Sentences with phrase «years in the business there»

I agree after 25 years in the business there's never been a better time to be a writer.

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It debunks the idea that small business is a 30 - year - grind, and introduces the concept of building a business in just three - to - five years that can run for extended periods without the founder being physically there.

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.

You want to get to a there, a point in the future (usually three to five years out) at which time your business will have a different set of resources and abilities as well as greater profitability and increased assets.

The company prints about a million business cards a day.It is a similar story throughout the broad range of others products, including brochures, catalogues and corporate reports.Such growth has not been without its problems.Expansion has meant six complete moves in 10 years and after being at Balcatta just a year, there is a need to move again — to more than double the size of just the print operations to more than 2,000 square metres.

«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.

Nearly two - thirds (61 percent) of survey espondents said that there was an increase in business succession in 2012 and about 57 percent forecast a continued rise next year.

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.

Over the years of building the Female Entrepreneur Association, I've come to realize that there are some key things we must focus on in order build the business success we desire.

Over the past 20 years there has been a significant amount of data showing that investment in the human element in business is a profit - making proposition.

«The processing time is about 30 seconds and there's no sales tax,» says Dan Lee, the general manager of Green Avenue Market, one of five family - run businesses in Brooklyn, N.Y., which have accepted Bitcoin for close to a year.

In the last few years, there's been a huge uptick in women - owned businesseIn the last few years, there's been a huge uptick in women - owned businessein women - owned businesses.

His role at Monsanto grew quickly from there — in the years since, he led the company's marketing, sales, and technology operations and business units on four continents.

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.

There are more than a million business books in print, and thousands more published every year.

Whether it's your first week in business or three years down the road, we are always there to guide and advise you in any situation for the life of your business.

There were 3,400 legal defenses mounted by small businesses in 2011 for patent cases, a 32 % increase over the prior year, according to research paper from 2012 by Boston University law professors James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.

Many years ago, I realized that there are enormous advantages in developing new data - driven services and solutions that provide real - time access to comparative corporate intelligence in ways that could overcome the barriers to information flows that exist within many large businesses.

I can remember in the early years of my business (now 15 years old) when I knew that the answer was to delegate and to outsource but unfortunately there was no one to delegate to and no money for outsourcing.

«Let's face it: There is something wrong with our system when I can leave [Harvard] and make billions of dollars in 10 years, while millions of students can't afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business,» said Zuckerberg.

Small business owners are more satisfied with the federal government than they have been in recent years, but a new survey has found there are still a lot of changes the sector would like to see implemented to help run their businesses efficiently.

As a person who has dedicated over 20 years of my professional life in the pursuit of assisting clients in setting direction and driving change, I think that I've seen just about all there is to see when it comes to business and cultural transformation.

Even being in business for 10 years on the internet, there is always a continual struggle to keep our keywords ranking in the search engines.

There's a lot to learn from so many years in business.

If there's a blip on this otherwise impressive record, it's Cool's experience with Benjamin Moore, the 131 - year - old paint company Cool was sent in to help after a slew of management and strategic problems (Fortune profiled the business» blues last month).

So there's a big cultural component of that and as well we have some forcing functions in the business that look for every year where can we drive efficiencies, where can we drive more effectiveness, where can we invest ahead of the curve?

Your startup may have the coolest technology in the world, but without people who believe in your product and service, who are willing to work for you, to buy from you, to do business with you month after month and year after year, then that $ 1 million number will be what it is for the majority of startups out there: only a dream.

I started as a receptionist and throughout the nearly 10 years I was there, I proved my value in developing business systems to help the company grow from one location to five throughout Oregon.

A: There's an inflection point that you hit where if you only remain focused on your core business you might be out of business in a few years.

After a three - year stint there, she moved to one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley: Google, first as a «pre-sales engineer» and finally in a business development role, working with Google product and engineering teams.

No matter how healthy your business is, chances are good that there are some financial issues you could have managed better in the past year.

But there is this: «Perlowin knows a lot about the marijuana business, having served 9 years in federal custody for his role in a smuggling ring during the 1970s and early 1980s.»

Bates says there's a solid incentive for addressing work - life issues, and it's directly related to the reason she and two partners started their firm 15 years ago: «It's a highly competitive market and we want to attract the best people in the business.

This metropolitan area (which includes Oakland and Fremont, Calif.) saw the largest proportion of venture capital - backed business exits over the past year compared to other major cities, meaning there are a large number of what Kauffman identifies as «growth companies» in San Francisco and the East Bay.

There are some basic decisions you must make like will you offer seller financing; will you sell the entire business entity or just assets; will you keep any assets; will the buyer likely retain or replace staff; will you maintain a minority stake of the ownership; will you be expected to put in a year of transition time after the business is sold.

My friend Jeff Saut at Raymond James noted that there are people who have been in this business over eight years and have never experienced a Fed rate hiking cycle.

Leaders of global firms operating in China say doing business there has become far more difficult in the five years since Xi became president.

«In Europe, we have business in hand that will ramp up over the next several years that will almost triple our sales there,» says HasenfratIn Europe, we have business in hand that will ramp up over the next several years that will almost triple our sales there,» says Hasenfratin hand that will ramp up over the next several years that will almost triple our sales there,» says Hasenfratz.

At GE (GE), Beth Comstock's «clean tech» Ecomagination initiative looks like feel - good marketing; under the hood, though, there's a real business that last year generated $ 18 billion in revenue.

Additionally, Symphony CEO David Gurle said in an interview with Business Insider last year that there are something like 6 million investment professionals in the US; Morgan Stanley estimates 327,000 people have Bloomberg Terminals.

His girlfriend of two years was there when he launched his business, she was there that life - changing night in Vegas, and she's there today.

Since the explosion of the Internet, and in the last few years on social media, there has been an avalanche of advice about what it takes to grow a business.

Over the years there have been plenty of times when it seemed to me that everyone else's business was so much better than mine and not just a little better, but better in every way imaginable.

But after a couple of years in the business (during which he relocated to Saskatoon), he realized there was a flaw in the prevailing sales paradigm, one that, as a natural problem solver, he couldn't let go.

The 25 - year - old reportedly denied hefty buyout offers from both Facebook and Google because «There are very few people in the world who get to build a business like this.

«There have been 20 new businesses in our area the last year,» says Wes Regan, executive director of the Hastings Crossing business association.

Previously, the GBTA forecasted that business travel spending would grow 3.2 percent in 2016 to nearly $ 300 billion and that there would be an estimated 514 million trips this year, an increase of 3.1 percent.

In the wake of last year's results, the Liberals moved up the opening of the application period, then extended it by two weeks in January when it looked like there would be a shortfall in businesses applying for the prograIn the wake of last year's results, the Liberals moved up the opening of the application period, then extended it by two weeks in January when it looked like there would be a shortfall in businesses applying for the prograin January when it looked like there would be a shortfall in businesses applying for the prograin businesses applying for the program.

In the two years I've run my business, there have been good months and there have been slow months.