Sentences with phrase «by early investors»

They then use the money deposited by early investors to pay the first «dividend» until investors feel comfortable and decide to invest more.

But that 1,000 % return still draws investors in on a daily basis, never mind that almost all the money was made by early investors.

More than 1.4 billion additional shares held by early investors and Facebook employees are set to become available for trading by year's end, as additional post-IPO lockup restrictions are lifted.

Authorities said Platinum operated «like a Ponzi scheme» by using new money to fund redemptions by earlier investors, which were referred to internally as «Hail Mary time.»

The financing was led by earlier investors IVP and Index Ventures.

Assets in crypto industry grow rapidly if there is a large influx of funds coming in from new investors with the simultaneous holding by earlier investors.

Not exact matches

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

Investors may have priced in Snapchat's slowing user growth, which was reported early in 2017 and later confirmed by the company's S - 1.

They're already convincing investors — New Millennium just received close to $ 1 million in a round of financing led by Toronto - based venture capital fund Hedgewood Inc. — and a burgeoning array of early adopters, including pioneering chefs, adventurous retailers and corporate partners that could soon include Google.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

Earlier this year, a deal to refine iron ore by China's Haicheng Xiyang Group went south after North Korean officials «shook down» the Chinese investors, according to a Reuters report.

By allowing angels and VCs to invest small amounts of money in many companies at a very early stage, accelerators give investors the right, but not the obligation, to make additional investments in the most promising ventures.

Hosted by a community called Xoogler.co, the event featured 24 startups founded by former Googlers, with an audience of 118 angel or early - stage investors, many of whom were current employees or alumni themselves.

Mobli was also famous for being one of the first startups to use NASDAQ's private market, allowing early employees to cash out their shares in the company by selling them to other private investors.

Earlier this year, activist investor Daniel Loeb pushed Honeywell to shed the business to boost shareholder value by an estimated $ 20 billion.

A marriage or two among the Big Five was seen by many analysts and investors as inevitable in the early 2000s.

The funding round was led by DST Global, the investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner who was an early investor of Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Airbnb, among others.

Verizon (vz) declined to comment, but a spokesman pointed to remarks by CFO Fran Shammo during an investor conference earlier this month.

Mark Pincus, the founder of video game company Zynga Inc, must face a lawsuit alleging he unfairly benefited by selling $ 192 million of stock in 2012 when other early investors were under a lockup agreement, according to a court ruling.

In early 2006, investors and analysts pushed Facebook to monetize faster by plastering more banner ads on its site.

The early internet investor reiterated his bullish call for bitcoin to hit $ 250,000 by 2022, and elaborated on use cases.

Anthony Lacavera, the founder of Wind Mobile turned VC investor, told Canadian Business earlier this year that the situation means entrepreneurs sell out prematurely or get wooed across the border by U.S. investors.

But that's chump change compared to the $ 2.5 million that Ubooly has raised in venture capital investments, led by Japanese investor SoftTech VC, Silicon Valley - based Translink Capital, and early - stage seed investor 500 Startups.

DST solves this problem for entrepreneurs by coming in and buying stock from these early investors and employees at very high valuations.

As with the earlier solicitations in the Fake Funds, investors were similarly misled by the purported involvement of the legitimate Firm - 5 Fund in this investment.

Rather, CASPERSEN operated a Ponzi - like scheme in which he misappropriated investor funds from the Fake Fund Accounts and converted them to his own use and use by others, including by using investor funds to meet CASPERSEN's periodic interest payment commitments to earlier investors.

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.

By expanding the focus of the SBIC program, the initiative encouraged investors to look at early stage companies and impact investing.

The CPC program is a unique financing vehicle offered by TSX Venture Exchange that enables early - stage companies to raise funds from public equity investors

Startups who hold off on publishing sometimes cite the need to protect intellectual property, but critics of the practice point to another reason: With early - stage capital already hard to come by, companies run the risk of scaring off investors if they open their underbaked ideas to rigorous scientific scrutiny.

Nikhil Kalghatgi, a venture capitalist and early digital currency investor, believes the cryptocurrency market is hindered right now by a shortage of ways for big investors to deploy hedging strategies.

Wekerle is trying to build out an innovation hub in Waterloo, purchased the El Mocambo club in Toronto earlier this year, and is an investor in Wahlburgers, the burger chain founded by the Wahlberg brothers.

Toshiba said earlier it has chosen a consortium of Bain and Japanese government investors as the preferred bidder for its chip business, aiming to clinch a deal worth some 2 trillion yen ($ 18 billion) by next week as it scrambles for funds to cover massive losses.

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

Serman points readers to a post by Y Combinator partner Michael Seibel on How to Email Early Stage Investors for more details on the exact format favored by industry bigwigs.

Steve Cohen started the trend in the early 1990s when he hired the late psychiatrist Ari Kiev for his hedge fund SAC Capital, and Tony Robbins, the world's most famous performance coach, entered the financial world around the same time when he was hired by renowned investor Paul Tudor Jones.

The round was led by Ford Motor Co. (f) with participation from Microsoft (msft) and earlier investors like General Electric (ge).

The move comes as the Hong Kong - based trader aims to rebuild investor confidence after a brutal commodities downturn coincided with a questioning of its accounts in early 2015 by Iceberg Research, sparking a collapse in its share price and ratings credit agency downgrades.

The Capital Pool Company (CPC) program is a unique financing vehicle offered by TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) that enables early - stage companies to raise funds from public equity investors.

It also is unclear if the round — which Bloomberg reports is designed to raise at least $ 1 billion — would include any so - called secondary sales by Uber employees or early investors.

Experts told CNBC earlier this week that investors had been «spooked» by news of regulatory crackdowns from both South Korea and China.

Investors had sensed something was awry a month earlier, when Tesla said it had only made 260 of the Model 3 last quarter, well below the nearly 2,000 it had forecasted; some reports said the bottleneck was due to the carmaker assembling the vehicle by hand.

By contrast, Vanguard, whose name is synonymous with index funds, attracted more money from investors in 2016 than all mutual funds and exchange - traded funds combined, preliminary data from Morningstar earlier this month showed.

It has been welcomed by some of Love Home Swap's early investors, including venture capital firm MMC Ventures.

And sure enough, momentum suddenly took a U-turn earlier this year, when bear market fears spurred by China and tepid global growth sent investors fleeing to cheaper, defensive stocks.

For example, «Besides being an early investor in Netflix, Jay Hoag's Silicon - Valley - based Technology Crossover Ventures provided early - stage funding to Zillow and Expedia, two companies founded by [fellow director Richard] Barton.

Now, the early numbers are in, and there is no question that ICOs, an unregulated form of fundraising by which companies can sell their own form of digital currency or tokens to investors, are winning this race, at least in the blockchain industry.

Seasoned entrepreneurs understand the need to take risks with their IP, typically by sharing early - stage product ideas, concepts, or business models with potential investors.

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

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