Sentences with phrase «by early backers»

The radio was funded by early backers who believed it would be the ideal device for delivering sermons to rural farmers.

Tina Lauro Pollock (@purpletinabeans): I have to echo the Star Citizen here because it really tops my naughty list of worrisome features in a business model: It stacks payment mechanics on like they're sprinkles and the tiers and access is further convoluted by its early backer roots.

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Hillhouse, one of China's biggest investors, is led by chairman Zhang Lei, an early backer of Chinese Internet giant Tencent.

In addition to his own continued commitment to the idea of The Coolest, Grepper said that he was buoyed by the enthusiasm of his earliest backers.

Rise, the lead backer, was cofounded by Bill McGlashan, managing partner of TPG Growth, along with Bono, frontman of U2 and well - known social activist, and Jeff Skoll, an early eBay (ebay) exec, philanthropist, and film producer.

By getting some early momentum it shows other potential backers that they should also back the project.

Hartenbaum, a partner at Draper Richards in San Francisco and an early backer of the online phone service Skype, stumbled upon those comments, posted by an anonymous entrepreneur, on a website called TheFunded.com.

Hogan's lawsuit was bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, an early backer of Facebook (fb) and a co-founder of PayPal (pypl).

The early Bitcoin backers, who reportedly own about 40,000 bitcoins (a cool $ 27 million or so in U.S. dollars), could blast off by the end of the year.

Last week, Instagram, which has just a handful of employees, closed a financing round worth more than $ 50 million with several prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, an early backer of Google, Thrive Capital, the firm run by Joshua Kushner, and Greylock Capital, an early investor of LinkedIn.

Well known as investors in Twitter and early backers of Foursquare, which recently raised $ 20 million in Series B funding, Union Square Ventures is lead by Brad Burnham, Fred Wilson, and Albert Wenger.

Naspers Ventures led the round, joined by the company's earlier backers Drive Capital, Huron River Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, SV Angel and individual investors including Y Combinator president Sam Altman.

Venture - backer The DAO, which was formed to invest in start - ups and projects linked to cypto platform Etherium's ether, was shuttered following scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission over its coin offerings earlier this year.

If either team wins by exactly one, those early Ohio State backers will be patting themselves on the back for beating the line move.

As for infrastructure, Mr. Larson was a strong backer of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, which should help rebuild the nation's ports, waterways, dams and levees.

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

There was some situation about the review with Double Fine saying no early reviews during the backer release period, but later changed their minds after quite a lot of disagreement with that stance.We reviewed Broken Age Act 1 two weeks ago and awarded it an 8/10, stating that the game contained an excellent pair of narratives, but was a bit let down by how simple many of the puzzles where.

According to charter and school integration authors Richard D. Kahlenberg and Halley Potter (2014), Shanker and the early backers of the Minnesota law believed that these schools should be guided by three tenets: experimentation, or the ability to use innovative approaches to teaching and learning that could inform and influence reforms in traditional public schools; teacher voice in the design and operation of the school — something Shanker saw as a direct result of collective bargaining; and integration, in the sense that schools should be ethnically, racially, and socioeconomically diverse.

Shanker believed having separate schools by race and class was inherently undemocratic, and he and some other early charter school backers saw charters as a way of breaking down segregation.

Republican backers called the bill, which trims an earlier GOP proposal clearing enrollment growth by up to 40 percent, a «compromise,» although the language still represents a major increase on the 20 percent threshold set today.

Why PAA opposes California's Parent Trigger law: It represents neither real parent choice nor empowerment California's Parent Empowerment Act passed in early 2010 and has been supported by backers of corporate education reform nationwide.

Project CARS, meanwhile, was originally crowdfunded by backers before being picked up by Bandai Namco, meaning players could follow the title's creation and offer input early on.

GPD raised more than $ 2.7 million for the Win 2 through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, and now the company has announced that the first 1200 or so units will ship to backers of that campaign by May 15th.

FULL DOWNLOADABLE REWARD • Exclusive high resolution Bot Colony wallpaper • Your name in the credits • Bot Colony novel eBook • First Colonist badge (only available to Kickstarter backers) • Patron angel wings (red) badge • Early access to the Intruder, Arrival and Riot episodes (download) • Early access to any episodes released within 12 months • Free digital download of all episodes released within 12 months • Steer game evolution through forum participation • 12 month online membership • Digital art book by concept artist Henry Fong • Digital original soundtrack of Bot Colony

The video, by Youtuber AnythingFPS, depicts the night shift on a Constellation - one of the ships released in early form to Star Citizen backers:

Refunds for gamers without the option to jump to another console can be requested by emailing [email protected], but there is still hope for Wii U-bound Yooka - Laylee Kickstarter backers who plan on becoming early adopters of the Switch; Playtonic plans to have info on a Switch version of the game in «early 2017.»

In 2008, Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, later Republican presidential candidate and an early backer of geoengineering, said: «Instead of penalizing ordinary Americans, we would have an option to address global warming by rewarding scientific invention,» adding: «Bring on the American ingenuity.»

As we reported earlier this month, LeEco is a Chinese tech giant owned by Jia Yuentig, the principal backer who launched what's considered the «Netflix of China.»

Holders of WINGS tokens will be able to forecast the result of the upcoming bitJob STU token sale which will start on September 12, 2017, and share their forecast with their social graph thus reaching a higher level of trust among early backers who can review sentiment by crowd aggregate or individuals in their social network.

Initial coin offerings (ICOs), also known as initial public coin offerings, crowdsales or token sales, are a new form of startup funding where a company raises funds by issuing its own digital token to early backers in a somewhat similar manner as a company would issue shares to new investors.