These unrealized investments were either purchased at high multiples, were in sectors sensitive to the business cycle that have yet to recover or were in larger companies that have limited exit options.
We do pretty much all the product development in Melbourne and competing with the likes of ESPN and larger companies in the sporting social media space.
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And the presence of larger companies in the market is probably what accounts for the presence of mutual fund investors.
Without technology to boost their productivity, small businesses could not run their business effectively, let alone compete with larger companies in their markets.
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AMDs Vantis and Lattice Semiconductor are next in size, while larger companies like Lucent Technologies and Cypress Semiconductor are beginning to grapple for market share.
Local TV rights fees for individual teams also continue to soar, especially in larger markets as media companies see the 162-games schedule as the key tent-pole to any regional sports network.
This acquisition follows a wave of consolidation in biotechnology, as larger companies try to sit at the big pharma table and smaller ones seek shelter from the vicissitudes of the stock market.
The priority for those framing Europe's new financial regulations should be to encourage rather than impede the emergence of new providers of finance, including insurers, mutual funds, specialist lenders or even larger companies in the supply chain.
Sometimes, it may be that a smaller business like a construction business where it's relatively capital intensive is going to have difficulty competing with some of the larger companies in terms of buying the equipment that they need.
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However the larger companies in this nation are subsidized and yes gentlemen I know how expensive it is to bring oil to the market and how many other nations and companies there are with which you must compete.
Competitors in this space include larger aerospace companies and suppliers at one end and small hobbyists and open source options on the other end, Downey says.
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Another area for which small businesses have not prepared as well as larger companies is in the preparation of alternatives for the supply chain and disruption of goods.
Beijing city officials indicated in December that they would be understanding if larger companies were unable to convert all of their millions of users in time.
What we learned in the process is that some larger companies need help with approaching smaller companies, too.
It started investing in older, larger private and public companies with substantial revenue.
The lack of a reliable connection isn't just important to small business and domestic users - some larger companies are located in rural areas.
We believe that this is a result of a general improvement in the overall advertising market as larger companies regain sufficient advertising budgets to target a broader range of audiences.
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Michael Holman, an analyst with Lux Research, an emerging-technology consultancy based in New York, says that larger companies can probably cope with the research because they are more familiar with the risks of liability and regulation.
Humana also plans to offer self-insurance to companies enrolling as few as 26 workers in some markets where it previously restricted such services to larger companies, according to an email from a Humana sales executive to a broker.
In fact, as the companies became larger and larger the executives of these mega-firms tacitly or explicitly encouraged even more complexity by allowing managers in far flung places to operate in their own ways, with their own processes.
At the same time, smaller recent IPOs like Youku (YOKU) could reach new all-time highs in the next year, along with larger companies like Tencent, Baidu (BIDU) and Sina (SINA). it will be very bullish again across the world of technology.
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One part of the endowment focuses on community development work, mostly in the outer boroughs, such as job training, nonprofit real estate development, the Freelancers Union health care program and support for food businesses from artisanal food companies arising in Brooklyn to larger food processing plants that provide employment.
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In failure entrepreneurs push larger, slower-adapting companies to keep pace and step up their productivity game.
And more than anything else, this last reality is helping small businesses compete and grow in ways that were formerly the domain of larger companies.
Because of Moffett's reputation as a superb geologist, McMoRan set about approaching a lot of the larger companies that had unexplored acreage in the shallow Gulf region to work cooperatively.
Whether or not the information was material will be a sticking point in this case but the larger lesson for public companies and executives with social media accounts is this: Make sure your investors can easily find your social media accounts especially if your CEO is updating followers and friends about the company.
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"We hope that Pfizer will, in time, grow into one of the larger cancer companies, " says William Slichenmyer , Pfizer's head of oncology.
According to analysis of average earnings growth rate over the past 30 years, in fact, small companies grow slower than their larger counterparts.
But keep in mind that founding managing partner Neil Shen has trended from venture investments in startups to larger funds for fast-growth emerging companies.
But recently, two larger Chinese companies, who went public in the United States via more traditional IPO methods and with the help of more prestigious investment bankers, have also been accused of fraud by short sellers.
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