Sentences with phrase «after raising money»

Furthermore, after raising the money, HSUS recommended that the 53 Vick dogs be euthanized, but canine behavior experts recommended by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at the request of the US Department of Agriculture determined that all but one of the dogs could be rehabilitated because they were not aggressive to humans.

After raising money for Alan G. Hevesi, the former city and state comptroller, and other Queens politicians more than a decade ago, Mr. Meng became the first Asian - American elected to the State Legislature, in 2004.

Obama is headlining two events for Murray, a day after raising money for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin and House Democrats in Los Angeles.

After raising the money needed for IVF through a Go Fund Me fundraiser, the couple recently discovered that Hume was pregnant, and just saw their baby's heartbeat for the first time.

Very simple math just make sure you do it before not after raising money.

Big Boy, who I shared in a group message with some of my most trusted rescue buddies, was rescued by an Arizona rescue after we raised money for specialized training with her most trusted trainer, Two of the women in my rescue family are amazing at fund raising because they are impeccable with making sure the money is used in the spirit intended.

Not exact matches

It's unclear why the company would need to raise so much more money less than a year after a previous fundraising round, Recode reports.

«Last year when I was raising money, being black, being a woman, being pregnant — it was just strike after strike of what investors are not interested in,» says Aniyia Williams, Tinsel's CEO.

I had conversations and realized that with the position we were in after 10 months of bootstrapping, raising money made sense.

«You're going to need to know how to be scrappy, and you don't want to be learning after you've raised a bunch of money or when you're public,» he says.

Buffett first started auctioning off meals to raise money for Glide 15 years ago after he was introduced to the charity by his first wife, Susan, who died in 2004.

The day after the election in November, a «Draft Franken» super PAC filed its first notice to the Federal Election Commission, though it hasn't raised any money for the Minnesota senator.

Ljung confirmed on July 12 that he's in the process of trying to raise more money for the company after he was asked about a rumoured $ 250 million (# 193 million) funding round.

Trump filed for re-election the day after taking office — allowing his campaign to continue to raise and spend money while he is in office.

After all, if you are going down the road of raising money from venture capitalists, the basic contract is that you are going to build something great, and that your product has a chance of being a massive multi-billion-dollar company.

For instance, there was an entrepreneur who was raising money for his coffee business and alongside his reward of coffee shipments, he offered backers the chance to be a «barista for a day» and have a coffee drink named after them, as well as a coffee tasting evening in his shop.

After that, he started Tumblr, which raised a small amount of VC money in 2007.

They see, day after day, that what they do makes a difference in the world, whether it's providing clothing to needy families or raising money to find a cure for a life - threatening disease.

After meeting the scholarship student, the amount of money the average call center employee raised in a week shot up 142 percent and the number of minutes spent on the phone went up 171 percent.

Weeks after Facebook's CEO gave $ 25 million to fight Ebola in Africa, his company is rolling out three initiatives to raise awareness and more money.

Yeshwant was drawn to venture capital after seeing the different processes that entrepreneurs and scientists go through in order to raise money for their ventures.

The share price of Chinese social network Renren has almost doubled after the company said it was raising money through a digital currency sale.

He notes ruefully, «I had planned to upgrade my team of advisers, especially my accountant, after I raised the private - equity money.

The one thing that I could have never prepared myself for was the pressure that I'd feel from the investors after the money had been raised.

I truly believe that it's time, after almost a decade of prosperity in the public markets and the global economy, that we put pressure on the entrepreneurial community as a whole to start focusing on making money versus raising money.

What it says in human terms is, «if you raise money after me at a cheaper price than I paid I get a discount on the investment that I'm making now.»

«My father would come home in a foul mood after losing at blackjack and other card games,» Lee wrote, «and demand some of my mother's jewelry to pawn...» His mother not only saved her jewelry from her feckless husband but also ably raised her four sons and one daughter, selling cakes baked from tapioca when flour and money grew scarce.

On June 19, 2015, three years after the JOBS Act was signed, Title IV (Regulation A +) of the JOBS Act went into effect, allowing private early - stage companies to raise money from all Americans.

«Virtual currencies... raise concerns of consumer protection, market integrity and money laundering, among others,» the RBI said in a statement explaining its decision after its bimonthly monetary policy meeting.

People use Safety Check to let their friends and family know they are safe; people support one another through Community Help, which enables them to ask for and offer recovery assistance; and people raise money for causes they care about and to help communities rebuild after a crisis.

In a letter sent to Yahoo on Thursday, the investment firm Starboard Value argued that the reason for spinning off the Alibaba stake — avoiding taxes while raising money for shareholders — appeared to have evaporated after questions arose over whether the Internal Revenue Service would crack down on such transactions.

A former executive told The Verge that, if the company would not be able to raise money after CES 2017, it will be running out of funds.

Similar talks last year fell through after the family struggled to raise enough money for a deal.

But the talks are another reflection of how Silicon Valley start - ups have been raising money at a furious pace, often snagging tens of millions of dollars and more than doubling their value just months after a previous financing round.

It took him two more years to raise enough money to try even that expedition again only for a cracked fuel bottle to contaminate all his food after a fall from an ice ridge.

About half the money for the project will be raised from the public at large later this winter, after institutional investors have had the chance to buy in.

After you have found the crowdfunding platform or platforms that you want to use to raise money for your startup, you will then need to create a thoughtful, enticing profile to post online.

This goal appeared to be within reach after Title III of the JOBS Act prompted the SEC to draft a new exemption making it easier for small businesses to raise money from non-accredited investors via online portals.

The first is to sock away your raises — after all, you're not used to spending that money anyway, so it won't be missed.

The first time we raised money was after 10 years of our existence and we have been a profitable company for those years.

Terry Fox, after being struck by cancer and losing a leg, chose to run across Canada to raise money and awareness.

An angel investor will usually invest after a company raises money from friends and family (the first money a startup raises from outside investors) during a company's Seed or Series A round (or an intermediate round known as a «Bridge» round).

Arizona's largest school district and some others will resume classes after lawmakers approved money for teacher pay raises and additional education funding.

Project creators can also opt to InDemand funding, which allows campaigns to continue raising money after their funding period has ended.

One reason Uber is in talks to raise money again just a few months after a prior round is because of an overwhelming amount of investor interest, said a person with knowledge of the company who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the process is confidential.

One of Repaireasy's rival Servify, which offers brand - authorised after sales support services for electronic gadgets, too, raised an undisclosed amount of money in pre-Series A funding from Blume Ventures and two German firms in April this year.

Puliatti said that after recent events, he and his co-founder are now more seriously considering not raising money from venture capitalists at all — and said that even if they did, he has decided that he won't «ever sit down» with Benchmark.

Almost every other entrepreneur is jumping on the bandwagon to raise money for their marketplace idea after hearing of the magic that has happened on Indiegogo and Kickstarter.

Isn't this the same child that inspired the above email that played a key role in her book, and who inspired her to raise the amount of money budgeted for special needs education and services in Alaska, just a year after she slashed a significant portion of such funds?

Last night Yale's campus pro-life group — after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped raise money for the organization — became the first group in living memory to be denied membership in the Social Justice Network of Dwight Hall.