Sentences with phrase «big investors who»

This ability makes bitcoin far more palatable to big investors who are currently flooding the market to make profits if and when the bitcoin price falls.

Telegram has already raised institutional capital in what's called a presale, luring big investors who are willing to commit at least $ 20 million.

Not exact matches

That's the sort of potential that drew early, big - name investors, who helped urge Beshara and his co-founder, chief technology officer Khaled Hussein, toward the «fun» social rather than the «do - good» social.

· Marque players (The big name brands in your marketplace who are your customers, investors, advisors, suppliers, etc. and from whom you can get a «halo effect»)

Holding information close to the vest has worked as it has gained big partnerships, Ambar Bhattacharyya, a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, who has handled investments in a number of other healthcare companies (they are not investors in Theranos), told Tech Insider in April.

ure out a way to say this,» starts entrepreneur Peter Thiel, who was Facebook's first big investor, thanks largely to Parker, and who later brought on Parker at his VC firm, Founders Fund.

And especially not for the retail investor who gets only what the big players leave behind.

Many lenders are in the game: big banks ($ 10 billion - plus in assets), smaller, regional banks, credit unions, alternative lenders and, increasingly, institutional investors who buy loans on marketplace lending platforms.

Although Hian's collateral, clothes, isn't as sure a thing as, say, cars, Schneider feels Hian's biggest liability is that she's not surrounding herself with people who can help her develop a comprehensive business plan that will attract venture capitalists, bankers or angel investors.

Being all things to all people required money, and there were plenty of eager investors who wanted in on Ev's next big thing.

Big investors are losing patience with IBM chief Ginni Rometty, who remains one of the highest - paid CEOs in not just the tech industry, but among all S&P 500 companies, despite IBM's relatively poor performance under her lead.

Rometty is in year six of her turnaround plan, and recently lost the confidence of one of her biggest and most famous investors: Warren Buffett, who revealed he's sold a third of his shares since the beginning of the year.

«When they do, those guys — and I'll say «guys» for investors because you know that's who's listening to pitches — will be thinking, «Could she be the next big successful female entrepreneur?»

23andMe is a seven - year - old company run by Anne Wojcicki, a biotech entrepreneur who is married to Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin, who is, in turn, a big investor in 23andMe.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who famously battled Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook's origins, are big investors in the digital currency and say it's worth 100 times its current value.

It takes effort to see the bigger picture, but it's an effort well worth making, if only so we don't become like most investors (other than Buffett) who freak out and sell when the market is on the way down, or fear missing out and buy when the market is nearing its peak.

Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are embracing the digital currency, including Fundstrat's Tom Lee and value investor Bill Miller, who is running a fund with nearly a third of its assets in bitcoin.

The famously successful investor Warren Buffett — who has raked in billions guided by his motto to «Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful» — probably took a big loss like the rest of us after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last week.

To put that in context, it's more than the annual GDP for some small countries — more than The Bahamas for example — or as USA Today put it, «a big slice of the $ 90 billion in total market value created for all investors who own these shares»

In the meantime, Anderson Financial Strategies» Anderson and other advisors who still value active management caution investors that trying to pick successful actively managed funds on their own is a big job.

Many investors who bought mortgage bonds during that time ended up with big losses.

Although he's no longer privy to management discussions, as one of Twitter's first, biggest and most involved investors, Sacca probably knows more about the company than anyone who's not a current executive or board member.

Warren Buffett is considered one of the greatest investors who ever lived, but his track record with big tech companies is not so hot.

Frankly, many venture investors who see a race to lock up market share as a first mover in your space may want you incurring big losses in the near term to sign up as many customers as possible today before a competitor does.

Other value managers are buying stocks at higher valuations, but Chou is a deep - value investor who tries to find bigger discounts than his peers.

Investors who think they've missed the market's big move might have a point, but they could also be underestimating the upside ahead, CNBC's Jim Cramer argued on Monday.

Recode's Edmund Lee perfectly summarized Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's reasoning in a recent article: «Why give all that money to brokers and big funds instead of to people who own Spotify, like his investors, his employees and Ek himself?»

Fortune spoke with Brad Loncar, an independent biotech investor who launched the first - ever cancer immunotherapy index fund last year, about the biggest winners out of ASCO and which cancer drug hopefuls you should keep an eye on going forward.

Bill Gross, the legendary investor who once ran the world's biggest bond fund and now manages a portfolio at Janus, fanned the flames Tuesday.

It's also end of days for startups whose big idea is to raise a mountain of money now and figure out a business plan later, and for investors who think clever deal terms or the wisdom of crowds is a substitute for diligence and judgment.

Fortunately, investors who got in on some of the past year's biggest domestic initial public offerings fared much, much better.

Strategists who spoke to CNBC said it will only take another disappointing report from China — or a significant drop in the yuan — for global investors to once again put the world's second - biggest economy at the top of their worry list.

«Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent Libor ‐ denominated derivative swap would, if appellants» allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world's most important financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where derivative instruments have proliferated,» the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived private antitrust litigation accusing major banks of conspiring to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate, in a big setback for their defense against investors» claims of market - rigging.

Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.

They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

Investors include Shark Tank Mark Cuban, who gave Carbone $ 2 million for a 20 percent stake in the company — the biggest deal in the TV show's history.

But at least one analyst who tracks big Wall Street firms» bonds says there may be an even bigger problem: Investors, pressured by the need to generate income, simply don't care whether the banks are too big to fail — one way or the other.

Investors are cool, sure, but the inventors, innovators, and lead executives building the next big things are the people who should be celebrated.

Many investors that put in money in later rounds aren't the typical Sand Hill Road venture capitalists, but are large hedge funds and private equity investors who have a bigger appetite for risk.

In a show of good faith, Musk, who is the chairman and biggest investor in both companies, recused himself from voting on the deal at the Tesla board meeting.

He has an MBA from Harvard, is big on New York's philanthropy circuit, and is impeccably groomed with perfectly knotted ties and expensive suits.One investor who has knowledge of both said Ackman can be a «Master Of The Universe type» while Hempton behaves like an underdog who wants to get even.

Tall tales about the lucky investor who hit it big with a stock idea may be entertaining.

For institutional investors and traders who rely on making big trades, Average Dollar Volume is a more important number than ADTV.

As broad market conditions have been eroding over the past month, subscribers of The Wagner Daily newsletter who have been following the signals of our market timing system should be quite happy now because they would have been out of all long positions of individual stocks just a few days before last Friday's (October 19) big decline, thereby avoiding substantial losses and the pain that is now being felt by traditional «buy and hold» investors right now.

Similarly, Blowhorn had reject a potential investor who offered a big cheque if the company scaled up but which was not unit economics positive.

So far, investors are not buying the prediction made by top - ranked strategists from Haitong Securities and Bocom International Holdings, who had forecast at the end of last year that the big - caps» out - performance would be less conspicuous in 2018, with more mid - and small - cap shares joining the rally.

While current valuations may be less of an issue for investors who have multidecade time horizons, many analysts are urging investors to look abroad for the next big uptrend.

The easy answer is employees, customers and partners, but let's not forget about the founders and investors who are likely your biggest shareholders.

The key to this strategy is getting 5 people who form the social proof to help you get a bigger angel round done at a higher valuation by tons of industry insiders and thus offering the social proof you need attract great employees and ultimately venture capital investors.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.