Sentences with phrase «earlier called startup»

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This year, the actor and Guy Oseary, his fellow partner at Sound Ventures, hosted a startup competition called Perfect Pitch for early - stage entrepreneurs.

To do that, fellow panelist Edith Yeung, a partner at Mountain View, Calif. - based early - stage venture fund and seed accelerator 500 Startups, advised venture - seekers to attend so - called «demo days» to watch fellow entrepreneurs pitch, because «it's a good way to get a sense of the language.»

Hosted by a community called Xoogler.co, the event featured 24 startups founded by former Googlers, with an audience of 118 angel or early - stage investors, many of whom were current employees or alumni themselves.

Cuban's first big startup success was an early software company called Micro Solutions, which he started for $ 500 and sold seven years later for $ 6 million.

Organizations that assist startup and early - stage companies are called business incubators and accelerators.

The newly combined unit, called Dell Technologies Capital, will operate along similar lines to EMC's venture capital operation, investing average sums of $ 3 million to $ 10 million in both early - and late - stage startups from the parent's $ 118.2 billion balance sheet, the company said.

While there were certain allowances (some would call them «loopholes») to avoid or mitigate this exposure, there is no doubt that such a burdensome tax regime placed American startups at a distinct disadvantage and discouraged international expansion, especially early in a startup's life cycle.

In May, SoftBank invested $ 300 million Guardant Health, a startup specializing in early cancer detection, and it bought a British semiconductor company called ARM.

Earlier this year, a startup called Tezos held an ICO and raised $ 232 million on the premise that it will make software to improve blockchain technology.

Being the Change To streamline the often intimidating and expensive task — typically littered with «an endless maze of forms, acronyms and government agencies to navigate» — Wang launched an innovative Seattle - based startup called Boundless earlier this year.

In 2009, PIE served as a curated coworking space for promising early stage startups and interesting creatives who called Portland home.

In my recent post called Growth Hacking Will Kill Startup, I summarized what your early growth strategy should be:

Earlier in his career, he gained experience working with private equity investors as CEO of an Internet portal services startup called Springbow Solutions.

The budget calls for the elimination of about a dozen agencies dealing with science and environmental matters, including the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the $ 10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which supports early - stage startups.

Now, an ambitious London - based startup called Editd — which, earlier this summer, raised a $ 1.6 million round of seed funding led by Index Ventures, investors in Net - a-Porter, Etsy and ASOS — is offering a realtime data monitoring and analytics platform that makes commercial decision - making in the fashion industry more scientific.

After five years at Tinder, Ryan along with a few other early Tinder people, decided to launch their own startup, Arimus, which recently rolled out a B2B social network platform, called Ripple.

A startup group called Learn Together, Live Together held its kickoff event at the Meridian Pint pub in D.C.'s Columbia Heights neighborhood in early April.

CEO Elon Musk He's been called an egomaniac, but if you'd made nearly $ 200 million on Web startups by your early thirties, you'd probably think a lot of yourself, too.

Over the past year, gumi have expanded considerably into VR by co-founding a $ 50 million VR fund called The Venture Reality Fund with partners in the Silicon Valley, which focuses on seed or early stage startups.

Earlier this month a European startup called Taxify was told by the regulator to cease operating in the city almost immediately after it had launched — after the startup had sought to fast - track the licensing processing by acquiring an existing cab firm (yet apparently without gaining approval for a change in the licensing conditions).

Coinbase has launched a new fund called Coinbase Ventures to invest in early - stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.

The video work follows advancements from a startup called Clarifai, which earlier this year expanded deep learning systems beyond image recognition.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB), a Silicon Valley venture capital firm best known for its investments in Google, AOL, Twitter, Uber and Amazon, has introduced a fund called the Edge Seed Fund, which is set to focus on helping early stage Bitcoin - and blockchain - based startups.

Tapscott cited TMX's early work with blockchain prototypes and the fact that Canada is among several countries that have shown willingness to let blockchain startups safely experiment in so - called regulatory «sandboxes» as reasons for the move.

He was senior vice president of research at an online metrics company called Hitwise, which had just moved its headquarters from Australia to the U.S. Like many executives at early - stage startups, Tancer was responsible for building a team.

at an online metrics company called Hitwise, which had just moved its headquarters from Australia to the U.S. Like many executives at early - stage startups, Tancer was responsible for building a team.