Sentences with phrase «in good capitalist»

In good capitalist form they would become owners of the means of production, at least as minority shareholders.

Not exact matches

The lead investor may negotiate better terms, defend against unfair dilution by negotiating with venture capitalists during follow - on financing, mentor the company and represent small investors on the board,» says Nick Tommarello, the co-founder and CEO of crowdfunding platform WeFunder, in a letter to the Committee of Financial Services shared with Entrepreneur.

Well, according to venture capitalist and Bitcoin bull Tim Draper, get reading for the cryptocurrency to reach $ 250,000 in four years.

This is what this online course from the University of Maryland covers, as professor Michael R. Pratt explains what you need to do in the early stages of your business to prepare for funding, where to source funding, how to pitch investors and venture capitalists, as well as how to close funding.

The Gawker founder has reportedly had talks in the past with billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban as well as eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, who already funds his own independent media entity, First Look Media.

As Nick Bilton writes in Vanity Fair, there's good reason to think the popularity of social media has peaked, with prominent Silicon Valley figures like former Facebook president Sean Parker and venture capitalist Mark Suster saying they think the technology has become addictive and unhealthy.

Doerr is the best - known investor at Kleiner Perkins — and indeed, likely still the most famous venture capitalist in the world, having backed Amazon, Netscape, and Google in the 1990s, in a prescient bid that this Internet thing might amount to something.

Chris Arsenault, a venture - capitalist with iNovia Capital, a company with seven investments in the online - ad industry, says targeting technology can provide a better user experience than print or broadcast, despite concerns over privacy.

In one instance, a well - known venture capitalist referred his 300,000 Twitter followers to SeedInvest's offering for a moped - sharing service in San Francisco called ScooIn one instance, a well - known venture capitalist referred his 300,000 Twitter followers to SeedInvest's offering for a moped - sharing service in San Francisco called Scooin San Francisco called Scoot.

The incubator offers an open - floor design plan to spur collaboration, weekly networking sessions for treps and investors (with cerveza and snacks, of course), as well as a pitch night where the top concepts from students and alumni get presented in front of venture capitalists and others with deep pockets.

Quick Ratio creator Hamid Mamoon, a venture capitalist at Social + Capital, gave some widely - circulated advice that a ratio of 4 (4 dollars made per 1 dollar lost) is a good goal for startups in their growth stage.

«With angel investors and venture capitalists, they generally accept that some investments are not going to do well, but they also know the ones that do very, very well will more than compensate,» says Janet Bannister, partner of Real Ventures, a Montreal - based venture fund that invests in early - stage businesses.

Called DBA, short for «Doing Business As,» the series featured non-paid, contributed pieces from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists that were pitched to me by PR agencies and, in some cases, ghostwritten by them as well.

After the bubble burst in 2000, I was talking about the ideas in Good to Great with some portfolio companies of venture capitalists.

While some venture capitalists have kept secret lists of those declining companies and many insiders have their proprietary predictions, there's at least one good way to predict the overall tech industry slowdown in San Francisco: the state of the commercial - property market.

There were about 800 to 1,000 venture capitalists to raise tens of billions in funds, and I don't think they had enough good companies to put them in.

In order to prime your expectations, and hopefully lessen the blow, here are the six main reasons why venture capitalists often decline to work with good startups.

«Filling the place of smart money venture capitalists are investors with less experience in the market, such as mutual funds better known for public - market investing,» states The Information.

NuData and other fraud detection startups will remain in a good position for investment into the future, even with money from blue - chip venture capitalists and other investors growing scarcer in the tech sector, says Pascual.

Put simply, more deals and fewer venture capitalists mean better access to deals, more stability for winners and great returns for the best in our industry.

There are some good names on the list including: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban (who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in 1999), venture capitalist Adam Dell, two Hollywood heavyweights (former Universal chairman and CEO Frank Biondi and New Lines Cinemas co-chairman and CEO Robert Shaye) and, of course, none other that Carl Icahn himself.

Good news for FinTech startups: in the U.S., venture capitalists have been boosting their activity in the market, with Q2 FinTech investments...

As a venture capitalist, Anthony has a significant stake in dozens of startups in Canada as well as the United States.

Mr. Alberg's individual qualifications and skills as a director include his experience as a venture capitalist investing in technology companies, through which he gained experience with emerging technologies, his experience as a lawyer, his knowledge of Amazon from having served as a director since 1996, as well as his customer experience skills and skills relating to financial statement and accounting matters.

No venture capitalist wants to repeat Sequoia's mistake: better to be «nice», or, as they say in the Valley, «founder friendly.»

In other words, an iterated game is good for founders: it ensures venture capitalists are nice.

Sure, there may be short - term gain in screwing over a founder or bailing on a floundering company, but it simply is not worth it in the long - run: word will spread, and a venture capitalists» deal flow is only as good as their reputation.

The next round, in October of 2011, attracted interest from the best - known venture capitalist in the tech world, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, of Andreessen Horowitz.

In the tech world, misconduct allegations have resulted in the ouster of CEOs at BetterWorks Systems Inc. and Social Finance Inc., as well as several venture capitalists, including Justin Caldbeck and Steve JurvetsoIn the tech world, misconduct allegations have resulted in the ouster of CEOs at BetterWorks Systems Inc. and Social Finance Inc., as well as several venture capitalists, including Justin Caldbeck and Steve Jurvetsoin the ouster of CEOs at BetterWorks Systems Inc. and Social Finance Inc., as well as several venture capitalists, including Justin Caldbeck and Steve Jurvetson.

Being a capitalist at heart, anything that aids in the free flow of global capital seems like a good thing to me.

In short, the book teaches that the capitalist model can expand personal freedom and prosperity, while undue government regulation — even with the best of intentions — hampers growth.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFin the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFin monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFIn the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFin assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFin the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFin India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFin the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFin venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

Women venture capitalists investing in women - led companies show better financial returns.

It would seem (at best) like a class war among the rich where Republican are trying to take money from the bad crony capitalists in order to cut taxes on the noble high - earning job creators.

The capitalist system has proved quite resourceful as well at dividing and pacifying the more oppressed sectors of the working class in its midst.

Capitalist: I wonder how the bible was a best seller in the «old world» considering most of the population was illiterate.

The mechanisms of this international capitalist recession, the latest of which, to date, some would like to see as the first crisis of world capitalism, are well known: contraction in production and trade; deflationary trends; massive growth in the volume of loans accumulated by international banks on countries or on the major industrial and banking groups, loans which become transformed into irrecoverable debts; brutal capital withdrawals from countries by the major financial operators, which live from the revenue from parasitical investments in bonds, shares and other derivatives.

(The violence of capitalist enterprise in the subject countries or the violence of Stalin's concentration camps was so well concealed that its existence could be denied.)

The unusual short - case justification for the first two options assumes that shifting the balance of power in favor of labor can force a redistribution of income from capitalist bad guys to worker good guys and thereby achieve a living wage for the firm's employees.

We need rather to oppose and to try to change those systems of both kinds which oppress and dehumanize, to recognize the strengths of the best systems of both kinds, and to help find ways to eliminate the inequities and ameliorate the injustices that exist in even the best of socialist and capitalist systems.

Both types of socialism can point to accomplishments which include (1) a vast improvement in education and health care for the general populace, to the point where the education and medical care of the poor is in some cases better than that available to them even in advanced capitalist countries; and (2) a reduction in the disparity between the poor and the rich, through supplying goods and services to the poor and also through elimination or heavy taxation of the rich.

For a capitalist system such as ours to function well, it presumes that corporate decision - makers will act in their organization's, and thus their own, best interest.

Moreover, this growth has often entailed vast industrialization and capitalist accumulation which have trapped millions of human beings in grinding cycles of poverty and exploitable cheap labor, as well as ravishing and poisoning environment after environment.

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It fit well with the individual striving fostered by a fledgling capitalist economy in the early years of industrialization.

Moreover, for nearly two decades under the leadership of Dr. Norman Kurland, an economist and lawyer, the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Washington, D.C., has advised businesses as well as governments on expanded capital ownership, based on the ideas of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (the latter a Thomist philosopher) in their book The Capitalist Manifesto (1958).

In theory the idea is that society will greatly benefit from individualistic tendencies because a person who is only out to make himself better still has to work in the model of capitalism, which means that if that person is a successful capitalist, then society in turn benefits as a consequence of his worIn theory the idea is that society will greatly benefit from individualistic tendencies because a person who is only out to make himself better still has to work in the model of capitalism, which means that if that person is a successful capitalist, then society in turn benefits as a consequence of his worin the model of capitalism, which means that if that person is a successful capitalist, then society in turn benefits as a consequence of his worin turn benefits as a consequence of his work.

On the one hand, we live in a culture that is thoroughly Baconian, evidenced best in capitalist expansion and medical pioneering.

The best friends that capitalism has in this country today are the antitrust laws, the graduated income tax, the inheritance taxes, the social security program, and all the other legislation that has tempered the capitalist system, spread the wealth, provided for adequate public services, and created the great middle class that makes the American economy strong.

Traditional economics in both capitalist and socialist countries is based on the notion that economic growth was a good that could be continued indefinitely.