Sentences with phrase «by making an investment of»

An EB - 5 visa offers you the opportunity to obtain your Green Card for yourself and your family by making an investment of $ 500,000 in a USCIS approved business enterprise.

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«Generally, when you are the basis for a platform, you don't want to scare away investment in your platform developers by competing with them... There is a vibrant ecosystem of game developers, headed by Zynga, who do a good job making successful social games already, and Facebook gets a cut of what those developers make, so there is currently no need for Facebook to step in and make games itself, either strategically or monetarily,» Hoskins recently explained via Quora.

Warren Buffett «s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (brk - a) has become Bank of America Corp's (bac) largest shareholder by exercising its right to acquire 700 million shares at a steep discount, more than tripling an investment it made six years ago.

The company and its eponymous product, created by serial entrepreneur and technology expert David Gurle, is scarcely out of startup mode, but already it's making waves as a potentially disrupting new force on Wall Street, thanks in large part to support from some of the world's largest investment banks.

Additionally, Bharara, who was known as the «Sheriff of Wall Street,» had been examining financial investments made by Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

But it's also the case that large, established providers can design and develop aggregated solutions that are right in their wheelhouse and then help to amortize and distribute some of their own investment by licensing or otherwise making these tools available to others in the marketplace — including many of their own customers and even in some instances competitors.

By focusing on our health, understanding and planning for worst - case scenarios, cultivating trusted friends, and rewarding ourselves periodically, we're making an investment in the future of our business.

There's a new form of crowdfunding being led by companies such as GrowthFountain that has been made possible by changes in investment rules that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) enacted in May 2016.

After all, the former economics professor who is now president of the Hussman Investment Trust has made a name for himself by repeatedly predicting a stock market decline exceeding 60 % and forecasting a full decade of negative equity returns — and yet here we sit just 9 % from record highs, even after some bouts of heavy selling.

Venture capitalists across Europe are «baffled» and «bewildered» by the size and frequency of the tech investments being made by SoftBank.

The two most common financial oversights entrepreneurs make are underestimating how many of their everyday expenses are being subsidized by their business — medical and life insurance premiums, club memberships, vehicles, travel and entertainment costs, etc. — and overestimating the amount of after - tax investment income that can be generated from the proceeds of the sale.

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.

Dimon's comments mirror those made in early March by Daniel Pinto, the head of JPMorgan Chase's industry - leading corporate and investment bank.

Under the program, a selected pool of individual «scouts» will make small ticket investments in projects within their various areas of expertise, backed by funding from BeyondCapital.

Yousuf Mohamed Al - Jaida, the CEO of the Qatar Financial Center, a business and financial center located in Doha, told CNBC Friday that the country has moved to attract foreign investment by making it easier to get business visas and buy real estate.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

Though his 2012 purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

In December of 2013, the OPES Impact Fund made an equity investment in AFRIpads that will help the company meet its goal of reaching 500,000 women and girls by 2015.

ESL Investments, the hedge fund led by the CEO of Sears Holdings, Eddie Lampert, has made a proposal to buy some of the retailer's assets.

One of Royds Withy King's three cryptocurrency cases involves an original investment of 80,000 pounds ($ 111,600) made by a spouse in November 2016.

According to a 2013 study by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, minority entrepreneurs accounted for just 7 percent of pitches made to angel investors (13 percent resulted in an investment).

An investment company chaired by Perth businessman Farooq Khan has made an off - market $ 8 million cash bid for full ownership of Strike Resources, and may seek opportunities for the business outside the resources sector.

(See How Ridescout Demonstrates the Power of the Platform) You make the investments and do the hard work of building it once, it's used by many who couldn't justify the time or investment to do it themselves, and you take the money to the bank.

They'll request and review a lot of documents, including communications with the public and the type and extent of client information gathered by the advisor in order to make their investment recommendations.

By providing quick access to a countless number of investment opportunities, the company makes it easy for everyone - including someone with no previous investment knowledge or portfolio to build on - to make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

You should not treat any opinion expressed by Cramer as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of his opinion.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

In June, Uber closed more than $ 1 billion from a number of venture capital companies, led by Fidelity Investments, making it the priciest startup ever with a value or more than $ 18 billion.

Broadcom is pledging to make the U.S. the «global leader» in 5G cellular with a $ 1.5 billion investment if the company's proposed acquisition of Qualcomm is allowed by the U.S. government to go through, the company said Wednesday.

«By making it less punitive for companies to bring back this money and making the process far less bureaucratic and difficult, we can return trillions and trillions of dollars to the economy and spur billions of dollars in new investments in our struggling communities and throughout our nation,» Trump said.

But when we make these investments, it can be easy to overlook the power of building intimacy with your customers by delivering world - class customer service like they used to in the old days.

Though Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

Buffett has said the best investment he ever made was not a stock or a bond or even in real estate, but buying a copy of The Intelligent Investor, a book written by Benjamin Graham.

Companies like Bell Labs led the way by making ambitious, long - term investments in these kinds of groundbreaking technologies.

The relationship began to get a bit more complicated in late 2013, however, when Ravikant announced that AngelList would allow well - known individual investors such as Tim Ferriss (author of The 4 - Hour Workweek) and Gil Penchina (ex-eBay exec) to create «syndicates,» or pools of committed capital, allowing them to make larger investments on a deal - by - deal basis.

Captain Jon Weaks, president of SWAPA, stated that the two executives have been making poor decisions by prioritizing «short - term stock performance at the expense of long - term investment in people and infrastructure,» resulting in chaotic scheduling and technological glitches, and therefore they should resign.

Uber says it will accept an investment from Japanese tech investor SoftBank, joining a growing portfolio of U.S. technology investments made by intrepid mogul Masayoshi Son.

According to Browder's testimony, Putin amassed his vast wealth by using political clout to coerce Russians who made similar investments to simply hand over large chunks of their holdings to him.

It is not clear what percentage of metal held in Henry Bath was owned by JPMorgan's traders, but it was high enough to alarm the Federal Reserve and to make it difficult for JPMorgan to classify the asset as a strictly passive investment.

To be clear, MoneySense did that piece not so much to encourage investors to grab some indirect exposure to Bitcoin, but to make them aware of how their stock investments may already be being affected by the mania.

Many of the business tax cuts in the Republican plan are simply windfalls for people who made business investments in the past — and even if investors are very responsive to incentives, they can't respond to the bill by investing more in businesses and creating more jobs in the past.

Already a popular practice in the beverage industry, the pace of endorsements and investments by famous names has accelerated in recent years as more celebs look to make money from the increasing popularity of liquor and wine.

The company says the LLC will «pursue its mission by funding nonprofit organizations, making private investments and participating in policy debates, in each case with the goal of generating positive impact in areas of great need.»

Economists have accused her of complacency on the economy, saying she should overhaul the tax system to make it more growth - friendly and boost investment on digital infrastructure — demands also made by the FDP.

He describes several «moonshots» — technologies that would improve the state of the art by 10 times, and that have the technology and investment to make them plausible now.

Despite its name, RBS is currently majority - owned by the taxpayers of the entire U.K., since it needed a government bailout in 2008 to make up for bad investment decisions.

Blumberg has found rapid adoption of security products by consumers and businesses alike, making it a popular investment for venture capitalists.

It's also one of the best investments you can make, as evidenced by its history of outperforming both the stock and housing markets even during periods of double - digit growth rates.

It's still early, but of the first class of eight investments made two years ago, all are still in business; six of them are profitable (and five of the eight are run by women).

They stand to make gobs of money by lending more to Chinese businesses and people and providing investment banking expertise to an underserved market.