Sentences with phrase «become financial backers»

Unlike the case of initial public offerings, where much of the value is already priced in at the IPO launch, or even the traditional venture capital system, an ICO allows investors to not only become financial backers but also early adopters, since the investment coin's long term value is in future products or services.

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Its backers are financial markets insiders who have become frustrated by the state of affairs today and want to see more competition in securities trading.

Hughes became the owner, publisher and editor - in - chief of The New Republic in March and has also been a strong advocate and financial backer for same - sex union campaigns.

The overlap of executives and financial backers was significant, it became clear.

Now, as the ship's master, Christopher Jones, eased the Mayflower into its dockage at Rotherhithe, an ancient landing place two miles down the Thames from London that had become a huddle of boatyards, sailors» cottages, and merchants» warehouses, the financial backers eagerly awaited news about the one thing they cared about most: what saleable cargo the ship had brought back from the New World.