Sentences with phrase «than building from»

«Retrofitting and making changes is way more expensive — two to three times or more, depending on the changes and particular geographic market — than building from scratch,» Egnatis says.

First and foremost there are loads of new ways to generate complete elements rather than building from scratch.

It's likely that editing will be more practical than building from scratch in many instances.

Annapurna Labs Ponying up $ 350 million for the computer - server chip maker marks Amazon's signature strategy: Acquire inexpensive, third - party technologies to power its hardware, such as the Kindle e-reader, rather than build them from the ground up.

Working closely with Selldorf Architects, a firm that has built its reputation around a series of thoughtful gallery transformations, SI decided to work within an existing structure rather than build from the ground - up.

Not exact matches

He's been a frequent Redditor, even in his years away from the company — in which he's been building the travel website Hipmunk with Huffman — and has even amassed over the years more Reddit link karma than Huffman.

Rather than launching new stores in carefully selected spots and building slowly, Target acquired 124 locations in 2013 in one fell swoop by buying all the outlets from a defunct discounter called Zellers.

Having helped build more than a hundred apps from categories ranging from social networking, utility, entertainment and lifestyle, I get asked a lot of questions by entrepreneurs and businesses on the entire process of building and marketing apps.

I got legally drunk from a CVS - brand homeopathic remedy... and then I was visibly drunk and saying more ridiculous things than usual on camera, because YouTube is built on people rambling like drunken idiots.

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

By recognizing that the marketplace is changing, Volk - Weiss, in response to that change, has built a 120 - person company that he says grew its revenue (from licensing, streaming, and production fees, product sales, and ad - revenue sharing) more than 100 percent annually over the past three years — and more than 200 percent over the past two.

He raised money from family, friends and the federal government and built a rudimentary reactor, no bigger than a kitchen range.

The people that start from scratch and build something new are very different people than the people who makes sure that an operation runs effectively and efficiently.

For entrepreneurs, building your sales force isn't easy, but it is easier than starting a company from scratch.

Esperanza's Budlong Apartments - a 12 - unit apartment building located less than two miles from the AllenCo drilling site - is one of the nearly 800 buildings in Los Angeles that qualify for SOMAH benefits.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

Retrofitting those for export purposes isn't exactly a piece of cake, but it's faster and cheaper than building new terminals from the ground up, as B.C. has to do.

Rather than building a sales force from scratch, Get Real Girl hired a sales executive and signed up 15 well - known independent - rep groups employing about 75 salespeople.

If you develop a new technology, says Dixon, rather than selling or licensing it to the existing companies in that industry, consider building «a complete, end - to - end product or service that bypasses» them — from design to distribution.

A recent report from Toronto's economic development committee showed 132 highrise buildings were under construction in September, far more than the 88 buildings in Mexico City, or the 86 in New York City.

Our expedition tents have summited more of the world's top peaks than any other brand, and every product we make is designed and built with technical precision from this foundation.

In a very large country, Canada Post has some built - in advantages for a foray into the parcel business: besides a national delivery network that reaches or almost reaches every home in Canada, the corporation's retail outlets offer a far more user - friendly way of collecting a missed parcel than what's on offer from logistics giants like UPS.

Enter graphene, the semi-conducting material that's 100 times stronger than steel — researchers from MIT have built a chip out of the material that may solve the problem.

In a world with a population surpassing 7.5 billion people, with approximately 200,000 people moving into the world's cities every day, building remote teams that work from anywhere is more important than ever in order to sidestep the pollution of dysfunctional daily travel that has spun out of control in virtually every city across America.

Toyota said it would shift production of Corollas from Canada to the new venture rather than in Guanajuato, and would build Tacoma pickups in Mexico instead.

She favors something called zero - based budgeting, where essentially the annual budget would be built from zero every year, with all line items requiring validation, rather than starting with the funding they received the prior year.

Li Ka - shing, a wartime refugee who used to sweep factory floors in Hong Kong for a living, retired after a career spanning more than half a century amassing one of Asia's biggest fortunes from building skyscrapers to selling soap bars.

With your EOIs posted on your website or blog, you will begin testing the waters, see who is still available in the labour pool and begin to build your pipeline of talent so that when that big order comes in sooner than planned, you already have a talent pool to draw from.

This group knows better than anyone else how hard it is to build an electric car company, a solar company, and a rocket company from scratch.

Now, as a big - fish investor on ABC's Shark Tank, John uses everything he's learned from more than two decades of business building to size up other companies as potential investment opportunities.

Residents were evacuated from the building in Balloch, on the banks of Scotland's Loch Lomond, as more than 45 firefighters attended the scene, Scottish news channel STV reported.

It was actually faster to take out a home - equity loan from her community bank, which she used to purchase an adjacent building to expand her business, than it was to go through the extended process of getting a commercial loan.

Within days, a team of designers was in the XJ offices, mapping out the next generation in customer - relationship management software with a clear mandate: «Take the best of what we've done in this space over the past 20 years,» says Tatham, «and starting from scratch, build better than ever before.»

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

From the moment she left Google, Mayer seemed more concerned with building her own brand image than working on Yahoo's problems.

IBM's decision to build out public and private clouds for infrastructure and application development won plaudits, but the researchers found that SoftLayer, which IBM (IBM) bought for $ 2 billion two years ago, has little to distinguish itself from competitors other than its mix of virtualized and non-virtualized bare - metal capabilities and broad geographic coverage.

The average Underarmour.com order coming via a Connected Fitness app is 26 percent higher than those from other external sources, the company says, so one big priority is to build e-commerce into the apps.

Crews got the more than 200 patients from the threatened buildings, one firefighter said, as flames closed within a few dozen feet.

Building guidable arms turns out to be a lot harder than it sounds, requiring the design of a «zero - gravity» system that allows Baxter's arm to move freely when being pushed around but prevents the arm from flopping under the pull of gravity.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

According to The New York Times, research shows that you're more likely to reach the top of an organization if you've had a variety of roles, from finance to marketing, rather than hunkered down and built expertise in just one department where you felt comfortable.

After seven years of stashing more than 70 percent of her income, she built a nest egg of $ 2.25 million, 40 percent of which came from investing and 60 percent from saving.

Diaspora, a tech company that wants to build a social network to rival Facebook got more than $ 200,000 in seed money from a Kickstarter campaign

It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners or potential customers, will not attract investors.

Engineers have banded together to create a supersonic car that's built to travel faster than a bullet from a handgun.

Thanks to establishing their market niche and building on it, the firm's export business has boomed in the past five years, jumping from $ 261,000 in 2007 to more than $ 4 million in 2012.

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.

Under Gupta's guidance, Mitacs has worked with 60 universities and more than 6,000 companies to solve real - world challenges — from building better tools to locate lung tumours to modelling the spread of forest fires.

Sea more: Stackpole and Lang, who lean more toward the maker culture than the scientific, used off - the - shelf parts and plastic scraps from the laser cutter at their local TechShop — a nationwide chain of membership - based workshops — to build prototypes.

But first, people who build and program all forms of AI need to ensure their wiring prevents robots from causing more harm than good.