Sentences with phrase «very big companies»

We imagine there will be some very big companies.»

And they are cost effective for very big companies as a way of buying themselves out of trouble.

We love high yield corporate bonds; they pay a lot more interest than treasuries and also because these are not the greatest borrowers — I'm not talking little companies; think CitiBank and other very big companies that don't have a pristine credit rating — they can not lend money out very long so the maturities of our high yield bond fund is closer in.

Henneke: Yeah, so my background is really in sales and marketing and I worked for small companies and very big companies like Philips Electronics.

GRIFFETH: Well, the heads of North and South Korea are meeting tomorrow for the first time during that historic inter-Korean summit, and the meeting is going to take place in the heart of the demilitarized zone, an area you might be surprised to learn is home to some very big companies.

«Very big companies don't know a goddamn thing about customer service,» notes retail guru Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus of Neiman Marcus Group.

Microsoft, suffice it to say, is a very big company.

Maus Haus was still a very small entity at the time, and we had just «won» a competitive bidding process to develop a website for a very big company.

It is a very big company and as usual facing a number of lawsuits in many countries as of today.

A very big company everyone in the world knows.

A reader writes: I applied for a job on a very big company that's actually doing very well despite the economy, and hiring several positions.

Not exact matches

On the one hand, there's probably very little training required, and if a delivery person isn't wearing a company's T - shirt, it's probably not that big a deal as long as the package arrives on time.

«Sometimes the answer is to join a larger company that allows them to scale and grow in a very big way.»

We worked together and it was a very big deal for our company.»

And yet, just eight years later, it seems Facebook may be turning into the very thing its founder once rejected: a still important technology company that's growing a bit long in the tooth and fighting to stay relevant by throwing stacks of money at whatever just might be the next big thing.

For very small companies that can't afford a big investment, the free version of the Zoho CRM offers all the core functionality a small business needs.

On a big - picture scale, analysts don't think the number of Apple TV units sold is very meaningful for the company.

To nurture very early - stage companies along, Acceleprise invests $ 50,000 initially and provides a 4 - month program that includes mentorship from seasoned tech entrepreneurs, sales coaching, and introductions to big potential customers and investors.

A very big and very respected company wanted to buy her business and intellectual property for a global project and they wanted a proposal from her as soon as possible.

«This practice started very deliberately with the big tech companies, which, even during the last recession, were thriving,» says Scott Dobroski, Glassdoor community expert.

«For me, this is a very big deal; it's a potential partnership of the century, said Jungwirth, who noted the company's ultimate goal is for anyone in the world to be able access self - driving vehicles and get to where they need to go with «push of a button.»

Even as corporate earnings continue to soar and big companies appear to be very profitable, I've remained cautiously optimistic about the economy, because the SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard data doesn't reveal the uptick in hiring we've wanted to see.

But the big change from last year is that 81 % cited «artificial intelligence and machine learning» as either «very important» or «extremely important» to their company's future, up from just 54 % in 2016.

For a company that's struggled to expand its user base and whose advertising revenues have been left in the dust by Facebook, its much bigger rival, it's a very attractive strategy.

Anyone at a big car company or running a dealership or making car loans will tell you that a US market above 16 million in annual sales is a very good market.

In addition to providing a big sales boost to Amazon, AWS also ingests tech profits into a company that's traditionally run on very slim margins.

One very important note: it's natural for companies, as they grow bigger, to start seeing their rate of sales growth go down.

«There's so many interesting applications out there, yet for me, there's still [a] very small number of apps that are fundamental for my day and my week,» Pincus told the FT. «Even if you're a big huge company, or a scrappy entrepreneur, you still have to build a product that resonates with people.»

Startup life is very different from life at a big company (read: big budget).

If I was a CEO of some big company, I would look into the future and see some pretty heavy waves coming at me, and start taking very seriously the idea that the future doesn't compute, that this $ 1 trillion sloshing around the global economy each day has turned it into a casino that needs to be dismantled.

The Santa Clara, California, company landed a very big funding round earlier this year, raising a total of $ 130 million.

«The trick is not to pick the right company; the trick is to essentially buy all the big companies through the S&P 500 and to do it consistently and to do it in a very, very low cost way,» he told On The Money.

«The trick is not to pick the right company, the trick is to essentially buy all the big companies through the S&P 500 and to do it consistently and to do it in a very, very low cost way,» he added.

The machines are big moneyspinners for companies like Ladbrokes but they have come under fire for leaving gamblers with very heavy losses.

In that case, Videotron will soon be competing with Wind, as well as the Big Three, which will eventually turn into a not - very - fair competition since the cable company has relatively deep pockets and — more importantly — 700 MHz spectrum.

Phase III funding, the round where ideas are validated with up to $ 10 million in funding, is the very center of the valley of death, because it's the biggest test for early - stage companies.

Analyst Bryan Kraft said that its leadership in the space had made it «very difficult for the traditional media companies, or even other big tech companies, to catch up.»

And they have a very strong point of view about what types of new business models will help the big media companies in particular create new revenue streams without cannibalizing their existing businesses.

Unlike big companies, hiring the wrong person can be very damaging to a startup, so make sure you're a good fit.

Big, new companies such as Google also have very close ties.

It's not just old, aerospace giants that have long and storied connections to the Pentagon — big, new companies such as Google also have very close ties.

'' (There are) all these large companies that are in charge of very big decisions — and it's just a boys» club.

Investors haven't been happy that Dorsey is trying to be the big man at two public companies facing intense competition in a warp - speed tech industry, but Dorsey disclosed in Square IPO filings a side of himself focused on a very big financial contribution that requires a much smaller piece of himself: Roughly 20 percent of his personal holdings in Square stock would go to the Start Small Foundation.

«If you're a small player with a very good product or a big consumer packaged goods company with a small unit, you will struggle to get the attention of some of our larger banners,» said Narayan Iyengar, senior vice president of digital marketing and e-commerce at Albertsons.

In the same class was a student whose dad made big money from working for a company responsible for cutting down those very trees.

At a moment when the world's fourth - largest pharmaceutical company by sales (Pfizer) is eagerly courting the world's ninth - largest (the very same AstraZeneca from which Bristol decoupled)-- offering, in late May, a monumental dowry of around $ 120 billion — one can be forgiven for not noticing the more substantive change that's sweeping the pharmaceutical industry: Big Pharma is getting smaller.

For all the talk of fostering superclusters and creating new companies, it should be noted that there's very little in the way of new financial resources to back that up in the budget — despite the big deficits.

Saputo sees big opportunity there because Brazil's dairy industry is still very fragmented and, geographically, it's close to Argentina, where the Canadian company already has a base.

For me, the importance of setting very public targets was brought home last week, while helping put together a Fortune analysis of how nine of the biggest tech companies compare on diversity.

It is a fascinating story about a very influential company that has relationships with some of the biggest names in healthcare, including: Oakland, Calif. - based Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, UCLA Health in Los Angeles, Arlington - based Texas Health Resources, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mount Sinai Health System in New York City and Duke University Health System in Raleigh, N.C.