Sentences with phrase «as a venture capitalist makes»

It frequently happens that when a large institutional investor such as a venture capitalist makes an investment in a company, it values the Company at a lower price than the initial investors did.

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There is also plenty of capital to be had, as venture capitalists continue to make deals at a brisk rate.

Most websites with as much traffic as Plenty of Fish would have by this point raised millions of dollars from venture capitalists, hired dozens of engineers and business - development types, and figured out a way to keep someone as unconventional as Markus Frind from making any major decisions.

That, for example, is why few folks are willing to criticize their colleagues or former companies: 1 today's former co-worker or former manager is tomorrow's angel investor or job reference, and memories are long and reputations longer.2 That holds particularly true for venture capitalists: as Marc Andreessen told Barry Ritholtz on a recent podcast, «We make our money on the [startups] that work and we make our reputation on the ones that don't.»

I would say it probably wasn't until I was two years into the process that I even had confidence to write a check, to make a decision as a venture capitalist, because the first couple years all I learned was shocking and confusing and I'm realizing that was very different from a normal world.

Salil's all - around experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, product executive and corporate strategist makes him a sought - after panellist and judge at venture pitch events.

GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

As venture capitalists rush to fund the latest app that puts bunny ears on our faces or makes the world's most expensive juice, they need to back up their Medium posts and public platitudes with cold, hard cash.

Venture capitalists often complain that business plans are written in a manner geared to make a sale — to get funding — as opposed to actually explaining what it is that you are going to do to grow and manage your business.

Now as a venture capitalist, John Durant makes it his primary mission to find and fund the best health - focused companies through his company, Wild Ventures.

«Sneed hears rumbles mega-rich venture capitalist Bruce Rauner, who burps money and made certain a ton had been tossed into Rahm's election campaign, is being eyed as the city's new school CEO.»

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson makes exactly this point in a blog post Thursday, in which he argues that the economics around mobile platforms such as the iPhone and the iPad (s aapl)-- and other tablets, presumably — will likely come to look a lot like the economics of the web itself, in which closing off access to content via paywalls and walled gardens has not proven to be a very successful long - term approach (with a few notable exceptions such as The Economist and the Wall Street Journal (s nws)-RRB-.

They know that if they have reach enough people, and convince enough venture capitalists that they could make money as soon as they decide to flip a magical switch that could eventually rake in millions of dollars, they don't really need to do anything else.

They have been developing it through their venture Dynamic Ledger Solutions since 2014 and if they can get the Tezos blockchain running for three months «substantially as described» in their marketing, they and the other investors in DLS like venture capitalist Tim Draper will make $ 20m.

As a Certified JCTC, I remain aware of what recruiters, venture capitalists and hiring managers require and can make sure that your resume contains the information that they are looking for now and in the future.