather than a bunch of unusable ideas, you'll walk away with real answers to address a real issue.

This is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.

The idea, when it was unveiled in 2010, was to create a fiber network capable of gigabit speeds, or at least 100 times faster than what's on offer anywhere in North America, at a reasonable cost with unlimited usage.

But at that point, the Fed chair Janet Yellen and the other members of the interest rate - setting committee seemed to side with the idea that Trump's policies would do more to help the economy than hurt it.

Now, according to sources familiar with the latest developments, the U.S. has offered to replace the 50 - per - cent requirement with another idea designed to encourage American manufacturing: a formula that credits car companies for paying more than $ 15 per hour.

According to a host of new studies outlined in a recent PsyBlog post and elsewhere, dreamers who come up with great ideas often also display some less than initially endearing qualities.

I'm sure there are a lot of more talented filmmakers than me, with really great ideas, who just haven't followed through.

An environmental activist with no business training and a resume that was little more than a string of odd jobs, he was drawn to the idea of running a business with a strong social mission.

But a Wharton - professor - turned - mortgage - consultant is now putting a more upbeat spin on that idea: If you play your cards right, your house could produce a bigger retirement income than a lot of other investment alternatives, with a federal guarantee behind it, to boot.

Even if you have all the conviction in the world, there are few things more nerve wracking than trying to convince people who can help you take your idea to great heights that they want to be in business with you.

SpaceX is looking to launch several small satellites into a lower orbit than Viasat in order to cut down on latency errors, with the idea being the closer a satellite is to Earth, the less likely there will be hiccups.

«The startups in the tech incubator Y Combinator, whose acceptance rate is less than 3 percent, change products and markets so frequently that the idea they applied with is often irrelevant to the final product,» said Paul Graham of Y Combinator.

John Mulkerrin of the London - based CIC Association says that with more than 7,500 CICs registered, the idea has been a success across the pond.

It's also still a good idea to follow best practices for establishing a new habit — like giving yourself a trigger and starting with small, winnable goals — rather than relying on hormones or scheduling to magically get you to your goal.

A classic example of this idea is that you'll have an easier time remembering a story about someone who bakes than a person with the last name Baker.

Matt Rosenzweig, 60, of Manhattan, said the moments that drew the most applause had to do with the idea of acting against censorship rather than animosity toward North Korea.

When two heads are better than one: In a startup, when you're trying to come up with a breakthrough, creative idea or marketable product, it helps to be able to bounce ideas off of someone equally vested in a positive outcome.

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

Overall, I think my age brings more to the table than not, and the idea that someone who isn't affiliated with a political party, didn't have the blessing of the establishment, and who doesn't have deep pockets was able to get elected into a substantial government office is pretty exciting.

Some pundits and companies have found the cost prohibitive for firms operating on a smaller scale than behemoth Google, but at least one tech company is willing to take the idea and run with it — big time.

Business - plan competitions can yield more than seed money for your bright idea — they can also connect you with mentors, collaborators and investors.

I worked with 75 much faster, younger, fresher minds than my own, who added 75 ideas for it.»

Entrepreneurs are often plagued with more ideas than time to deal with them in.

With the world of startups becoming more competitive than ever, it's important that a business leader be as proactive as possible in getting his great idea out there to avoid the competition sweeping in and capturing his intended customer base.

For those with far more ideas than capital, it creates a means by which they can be rewarded for their creativity without having to devote their lives to it.

You know the type: the person who consistently comes up with great insights and ideas and who can cut to the quick far faster than anyone else in the organization.

Intarcia has completed several late - stage clinical trials in which it uses the pump to deliver a glucose - controlling drug continuously for months — an idea, that if successful (and approved by the FDA) could significantly help patients with type 2 diabetes, fewer than half of whom maintain the recommended glycemic levels.

Also, teams with exceptional track records can often raise a round with little more than a seed of an idea.

Grow VC is more than crowdfunding — it's an ecosystem where entrepreneurs can connect with experts, funders, team members, new customers and partners to realize their ideas.

Negotiation gurus Roger Dawson and Chester Karrass, among others, not only support this idea but note that questions beginning with who, where, what, why, and how are better than yes - no queries.

We have no idea what's causing this gravity, though — we haven't directly detected the theorized particles that make up this mysterious material that doesn't seem to interact (other than gravitationally) with normal matter like light and the particles that we know and love, which is what makes it invisible, and therefore «dark» to most instruments normally used to understand our universe.

And so, in 1917, while working in the Friends» Ambulance Unit on the Western Front, Richardson decided to experiment with the idea of making a numerical forecast - one based on scientific laws rather than past trends.

For example, if a team is working on coming up with new product ideas, they could be given a variety of constraints to work with like «only items made from recycled materials» or «only things that weigh less than a pillow.»

Everyone wants to be more creative but sometimes coming up with good ideas is easier said than done.

Case in point: The concept of building a float to re-create the Ferris Bueller «Danke Schoen» scene (with Branson as Bueller) came from an ideation session trying to tie together Chicago - related and Virgin - appropriate themes; when the team presented the idea to Branson, he immediately agreed to participate, rather than micro-questioning and overworking the concept after it was presented to him.

With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.

«We've identified and connected with more than 1,000 very qualified tech professionals who are excited by the idea of investing their future here.

A seemingly good idea with flaws can cause the entire foundation to collapse, while a questionable idea with more merits than faults might be abandoned despite having a real shot at success.

But rather than going straight to investors, he built out the idea with his own money.