Sentences with phrase «calls with its investors for»

Before taking Box public, its CEO Aaron Levie got its executives into the habit of hosting quarterly earnings calls with its investors for 18 months before its shares floated on the New York Stock Exchange.

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On a call with investors today, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made the case for why advertisers would spend their budgets on a Yahoo - AOL media property over Facebook or Google.

But many investors are still wary of Bitcoin, with JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon going as far as to call Bitcoin a «fraud,» and that «if you're stupid enough to buy it, you'll pay the price for it one day.»

Earlier this week John Doerr, the illustrious investor and chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, proselytized his bible for business management — a system he calls «objectives and key results,» or OKRs — in a video conference call with several Fortune staffers (myself included).

Activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital — a business partner with Valeant in its failed bid last year for Allergan — offered a spirited defence of the company in a conference call Friday that lasted nearly four hours.

Bitcoin.com - not to be confused with the non-revenue making bitcoin.org - was founded in 2015 by bitcoin investor Roger Ver, and provides a range of services related to bitcoins, including a bitcoin casino, news services and its so called bitcoin «mining pool» - the site's biggest single source of revenue - where it forges new units of the cryptocurrency to be released for trading.

Better yet for the company, advertising sales were a «strong contributor» to Amazon much bigger - than - expected profit in the first quarter, said Brian Olsofsky, Amazon's chief financial officer, on a conference call with investors on Thursday.

As Variety notes, Disney CEO Bob Iger also addressed the potential for unifying disparate brands in a call with investors on Thursday, saying, «Bringing Disney and Fox together will combine some of the world's most iconic entertainment franchises.»

This way, you can still make a connection with the investor, because in the worst case you will get a call, and in the best case the investor will actually be impressed and ask you to come in for a meeting.

Gurley suggests financing will be harder to get for everyone, with ever more draconian terms and investor guarantees attached to the money, via what he calls toxic term sheets.

And as so - called unicorns — private companies worth more than $ 1 billion — struggle with lower valuations, less potential investor cash, and more demanding investors in follow - on rounds, it should be a word of warning for startups of all kinds.

He called for the creation of an international fundraising mechanism to attract private investors, and a separate system to measure the credit risks associated with each project.

Seeking to protect its console business, the Japanese group had for many years resisted introducing mobile games with its best - known characters such as Super Mario Bros. and Pokemon, finally yielding to investor calls last year when it announced a tie - up with mobile specialst DeNA Co..

With a new trend of investments in startups now being in place, to actually address ground - level issues plaguing our society, a relatively new venture called UrbanPiper that offers software solutions and Omni - Channel ordering along with loyalty programs for the hotel industry has raised undisclosed venture capital from veteran investor Kumar VeWith a new trend of investments in startups now being in place, to actually address ground - level issues plaguing our society, a relatively new venture called UrbanPiper that offers software solutions and Omni - Channel ordering along with loyalty programs for the hotel industry has raised undisclosed venture capital from veteran investor Kumar Vewith loyalty programs for the hotel industry has raised undisclosed venture capital from veteran investor Kumar Vembu.

(Reuters)- Blackstone Group LP has secured $ 17 billion from investors for its latest global private equity fund in just seven months, the biggest so - called first close of a buyout fund ever, according to people familiar with the matter.

Even with hedge funds vanishing from the agenda, debt relief advocacy group Jubilee South called on the G - 8 governments to protect poorer countries from vulture funds, or investors who buy up debt at rock - bottom prices and then sue for the full value.

Venture investor and large Twitter shareholder Chris Sacca suggested other ways the company could make money last June, saying it could pursue deeper partnerships with sports leagues, and make money from so called «logged out» users — which Twitter does not get credit for in its monthly active user numbers.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

As I shared with you last month, the recipe calls for a broad commodities rally this year, and I would hate for investors to miss out.

That project was financed with tens of millions of dollars from wealthy Chinese investors through a controversial visa - for - sale program called EB - 5.

After an initial meeting or phone call with a potential investor, it is not a good idea to make the investor wait days (or sometimes weeks) for requested information, updated documents, etc..

Mr. Sanchez - Gomez, 24, has to handle investors, a staff of 10 and the company's plans for expansion through video calls with a business partner halfway around the globe.

A group of executives from the financial - services industry has started what they call a peer - to - peer platform for early - stage investing, with the hope of connecting angel investors with promising start - ups.

These products, which Greenberger calls «betting parties for wealthy investors and financial institutions,» started out with US$ 13 billion in assets in 2004.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has called for regulating digital money as securities, while central bank officials vowed to work with prosecutors to block websites that allow retail investors access to bitcoin exchanges.

In November, the FBI charged Brooklyn businessman Maksim Zaslavskiy with securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud for allegedly bilking investors out of $ 300,000 through an ICO scam called REcoin which he claimed was «the first - ever cryptocurrency backed by real estate.»

Anyone who offers securities must prepare a comprehensive and expensive document called a prospectus and provide them to regulators and investors for vetting — unless they can rely on an exemption, such as the one that limits them to dealing with «accredited» investors.

The seminar Elder attended in 2012 was associated with an education and mentor group for real estate investors called Lifestyles Unlimited.

This covered call strategy is for example purposes only, but can serve as an additional income generating technique for those investors comfortable with options.

For that reason, we have to join the Iron Law of Valuation with what I call the Iron Law of Speculation: the near - term outcome of speculative, overvalued markets is conditional on investor preferences toward risk - seeking or risk - aversion, and those preferences can be largely inferred from observable market internals and credit spreads (when investors are inclined to speculate, they tend to be indiscriminate about it).

Investors, businesses and consumers are excited about what legalization will bring to the economy, with various estimates calling for a multi-billion-dollar market in the not - too - distant future.

For some investors, that may be a good call, especially for those who only want to put it somewhere with a trusted company and let it grow and accumulate with minimal interferenFor some investors, that may be a good call, especially for those who only want to put it somewhere with a trusted company and let it grow and accumulate with minimal interferenfor those who only want to put it somewhere with a trusted company and let it grow and accumulate with minimal interference.

What had happened to the so - called «rational» investors, the smart money, whom economists have for decades said would keep market prices in close touch with the underlying values?

With Littelfuse blowing analyst estimates out of the water and providing guidance calling for continued organic revenue and earnings growth in the second quarter, investors have no shortage of reasons to bid up the stock.

However, investors should be aware that this discount may only extend to shares bought with dividends; depending on the company, fees (called «cash purchase fee» and «purchase processing fee») may be charged for purchases of stock not bought with dividends.

President Barack Obama called for new regulations this week to ensure that brokers who work with retirement accounts put investors» interests first.

I forgot to mention that some investors (let me call them speculators) may decide to borrow money for margin trading with the hold to sell at profits.

With every quarterly earnings call, my Twitter feed lights up with jokes about how Amazon continues to grow its revenue and make no profits and how trusting investors continue to rewards the company forWith every quarterly earnings call, my Twitter feed lights up with jokes about how Amazon continues to grow its revenue and make no profits and how trusting investors continue to rewards the company forwith jokes about how Amazon continues to grow its revenue and make no profits and how trusting investors continue to rewards the company for it.

Triebel is optimistic that the U.K.'s so - called «advice gap» — in which investors can not or will not pay fees associated with financial advice — presents an opportunity for Wealthsimple's lower - cost robo - advisor service.

Last week one of those widely held principles was called into question, with experts cited in the Wall Street Journal doubting whether it's really worth it for investors to rebalance their portfolios of stocks and bonds.

During a call with investors and analysts, Constellation Brands CEO Rob Sands called the company's beer portfolio a «powerhouse for growth» as the «No. 1 growth contributor to the U.S. beer market» and the «No. 1 high - end beer company.»

Last month, the billionaire Besen family joined with National Australia Bank, The Nature Conservancy and several private investors to raise up to $ 100 million for a fund called the Murray - Darling Basin Balanced Water Fund.

Pressure is mounting on Murray Goulburn chair Phil Tracy to resign, with Labor agricultural spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon calling for him to fall on his sword after failing his obligations to farmers and investors.

First to be very clear my friend, I am as true gooner as you are but in trying to make your point about the way wenger and the club had managed to achieve success without the backing of your so called «Angel investor», you had completely missed by point of complementing the emirates with the stars who not only have great footballing skills and also have the ability to drag crowds into the stadium (and that for me is the «top» footballing talent).

Earlier Wednesday, Strollo had testified he was on a conference call in January 2016 with town officials and other investors, when town officials mentioned a «rogue employee» being responsible for the town backing loans to Singh.

It states primary responsibility «must remain» with financial institutions and investors; calls for the reinforcement of regulatory and supervisory frameworks; and states the case for authorities in different counties to improve their cooperation.

LLNL's Industrial Partnerships Office has established a program called the «Innovation Development Fund» (IDF) that provides researchers with money to further develop promising, early stage technologies, so that they are less risky for businesses and potential investors.

During their latest financial call with investors, French mega-publisher Ubisoft actually admitted that the delay of Red Dead Redemption 2 until 2018 was a good thing for their fall 2017 games.

Naturally, during the company's most recent earnings call, investors wanted to see if there's any worry the online mode for the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2 will complete with the incredibly popular GTA Online.

In case the fact that over a hundred million people will be watching the Superbowl isn't reason enough for you to expect an RDR2 trailer, keep in mind that this lines up with our prediction that there will be some sort of press release prior to the quarterly investor call from Take - Two, which is scheduled for the 7th of February.