Sentences with phrase «early focus of»

Escrow - based smart contracts have been an early focus of Ethereum developers.

WASHINGTON — One early focus of new gun regulations by President Barack Obama and some lawmakers would reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons, a law widely regarded as imperfect...

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Facebook rolled out an expansion of its Instant Articles project on Tuesday — that's the mobile - focused offering it launched earlier this year, which offers faster - loading pages to media companies who agree to publish directly to the social network.

«Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel,» said Georgiadis in a statement «As a parent, I have seen this first hand and am honored to be joining the Company at this exciting time of renewed focus.»

Earlier that same day, Time Inc. (Fortune «s parent) announced that it was buying xoJane.com and xoVain.com, a pair of millennial women - focused sites run by Say Media Inc. and veteran mag editor Jane Pratt.

While Toyota declined to comment on details of the meeting, Toyota «s North America Chief Executive Jim Lentz told Reuters earlier this week that the company was focused on reminding policymakers in Washington about the automaker's extensive U.S. manufacturing operations.

According to Ed Quattlebaum, founding partner at Polaris - Crux Group, a strategic advisement firm that focuses on helping early - stage innovation companies with capital raising and commercial scaling, one of the most effective strategies to better position you and your startup during negotiation is to acknowledge and address one anxiety that all investors loathe: risk.

They justify their early focus on luxury goods by noting numerous high - end brands successfully expanded into the mass market by grabbing «customers hungry for a piece of the brands» cachet.»

Aptly dubbed «Zero Suicide,» the planned initiative (still at its earliest and informal stages) emphasizes prevention over reactive mental health treatment, with interventions focused on at - risk individuals the moment they show signs of possibly lapsing into suicidal ideation.

Though early drafts of the Senate bill called for the Fed to adopt rules - based monetary policy, this ended up being stripped from the final proposal due to Democratic opposition - largely because much of the Hill focus has been on the Taylor rule, which many Fed advocates fear is too restricting.

John Watters, Co-Founder and CEO of Informed Position John Watters is the co-founder and CEO of Informed Position, an early stage FINTECH company with a primary focus on developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled products that enhance trading systems within financial markets.

«I can focus even more energy on [them] because very early out of the gate you realize that once you have access or a voice that people are willing to listen to with that comes a lot of responsibility, which I take very seriously.»

You can check out which industries and regions these investors focus on as well as their top early - stage investments of 2014.

Three of the earlier proposals focused most attention on those with lower to moderate earnings.

Shares of cancer - focused biotech Clovis Oncology soared nearly 50 % in early Monday trading on the strength of clinical trial results for its ovarian cancer treatment Rubraca.

Journey is a great example of an early 80s bands that focused on business as well as art by plowing earnings back into stage, sound, and lighting equipment; purchasing their own trucks and transportation gear; and providing their label (CBS) not only with finished records but also with artwork and merchandising material.

Spark Therapeutics» stock soared 20 % in Wednesday trading on the heels of its second quarter 2017 earnings report and some (very) early data on the gene therapy - focused firm's treatment for the blood disorder hemophilia A.

A great example of this is a health - care organization called TGEN, which is focused on developing ways to diagnose cancer earlier and provide smarter treatments for patients.

Three years earlier, Cramton quit his job as a furniture salesman to focus on building the company, which he had been running part time out of his basement in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Earlier this week, my 29 «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College participated in a focus group that led one of my students to remark that she had always thought they were a waste of time until she saw one in action.

While the White House did try to focus its wrath on Wolff and publisher Henry Holt and Company — attempting to impose a cease - and - desist order, only prompting an earlier release of the book — there are more in - depth reports already headed for the printing presses of which the administration should be wary.

Earlier this year, Dorsey revealed a five - pronged plan, which includes a focus on streaming live content, to the pleasure of investors, but the execution of the proposal has been agonizingly slow to follow.

• Grail, a life sciences company focused on early cancer detection that operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN), raised more than $ 900 million in Series B funding.

Airbus has a new senior management team coming on board in early 2019 and Myerson said that while it will be expected to address the future of the A380, investors will be focused more on the success of the A320 and A350 programs.

Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury added more than a dozen individuals and companies to its roster of blacklisted North Korea - related entities, an escalation of the Justice Department's focus on tightening sanctions against Pyongyang.

The smart path, especially if you are early in your career, is to focus first on building up your sources of informal power like by establishing expertise or building a social network.

After an early version of their software proved to be too difficult to implement, Sim decided to focus on helping clients improve their internal workflows.

Early on, Preston spent much of his time righting the ship of disaster aid, but now he's focusing more on the small business in the SBA.

This naturally pushes early stage investing to smaller investment sources; angels and government sources like SBIR's, economic development funds, and state focused specific funds for a start - up's first round of investment.

Or, as Christian Busch, CEO of German Accelerator Tech NY, sums it up, «Lack of focus on solving a specific problem / need, (poor) timing (too early / too late), and scaling too fast.»

The ignominious departure of former Fox News star Bill O'Reilly — like the earlier exit of his former boss, Fox chairman Roger Ailes — has focused a lot of attention on the Murdoch media empire.

In early October, Brad left his full - time job to take control of the brand (though Brad hates the word «brand») and focus on what to do with it next.

In his research, Goldratt focused most of his early work on manufacturing operations and, specifically within that realm, on finding what one process or piece of equipment might be inhibiting throughput.

Even in the earliest days of the business, we focused on doing a lot of partnerships with other brands and influencers.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

The main focus of acquisitions will be early - stage assets that can add to the pipeline of experimental drugs, Walmsley said, adding she was not interested in entering a $ 64 billion bidding war with Takeda Pharmaceutical for Shire.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

FORTUNE — Michael Dell appeared earlier this week at Fortune Brainstorm Green, our annual conference focused on the intersection of business and environmental responsibility.

«Our strong focus on execution across the business continues, as evidenced by three successful launches in the quarter and the entry into service of SES - 15 early in Q1.

Court documents show Flynn, an early and vocal supporter on the campaign trail of President Donald Trump whose business dealings and foreign interactions made him a central focus of Mueller's investigation, will admit to lying about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the United States during the transition period before Trump's inauguration.

We made the early decision in 1997 to go online and make that a focus, so we were really ahead of competitors.

By expanding the focus of the SBIC program, the initiative encouraged investors to look at early stage companies and impact investing.

In his interview on Masters of Scale, Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, mentions a story about how his move to New York in the early days of the company to be near customers made all the difference for Airbnb's focus.

The companies» announcement of a merger agreement, currently expected to come either in late October or early November, will focus on the potential benefits of the deal for consumers.

Holiday recounts the early days of Evernote, when the young company decided to bypass traditional marketing and advertising and instead focused all its attention and resources on building a product that people would come to love.

I found that early morning hours until lunchtime work really well for myself, starting my day with a bunch of tasks at hand to help me keep that focus for several hours.

Earlier this month it did the same thing with its software business, offloading most of its lineup — including Autonomy — to Micro Focus.

To facilitate those transactions, Draper co-founded and serves as CEO of Boost VC, a 12 - week accelerator program in San Mateo, Calif., that offers housing, office space and mentoring to early - stage startups with a focus on Bitcoin - related businesses.

The Darden School of Business offers one of the top MBA entrepreneurship programs among b - schools, awarding over $ 1 million in scholarships annually and offering highly specialized training like Venture Capital Bootcamp, a three - day workshop focused on early - stage investing.

Case in point: Arlan Hamilton, the founder of Backstage Capital, an early stage tech investment fund that focuses on three underserved markets in the world of venture capital: black, female, LGBTQ company founders, or any combination of the three.