Sentences with phrase «first raised as»

Personality: First raised as working dogs, Shetland Sheepdogs developed a loyal, willing and eager to please personality that makes them excellent companion dogs.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, the CBO expects the Senate's health bill to substantially raise Americans» out - of - pocket medical costs by slashing Obamacare's mandated benefits and rolling back assistance to poorer and sicker people, as well as discouraging some low - income Americans from buying insurance in the first place (the BCRA would nix Obamacare's requirement that people carry coverage or pay a fine).

Growing a small business has often been described as raising your first child: daunting and unpredictable.

-- Mike Zivin, co-founder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million Series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans, as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

Premier Colin Barnett has described the federal government's mining tax as a flop, after Treasurer Wayne Swan revealed today the impost raised just $ 126 million in its first six months of operation.

He had taken some steps to curb demand during his first year in office, such as raising the minimum downpayment for homes priced higher than $ 500,000.

Failing to hit its projections in its first few quarters as a public company would trigger shareholder lawsuits and cripple Spotify's ability to raise further capital, said Steve London, a partner in the securities practice of law firm Pepper Hamilton.

The exact amount to be raised is still being determined, according to sources, but two other sources said Telegram is estimating it will be around the same size as the first round, which would bring the total raised to over $ 1.6 billion before the ICO even opens up to the general public.»

They purchased the creamery for $ 69,000 and lived above the factory for the first seven years, raising their young family: daughter Frances, now a law professor, and son Ashley, a chef who joined the family business two years ago as a vice-president.

Tesla sold its first 100 Roadsters sight unseen in just three weeks, and in July raised an additional $ 40 million from investors including Silicon Valley VCs VantagePoint Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, as well as JP Morgan.

There is no way the Federal Reserve is going to raise interest rates at Powell's first meeting as chair in March.

GDP was so strong to start the year that the Bank of Canada likely will have to raise its growth estimates for the first quarter from the current 1 % to as much as 3 %.

Nine months later, I launched a Kickstarter campaign and raised more than $ 250,000 — and I was finally able to give myself my first paycheck as GoldieBlox's CEO.»

Nova Scotia's first family are long time supporters of the country's first English - speaking Roman Catholic University, with David F. Sobey serving as chair of a 1990s Saint Mary's capital campaign that raised $ 24 million.

As other startups have pursued a strategy of raise fast and spend fast, TaskRabbit, one of the first on - demand offerings, has played the role of tortoise, not hare.

But as overall deal flow slowed in 2016, investments for food delivery also dried up, and the sector raised just $ 159.6 million in the first quarter.

The first woman to head the 212 - year - old company (DD), Kullman took over as a dismal 2009 began and by year - end had publicly vowed to raise earnings over three years at a 20 % annual compound rate.

Raising a boatload of money right off the bat isn't always a good thing, especially as a first - time entrepreneur.

The IPO is expected to raise US$ 5 billion for the company later this spring, as investors rush to buy shares in the company available for the first time on the open market.

-- Mike Zivin, cofounder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

After all, the company, which launched in February 2011 as a spinoff from Justin.tv, Justin Kan's live broadcasting start - up, raised its first round in April of 2012.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

After the success of the first season, all of the lead female actors reportedly received «sizeable» raises, including a reported $ 1 million per episode for Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, who also serve as executive producers on the series.

Sterling tumbled further, hitting a low of $ 1.3715, as the dollar gained and investors further trimmed expectations that the Bank of England would raise rates next month following weak first - quarter GDP data published last week.

Fresh off of raising nearly $ 62,000 on Kickstarter, the two are now in the throes of launching what they're billing as America's first meat - free butcher shop and deli.

«So, the early - stage entrepreneur should be raising his or her first tranches of capital in the form of equity and is likely to see preferred equity as the first type of professional money that is being offered.»

First Cobalt says the acquisition will help it position itself as a North American - focused cobalt company, as buyers of the metal look to diversify from a widespread reliance on production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where human rights groups have raised concerns of child labour in mining operations.

A one - day store known as a pop - up shop, the day featured exclusive clothes and accessories designed by the Vancouver - raised Jason Wu, a designer known to be a favourite of U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama.

And after two years of bootstrapping, it's cash - flow positive, thanks in part to investors like John Stix, who started out as one of the company's first clients and has since become an investor (Plasticity raised $ 2.1 million in a financing round led by the venture arm of Stix's company in 2014).

Companies raising between $ 500,000 and $ 1 million for the first time are also permitted to submit «reviewed» financial documents, as opposed to the formal, and more expensive, process of getting a financial audit.

Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors, reckons that new legislation that drops the rate all the way to 20 %, and contains other levy - lowering provisions such as immediate expensing of capital expenditure, could raise EPS for the S&P 500 by 8 % in the first year.

Traders fully expect the Fed's monetary - policy committee to raise benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point at a meeting that starts Tuesday and culminates Wednesday with Powell's first press conference as chairman.

I'm looking to raise my first round of capital ($ 250,000), as I have self - funded the business until this point.

The U.S. central bank's monetary - policy committee raised benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.5 % to 1.75 %, in Jerome Powell's first meeting as Fed chairman.

China's slowdown comes as the Federal Reserve (Fed) is considering raising US interest rates for the first time in nine years.

Way too many 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 year olds who follow me on Instagram think that their first job during college, or out of college, or as they're coming up, is to learn how to raise capital.

The exact amount to be raised is still being determined, according to one source, but two other sources said Telegram is estimating it will be around the same size as the first round, which would bring the total raised to over $ 1.6 billion before the ICO even opens up to the general public.

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

NEW YORK Bristol - Myers Squibb Co on Thursday significantly raised its full - year earnings forecast even as first - quarter sales of some medicines fell short of expectations and sent shares of the U.S. drugmaker down almost 1 percent.

The first phase raised $ 850 million for Telegram, with an average price of $ 0.38 for each token, which are known as GRAMs, according to the email.

July was the biggest month for coin offerings, with 34 projects raising $ 665 million, Tokendata.io data shows — or twice as much money as was raised in the first five months of the year combined.

In December, Uber raised another $ 1.2 billion in a round of funding participated in by venture firms such as Benchmark, First Round Capital, and Google Ventures as well as mutual funds BlackRock and Fidelity Investments.

TORONTO / NEW YORK (Reuters)- Private equity - backed Canadian waste management company GFL Environmental Inc is seeking to raise as much as C$ 1 billion ($ 778 million) in an initial public offering that could be filed as early as the first quarter, people familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday.

Ironically, the trend of companies raising less capital actually enhances the importance of the initial round buy - in (both because that initial buy - in becomes less diluted meaning the first round price was that much more important and because even if an angel wants to buy up more in later rounds they'll have less of a chance to do so; I also believe that along with the trend of companies raising less capital we're also seeing earlier and somewhat smaller average exits — also enhancing the value of initial round buy - ins as fewer investors are truly swinging for the proverbial fence).

Growth through the first half of the year was roughly twice as fast as what the central bank estimates the economy can manage without stoking inflation, prompting it to raise interest rates in July and September.

It's often the case that blockchain startups raise their first outside rounds as ICOs, but size-wise these funding events look less like seed rounds and more like super late - stage technology growth rounds.

They also have another thing in common: both companies used crowdfunding platforms to take pre-orders for their first products and, in the process, raised their first serious capital as well — US$ 10.3 - million for Palo Alto - based Pebble in 2012, $ 3.7 - million for Waterloo's Thalmic Labs earlier this year.

Listed on Crowdcube as a «first» combined debt and equity capital raise, BrewDog and Equity for Punks marketed the offer as the «World's Biggest [funding] Round.

Hargol FoodTech, which founded the world's first commercial farm for raising grasshoppers in 2016, is also marketing powered protein produced from insects as an ingredient for the US good industry.

Additionally, many firms who are raising second - time funds, 27 % of the opportunity set in 2017, entered the institutional market for the first time following first funds often structured as smaller, «proof - of - concept» vehicles.