Sentences with phrase «years been in business with»

Nor is it clear whether Voorhis knew that his nemesis, the Chandler family, had for several years been in business with Dresser Industries.

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DURING the sustained economic boom that came to a screeching halt one year ago, business leaders were unanimous in advocating a long - term approach to dealing with the big strategic issues.

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that two years ago launched its business with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices, where brands such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon.com dominate.

Cruz, along with Texas Representative Jeb Hensarling, was part a congressional push to end the 81 - year - old Export - Import Bank, which supports thousands of businesses in their exporting endeavors, and which has returned an estimated $ 7 billion to Treasury in recent years.

One small business that's benefited is RCS Nuclear of Charlotte, N.C. Back in 1997, RCS was an environmental and engineering services company with revenue of $ 5 million a year.

The legalization of recreational marijuana in Canada has been a gold rush, with firms racing to prepare for what could be a multi-billion-dollar market when it opens for business later this year.

As you pointed out, my life in business started with Student magazine when I was a few years older than you are now.

Chris converted his obsession with racing fast cars into a lucrative business model that, sixteen years later, is pulling in $ 6 million - a-year.

To take advantage, you must have an export credit sales volume of less than $ 5 million in the past three years before application, your company must qualify as a small business under the Small Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive nebusiness under the Small Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive neBusiness Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive nebusiness at least one year with a positive net worth.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

This year marks the 50th anniversary with events being held in Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.. Each city will offer tips, tools and trainings for small businesses to start, succeed and grow.

«With every standard - deviation increase in a spouse's conscientiousness, an employee is likely to earn about $ 4,000 more a year,» reported the Harvard Business Review.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

Small Business Saturday will be the busiest day of the year for many independent businesses, with millions of shoppers expected to participate in the nationwide occasion on November 25.

There appears to have been a surprising shift in the music business last year, as sales of digital downloads fell, with fans turning instead to streaming services such as Spotify and vinyl.

Having founded a video game company, and with major investments in an eyewear company, Piqué is increasingly involved in business strategy himself; in 2017 he underwent an executive program at Harvard Business School, and he says he hopes to run Barça in the future, after he finally retires from football, probably in a few years&raqubusiness strategy himself; in 2017 he underwent an executive program at Harvard Business School, and he says he hopes to run Barça in the future, after he finally retires from football, probably in a few years&raquBusiness School, and he says he hopes to run Barça in the future, after he finally retires from football, probably in a few years» time.

So some analysts and investors with long memories are wary of the promise of using the millimeter wave rights for business cases that sound eerily familiar, despite the obvious advances in technology that have occurred over the past 20 years.

I've been intimately involved with the management team and coauthoring the strategy for the company here over the last two years and operating in every part of the business.

Mark Briggs has been representing businesses and their owners for nearly 20 years, first as an associate and partner at the national law firm Quarles & Brady and now with Briggs Law Group, which he founded in 2009.

When choosing a business opportunity, keep in mind that if you buy an opportunity from a company with a sizable number of outlets that's been in business for at least three years, you'll pay more for this established concept that you would for a newer one.

Add to that other platform licensing deals Tehrani's business has lined up with Merck & Co., Eli Lilly and Co. and Celgene Corp. in recent years, and Zymeworks is set to receive a revenue stream of up to $ 4 billion, plus royalties.

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

Outsourcing has become one of the hottest topics in the business world over the past few years, with so many tasks in the workplace now capable of being carried out by outside parties.

In 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year perioIn 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year perioin revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year perioin 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year period.

The way I term it to my team is that we've been essentially in the cloud business for 18 or 19 years with one captive customer for many, many of those years.

Chris converted his obsession with racing fast cars into a lucrative business model that 16 years later, is pulling in $ 6 million - a-year

National Small Business Week runs from May 12 to 16 this year, with events being held in cities from San Francisco to Washington.

It's with this goal in mind that he founded The Flatiron School alongside Adam Enbar, a graduate of Harvard Business School, who two years set out to rethink traditional higher education.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

He is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager with 10 + years of experience in the IT arena, advisor to several fast - growing ventures, popular blogger and contributing author in tech and business media (Inc., Wired, Pando Daily) Also, Andrew frequently speaks about project management, business and innovation at such events as E2 Innovate, PMI Global Congresses, Enterprise Connect, IBM Connect and more.

Make sure that before you start out, you have a solid scope of where the business is heading in the next year and aim to move with it.

Major is in the small minority, with others including Komal Sri - Kumar, president of Sri - Kumar Global Strategies, who wrote on Business Insider earlier this week that the 10 - year yield would slide below 2 % to 1.5 %.

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).

Queen's was one of the last schools in Canada without a major donor's name on its business department, but that changed last year with a record - breaking $ 50 - million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, founder of First National Financial Corp. and a Queen's alumnus.

«I'm proud of the business that I built over the last 40 years and all that I have achieved with Formula One,» Ecclestone said in the statement.

«I went down to Silicon Valley a number of years ago, and there were places where you just get [hit] with this entrepreneurial energy when you walked in the door,» recalls the business graduate.

«I've used three Dropcams in my businesses for over a year and have been very pleased with them,» another user says.

Because disruptions are nothing new: We've seen dozens of them in recent years: A young entrepreneur has a big idea, shakes things up and emerges with a multi-billion dollar business that leaves people gaping, imitating, disbelieving and envying, all amid a dizzying swirl of emotions.

If you're one of them, and you have expertise in, say, one or two areas, the broad range of questions you must answer — with little or no prior experience to draw on — burdens those first few years of running a business with challenges.

«Years ago when I was very young,» recalls Taffer, the host of TV show «Bar Rescue» and a former business owner, in a recent interview with Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»business owner, in a recent interview with Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»Business Insider, «a VP of Hyatt looked at me and said, «You look, but you don't see.»»

Evans, who previously ran a design and marketing agency in Montreal, was looking for a new business venture, and connected with Mansbridge a few years ago.

«On a year - over-year basis, the frack business in general is looking quite a bit better,» said Greg Colman, an analyst with National Bank Financial.

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.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Further information on these factors and other risks that may affect the company's business is included in filings it makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including its Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, Form 10 - Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2018, and in its other SEC filings.

And in the midst of its troubles throughout 2014 — Levi stepped back as president and CEO to become executive chairman in November — GrowthWorks was the recipient, along with BDC Venture Capital, of the «Deal of the Year» award from Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association following its sale of Layer 7 Technologies, a developer of security software for businesses.

But that's not the case — though Business Insider Intelligence projects that US in - store mobile payments volume will quintuple in the next five years, usage is consistently lagging below expectations, with estimates for 2019 falling far below what we expected just two years ago.

Canning MHR Don Randall says residential estates and businesses in his electorate are missing out on communications infrastructure and may not receive it for up to eight years as the Gillard government presses ahead with the national broadband network.

NAPA, Calif. (AP)-- Businesses in California's wine capital are mopping up thousands of dollars in high - end vintages and sweeping glass from ghostly downtown streets that officials hope will soon bustle again with tourists following the San Francisco Bay Area's strongest earthquake in 25 years.