Sentences with phrase «capital than those businesses»

For example, all else being equal, companies that overpay for acquisitions, or retain more capital than they can productively deploy, will show lower returns on capital than businesses that do the opposite.

Not exact matches

The changing market dynamics might also suggest that if you're looking for investment capital to fund your business, or if you're hoping to be acquired, you might get less than top dollar.

• Braavo Capital, a New York - based integrated financing platform for mobile app businesses, raised more than $ 70 million in debt and equity.

That's not right or wrong, but it's just a different business than what I perceive to be venture capital.

In a hugely capital - intensive business, that means increasing its volumes of freight far faster than it adds new employees, locomotives, and boxcars.

More than half of all business startups shut down in the first five years, and the top reasons are all related to financial mismanagement and a lack of operational capital.

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

To date, more than half of NaturAll Club's capital — a total of $ 120,000 — has come from pitch competitions sponsored by, among others, Harvard Business School Club, the entertainer Steve Harvey, UBS, and Under Armour.

The company has raised more than $ 230 million in venture capital since its founding, from investors such as Sigma West and Ignition Partners, and is using that money to rapidly expand its business outside the U.S.. It's well on its way: DocuSign is available in 43 languages.

Developing and marketing custom products is a riskier, more capital - intensive business than simply importing and exporting produce.

Understanding the Landscape: Access to Capital by High - Growth Women - Owned Businesses, research commissioned by the National Women's Business Council, recently released that female entrepreneurs start companies with 50 percent less capital than male entreprCapital by High - Growth Women - Owned Businesses, research commissioned by the National Women's Business Council, recently released that female entrepreneurs start companies with 50 percent less capital than male entreprcapital than male entrepreneurs.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

Different types of business require more capital than others (e.g., a medical device company would require more capital than a hair salon).

Attaining that capital means impressing seasoned investors and convincing them that your business, more than any other, is worthy of their time and money.

Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

The crux of the problem, Richard Mattoon, a senior economist at the Chicago Fed and a lecturer on real estate at Northwestern University told Canadian Business, is that dividends and capital gains make up a much larger share of top earners» pay than they did in the past — and that part of their compensation package tends to be very volatile.

If you're on track to be more than a mom - and - pop shop, it's essential to have a high - quality, accountable financial platform to effectively monitor the health of an organization, fuel business decisions and open your company up to growth capital.

Team Capital's bread and butter is small business lending, and more than 65 % of its total $ 500 million loan portfolio is for small business loans.

«A business earning 20 percent on capital can produce a negative real return for its owners under inflationary conditions not much more severe than presently prevail.»

Atlas Iron managing director David Flanagan has described the results of the iron ore miner's capital raising as an immense vote of confidence in the business, despite achieving just less than half of its $ 180 million target.

While Apple's iPhone shares were slightly softer than expected, the company managed to make more money than forecast with its services business, and offered Wall Street a generous $ 100 billion capital return program.

Lacking his working capital, they've leveraged grants and educational support from more than 50 nonprofit business organizations, opening shops on previously vacant streets and starting innovative tech firms.

In examining funding opportunities, 86 % of all venture capital - funded businesses have no women at all in management positions, and more than 97 % of venture - funded businesses have male CEOs.

As a result, more entrepreneurs and businesses have access to outside capital than ever before and for the first time, investors can efficiently build diversified portfolios of private equity and debt investments.

FEATURE: Having gained notoriety in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, the phrase «show me the money» will be heard often, and loudly, in business in Western Australia in coming years as capital inflows become capital outflows and funds become harder - than - ever to raise.

Arjan Schutte, the CEO of fintech investor Core Innovation Capital, said he'd seen more than 100 different business plans for companies wanting to disrupt Western Union or Moneygram, but that's «not nearly enough relative to the market opportunity.»

That's because, rather than handing the capital over to any one of 17 government agencies with a finger in the innovation pie, or giving the money to the Business Development Bank of Canada, which deployed just $ 408 million of its $ 18.4 billion balance sheet to the venture capital industry, the Conservatives have decided to invest that money directly in entrepreneurs.

One interesting takeaway is that investment banks are now in an information business, rather than a capital business.

More often than you would expect, a manager of a private equity fund looking to raise capital tells us a story about a business that, in the words of the fund manager, does no marketing.

«We were prepared to lend more against the assets than their prior lender was prepared to do,» says Andrew Tananbaum, CEO and founder of Capital Business Credit.

Small - business owners can have a particularly difficult time getting capital from a bank if they've been in business fewer than two years, if their credit score is less than 640 or if they need less than $ 250,000.

Business owners who committed their capital years or decades back could be forced to deal with a very different set of rules than they began with.

As we begin the New Year, the prospects for small businesses in search of capital seem to be brighter than they were even a year ago.

The firms said in a statement that Walmart, which owns Asda, will have 42 percent of the issued share capital of the combined business and will not hold more than 29.9 percent of the total voting rights.

Although the industry suffered in the two years immediately following the recession, revenue began growing again in 2011 as business owners freed up capital by shifting to renting — rather than purchasing — heavy equipment.

Plus, these funds are also much more inclined to invest in low - tech industries, multi-location service companies, franchise operators and Main Street manufacturing businesses than venture capital funds.

It's marketed as being an easy way to become a business owner — it takes relatively little startup capital, etc. — but Rose knows more people who have been burned by this investment strategy than people who have had a positive outcome.

More than 40 programs have popped up in the last half decade offering services such as mentorship, networks of partners, access to investors and business skills development, according to a recent report by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, which surveyed 52 programs.

An unintended consequence of the regulation is that it provided a boost to London's financial economy, as secondary share trading businesses set up in the capital to service clients across the EU, rather than being based locally or shares trading on national exchanges.

You can't run a car business without heaps of capital, so don't blame Tesla for looking forward to a healthier balance sheet than is justified.

Less than 18 months after opening for business, this New York City - based company commands a heady $ 1.5 billion valuation and has raised $ 175 million from a group led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, General Catalyst Partners, Khosla Ventures and Thrive Capital.

«They had more column inches written about this IPO than most IPOs,» one Wall Street equity capital markets executive told Business Insider.

However, if that same person was a partner in an unincorporated firm to which she had contributed 10 percent of the company's capital, she might be eligible to receive more than 10 percent of the business's profits if such an agreement had been made with the other partners.

Most small - business advocacy groups believe the studies that show that raising taxes on small - business owners earning more than $ 200,000 a year will cause their companies to cut back on capital investment and hiring.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

In fact, many venture capital investors evaluate potential partners on how they reacted to a failed business, seeing it as a test of character rather than a mark against them.

More than 20,000 businesses have borrowed more than $ 150 million in PayPal Working Capital loans since the pilot program launched in September.

«The tax shield alone that the ESOP provides enables an ESOP to give a small business more debt, more senior credit, than they could get with other access to capital,» explains Mary Josephs, senior vice president of the Leveraged Finance Department at Chicago's LaSalle Bank Corp., an ESOP lender.

So, for example, a strong showing in the Cost of Doing Business category — worth 450 out of a total of 2021 points — is much more important to a state's overall score than Access to Capital, which is worth 50points.

Baesman worked at VMware for over a decade, including five years in product management, according to his LinkedIn profile, so he has more experience in that field than Fushman, who was in business development and venture capital before taking on the product role at Dropbox.