Sentences with phrase «back early investors»

They claim the money was used only to enrich himself and pay back early investors.

«He used investor funds for his own personal use — including the purchase of a house — and provided other investor funds for use in paying back earlier investors.

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It was a natural move for Gurbacs, an early investor in the ethereum network (he got into crypto back in 2013), whose academic interests in mathematics took him to Williams College, Harvard, and MIT.

Investors are far more willing to back early - stage companies because the amounts of cash required are relatively small, and the potential payoff is huge.

Last March, it gave HootSuite $ 20 million, which HootSuite used to buy back stock from its early investors — «to align for a bigger win,» Holmes says.

The election of Donald Trump as president sparked an exodus from the US Treasury market in the final months of 2016 and early 2017 as investors prepared for the possibility that Trump's plans for a protectionist trade policy, tax cuts, deregulation, and massive infrastructure spending would bring inflation back to the US.

The reason might harken back to a control battle with one of Snap's earliest investors, venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners.

In its early days, American Apparel's senior lender, U.S. Bank, sought out investors to back Charney's retail expansion.

It's like OpenTable for urgent care, which makes sense why Bill Gurley, an early OpenTable investor, would back the company.

Backed by blue - chip venture capitalists, including Accel Partners (an early investor in Facebook), Wonga looks destined to go public at some point, either on the Nasdaq or in London.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is pushing back on earlier statements made by its newest investor, SoftBank.

Hootsuite also raised $ 20 million last year, but that was to buy back stock from early investors — for «a bigger win,» as Holmes explained it.

He recalls that in the company's early days, a big potential investor backed out at the last minute.

Yang adds that there's early evidence that diverse boards are more willing to provide investors with dividends or give money back to shareholders.

Moody's Investor Service downgraded Tesla's debt into junk territory back in March, warning at the time that Tesla didn't have cash to cover $ 3.7 billion for normal operations, capital expenses and debt that come due early next year.

Knight Frank says that while these companies» plans may still be rough, some private investors are happy to take the long view and back interesting ventures in the early stages if they promise a nice return.

TIL, which typically uses its own resources or that of its deep - pocket parent BCCL to fund growth initiatives, had kicked off the uncharacteristic move of raising substantial external capital for MagicBricks Realty Services Ltd early last year when the digital real estate business in India saw the emergence of a host of new players backed by global investors such as SoftBank, News Corp and Tiger Global.

News of his support came during a time when very few figures in Silicon Valley were publicly showing support for candidate Trump, the most notable being Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook who started the VC firm Founders Fund, which backed Oculus, as well.

It seems that investors have yet to come back around to recognizing the importance of ROIC and economic earnings (aka economic value added of «EVA») as there have been too many distractions (e.g. tips from expert networks, early access to market - moving information, momentum trading trends).

With Pat Regan expecting to assume the role of chief executive in the not too distant future after the removal of Andrew Moss earlier this year, the investors may get their wish — which is expected to aid the insurer in getting back to business as usual.

Recognizing that enduring early losses while aggressively expanding can lock up a monopoly, investors seem willing to back this strategy.

DuPont early this year announced a $ 4 billion buyback program — on top of a $ 5 billion program announced a year earlier — to beat back activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which was seeking four board seats to get its way.

Thursday's intraday drop reached all the way down to prices not seen since early 2013, and Fox investors are currently looking back at a 22 % drop in 2015.

The early investor in Skype, Hotmail, and Tesla bought some 30,000 units of the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization back in 2014 in a U.S. Marshals Service auction and revealed that

So I think many VC's may pull back to their traditional roles of letting angel investors take the early stage risk.

To back up his case that a «know - nothing» investor can do fine with buy and hold, Buffett cites a farm he acquired in the 1980s, and also an investment he made in a New York apartment block in the early»90s.

And I think investors also see that you know these new proposals are not really technically backed by a credible group of people if you look at the pedigree of the people behind two eggs on people behind bitcoin cash or earlier the people behind unlimited.

A three - day sell - off has taken the Australian sharemarket back to levels last seen in early May, as falling commodity prices and upcoming events such as a US interest rate decision and the «Brexit» vote take their toll on investor confidence.

«If you go back five years, literally, tech companies were so apathetic about the political environment and just wanted to avoid politics,» said Conway, one of the earliest investors in companies like Google and PayPal.

Because Deming has always had an intriguing relationship with time, we weren't all that surprised when she reached out to us late last week to let us know her San Francisco - based venture firm, The Longevity Fund, has now established a new accelerator program — one with backing from famed investor Marc Andreessen, the early - stage venture firm Felicis Ventures and other, unnamed investors.

The limited partnership structure allows the fund to transfer these high early costs, and large early losses, directly back to the investors.

The US dollar looks to be on target for its best weekly performance against the Japanese yen since early June, despite yesterday's slip on the back of concerns for the stability of the US economy with the potential tapering of the Federal Reserve's $ 85 billion a month bond purchasing program once again coming to the forefront of investors minds.

One can look at the Investors Intelligence bullish sentiment figure, which has eased back to 43 % from over 50 % in early April, but ignore that bearish sentiment is down to 20.4 %, less than half of the bullish sentiment figure, and the lowest level since just before the 2011 market rout.

BioGeneration Ventures (BGV) closes its third fund, BGV III, at EUR 82 million exceeding its target to accommodate strong interest from private, institutional and strategic investors Bristol - Myers Squibb and JJDC back European early stage innovation by investing in...

The risk of cutting and running like so many fear - driven investors did on that fateful 1987 day is that even if you avoided some losses by selling early, you'd run the risk of missing out on the recovery because, well, how would you know when to jump back in?

I'm the co-CEO of DRAFT (https://draft.com/), the founder and former CEO of CoachUp.com, the nation's leading sports coaching company, lead investor and Chairman of Athletes of Valor, a venture - backed social impact startup that helps veterans transition from service to career, and a small, early investor in nearly 50 startups to date.

Early Fortescue Metals investor Eddie Sugar, founder of EAS Advisors, is backing Perth - based Liquefied Natural Gas Limited, which aims to de...

Earlier Wednesday, Strollo had testified he was on a conference call in January 2016 with town officials and other investors, when town officials mentioned a «rogue employee» being responsible for the town backing loans to Singh.

Join angel, seed and venture capital investors and venture - backed entrepreneurs who've raised at least $ 20M for a morning of discussions dedicated to topics of interest for early stage and growth equity investors.

The two things you need to know about Gingrich's geek cred is that one of his nicknames is Newt Skywalker and that he once made the cover of Wired — back in its early, weird days — in a feature written by none other than technology investor and commentator Esther Dyson.

Rudy Ramawy, Managing Partner of Lippo - backed venture capital firm Venturra Capital, an early investor of Setipe said, «The Lunch Actually Group and Setipe alliance is a match made at the right time.

If an in - the - money option has only a few pennies (or less) of time premium then you may want to buy those options back and sell new ones that have more time premium in them, since most rational investors will not do early exercise if there is still a decent amount of time premium left in the option.

Back on March 25, I wrote a post called The Bond Dilemma that described how nervous fixed - income investors were in early 2010.

To see why, let's turn back the clock five years to the autumn of 2007, when investors were enjoying a full - on bull market following the tech wreck of the early 2000s.

PeerStreet is backed by serious investors including Andreessen Horowitz (early Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb investors), and Michael Barry, the man who saw the real estate bubble of 2007 and profited handsomely and profiled in Michael Lewis's book The Big Short (and portrayed in the movie by Christian Bale).

While we wait for the dust to settle on February, early action from the deals and promotions side heading into March point to a pullback in the number of cash back offers as well as an interesting maneuver by Qtrade Investor to incentivize DIY investors to consider making a switch.

Rather than shunning them, investors and lenders were aggressively marketing mortgages of all stripes back in late 2005 and early 2006, a prior episode of 30 - year fixed rates climbing above the 6 percent mark.

Like conglomerates in the 1960s, leveraged buy - outs in the 1980s, and venture capital in the 1990s, activism exploded in the early 2000s on the back of the success of a new breed of investors that included Edward Lampert, William Ackman, Daniel Loeb and David Einhorn.

U.S. Dollar Barely Holding onto Gains The U.S. Dollar gave back over 50 % of its early morning gains as investors took profits after a strong two - day rise.

Back in the early days of the mutual fund business, the 12b - 1 fee was thought to help investors.