Sentences with phrase «than successful at»

It may not push itself in terms of plot, or as seems to be the case with many of this 2016's blockbuster releases go as far as it could / should, it's more than successful at doing what it sets out to do.

Not exact matches

The most successful people achieve extraordinary things by looking at the world differently than most people.

Ultimately these green bonds will only truly be successful if they allow the province to finance transit projects at a lower interest rate than would otherwise be the case.

In the article, a man with a red tie at a black - tie event was viewed as being more successful than the others.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

The most successful ones work on more than a dozen initiatives at any one time — including creating better quality content, improving conversion rates and overall content effectiveness, creating more visual content, reimagining or repurposing content, measuring ROI and becoming better storytellers.

Mouchawar has since grown the online marketplace — now valued at more than $ 1 billion, according to Souq — into one of the most successful e-commerce companies in the Middle East.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

Highly successful people are effective at shaping their lives around their inspirations, rather than the other way around.

If a start - up went public, consistently operated at a profit, or was sold for more money than it raised, it was deemed successful for the purposes of the research.

Unicorn If you were wondering why crazy successful tech startups — ones that are valued at more than $ 1 billion — are called unicorns, you can thank Aileen Lee, a venture capitalist and the founder of the firm Cowboy Ventures.

Even if you set the issue of employment aside, the U.S. trade deficit over the past five years increased, meaning that the rest of the world was more successful at selling us more stuff than vice versa.

Here's Jason Fried, founder of 37signals, for example, telling a Fast Company reporter (yes, it's a little bit ironic) why he's grown his highly successful company at a slower pace than its maximum potential:

Christoph Randler, a biology professor at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany, found that morning people are often more successful than evening people because, as a group, they tend to be proactive.

Rather than looking at the most successful content in your market and saying, «What can I do better?»

At the same time, Colonna is far less professionally successful than his former partner Fred Wilson, who went on to launch Union Square Ventures and is now a bonafide VC guru.

Rather than dreaming up some novel configuration of services, successful entrepreneurs look at a given problem in a target market and develop a solution for it.

The company has long wanted to be at the core of the living room experience, if its many iterations of less than successful multimedia PCs and servers are any indication.

A much larger percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic than in the general population: Richard Branson, Paul Orfalea, Charles Schwab, John Chambers at Cisco, David Neeleman at JetBlue.

Online platforms make it easier than its ever been to start and run a successful business at a time when there's never been more need for an alternative to the stagnant traditional job market.

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.

Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.

This means that Whole Foods can track customer engagement by comments, shares, in - store visits, and customer referrals at each store to better find the elements that make some stores more successful than others.

Ultimately this makes female crowdfunders 19 % more successful overall at achieving their seed crowdfunding financial targets than male crowdfunders in the US,» she wrote.

Revenue isn't growing, despite its immensely successful digital paywall — which now has more than 1 million subscribers — and print advertising revenue continues to decline at a rapid pace.

«The early IMS script trend suggests that Dupixent is ramping at more than double the pace of the successful Otezla launch, and at 2.5 x the rate of PCSK9s, and 4x the rate of recent psoriasis launches of Cosentyx and Taltz,» Porges said.

This successful initiative was inspired by other businesses that have already successfully implemented exercise - at - work programs much more inspiring than ours.

Research suggests businesswomen are not only more wary of risk than men but that companies with women at the top are more successful and in tune with their customers because their boards have a wider range of views.

It's also very useful for brands that post content more than once throughout the year (which we find very successful here at Buffer with our Rebuffer tool) as it helps to avoid duplicating poor - performing content.

Further, if Tribune is successful at buying the Orange County Register and Riverside Press - Enterprise out of auction this month, he would become the business head of the biggest monopoly newspaper company in the country, serving an area of more than 20 million residents.

It is a hard concept to explain precisely and to quantify, but the idea of differing levels of social capital helps explain why, for example, French entrepreneurs (not to mention Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Nigerian) are more likely to create successful tech startups in the US or the UK than at home, or why it is easier to start a business in Sidney than in Beijing, or why technological innovation is not evenly spread out among countries, even among countries at similar development levels, but rather tends to cluster in a few areas in a few countries where tech entrepreneurs seem to believe that their work is made easier and the rewards greater.

When you do a convertible note with a cap that converts into the next round of funding one of the unintended consequences is that if you're successful and raise at a larger price than your cap the early angels often get «multiple liquidation preferences» on their dollars in.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

The bottom line: with the unicorn bubble likely to go bust over the next 12 — 24 months, less than 1/4 of today's unicorns are likely to achieve a successful exit for their investors at a $ 1 billion + valuation.

As a somewhat recent college grad who vividly remembers what it's like scraping together part - time income just to have something to invest, I'm hoping I'll be a little more successful at showing you how to invest with little money, than the 60 year - old bankers explaining credit default swaps to fresh faced new hires.

Over the past decade immigrants have arrived in Canada better educated and at similar stages in their careers as those born in Canada, but evidence suggests that they have been less successful than earlier waves of immigrants.

Likewise, successful men and women entrepreneurs founded their companies when they had similar numbers of children living at home, though men were more likely than women to be married.

One of the first successful businesses on the bitcoin blockchain was Satoshi Dice, a provably fair gambling website that at its peak accounted for more than 50 percent of all bitcoin transactions.

«When a stock is relatively expensive, it is much harder to assess whether other people have simply done a better job than me at assessing the probabilities of successful outcomes.

It is hard to imagine a more qualified person to help figure out how Twitter can make more money, and grow its user base, than the former chief business officer at the world's most successful internet company.

Robots will always be more efficient at processing those calculations than humans, however, so they will always be better at analyzing market data and completing successful trades.

Laura was a founding employee at Mirus and was directly involved in the successful sale of more than a dozen client companies in multiple industries.

One successful dance instructor in Philadelphia rents out space at a fitness center, which is less expensive than renting out a dedicated studio.

The study of more than 20,000 venture capital - backed companies that received financing between 1997 and 2011 found that the proportion of female executives is 7.1 % at successful companies and 3.1 % at unsuccessful companies, «demonstrating the value that having more females can potentially bring to a management team.»

Ivanhoé, the real estate investment arm of pension plan manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, has been most successful in buying properties in New York, and now has more than 5.5 million - square - feet of the city's real estate in its portfolio, says Adam Adamakakis, executive vice president of US Investments at Ivanhoé.

Therefore, there is no guarantee that they will be any more successful at the trade than if you were following the signal.

Is one content format (e.g. ebooks vs. webinars) more successful at generating customers than the other?

To provide some answers, we looked at how the «most successful» of the survey respondents do things differently than the overall marketer population.

At the same time, those marketers having a documented content marketing strategy increased from 37 % to 46 %, and more than half of Australian marketers surveyed (55 %) said their organizations have clarity on what an effective or successful content marketing program looks like.