For the record, I owned Google for a long time before selling a year or so ago.
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You are, in effect, investing in a one-year bond and at the same time selling a put option.
What we're really selling is a good time - you can hear the people laughing, screaming, having a good time.
If you know you're selling at a tough time, it can be a tough call, but you might have to drop that price a little.
"We're talking about selling thousands at a time, " he says.
This is in essence, a ban on selling the stock for a predetermine time following the IPO.
Other factors relate to discontinued operations (booking a one-time gain from selling a business is bad), corporate governance (companies get black marks for having poison pills), inventory (if it piles up faster than sales, then business may be weakening) and free cash flow (a declining number is bad).
Nintendo is having a hard time selling thirty dollar portable games and they have a comparatively protected market, so Square has a challenge ahead of them with a similar proposition in a more wide-open and competitive marketplace.
He was grateful for the work, but a man selling shoes spends a great deal of time on his knees.
People are having a hard time selling their houses, but I don't see a recession at hand, so I want to stick by my relatively optimistic forecast overall.
Believe it or not, automakers may have a tough time selling those attributes to consumers later this year, when a new generation of diesel-powered vehicles arrives in dealerships.
In other words, it's a tough time to be a chief information officer, preparing your Web servers for more than a million new Web-goers a week--and a good time to be the company selling a shortcut.
Many of the best professional home sellers will shy away from putting a lot of time into selling your home if it's a mess.
Which is probably more than it would receive via a conventional route of selling billions of pounds of shares at a time.
Everything from dumping Time Inc. to selling AOL's access business to a Time Warner Cable (nyse: TWC - news - people ) spinoff is a possibility under his reign.
The deal will allow Sirius to make a big marketing push at holiday time, traditionally a big selling period for satellite radio.
And since most hedge funds have limited redemption periods (often no more than a 2-3 week window once per year) a large amount of selling becomes concentrated into a relatively short period of time.
Multinational companies have a hard time selling overseas when the dollar is so expensive.
Just like its competitors, Tower Records is having a hard time selling music at its stores.
According to Hilco Real Estate's Mr. Nagrani, unprofitable fast-food locations are having a hard time selling their sites to other franchisees and shutting their doors instead.
Graff says he's not interested in selling out, even at a time when private equity firms like Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa are investing in British jewelers Garrard and Stephen Webster.
"If it wasn't for the big guys underwriting the shares, Sinopec would have a hard time selling, " says Jim Norman, an oil analyst with industry newsletter Platt's Oilgram in New York.
Corporations are having a tough time selling short-term debt.
Anytime you use unconventional conventions to tell a story, particularly at a time when pop culture is so self-reflective and it's difficult to find a unique voice, I think you are going to have a hard time selling it to people.
And so even the neighbors who are left who are in foreclosure, they are finding that they have a hard time selling their homes for the prices that they need to satisfy their mortgages because the housing market has headed south so badly.
While there's no shortage of 3DS iterations headed to the market, Nintendo is having a harder time selling its new Wii U. Profits for the year are also half of its own predictions, despite the fact that Nintendo reduced its rosy estimates in the interim.
Why There Will Never Be Another Drug Like Lipitor And a look at the story of the best-selling drug of all time, now drawing to a close.
Amtech pointed out in a research note that a test Google search of each of the top 10 best-selling prescription drugs at that time turned up a slew of ads for Canadian online drug peddlers like CanadaDrugPharmacy.com and CanadaDrugCenter.com.
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Third, there could be a time lapse between selling one portfolio and acquiring another.
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