Sentences with phrase «by wealthy entrepreneurs»

Meanwhile, foundations set up by wealthy entrepreneurs in the past may indicate further snags for the newly minted Zuckerberg foundation.

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Current securities law dictates that an entrepreneur can only equity crowdfund, or raise money from a group of people by selling portions of his or her company to individuals who meet a handful of specifications deeming them sufficiently wealthy.

It used lifestyle imagery to raise awareness and start conversations by showcasing content featuring a woman's mastectomy scars, as well as a wealthy female entrepreneur managing a greenhouse full of cannabis plants.

Mr. Costolo, a wealthy former entrepreneur who has led Twitter for the last five years, had grown tired of second - guessing by Wall Street, with its focus on the social network's sluggish user growth and its repeated failures to make its products more appealing.

Backed by some of Chile's wealthiest investors, Idea Factory has set up a few locations throughout Santiago to give inventors a place to work and to provide students and budding entrepreneurs with access to classes and influential leaders.

You're undoubtedly familiar with the story by now: A wealthy, charismatic young entrepreneur with control issues, a secret room and a penchant for fetish gear and wonderful toys meets a...

In 2015, Mr Varkey became the first education entrepreneur to sign up for the Giving Pledge, a commitment launched by Bill Gates, in which the wealthy pledge to give away most of their money to philanthropic causes.

Its modern history begins in 1898 when it was purchased by the St. Petersburg Insurance Association and rented out to the North Homebuilding Society headed by wealthy railroad entrepreneur Savva Mamontov.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century the Mexican government — in eternal social and financial turmoil — started selling off vast tracts of land in its desolate northern provinces on the notion that wealthy American entrepreneurs would exploit the land by building infrastructure that the government in Mexico City could not afford.

Since the Left, and the Democrats beholden to them, lost their grip on total power in North Carolina's General Assembly in 2010, followed by Gov. Pat McCrory's victory in 2012, they have largely attributed their political exile to the spending of wealthy conservative entrepreneur Art Pope.