Sentences with phrase «they break even»

-- Although neither side of the deal provided any revenue figures, Axel Springer said the site's revenue is growing at about 50 % per year, and if it hadn't invested in its new vertical Tech Insider it would have already broke even.

The agreement should reduce BlackBerry's manufacturing costs, and gives the division a shot at breaking even down the road.

«In the UK (the Company's most established market) eve's CPA [cost per acquisition] has started to decrease materially,» Eve says, «and the Directors envisage that the UK business can break even in the near term.

Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said increased costs from the delay means that Bombardier will need to sell more than 800 aircraft to break even, or 12 per cent market share over the next 20 years.

(Some business models are built on breaking even on the customer's first or second purchase; then future purchases will be profitable, since the CAC is at or near zero.)

So your business has to do extremely well just to break even.

Spotify still struggles to break even with 20 million paying customers, while Apple and Google use music as a loss - leader

Most North American oil producers, on average, require a WTI price of roughly $ 35 a barrel to break even.

Others are just trying to break even.

For every $ 100 you spend, how many units do you need to sell to break even?

Shared Progress «about breaks even,» says Kister, who adds, «that was what our goal was anyhow — to break even.»

Read on to see how long it would take to break even in 15 major US cities cities.

Last year Bustle broke even on $ 30 million in revenue, which raises the question as to why it needs more money.

We know that approximately 1 % of our finished goods don't get sold, so this figure has to be $ 14,000 to $ 15,000 for us to break even.

GiftZip began in June; Hogg expects to break even early next year.

Sales had climbed sharply, but Jamba Juice had yet to do more than break even in any year since it was founded, in 1990.

If nothing else, Tesla's underlying assets are likely to be worth at least $ 15 billion, the floor at which Palihapitiya would just break even.

The Los Angeles - based company, founded by former hair stylist Allison Webb and her brother Michael Landau, broke even on sales of $ 1 million in its first 10 months, according to a 2011 Inc. profile.

Oftentimes, you need to spend so many thousands of dollars before you break even.»

After all, you can probably only make around 40 flights in a given month, which just gets you to your break even point.

At a 3X CMR, you finally start to break even as long as you can get at least 20 sales from your online marketing efforts.

That also means that nearly half of all households are either just breaking even, or spending more money than they make in a year.

The self - funded company broke even its first year.

In my experience, a CMR of three is enough to break even.

Magazine publishers, catalog merchants and other direct marketers may break even or lose money when they first acquire a customer but recoup their investment when the subscriber renews for another year.

Simply put, Porter breaks even on half - full planes; every seat sold beyond that is gravy.

Some businesses simply can't justify giving to charity when they're fighting just to break even.

As for Meetup, Heiferman told the Times the company had broken even and had not collected outside money in years.

To break even, it needed to get 520,834 people to sign up for two years.

«We want to break even on this business, not to profit from it.

And their skepticism may have been increased by the recent news that The Huffington Post — which says it gets more than 200 million unique visitors a month and produces close to 2,000 articles every day — is reportedly only breaking even on its editorial operations.

Many co-work spaces are operated simply to break even, with the idea that the environment and the benefits of bringing so many incredible resources together are all the benefit needed.

When PerformLine was struggling to break even, I could have easily walked away from the business and gone back to working for somebody else.

Apple now offers encryption on its phones that can't be broken even by the company, while Google is promising the same in its next version of Android.

«For computer game companies, 64 % of their costs are producing 3 - D graphics, and less than 10 % of games break even.

«Business owners have to make up startup costs and try to break even.

Outsiders have estimated that Spider - Man will need to play to sold - out houses for four years to break even, though those close to the production contend it will take half that time.

PaloAlto's Berry stresses that if you're going after investors, you'll need to show a cash flow statement and a break - even analysis — or the breakdown to see where your business breaks even.

The company behind «FarmVille» delivered third - quarter results that slightly topped analyst expectations, posting earnings that broke even on revenue of $ 176 million.

(Some media reports suggested Target at best broke even in its pharmacy business, which is one - fifth the size of Walmart's (wmt).)

If you were giving away your services for less than cost, or just breaking even, you'd be operating a non-profit venture — or a business that's likely to fail.

«You want to make money, but if you just break even and generate enough buzz to attract buyers, that's a win,» he says.

And because the retail industry's profit margins can be so thin, «the theft of one $ 5 heirloom tomato from Whole Foods can require sales of up to $ 500 to break even.»

Women often «break even» with childcare: their salaries aren't worth making because they're paying that cost in childcare.

Finish Line reported only break even profits per share in the third quarter, giving Foot Locker room to step in and gain more sales.

The catalogs finally went out, but Graff needed $ 500,000 in orders to break even and received only $ 20,000.

He wanted to determine whether he'd break even after accounting for booth fees, sales and marketing materials, and travel expenses for him and his staff.

The first thing our client needed to determine was the close rate needed to break even.

HelloFresh remains loss - making but has narrowed its losses and pledged to break even on an operating profit level within 15 months.

And a study by IHS concluded that wells accounting for 47 % of new U.S. oil production in 2014 could break even with the price of WTI below $ 61.