By creating a clear company profile and uploading all of their necessary documents, each startup can showcase their brand, allowing potential investors to browse through their information before scheduling time consuming meetings.
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For example: Typing in Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) turns up a single page with a brief company history including pictures of the founders, a company profile, annual sales, employees, office phone numbers, executive's names, stock charts and recent news.
The registration process asks each company to submit information in several categories: basic company profile, general information on number of employees, products and services, financial information on annual revenues, their ability to support electronic business transactions, any quality and environmental management certifications, details on their ethical dealings and social responsibility, information on data security, information on diversity policies, and on their use of independent contractors.
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When I look at the data presented, I am able to see a clear connection between focus on the advancement of women, and the impact that programs like mentoring, leadership training, and coaching have on the company gender profile.
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As NPR's Laura Sydell reports, that's because of a proposal from one very high-profile company.
But we've weathered the storm and become a higher-profile company than when we came in.
Another high-profile company is also generating buzz with the plans for their new headquarters: Apple.
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What happens when a less scrupulous company spoofs a profile update email and causes you to add a profile that redirects all your web traffic, for instance?
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On Feb. 26, the previously low-profile company, which controls more than 400 office properties in second-tier cities and suburbs, was thrust into the limelight when Related Cos. and Corvex Management LP announced they had purchased nearly 10% of the company and offered to buy the remainder.
The comedians Mike Myers and Robin Williams, among other celebrities, have sported Roots clothing, and Budman and Green get a somewhat surer way to increase the company's profile and, perhaps, boost sales at Roots' 140 stores, which include 8 in the U.S. "We hope that people get off the plane and go to a Roots store, " says Budman, 54.
This is the kind of publicity that Unilever, an equally high-profile multinational company, needs to avoid at all costs.
The company has expanded its profile in the online realm, as well.
Another foreign company with a big profile in the U.S. is Switzerland-based Nestle (otc: NSRGY - news - people ), which is well known in the States for its Crunch and Butterfinger candy bars, Toll House cookies and Nesquik chocolate mix.
After reviewing many investigations, discussing this with my colleagues, and examining the latest ACFE report, I decided that this article should profile the company thief and the companies that are most at risk, and then talk about one of the most effective means to stop people we work with from engaging in illegal activities in the workplace.
Not since fast-food giants like McDonald's has an American company found such high-profile success overseas.
Remember, by raising your own profile, you will, in turn, raise the profile of your company.
Heinz I unearthed while doing a profile of the company a few years ago.
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"AngelList helps give me a quick profile of the company and the people, " Mr. Chan says.
Put an end-date on your current position on LinkedIn, and drop the company name from your blogger profile.
The company's own feedback profile is not something to be ashamed of, either.
"We are taking decisive action to fundamentally improve the earnings profile of this company, " Corzine said in a press release.
Facebook provides a high-profile tool for company exposure and branding, and the wide reach of such a social platform can facilitate business networking.
The husband-and-wife team is heading for the exit on the heels of Jeff Weiner, an executive vice president of the company's highest-profile Web properties.
Fiorina leveraged media attention over the next few days to build a star profile inside the company, as Cosmopolitan magazine vied with business publications for interviews.
And mapping a dna profile allows the company to sell the genetic fingerprint to well-heeled Arowana fanciers for thousands of dollars extra, like a racehorse pedigree.
Jeff Weiner, an executive vice president of the company's highest-profile Web properties, left to become entrepreneur in residence for venture capital firms Greylock Partners and Accel Partners.
The company has taken a higher profile in these matters than other computer manufacturers, a show of either bravery or foolishness, depending on how it all works out in the end.
While Prannoy, NDTV's chairman, is the public face of the company, the low-profile Radhika, also 56, generally avoids giving interviews and runs the show behind the scenes as NDTV's managing director.
It will also enhance the company's overall competitive profile.
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