Sentences with phrase «best capitalist of»

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And when you prove your execution works, you have a better chance of raising money through venture capitalists.

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.

Musk's school of thought is shared by Y Combinator president Sam Altman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, with whom he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit meant to ensure A.I. is used for good.

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.

«My best piece of advice for the quickest way to get rich is to not spend any of your money, and then you'll have more than you need,» billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca told Entrepreneur earlier this year.

Reid Hoffman dissected the lack of «a good HR function that covers what happens between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs,» proposing a «Decency Pledge,» which many investors signed on to.

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.

One of the major virtues of the capitalist system is that it is supposed to be able to produce good outcomes even if participants aren't always squeaky clean.

At 197 slides this year, the annual report prepared by the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and so - called «Queen of Net,» is longer than ever, but well worth the read (you can download the full PDF).

The initiative also offers an entrée into the country's tight circle of well - heeled venture capitalists, whose investments are being matched as much as 3 to 1 by the Chilean government.

It is innovation within a capitalist system, something that strikes me as not just capitalist, but an example of capitalism at its vibrant and innovative best.

4 leading venture capitalists offer their takes on the ups and downs of VC investment, what captures their attention and the best ways to seek out VC money.

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.

Pao, for example, a former venture capitalist at well - known Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins, lost a lawsuit last year that she filed against her former employer over allegations that it had discriminated against her because of her gender.

All of those companies make up a capitalist ecosystem that is so much more meaningful than the feel - good world self - described entrepreneurs try to evangelize.

And that lack of gender diversity encompasses not just engineering departments and founders, but venture capitalists as well.

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.

From Uber's toxic workplace, to reports of venture capitalists harassing female entrepreneurs, to that Google bro who posted that manifesto saying women tend to be more neurotic than men even as the company undergoes a federal investigation into whether it pays women less than men... none of this is good.

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.

«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.

As a venture capitalist, I have to say «no» to a lot of good startups and founders.

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

This is a less - well - explored area but one that CrunchBase is well - suited to address because of its efforts last year to sharpen its data on women co-founders and this year to do the same with data on female venture capitalists.

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.

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.

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 Jurvetson.

Credits: This infographic would not be possible without the great biographies done by Roger Lowenstein (Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist) and Alice Schroeder (The Snowball), as well as numerous other sources cataloging Buffett's life online.

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

Guy Smith: One of the things I've noticed with the mentors that the venture capitalists assign is that they tend to be good technicians.

It draws on and integrates the results of surveys administered to 10 incubators, 17 accelerators, 24 Angel groups, 8 venture capitalists and 54 entrepreneurs, as well as other data collected by NACO.

Good investors are capitalists — they invest on the basis of sound data and analysis, with an eye for what could go wrong.

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 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 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.

CCI's submission to the Department of Finance was prepared with the feedback from over 90 high - growth tech CEOs as well as Canadian venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors.

We have some of the country's best venture capitalists helping us with our mission, including:

Many of you seem to be thoughtful articulate peolpe, however, I must call out the fact that many of you presuppose our system as the best possible system (by system I mean our capitalist society) ie it does not matter to great degree which party you espouse they still work within the confines of a system.

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.)

If her call for a renewal of the respectful dialogue between believers and well - intentioned secularists were taken seriously, CST could bring the insights of John Paul II into a universally needed «critical analysis of the current capitalist system».

Let me say once more that this applies to the violence of the powerful, of the capitalist, the colonialist and the state, as well as to the violence of the oppressed.

(And as the economist Robert Frank argues, taxing consumption to bring down rivalrous buying of Ferraris and other symbols of superiority would make us better off even without moderating our desires, though I doubt that rivalrous consumption is a very long - lasting or very important feature of high capitalist economies; notice, for example, that it's always those other, silly people, not we, who are buying to keep up with the Joneses.)

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.

The man frankly seems to be guilty of nothing worse than being a good capitalist!