Sentences with phrase «trying to»

In the Lean Startup model what we're trying to show is that something can be wrong with your idea but that doesn't mean your company has to fail.

He also wrote that his fellow libertarians were on a «fool's errand» trying to achieve their ends through political means: «In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so - called «social democracy.»»

The main (and, possibly, only major) issue I had was when trying to use the device on the tube.

Maintaining an existing customer base is easier — and cheaper — than trying to replace lost customers, so it's worth investing in a thorough marketing mail strategy that lets your most valued customers know how important they are to you.

To be sure, Trudeau is trying to transform Canada into a bigger player in global markets, accelerating the previous government's efforts to gain access to fast - growing economies in Asia and South America.

The lessons here are profound for businesses large and small trying to tap into the mind - boggling potential of the Chinese market, and which get the importance, like Zuckerberg seems to, of language localization to their business strategy.

«There were barrels that people were trying to send down pipelines that just didn't get allocated pipeline space and they really had no place to put them and they didn't have storage.

Again, I'm not trying to threaten you.

«Ben was trying to create this idea of products that inspire people, that they want to share, that gives them a way to connect with their friends, and it was a BuzzFeed - y way of thinking about commerce,» Peretti tells Fortune.

And after they discovered they were being charged, trying to cancel was an absolute nightmare.

Some of the tactics show Intel's ability, as a large company, to invest a lot of money in trying to fix a problem.

What a clever way to bail on a bad situation: claiming that you were trying to be the bigger person, or at least a good sport under trying circumstances.

Uber said Waymo is trying to stall because it does not have any evidence that Uber obtained Waymo's confidential information, according to court filings.

And it's not because I'm trying to be a jerk.

Focus on the thing it is you're trying to do.

(It's a complicated argument that boils down to two sides: One saying many games treat women as sexual objects and the other side arguing that «social justice warriors» are trying to change the hobby they enjoy.)

A few years ago during an important meeting, one of our investors was trying to explain our two roles.

You should do what's best for you — for example, Entrepreneur staff writer Nina Zipkin spent a month trying to go to bed and wake up earlier (up by 6:30 a.m.), and found it wasn't for her.

But the FCC seems to be trying to impose conditions that will make it difficult, according to comments made by chairman Tom Wheeler.

«We have men and women who have been helped up Everest,» Will says, «and later they'll reach out to customer service and say, «I'm trying to get in touch with a guy named Dave who helped me up Everest at about 10.30 a.m.. He's the man I'm going to marry.

«We both were trying to solve the problem of how do we use technology to get people to meet and connect in the physical world.»

«What have we to lose by trying to work together to find those solutions?»

Keating said the Russian security agency FSB showed him information including «the names, the addresses, the cellphone numbers, the iPad accounts, e-mail, Facebook pages... the fact that he was trying to get involved to go to Palestine and deal with insurgencies there» that apparently led the CIA to add Tamerlan to a terrorist suspect database.

The challenge becomes how are you any different than the problem that your next - door neighbor in the expo hall is trying to solve?

His hotel may be synonymous with Hollywood glitz and glamour, but Rosenthal grew up dirt poor 3,000 miles away in Medford, Mass. «I was born during the Depression — my dad was a plumber, and he worked 24/7 just trying to keep the family in the house,» he recalls.

Adverts are appearing across Western cities trying to persuade ordinary people to invest.

A new crop of startups is trying to solve that problem.

FiberTower, a small company acquired by AT&T (t) in February, spent a decade trying to get off the ground until it filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and had many of its licenses stripped by the FCC.

Also, Fancy is reportedly trying to raise a new round of funding with a valuation that could be as high as $ 1.2 billion.

Ads on social media are targeted specifically towards you based on past purchases, drawing you back in and trying to prompt you to buy more similar products.

The proposed $ 4.5 billion merger is trying to achieve similar economies of scale and supply - chain efficiencies, but of course looming over all of it is the spectre of Amazon:

It'll be interesting to see how Apple's talks with the Canadian banks plays out, but at this point it looks suspiciously like someone is trying to negotiate through the media.

When you are trying to live a different life, you are going to have to be different than others.

«Many on both sides focused more on trying to stay warm and dry, securing food, and avoiding death than pursuing the aims of their generals,» according to The Encyclopedia of World War I's entry on the Christmas Truce.

Crowley later claimed she was just «trying to move the conversation along» and, as for the outrage her interjection caused, she said of the Republicans: «I'm sorry they're upset, but tomorrow they'll be upset about something else, as will the Democrats.»

Huffington Post isn't the only one cutting back and trying to refocus on video.

Volunteering to assist anyone on the team, despite their status in the company, shows you're not just trying to curry favor with the boss, but that you genuinely want to help the team.

The SBA's Office of Disaster Assistance provides low - interest, long - term loans quickly to business owners trying to rebuild physically and financially after a natural disaster.

For example, if you're trying to publish statistics on small business websites, you could collect a sample group from small business websites you find on your own, and use their sites to inform your research.

Resources - focused TSG Consulting has embarked on a diversification and expansion plan in response to a growing demand from companies trying to unlock the secrets of big data.

Adam White, general manager at Coinbase, vividly recalls trying to write about bitcoin while he was a student at Harvard Business School during the early days of crypto.

It's hard to focus on being creative when a good part of your creative energies are spent trying to figure out how to work within a system that doesn't tolerate dissent.

You've got an awful lot to say, and you're desperately trying to fit it within Twitter's 140 character limit.

Spend as much time as it takes trying to have derogatory marks removed because they also weigh heavily on your overall score.

If one person keeps trying to take over and do everything or ends up doing very little, then the partnership will start to unravel and feelings of resentment will fester.

He recommended using development tool kits based on simplified code, rather than wasting time trying to develop proprietary solutions.

He acknowledged that he made the mistake of not putting enough time into trying to get corporate sponsors.

Can you imagine anything more stressful than trying to get pregnant, being unable to do so, and getting a message from an app about prenatal care?

In the simplest example, imagine you are trying to analyze sales of Product A. But, across you systems Product A has many names, ProdA, A, Product a, Product A, productA.

«Eighty percent of our clients are one - man shops trying to figure out how to turn this into a business.»