Sentences with phrase «years the deal done»

I think we have had a two tier NHS for years the deal done with consultants is a disgrace the deal was done in 1948 to allow the rich consultants to carry on.

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«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

Having done more deals in more businesses than I can count, I've got a few simple rules that have saved me tons of money, helped me dodge more than a few bullets, and added a few years to my life.

Though Obama has proposed keeping the loan breaks through the end of the year, it's best not to wait another minute to apply — the deal runs out when the funding does.

Meal kit mania may fade in a few years, and when it does, the newspapers and magazines will quietly tiptoe away from the business, just like they did with daily deals.

I was going from a record company to the airline business, so the key thing in that deal was that if it didn't work out, I could hand the 747 back to Boeing after the first year.

Should the Justice Department move to block the deal, it would come as something of a surprise, especially considering that the Justice Department's top antitrust regulator, Makan Delrahim, even said earlier this year that he did not think the deal presented a «major antitrust problem» due to the fact that neither of the two companies directly competes in the same spaces.

Priced at $ 9.99 per month or $ 99.99 per year, Beats Music has reportedly struggled to poach subscribers from rivals Spotify and Rdio, but that didn't stop Apple from gobbling up Beats this summer in a cash and stock deal valued at $ 3 billion, vaulting Dre's personal fortune to $ 800 million and making him the richest figure in hip - hop history.

As a result, U.K. officials have already approached the World Trade Organization to see what they can do in case they can not reach a deal within the two - year deadline.

Does Salesforce's commitment to spending $ 400 million on AWS infrastructure over the next four years have anything to do with Amazon signing a deal to give its employees access to all of Salesforce's products?

If Trump doesn't live up to his deal - making promises we could face another four years of legislative stalemate — which for many businesses may not be such a bad thing either.

What does this deal mean in the scope of a massive behemoth like Nike, which earlier this year promised to reach $ 50 billion in sales by 2020?

He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood studio to do a proper film.

«Last year Macy's made their best deals available days before Thanksgiving and so did Best Buy.

«A few years ago I would have dismissed this kind of deal as too expensive, but I did the analysis and was pleased to find it will only take a few midsize deals to pay back the investment,» McElaney says.

As we approach the heaviest shopping season of the year, many of us will do our holiday shopping from the comfort of our homes, taking advantage of the Cyber Monday deals, or praying Amazon makes that last - minute delivery in time for gift giving.

The most substantive results are eight deals done over the last 5 years that I have been involved with coming out of the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Venture Labs.

George Kogan, a Russian - born American investment adviser in Moscow, says that years of «fantastic» deals, including numerous IPOs, have run dry: «U.S. hedge funds are all saying, «We don't invest in Russia.

«One of the things most founders deal with today that they didn't deal with five years ago is navigating the major platforms — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,» he said.

Garcea also noted the transaction is the third great deal done by Amaya, following the purchase of slot firm Cadillac Jack in 2012 and of casino gaming and lottery designer and manufacturer Diamond Game Enterprises earlier this year.

So how do we explain the valuation jump, particularly given that 23andme last year was dealt a severe blow when the FDA said it could no longer market its personalized DNA testing kit to U.S. consumers (Update: The restriction is specific to marketing health reports to U.S. consumers, whereas ancestry and raw uninterpreted genetic data reports were unaffected.)

Venture capitalists have done their part to fuel the madness, plunging $ 3.8 billion into 332 security deals last year, up from $ 2.8 billion and 299 transactions in 2014, according to CB Insights.

As the clock counted down to the end of Howard Stern's five - year deal with satellite radio broadcaster SiriusXM, speculation about what he might do rose to feverish levels.

Not only has the billionaire businessman turned president - elect called for doing away with trade deals favored by President Barack Obama, he expressed interest in renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement, a 22 year - old trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that eliminated most tariffs on products traded between the countries and strengthened intellectual property enforcement.

Since Legere kicked off the first Uncarrier deal and did away with two - year contracts back in 2013, T - Mobile has soared.

years ago, but the financial crisis hit, and a deal didn't work for either of us at that time.

But Delrahim, who has lobbied on behalf of AT&T in the distant past, said in an interview on Canadian television last year he didn't see the deal as having a major antitrust problem.

Shah's CSRs also reach out to customers on social media outlets and networks to engage them in dialogue, which helps CSN get candid feedback about the company and its reps. «We have enhanced many consumer promotions, deals and rewards this year and plan to do the same in the next year — in an effort to bolster customer retention, interest and loyalty,» he said.

For example, when U.S. health insurers Anthem and Aetna separately announced deals two years ago to acquire peers Cigna and Humana, they did not reveal which assets they would be willing to divest.

The company did a sort of trial run earlier this year, by giving its blessing to a quasi-affiliate called Maiden Lane (named after the street in San Francisco where AngelList is based), which raised $ 25 million to support select syndicate deals with up to $ 100,000 each.

The product - placement deal, which was sealed with a handshake and didn't cost the store a dime, was a huge success, helping to boost sales nearly 50 % in two years.

He has since gone long on Valeant, saying such «platform companies» — those that grow through bolt - on acquisitions — enrich their shareholders with each new deal, as Valeant did when it acquired Salix Pharmaceuticals earlier this year (Valeant shares are up 49 % since then).

Salix Pharmaceuticals, which Valeant itself bought last year, did not have a permanent CEO when the deal was announced, but its acting CEO at the time, Thomas D'Alonzo, likely already knows Valeant pretty well.

Last year, Microsoft Ventures chief Nagraj Kashyap told VentureBeat that the overwhelming majority of startups the company invests in are using clouds that compete with Azure at the time of the deal, and the tech titan doesn't force a change.

If someone only does a few deals a year, only talk to them if they approached you, someone gave you a warm intro or they have relevant experience and background in your space.

While a 1 percent fee doesn't sound like a big deal, it means you're paying $ 10,000 for every $ 1 million under management — and you're paying that fee every year for as long as the firm manages your money.

But research conducted by Dealnews reveals that last year Black Friday had only five percent more deals than Cyber Monday did, a drop of five percent from the prior year.

I did a deal with David Chilton three years ago with a company called Steeped Tea.

The WSJ notes that the regulators have gone further than they did when approving AT&T's bid for DirecTV last year, also banning Charter from imposing fees for interconnection deals on companies like Netflix.

Twitter says it wants to do more NFL - style deals — and it points out that it aired more than 800 hours of live - streaming content in the first quarter of this year, including sports, news and entertainment.

Less than a year after buying Virgin America, Alaska Air is facing a question few could have imagined when the deal was done.

Listen to Bill Vogelgesang, a senior vice-president at the Cleveland investment - and merchant - banking firm Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Co. «We see deals — and are doing deals — now that could never have gotten done five or six years ago.

Likewise, corporations move too slowly — 20 % of companies take more than six months to do a deal, which may as well be six decades in startup years.

I think that means it will be a big year for Chinese companies doing overseas deals.»

«When businesses get these breaks and special deals from governments, you see they promise a bunch of jobs that they usually can't deliver; they promise a bunch of economic growth that doesn't happen; and then once their 5 -, 10 -, 15 - year deal has expired, then... they're looking to either re-up those special agreements or they're going to move somewhere else,» Barnes said.

On the surface, the deal — Amazon's biggest acquisition in its 21 - year history — doesn't exactly look cheap.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

Doing so would have been relatively inexpensive: According to Darren Rovell of ESPN, «Nike failed to match a deal worth less than $ 4 million a year.»

S2 did another deal the following year, and then six more in 2014.

As a 38 year old who no longer has the same amount of energy dealing with people, and who has discovered creating online products as the best form of passive income, I'm very happy I don't have two sets of people to deal with!