Market used in a sentence

Market in a sentence as a noun

You're in the hottest market ever in terms of hiring right now. If you want a job immediately, you will have many offers for it.

They made millions selling their stock before the market truly understood what a **** business they were running. Meanwhile, front-line employees sat with their plummeting stock locked up.

Our trajectory is clear: extreme penetration of a lucrative niche market in Year 1, and world domination in Year 2. We've already grown 500% in our first 2 weeks after launch.

I worked for a large investment bank about 10 years ago, writing trading programs for quant traders who were market makers. The quants called guys like him "retail" investors and they gleefully picked off all those trades.

Maybe if CEO's weren't illegally conspiring to drive wages below their market value, there wouldn't be a so-called "engineer shortage"? I mean it's risible.

Beta' apps or apps that you write for close friends/family can be distributed via other means than the main app market. This article admits that he ignored all of the warnings he was given, and now accuses Google of unfair business practice.

They got to play by different rules than the folks whose hard work got them to IPO. Instead of being subject to lockup, like the rest of Zynga, they got to cash out early, before the true state of their company was fully appreciated by the market. So what's the lesson?

Dropbox is targeting a B2C market and started with poor twenty-somethings. Github, and virtually every other thing that costs more than $20 a month, targets primarily a B2B market.

Market in a sentence as a verb

Sometimes the market has more than one invisible hand. Edit: A good point by a fellow commentor - no independent investigation has been performed into the QWest story.

But this is really very much a solution for the consumer market, where convenience and usability are critical features of a security system. Sometimes infosec folks forget that.

It's a market that's developed in response to the fact that nerds are addicted to feeling like they're just a little bit smarter than everyone else. I think the same rush we get from learning something counter-intuitive and novel is the same reason that many of us have read pg's essays - particularly the early ones.

The rest of folks are compensated at prevailing market rates for their technical skills -- and incidentally, American programmers are paid better than in almost any other country. But claiming that "computer programmers don't get respect" is broken on so many levels.

The use of leaded gasoline was a classic market failure. It saved a small number of companies a relatively small amount of money, but was on the net a huge negative for the overall economic because it basically pumped lead directly into the bloodstream of children through their lungs, making them dumber.

Yes, the effect of the copying on the market or value of the copyrighted works actually enhances the sales of books for the copyright holders by increasing their visibility and making them accessible to potential buyers, and this too favors a finding of fair use. All this is true, and is pretty carefully analyzed in the decision.

I learned how to rigorously research the market and use data to make product decisions, rather than making decisions based on what seems best to one person. Founding a startup, I learned the limitations of all of the above, and that even if you know in theory what can go wrong, it's quite a different matter to avoid committing those mistakes too. I learned a lot more technical skills; it turns out that no matter how well you prepared in your job, finding a workable startup opportunity requires that you do things that you don't know how to do. I learned how to talk to other people and gather information about the market from ordinary conversations.

Quote Examples using Market

Among other things, this led to HP owning the printer market. Then "professional" management came in and killed the proverbial goose. They had to focus more on the "bottom line". To do what was easy to measure and track, rather than what was necessary for the next step of the company, and now HP is a mere shadow of its former glory -- directionless and bleeding. 3M and Corning have largely avoided this fate, but it seems that Google won't. This should make a lot of entrepreneurs happy, as there will continue to be a lot of top-down management-driven products that, if history shows, will continue to be market failures.

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