Sentences with phrase «by venture capitalists»

Nearly $ 27 billion dollars was invested by venture capitalists in 2012.

Since most businesses are not backed by venture capitalists, it's difficult to make ends meet, pay off debt, and start a business on your own.

For all my resentment, I'm still a dude who puts words on the Internet for a company funded by venture capitalists.

They are used by venture capitalists for an infusion of cash or funds that may be given to them as a bond offering by a company or corporation.

You don't have to limited by the restrictions may be placed on your business by venture capitalists.

He's been rejected some 350 times by venture capitalists.

Since then, a series of disclosures from female entrepreneurs have unveiled systemic harassment by venture capitalists.

Growth in the cryptocurrency market has been driven largely by venture capitalists investing in technology infrastructure, and other investors seeking to profit from price fluctuations, rather than by consumers actually using cryptocurrency.

They've been richly funded by venture capitalists, raising a collective $ 255 million.

An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is used by startups to bypass the rigorous and regulated capital - raising process required by venture capitalists or banks.

Today's startups may take many forms: some are run as side hustles on shoestring budgets, while others may be backed by venture capitalists at multi-million dollar valuations even before a cent of revenue is generated.

«Most of the bubble is being created by venture capitalists who are buying equity from other VCs,» Herjavec says «Even if there is a bubble and it kind of bursts a little bit, I'm not sure it's really going to trickle down to a consumer or hurt the public markets.»

Now, casting a wider net, Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $ 1 billion or more by venture capitalists (full list here).

Readers may recall a Medium post earlier this year by venture capitalist Hunter Walk, in which he described how interacting with Amazon's virtual assistant device Echo, which responds in a female voice to sharp commands addressed to the name «Alexa,» was teaching his young daughter bad manners.

The Bitcoin Developer Fund, backed by venture capitalist Fred Wilson, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and others is intended to give the three bitcoin coders working to resolve the block - size debate and other similar technical challenges an academic platform from which to work.

[His office said this figure comes from an estimate for the global energy market made by the venture capitalist John Doerr.]

The board of directors does all the «big picture» business thinking and will likely include someone appointed by a venture capitalist who has invested in the company.

By MONICA ROZENFELD Did you know that only 2 percent of startups funded by venture capitalists last year were founded by -LSB-...]

While nearly two in three women in tech have been sexually harassed at work — according to The Elephant in the Valley, a 2015 survey of more than 200 women in tech conducted by venture capitalist Trae Vassallo and others — 39 percent did nothing because they thought it would negatively impact their career, 30 percent didn't report it because they wanted to forget, and 29 percent signed non-disparagement agreements.

Other investors often consider positions held by venture capitalists as an «overhang» on the stock of a publicly traded company since VCs will typically dispose of their holdings of public companies during the first few years following an IPO.

Other investors often consider positions held by venture capitalists as an «overhang» on the stock of a publicly traded company since VCs will typically dispose of their holdings of public companies during the first few years following an IPO.

According to Inman News, real estate investment by venture capitalists has gradually shifted from the challengers to the facilitators — that is, those offering tech that serves traditional Realtors and lenders.

In the past three years, there has been a six-fold increase in the total dollars invested by venture capitalists in the space and a tripling of the number of deals.

On the positive side, as the number of research - focused legal publishing businesses lowers and the industry contracts in size, it is interesting to see occasionally some faith being placed in the sector, perhaps as in the recent disposal by venture capitalists of Larcier Holding to Editions Lefebvre Sarrut, in turn owned by Frojal S.A. Larcier has within its group, Bruylant and is well - known in Belgium and Luxembourg.

So if the plan is going to be read by a venture capitalist, outline what your financial requirements are going to be.

The company is 70 % owned by venture capitalist Kaj Hed, who is also co-founder Niklas Hed's uncle.

«I think you're seeing that with video, where some sites are doing it because that's what Facebook wants — and they're doing it not because their audiences are craving live video, but because they have to reach this unrealistic number that's been set by their venture capitalists.»

So, after a multi-year decline in Canadian venture capital funding — hitting a low of just $ 1 billion in 2009, despite US$ 132 billion invested by venture capitalists south of the border over the past five years — the March budget finally screamed an end to business as usual.

Even before the JOBS Act became law, the industry's pioneers were consumed with the riddle of how you make a crowdfunded company attractive to venture capital and private equity — there was a presumption, advanced by some venture capitalists, that no subsequent funder would want to deal with a thousand other shareholders.

Everyone and their neighbor has seen The Social Network or knows of a horror story about a startup idea being co-opted by a venture capitalist or a big somebody with deeper pockets.

Allbirds» debut sneaker, the $ 95 «Wool Runner,» has been called the world's most comfortable shoe by venture capitalists and startup founders — as well as the company itself.

In its ruling, the agency also suggested it's looking for a way to encourage the promise of blockchain - based financial innovation — described in papers like this highly - cited one by venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan — while also protecting investors from scammers.

The disclosures came after the tech news site The Information reported that female entrepreneurs had been preyed upon by a venture capitalist, Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital.

Sixty percent of those women report experiencing sexual harassment, according to «Elephant in the Valley,» a 2015 survey by venture capitalist Trae Vassallo and others of more than 200 female tech executives, founders and investors.

Hortonworks, backed by venture capitalists including Benchmark Capital's Peter Fenton, completed its own IPO on Dec. 12 and is a week away from reporting its first quarterly results as a public company.

MAA typically invests in companies in the Kansas City region and provides early - stage commercialization funding in the «seed round» investment range not typically served by venture capitalists ($ 250,000 — $ 1.5 M).

This type of funding differs from the traditional funding situation in which all the capital required for a business venture is supplied up - front by venture capitalists or other investors as part of a private funding round.

The revelation of sexual harassment and sexism by some venture capitalists has led to the upheaval of firms and brought a longstanding issue to the forefront.

At his blog 500 Hats (one of the most - read blogs by venture capitalists, according to the Wall Street Journal), he provides an inside view into the world of venture capitalism and angel investing.

The donation by venture capitalist Howard Cox accounted for more than half the $ 941,000 taken in by the party for its housekeeping account over the last six months.

The city has partnered with the nonprofit CSNYC, spearheaded by venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and other groups to turn out 5,000 computer science teachers within the 10 - year period.

This section includes links to the long - running Next Wave feature on how to write a business plan, as well as an article written by a venture capitalist, Giovanni Ferrara, on how they judge these plans.

Third, most business plan competitions are judged by venture capitalists.

Binfield also suggests, however, that PeerJ, which is being backed by venture capitalist Tim O'Reilly, may be «a transitionary model.»

But 23 trusts breached those rules, including Bright Tribe and the Adventure Learning Academy Trust, both set up by the venture capitalist Michael Dwan, and both of which made non-compliant payments of more than # 2.3 million to companies connected to him and his family.

The Bookseller reported last week that the Danish Mofibo, which is supported by a venture capitalist company and launched just last summer, was expanding internationally, first into Sweden, and negotiating on two other markets.

If we were talking about the Pilgrims some might say their effort was financed by loan sharks, but really, it would be fairer to say that they were financed by venture capitalists, which occasionally worked on an equity basis, and also on a debt basis.

Bolstered by venture capitalists flooding the market with money, the computer gaming market suddenly became a «serious business».