Sentences with phrase «then sell the company»

Cannasat later sold its Prairie stake, and Gertner and his partners eventually merged, then sold the company.

■ If we view early - stage companies as a «product» that our province «manufactures», then selling those companies at a 5x return on invested capital (i.e. 80 % gross margin) is a pretty good business model.

«That's a mistreatment of students,» says Bob Davidson who, with his wife, Jan, founded, developed, and then sold the company that marketed the hugely successful Math Blaster and Reading Blaster computer software.

They want to invest a large amount, see rapid growth, then sell the company and make money.

That team included and was led by Marc Lore, founder of Quidsi — the umbrella company for Daipers.com, Soap.com and BeautyBar.com — who then sold the company to Amazon for $ 545 million in 2010.

Not exact matches

Then, an insurance company hired him to sell annuities.

This Married Couple Sold Their Company to Starbucks for $ 90 Million, and Then Built a $ 131 Million Pizza Empire

The Dell role lasted a couple of years before Legere joined telecoms company Global Crossing in 2001 as CEO, taking it through a «really tough» restructuring and eventually selling it to CenturyLink (then Level 3) in 2011.

If you're a really close - knit company where people love working for you, and then you sell it to a company that doesn't have the same culture, I feel that you're letting people down.

If they extract and sell it, the 2 - degree limit is toast; if governments somehow muster the will to force them not to extract those reserves, then the companies» valuations must drop accordingly — the bursting of the carbon bubble.

The creator of the company goes around the world to find the best coffee, and then he sells it.

In 1984 we started a company called Enorme, and got Ettore Sottsass, an Italian designer, to design a telephone that we'd then sell.

Realizing that Get Real Girl wasn't then ready for the inventory demands of Wal - Mart stores, Machin instead sold product to Wal - Mart's online operation in San Francisco, where her company «could break in gently.»

Surace thought he could expand the company to $ 50 million and then sell it.

But then, in 2010, he abruptly sold his stake and moved to a little farm on the Lebanese border, where he opened a tiny catering company.

Holger Mueller, who tracks the HR sector as principal analyst and vice president at Constellation Research, contends that Zenefits» revenue model is the most revolutionary thing about the company, comparing its approach to Google, which also gives away its digital services for free (then monetizes its accumulated user data by selling it to advertisers).

There are dozens of companies that collect data on hundreds of millions of people and then sell it so you can enhance the targeting of your display advertising.

With the complicity of corrupt authorities, the oil was then shipped to a refinery belonging to Riolio, a company owned by Domenica Ribatti, where it was leavened with actual olive oil, then packaged and sold to customers as the real thing.

«If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different, if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.»

The company reiterated it would not share directly identifiable info with advertisers, but it would still collect personal data then de-identify or aggregate it before selling it for targeted - ad purposes.

The founder and CEO of Los Angeles sunglasses company Perverse was by then an experienced — and successful — entrepreneur, having sold her previous company, NYX Cosmetics, to L'Oréal in 2014 for an estimated $ 400 million - plus.

If you want to sell your company, then emphasizing growth and being a leader in your market segment will make your company more attractive to potential buyers.

It pushed the Chicago - based company to 6.5 million phones sold in the first quarter of 2014 and then to 8.6 million units in the second quarter, according to ABI Research.

You are selling yourself first, then your company.

Then, there's the amount your product saves the other company (or how much more it allows them to sell — but basically the financial impact your product has).

The CFPB said then that the companies deceived consumers about the value of the scores the companies sold them.

But then he's already been a successful entrepreneur two times over; most notably, he co-founded and wrote code for the company that became Twitch, which sold to Amazon in 2014 for just under $ 1 billion.

The revamped Pivotal, while still part of EMC and its federation of business units, then changed focus to selling tools for app developers and also providing consulting services for agile development, a trendy way for companies to build software in multiple quick, short iterations.

On the other hand, if you want to maximize the value of your company because some day you want to sell it and retire, then read on.

Griffith calls this the «throw it over the fence» approach to invention: Create, show off, and then quickly sell the entire product (or its license) to a company that will build and market it at whatever scale is appropriate.

He would then gauge the response: If it was tepid, he knew that the person trying to sell him on the company wasn't even excited about working there, and he would steer clear.

And if Dyson finds its product really is spreading germs at an unconscionable rate, then it will be duty - bound to stop selling the product, though surely the restaurants and public buildings that are the company's main customers will make that choice for them.

If you aspire to become a CEO, entrepreneur, or leader in your company, then you must learn how to sell to effectively get your point across.

«We really struggled with what the product would look like — we were initially putting it together as a supplemental product that we sell to schools, but then it became clear that it made more sense for us to partner directly with publishers to take advantage of their existing sales and distribution networks and help them transform their existing products into the next generation products that people would be expecting on iPads,» says Derek Lomas, CEO of Mathify, a company that partners with textbook publishers to create interactive learning material.

Traditional banks have also sold their bad loans to these nonbank companies, which have then packaged them up in products for sale to consumers and, also, back to the banks.

If you can't become invested in the products or services sold by your company, then how can you succeed by promoting them or working for the firm?

You could mine the data to conduct research and then sell your insights to other companies as Gartner does with its tech data, providing customized research to IT clients to help them become industry leaders.

CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg — who co-founded the DreamWorks movie studio with Steven Spielberg and then spun the animation unit off as a separate company in 2004 — has tried to sell the company several times.

BroadSoft has historically sold its products to large telecommunications companies such as Verizon Communications (vz) and AT&T (t), which then resell the software to their business customers.

No bank will be buying shares from the company and then selling them to the public, as is typically done in an IPO, so there will be no initial «price.»

Two - thirds of the company's revenue comes from sales of blank T - shirts, fleece and golf shirts to distributors, who then sell the goods to screen printers.

Hill found a solution: The state would give the company $ 195 million in transferable tax credits previously set aside for filmmakers and insurance companies, which it could then sell.

After generic drug maker Actavis bought Allergan last year, it took the name of the specialty pharmaceutical company; the reinvented Allergan then turned around and sold its legacy generic business to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA) in July.

Eventually, the serial entrepreneur — who had started and then sold a moving company, a plastic container business, a reusable beverage ware maker and barbecue grill business — and his team solved the bottling issue.

Those proposals speak less to debt settlement companies themselves, in most cases, than they do to so - called «lead generators» — companies that advertise debt settlement, sign - up potential clients and then sell their information to back - end service providers.

It then sells the coal at a loss to power plants to generate the real benefit for the drug company: credits that allow Mylan to lower its own tax bill.

The company has a $ 20 million line of credit with an undisclosed Texas bank, allowing it to make loans directly; it then sells the loans at a small premium to institutional investors.

The pharma company will then sell the drug to the public.

In Panther's case, the CFTC said, the company and Coscia would place a relatively small order to sell futures they wanted to execute, then quickly followed with several large buy orders at successively higher prices that they intended to cancel.

Then there's Jason Calacanis, a former entrepreneur in residence at Sequoia Capital and the founder of Weblogs, a company that he sold in late 2005.