Sentences with phrase «than the firm as»

Softer apples are better than firm as they are easier to gnaw and less likely to snap into large pieces.

Not exact matches

As the firm celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, it's become a global leader in its space, with more than 2,000 employees selling and operating tours, safaris and expeditions around the world.

While there's an argument to be made that AI is over-hyped as a technology, there's data to back up Sanwal's tongue - in - cheek advice: Mergers and acquisitions of AI startups increased by a factor of seven between 2011 and 2015, from five to more than 35 deals, according to the research firm.

Finally, Matuson recommends stressing to prospective hires that as employees of a small firm, they'll have direct access to leadership, encounter limited bureaucracy and get opportunities to wear more than one hat.

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.»

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

As Lascelles commented in The Globe and Mail, «It is far from clear that firms are holding more cash than they should.»

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.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Leading RegTech specialist Harry Toukalas will be revealing how his firm's AI tool can predict misconduct in financial services.This ground - breaking technology developed in conjunction with MIT analyses email communication patterns and psycholinguistic analysis of email content to flag up issues such as mis - selling, cyber security and fraud.The Blackhall & Pearl tool already being used around the world by more than 40 organisations is eight times faster than other methods.

It's been 60 years since he started his investment - counselling firm, which now manages more than $ 36 billion in pensions and endowment funds, as well as corporate and private portfolios.

While Sequoia acknowledged that Facebook «has unquestionably committed sins for which it must now atone,» the firm explained that it chose to purchase a stake as it believes «it remains a far more competitively advantaged, economically attractive and faster - growing enterprise than the average American business.»

They're much more interested in speaking with a founder than a PR firm, because they want to hear your story just as much as they want to hear about your actual startup.

About 98 percent of the more than 300,000 U.S. exporting firms are small, and they account for over a third of the $ 1.4 trillion in annual total export dollars in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which defines a small business as having fewer than 500 employees.

Pokémon Go players are highly engaged, spending far more time in the app than they do with some of the most popular social apps such as Facebook's Instagram and messaging services WhatsApp and Snapchat, according to SimilarWeb, a market intelligence and web analytics firm.

CHICAGO, Feb 16 - U.S. agricultural merchants are scrambling to register themselves as cooperatives after a blunder in the country's new tax law gave farmers a tax break for selling grains to co-ops rather than private firms.

Rather than carving out new markets — or, as Real Matters founder Smith puts it, «knocking on doors and trying to sell a brand new widget that [nobody] has the budget for» — the fastest - growing tech firms are making inroads by finding better solutions to existing needs.

She has more than 20 years of experience as a B2B marketing and business development leader at top technology, professional service, and marketing firms.

But for those firms lucky enough to hit upon a major blockbuster — typically defined as any drug with annual sales of more than $ 1 billion — the rewards can be handsome.

The firm has since been capitalizing on what McLeod describes as «a huge pent - up demand for computer backup,» selling more than one million units worldwide.

Venture firms with a woman partner are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with women CEOs.

The news and publishing industries are on no firmer ground than a year ago as the quest for a sustainable business model continues.

Operating out of facilities in its hometown as well as in Manitoba, Iowa and China, the firm sold its products in more than 45 countries in 2015.

It's not just next - generation West Coast startups heeding the call, either: In 2013, more than 90 percent of Zenefits customers called California home and 80 percent identified as technology firms; today more than half of all businesses using Zenefits services are based outside the Golden State and operate in sectors other than tech.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

Pay - as - you - go Perkville services start at $ 29 per month, and the firm's partner network now spans more than 1,700 locations across the globe.

But if you already offer health insurance, as do more than 90 percent of large companies, things may look worse than they really are, according to a new study conducted by ADP, a large benefit and payroll processing firm based in Roseland, New Jersey.

The lobbyist added that several major firms were more interested in making deals with the Trump administration that could affect their bottom lines, such as tax repatriation, than getting caught in politically charged fights over government surveillance.

Private companies are viewed more favourably than state - owned firms, and the CEOs were lukewarm about the idea of using ownership policy to promote democracy, such as limiting the ability of companies based in undemocratic countries to buy Canadian assets.

A little less than one in three small businesses were found to offer health insurance benefits to employees, for example, as compared to the national average of 96 percent of larger firms.

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

Moreover, no individual owner of an 8 (a) firm, even if he or she qualifies as disadvantaged, may hold an equity ownership interest of more than 10 percent in another firm involved in the 8 (a) program.

More than 500 digital technology startups around the world have raised funds by selling their own cryptocurrencies, or tokens, that sidestep banks or venture capital firms as intermediaries.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

Twice as many employee - owned devices will be used for work than enterprise - owned devices by 2018, according to Gartner, the information technology research firm.

The infographic below, generated by Pulp PR, highlights 13 U.S. venture capital firms, each with a total fund size of less than $ 150 million, as well as their particular area of interest.

Some small firms choose to appoint an employee as their ISO 9000 representative rather than hire an outside consultant.

That's according to the Women in the Workplace 2016 survey of 132 companies, with more than 4.6 million employees, by Lean In, an organization founded by Sandberg to serve as a community and education platform for professional women, and management and consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

The arrests follow a purge that has seen more than 80 executives at PDVSA and its suppliers jailed for alleged corruption as the state firm's new chief, Major General Manuel Quevedo, has sought to stamp his authority on the sector - the financial lifeblood of Venezuela's unraveling socialist government.

Shares in HelloFresh gained as much as 4 % on their first day of public trading, valuing the German meal - kit delivery firm at more than double Blue Apron, the U.S rival from which it is rapidly seizing market share.

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.

But it turns out that in aggregate, small firms pay about the same premiums as big firms — in fact, for family coverage, companies with under 200 employees pay less ($ 11,835) than firms with 200 or more workers ($ 12,233).

The combative JPMorgan Chase CEO was still dodging calls for his own head when Canadian Business went to press, more than a month after he admitted that a trader in the firm's London office lost at least US$ 2 billion, and possibly as much as US$ 9 billion, in a deal gone wrong.

(In an e-mail to Canadian Business, a spokesperson for Strategic stated that the grid note «included funds loaned to Concrete to deal with the significant real estate issues in their portfolio» and that the firm agreed to reduce the total by more than $ 1 million «as a courtesy.»)

On Tuesday, Uber was said to have terminated more than 20 employees as a result of its internal investigation led by an outside law firm.

The Chinese firm's demand for May - loading crude will be lower than the previous month due to refinery maintenance and as one of China's largest oil ports, Huangdao, could be shut for days from early June to accommodate a government meeting, a second company source said.

For instance, on August 1 a Canaccord sales pitch described a block of AAA paper the firm had secured as a product offering better returns and better liquidity than GICs, which are «non-redeemable» and «only insured up to $ 100,000.»