Sentences with phrase «year is a good start»

This news item tells us what we already knew: The Paris agreement of last year is a good start, but inadequate by itself to solve the larger climate problem.

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As our thoughts turn to nailing down plans for the year ahead, it's a good time to start thinking about these new rules of engagement.

I think this will be the year where marketers start to use data to develop better strategies, in order to create better content (with smarter distribution).

For people in their 20s and 30s, Ponnapalli concedes that rules of thumb and general targets are a good place to start since it might be hard to gauge a detailed retirement budget from that many years away.

The AI wave is starting to subside now, but for a good year, it was all AI, AI, AI.

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

With news of both Jessops and HMV closing down just days after the start of the New Year, for people wishing to start up their own business especially, the outlook isn't good.

«I realized that after six years of starting, operating, and growing BirchBox, it was best for me and for the business to step away,» she said.

For me, one of the most important, and surprising, discoveries over the last few years has been that choosing the best approach to balancing business and social concerns starts with a decision to make shareholder interests the higher priority.

It's been 60 years since he started his investment - counselling firm, which now manages more than $ 36 billion in pensions and endowment funds, as well as corporate and private portfolios.

The service and its comparably high prices - starting about $ 10,000 a year, according to many reports - are the reasons it did not place among our best services.

Your goal needs to be to head into January well - rested — how else will you leapfrog your competition and start the year off right?

The idea is that retirees with well - diversified portfolios can start by withdrawing 4 percent (actually, it is closer to 4.5 percent) of their holdings — or $ 4,500 per year for every $ 100,000 of investments — to allow themselves a cost - of - living increase every year and still be reasonably assured of not outliving their money.

When Warren was asked how she stays so optimistic about the future of America, she assured Bee that the country will come out of the Trump years better than it started because «we don't have any other choice.»

And that's good enough for Linda Heidinger, owner and founder of New York City's much - loved Alphabets, the tiny retailer that started out 30 years ago in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan.

That's something that Gerdes learned well during her years doing marketing for various high - tech start - ups, including WordPerfect Corp., PI Systems, and Documentum Inc..

Both players have excelled as starters, putting up career years, and the Warriors» starting five has been the best five - man unit in the league based on net rating.

Akbar Yungai started as a bellhop, working his way up to the front desk at Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel, and is now on the brand's elite Navigator program — where, instead of standing behind a desk, the 30 - year - old approaches guests and encourages them to leave the well - trodden tourist paths.

Additionally, the personal year cycle six, which is good time to start a family, is a great time for the home as well.

Start with just one thing that you're going to stop doing and work your way from there to create an even better business in the New Year.

Jennings suggests soliciting anonymous input from your staff on a situation they were in during the past year that made them uncomfortable as a good starting point.

• Start planning now: Two years in advance is a good bet to ensure you're making the right decision.

«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.»»

While Black Friday is a diluted event, with sales starting earlier in the month at most major chains, it still anchors the biggest shopping weekend of the year and can get a retailer's holiday season off to a good, or bad, start.

«When I started ten years ago in China, China was always absorbing best practices from elsewhere, and they had no problem learning from others,» he said.

But are your undergraduate years also the best time to getting started on building a business?

«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,» says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2 video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).

«We started saving for them years ago like good little planners, but apparently it wasn't enough,» says the 56 - year - old.

Three years is plenty of time to start, grow and even exit a business, but having a personal as well as a business plan will help give you something positive to look back on and provide a solid foundation for any future entrepreneurial endeavors.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP)-- Oil could be flowing through the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year.

«The start of the new year is a good time for expats and prospective expats alike to reflect on what they have achieved to date and start to plan the next steps in their international careers.

Like any start - up, the first thing Churchill did three and a half years ago when he founded VonChurch was build a senior management team, or as he calls it, «a supergroup» that would be as cohesive and successful as some of the best rock bands.

Until Markle started dating Charles and Diana's younger son last year, she was best known for portraying Rachel Zane on the USA Network legal drama Suits.

To best understand what's gone wrong with Western Australia's iron ore industry you need to start by looking back 12 years, to 2003, when an ambitious Andrew Forrest created Fortescue Metals Group.

Telfer is updating its part - time program starting next year to provide more flexibility, allowing students to better balance their professional and academic lives.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

If all goes well, Uncle Sam will soon fold the controversial protective cover that was hastily tossed over America's financial sector when the sky started falling last year.

Within days, a team of designers was in the XJ offices, mapping out the next generation in customer - relationship management software with a clear mandate: «Take the best of what we've done in this space over the past 20 years,» says Tatham, «and starting from scratch, build better than ever before.»

The best time to start investing was 20 years ago.

The value of the asset rose 17 % to above $ 8,000 Friday, which is still well belowits $ 14,000 value when it started the year.

The rate of new entrepreneurs is the second - lowest among the best cities to start a small business, but it's been steadily rising over the past few years.

«For example, high - quality engineers or scientists may be more interested in joining a company started by an entrepreneur who previously started a company in a good industry and year if they believe (justifiably given the evidence) that this track record increases the likelihood of success,» they write.

Best sales people are always even - keel in their approach toward a prospect, whether they are exceeding goals or starting the year afresh.

As a part of Inc.'s annual look at the best industries for starting a business, we decided to highlight the niche sectors that are projected to grow during the next few years and that don't have an industry leader dominating the market.

Apple's marketing through the years may well be some of the most innovative ever, starting with the 1984 Super Bowl commercial from film director Ridley Scott.

This year may be the best time ever to rent space to start your own business: The nation's 102,000 shopping centers are dotted with vacancies that landlords are desperate to fill.

Virtual reality is certainly a big advancement, both technologically and for the entertainment industry, but analysts warn that despite the anticipated media blitz and proclamations that 2016 is the year of VR (and, perhaps, augmented reality as well, depending on what Microsoft does with Hololens), it's going to be a slow start.

After years of false starts with Turner, this was my best shot to bring our companies together.

«For many years, the U.S. was the best place in the world to go start a company,» says Jason Wiens, a policy director at the Kauffman Foundation.

Though Snapchat is not the place that I would recommend doing B2B activity right now (Facebook, LinkedIn, and places like Medium are still your best bet), I am completely convinced that in 24 to 36 months, as the platform dramatically ages up and starts hitting the 30 to 50 year old demo, there will be enormous possibilities.