Sentences with phrase «year as a building»

Over the past year as I built the Thinking About Cloth Diapers website, I often thought about whether there was a way to use this website to help others less fortunate.

The Chicago school board has voted to close four high schools in the Englewood neighborhood over the next three years as it builds a replacement school in the South Side community.

One powerful strategy is the cash out refinance — over the years as you build up equity, you can refinance your loan to access the equity tax - free.

In a normal year, that's looking like a $ 1100 - 1200 tax credit, and it will decrease each year as we build more equity and pay less in interest.

These observations are being collected in our project over a period of several years as we build up a statistical data base of calving events.

Think of the first year as a building block for future success.

We have already invested significantly in this area and will continue to do so over the coming months and years as we build a market - leading technology offering as part of our client services.

Not exact matches

She says it can take as long as five years to build deals with major lenders, but she was able to make it happen after just two - and - a-half years.

In the early years of Celebration, the theater held church services every Sunday morning as the town waited for a place of worship to be built.

He's visited countless thousands of homes over the years, which has allowed him to build up what he describes as an intuition that's «born over time and that you may not see in the moment.»

As a productivity and outsourcing advocate for many years, Ari Meisel built Leverage to provide his clients the virtual assistance they need.

Alan Bishop has spent 40 years building insurance broker EBM into a national player and worked through many business cycles over that time, but arguably none as tough as the current conditions in Western Australia.

After 15 years of building companies such as Hotbar.com and SmartShopper.com, Oren Dobronsky checked out of technology and into... hummus.

When you've been building apps for desktop and web environments for 10 years, you become embedded in your own methodologies and what you know as the best practices.

«What I think is really important as you build a growth plan for a company — and our growth plan is really a five - year plan — is that your investment strategy is aligned with that,» he says.

As such, he estimates it would take at least 25 years to develop the technology to build and land a ship of the size that Musk is proposing, which would place a manned trip to Mars sometime in the 2040s.

It all lends credence to Tehrani's claim that, from the outset 15 years ago, he sought to build a different kind of biotechnology firm — «a truly rational drug development company,» as he puts it.

«We are a nation of immigrants whose diverse backgrounds, ideas and points of view have helped us build and invent as a nation for over 240 years.»

More than 500 were launched in 2008, about as many as were built in the prior seven years combined, according to Musser.

«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

Referring to the company's plans for the next five years as «intentions,» Kopke says he aims to build an organization «that constantly adapts to changing market conditions and feedback.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

All of which means that as Bouchard prepares to hand over the reins of the company to a new CEO later this year, the empire he's built could face some daunting new challenges.

Three years earlier, Cramton quit his job as a furniture salesman to focus on building the company, which he had been running part time out of his basement in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Mihaly, who is returning to Burning Man for the seventh time this year, has helped build a gifting tree where people can take a gift from a tree sculpture as they walk by it.

But as the years progressed, Monaghan never designed a building, focusing instead on transforming the way pizza was made and sold.

As an example, about a year after VMR was up - and - running, everyone told me to invest in brand awareness but building a brand has little value if your flagship product can't evolve for your customers.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

Apple needed market penetration, which is why in the store's first few years it grew slowly as Apple was building its audience of device owners.

Eaton Construction from Portland, OR, boasts quality craftsmanship built on a family tradition of 400 years in the industry, starting with the arrival of Francis Eaton, a «House Carpenter» as described in the ships rolls of the Mayflower, to Plymouth Colony in 1620.

Scheduling big work events such as board meetings or conferences in advance provides anchor points to build the year around.

We talked to Martin Fink, HP's chief technology officer and the director of HP Labs, about how the company went about building the Machine as well as the 75 - year - old company's approach to innovation.

David Tyerman of Canaccord Genuity said the efforts could save between $ 85 million and $ 170 million a year in wages and help to mitigate the liquidity strain the company faces as it prepares to build inventories next year.

In the course of 20 years, Google has built a stellar reputation as an employer.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

Pershing Square also dropped a few investments in the second quarter, selling off nearly 11.7 million shares of spirits company Beam, which sold to Japan's Suntory earlier this year, as well as roughly 3.7 million shares of apartment building operator Apartment Investment & Management.

Russian tech execs met in Moscow in early October to discuss how to build up their industry, which has lagged for years, as the country imported whatever it needed, largely from the U.S. (where many Russians now work in Silicon Valley).

One year into office, he remains determined to get something built, even if it's not as vast as he used to suggest.

The supervisor of Dianella - based building company Frayson has been fined $ 15,000 for failing in his duties as a manager and supervisor on work carried out at 20 Perth properties over a 10 - year period.

Bill Siwicki of Internet Retailer references Goldman Sachs, saying, «Tablets will play an increasingly important role as worldwide consumer spending via mobile jumps from $ 204 billion in 2014 to $ 626 billion in 2018...» If you aren't building ecommerce businesses with mobile in mind, you may be irrelevant in three to five years.

A lot of work and development has gone into building on storage technology over the last few years, and as such, they've gotten a lot better.

So in June 2015, the couple made another concession to inventions: They left Manhattan, where they'd lived for 22 years, and moved upstate to a house they built as a future retirement home.

As an entrepreneur with a career spanning over 16 years and multiple successful companies under his belt, Blake B. Johnson knows that building a solid core team is a pillar of innovation.

While social platforms have established themselves as incredibly powerful resources for building that sort of relationship with fans, followers, readers, and loyalists, we've seen over the past few years that many of those platforms become pay - to - play.

In fact, Musk has been working with Hawthorne city officials for over a year about building the tunnel, which was originally conceived as a way to get SpaceX employees across from the parking lot to the building safely.

During his 11 - year tenure as CEO of TD, he has shepherded the bank through controversial policy changes, a successful U.S. expansion and built a company that earns genuine affection from its customers.

As founder and CEO of the Malala Fund, this poised 24 - year - old is determined to build a lasting organization that helps women around the world get access to education.

They've created tens of thousands of inner city parking spaces in the last year without so much as turning a spade of dirt or razing a single building.

Howard Schultz, the leader of Starbucks, said on Thursday he would step down as chief executive next year, handing over to his personally selected successor the management of the company he built into the world's largest coffee business, with over 25,000 stores in 75 countries.

After years of iPhone users getting let down by Siri, the first truly mainstream voice agent, Amazon billed the Echo as a speaker that, by the way, has a few smart voice commands built in.