Sentences with phrase «time of a couple years»

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A couple years ago, Karen Okonkwo had a difficult time finding photos of women of color for her blog, Sorority Secrets.

Then a couple of years later we did the first launch of Falcon 9, version 1, and that had about a 10 - ton - to - orbit capability, so it was about 20 times the capability of Falcon 1, and also assigned to carry our Dragon spacecraft.

I was at a conference for technology CEOs a couple of years ago, and a former head of Canada's civil service said the government has done all of the policies right, and now it's time for the business community to step up.

Nadal could be seen this fall on CNBC, BNN and Business Insider, offering confident reassurances on the state of the ad business and boasting that while the Big Four chose to batten down the economic hatches over the past couple of years, MDC saw it as a key time for bold investment.

I did that for a couple of years and during that time I worked on Everyday Shooter, which was my first commercial game and the first that actually came out and made money.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

«I explained how for the past couple of years I've kept Wednesdays clear on my calendar, usually worked from home, and used it as design / writing / solo - thinking time because the other four days get consumed with collaboration,» Schweikardt explained to the board, but lately «the collaboration days had gotten so busy, that Wednesdays had turned to email and administrivia catch - up days.»

When the IPO market takes a hit like it has, it takes a substantial length of time to recover, usually a couple of years.

They were lucky, they got the timing right, and after a painful couple of years figured out product / market fit, and went public.

I iterated several times over the course of a couple years.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

So we took a couple of years to do soil studies and climate studies: Looking at soils at different times of the year, looking at moisture levels, at holding capacities, etc..

«We spent a lot of the time over the last couple of years learning from our retail operations out west,» said Mark Childs, chief marketing officer at Samsung Canada, in an interview with Marketing.

The last couple of years have been an understandably busy time; SOLS is Schouwenburg's first company, and she's pouring everything she has into making it a success.

In the last couple years, the global sales for snack products has reached $ 374 billion, dethroning the time - old tradition of three square meals a day from its long - held spot.

Canadian travelers may feel like they can afford to go abroad for the first time in a couple of years.

Fast - forward to a couple of years later when my company nearly went under (twice) and I realized it was time to look around me for sage counsel.

Typically, this would be the time of year the gallery owner would be banking a couple thousand dollars a week.

At the time, all the networks were making 20 - plus movies a year and a couple of miniseries and maybe a few limited series, and so you were making things all the time.

Although La La did file for separation from Carmelo in April of 2017, the couple has since chosen not to get divorced and to keep this time in their lives out of the public so as to protect their 11 - year - old son Kiyan.

Though this is the first time McDonald's is changing up the flavor of the Big Mac, it did introduce a couple different variations of it this year.

As for couples who are saving more throughout the rest of the year, keep in mind that after falling love often comes getting married, buying a home and having a baby, which is the most expensive time in your life, von Tobel cautioned.

Investors may be greedy, and markets may be delusional, but money is time, and the best way to ride out a downturn is with a couple of years» worth of cash stashed in your mattress.

«We have seen security go from, again what was a couple years ago 20 %, 25 % to consistently 40 % of the business,» Conte said at the time, as recorded in a transcript of the call on the finance site Seeking Alpha.

«A couple of years ago, I was going at least once a week, but as time went on I stopped going as much,» says Michelle Langston, concierge wrangler and team lead, who is currently based in the Bay Area.

A year later, Kalanick has met with Miami officials a couple of times, including in January, when Uber threw that more - secret - than - usual prelaunch recruitment party.

The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment actually do a trial run of the confetti a couple of days before New Year's Eve.

But if you run a pizza parlor and get only a couple of customers a day during the winter months, you might be better off staying open just a few hours a day at that time of year, or closing the shop altogether.

The deputies on the Governing Council speak on the record a couple of times a year, and when they do, they rarely deviate from the script.

Generally I agree (9 times out of 10) with your startup thoughts, especially given you and members of your super team (like ex-vancouverite Catrina) have done it before (and I've just been building for past 8 years) but I have a couple of quibbles on this post (but not necessarily «disagreement»).

Amazon launched the monthly option a couple of years ago to attract customers who could not afford a one - time payment of $ 99, or those who knew that they would not be able to take advantage of an Amazon Prime membership for all the months of the year.

I've been through the course myself, and have referred to it many times over the past couple of years.

By that time, Ebates» two founders had already been hard at work building the company for a couple of years (Ebates was initially incubated at Foundation Capital).

But in the past couple of years, the rise of real - time media has validated its relevancy as an essential technique for marketers.

We are now at the seasonally strong time of year... I expect that the next couple months will continue to have strong performance.

The market expects a tightening of 75 basis points by year end, and the yield curve indicates that the implied cash rate in a couple of years» time will still be under 4 per cent.

-LRB-...) Labour - intensive industries across Dongguan, a city of 8m that from a distance resembles a forest of factories, are grappling with a drop in orders from the west at a time when double - digit Chinese wage inflation over the past couple of years has prompted western retailers to move orders to south - east Asia and Bangladesh.

Nassim Taleb was on Bloomberg TV yesterday making an interesting point (his TV appearances have been less interesting in the last couple of years) that although made many time before in many places is still important.

You can guess this division has had a hard time over the past couple of years.

I personally know several people who still have interest - only mortgages and had been enjoying negligible payments for years now, but have no idea how to pay back the principle on their liar - loans and more terrifyingly for them little understanding of what their monthly payments could escalate to with inflation at say 4 % in a couple of years time.

They have risen over the past couple of years as the economies of the United States, Europe and China appeared to be humming along together at a healthy clip for the first time in years.

«I've had extra money for a couple of years now, and I have thought to start investing, but really haven't had enough time to study the right methods.

In India, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways reportedly has plans to increase its highway network by 20,000 kilometers over the next couple of years.1 That planned increase is roughly four times the distance from New York to San Francisco.

Debt servicing ratios of both the corporate and unincorporated sectors have been lower for the past couple of years than at any time in the preceding decade (Graph 6).

At the time of the increase in the target from 5 to 5 1/4 per cent, markets had priced in not only that increase but a couple of further increases over the coming year.

They have only gotten more expensive over the last couple of years and now stand at valuations that are only exceeded by a couple of times in history, namely 1929 and 2000.

I bought it years and years ago and still use it at least a couple of times a week purely for the competition analysis data it provides on the scraped keywords it generates.

I can wait a couple of years for a discount to close when getting paid 7 % + in the mean time.

With only a couple of months left in the year, many first - time home buyers in California are looking ahead to 2018.

It probably changed a hundred times in a SINGLE year, let alone over a period of a couple hundred.