Sentences with phrase «than firms like»

Also, Amazon would have greater price flexibility than firms like Motorola, since its primary motivation is to sell content and apps, not hardware — so it can sell a device cheaply and make up the difference with content sales.

Not exact matches

Interns at this nerdy Shangri - La earn more than $ 7,000 a month, according to a study by salary - tracking firm Glassdoor — and that's not counting perks like flexible schedules, on - site haircuts and a company retreat known as «HobbitCon.»

On the third floor of Fidelity Investments» Boston - based headquarters is a room that looks more like something you'd see at Apple or Google than at a 70 - year - old mutual fund firm.

I mean, as you see consultancies — like they say the big three accounting firms are now — bill less in accounting revenue than they do in consulting revenue, particularly in the marketing and advertising space.

Hulu wouldn't say how many channels would be included in the service, whether or not there'll be more than one subscription tier, exactly how much content will be in its on - demand library, how many hours of cloud DVR will be included, what the search function looks like, a firm release date, or a price point besides «under $ 40.»

But the reason they're expecting to do well this year has more to do with their marketing efforts, rather than the recovering economy or other factors like low oil prices, according to a small business holiday survey from Constant Contact, an online marketing firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

While the industry, regulators and lawmakers would like to increase the frequency of examinations, fewer than 1 in 10 firms will undergo a routine regulatory audit in any given year.

«The compliance bar for companies to go public is much higher than in previous years, so things like pending litigation and accounting irregularities need to be clean,» says David Zilberman, partner at venture capital firm Comcast Ventures.

The proposed repeal of the current Obama - era protections would be a big win for ISPs including Comcast and Verizon, but has been strongly opposed by tech firms like Google and Facebook — though those giants are less likely to be hurt than smaller content providers.

Despite Apple's huge user base — it has sold more than 1.2 billion iPhones — the number of requests to it had been relatively low compared with firms like Google or Microsoft.

Instead of focusing on moving the business forward, my time was spent elsewhere, trying to make the firm look like a bigger entity than it actually was.

This means covering stories of the moment such as the boom in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and the «initial coin offering» craze that has enabled firms to raise more than $ 1 billion in 2017 alone.

Women tended to be more reliant on owner equity and insider financing than men, all other parameters like education, experience, credit scores and firm characteristics being the same.

At $ 30 - $ 75 per month, which includes other benefits like syncing, sharing and cloud storage, this instantly makes such apps affordable for more than just professional designers employed by enterprise or big media and advertising firms.

If the mechanism as described on Friday becomes law, it would let Europeans complain to data protection authorities in their own countries about how the likes of Google and Facebook treat their data, rather than having to approach regulators in the country where those firms have their European headquarters.

And DB5 gains the potential brand appeal from an outsourced, automated system that helps it appear more like a corporate titan than a small business — key for a firm with big clients such as GE, AT&T and Girl Scouts of the USA.

More sophisticated technology is allowing firms like AllianceBernstein to become a price maker, rather than just a price taker.

A longtime investment banker with Morgan Stanley and ultimately the firm's CFO, Porat is the current steward of the unique culture that cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin established for their grad - school - like enterprise that now employs more than 78,000 globally.

In a quicksilver marketplace like this one, entrepreneurs more often than not need the assistance of a well - plugged - in investment banker, a corporate finance lawyer, or an accounting firm to help them track down one of the new breed of specialty investors who are definitely not listed in the yellow pages.

While we're not a startup, the environment makes it feel more like one than an old - world legacy tech firm.

To put that in perspective, that's about twice the average of the rest of the firms in its specialty retail group, and even greater than buzzworthy tech companies like Apple and Google that trade at about 14 and 16 times, respectively.

The promotion is just one of several companies are making on Equal Pay Day, as firms like Adidas (addyy), Reebok and Procter & Gamble (pg) push awareness campaigns about women earning 20 % less on the dollar than their male counterparts.

There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.

(If the limited partners of these VC's acted like real fiduciaries rather than waiting for the end of life of the fund, more than half of old - line venture firms would have shut themselves down today.)

Since it was founded in 1995, venture - capital firm Insight Venture Partners has raised more than $ 13 billion and invested in companies like Udemy, Zenefits, Docker, Nextdoor, and Hootsuite.

The new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 36 percent of firms with more than 200 workers, and 18 percent of firms over all, use financial incentives tied to health objectives like weight loss and smoking cessation.

But Tu says that while consumers have benefitted tremendously from tech innovations by companies like Google, Facebook, Alibaba and Tencent, the financial industry lags behind because many financial service firms rely on in - house tech teams, which means that «fintech continues to be more «finance» than «tech,» especially in Asia.»

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has said many a time that the firm is a technology company, and has gone on to state that Goldman Sachs employs more engineers than companies like Facebook and Twitter.

Firms like LinkedIn, geared toward professionals, and security software firm Palo Alto Networks, which is for corporations, have performed better than their counterparts focused on consumers, like Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

A seed round investor like Lee has different numbers to work with than a venture capital firm like Kleiner.

To put this number in perspective, it's more than the 12 million people the venture capital community claims works for U.S. venture backed companies (which includes firms like Fed Ex, Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, etc.).

Also like the EarPods, the Pixel Buds rest on your ear rather than create a firm seal in your ear canal, and I should point out that the earbud itself is quite big, not good for teeny ears.

And as usual, advisory firms like Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) are joining with the public pension funds to demand governance reforms that perform better in theory than in practice.

It's true that the activist investors on the Exxon vote likely include heavy hitters like financial firms BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (though the specific votes are not made public), which are the company's biggest shareholders, owning more than 18 percent of the stock.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

A firm that has high gross profit margins from a sustainable business from a core product like bleach, laundry detergent, or chocolate, to provide an illustration, is going to be much harder to put out of business when the economy turns down than one that has razor - thin margins.

If the plan provider is with a relatively inexpensive custodian that uses index funds like Vanguard's or Fidelity's, often these fund companies will have much cheaper expense ratios for firms that do business with them than what an adviser may be able to offer.»

You see, it really didn't matter at all if a financial adviser knew what they were doing, because selling diversification strategies to clients made it sound like they knew what they were doing, which was an infinitely better proposition for commercial investment firms than employing financial consultants that actually knew what they were doing.

In Los Angeles, that kind of space has been specifically positioned for more creative firms, rather than those in fields like insurance, law and finance, according to John D. Zanetos, senior vice president for brokerage services at the commercial real estate services firm CBRE in Los Angeles.

It happened in 2016, and it's happening like clockwork again in 2018: Venture firms are closing new funds with more money than they ever have before, just two years after closing their most rece

Right now, venture firms are reacting in part to the $ 100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund, which SoftBank has hinted is merely the first of more gigantic funds it plans to raise, including from investors in the Middle East who'd like to plug more money into Silicon Valley than they've been able to do historically.

But the government's gradual tightening of rules for borrowers — a firm admission that the market was hotter than anyone was comfortable with — has taken some steam out of the market, and economists, like Carney, seem to believe a soft landing may be at hand.

Two of the groups involved are the Ontario Energy Association — whose members include publicly traded companies like Enbridge Inc., Hydro One Ltd. and TransCanada Corp. — and the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, which represents more than 10,000 firms across the country.

Lyft has already raised more than $ 1 billion from investors like the billionaire activist Carl C. Icahn, the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and the hedge fund Coatue Management.

To date, the company has raised more than $ 8 billion from a number of investors, including Benchmark and Google Ventures, as well as large financial firms like Goldman Sachs and TPG Growth.

His firm publishes an annual ranking of financial centers that tracks more than 100 indicators, including nonfinancial measures like crime rates and air pollution.

Rather than hold onto outmoded ideas ideas like the Phillips Curve, which may have made sense when the US was a more insular economy, there are better ways to think of monetary policy from a structural standpoint of how financial firms work.

The $ 95 bln firm has more subscribers than established rivals like Hulu and Amazon.

Some of the industry's biggest players, like David M. Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group, Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and David Bonderman of TPG, have more than $ 10 billion apiece in uncommitted capital — what is known as «dry powder» — according to Preqin, an industry research firm.