Sentences with phrase «early funding because»

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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.»

If you are an early - stage venture fund, you have to be thinking pretty hard about, «I hope I'm backing the company that ultimately becomes a «super-have» because they seem to have an unfair advantage.»

Einhorn, fund manager for Greenlight Capital, accused Apple of cash hoarding earlier last week and is encouraging shareholders to vote against Apple's proxy because he thinks proposition two will kill the option of Apple issuing preferred stock.

Getting funding during the early stages of a startup is critical, but also tough because it's one of the riskiest times to invest in a business.

Phase III funding, the round where ideas are validated with up to $ 10 million in funding, is the very center of the valley of death, because it's the biggest test for early - stage companies.

And, he says, because funding is more readily available at the early stage, founders have access to capital — and that capital has fewer strings attached.

Therefore, because you have four times the number of startup companies finding and accepting early - seed funding, you also have four times the number of startup companies competing for series A funding later.

On this last point, for some institutions, the ON RRP is an imperfect substitute to lending in private unsecured markets because, in the tri-party repo system through which the ON RRP is settled, cash is not returned at maturity until late the next day, whereas in private unsecured markets, earlier return of funds can be negotiated.39

Because of the severe financial penalties, withdrawing money early from retirement accounts should only be done in an extreme emergency, ideally after any emergency funds and investments have been depleted.

Nonetheless, a Roth is still a useful vehicle because of (a) early retirement, before age 59.5 and Roth's ability to access those funds without a 10 % penalty; (b) required minimum distributions (RMDs) of traditionals, and their interaction with (c) Social Security Income.

As a result we did what you are doing now - built up the non-retirement fund to avoid early penalties and fees, because who likes those, right?

I call it the FIRE Fund because the portfolio allows me FI / RE (financial independence / retired early).

These early connections were critical because they brought together people founding, funding, and mentoring entrepreneurs to create a critical mass.

It's because angel investors provide this critical early stage capital, and are involved in so many more young companies, that I believe they are more important to entrepreneurs, and the economy, than traditional VC funds.

Because Deming has always had an intriguing relationship with time, we weren't all that surprised when she reached out to us late last week to let us know her San Francisco - based venture firm, The Longevity Fund, has now established a new accelerator program — one with backing from famed investor Marc Andreessen, the early - stage venture firm Felicis Ventures and other, unnamed investors.

And by doing that, they would make small incremental adjustments to the effective Fed funds rate or the Fed funds target rate at that point in time and actually, because it wasn't posted on Bloomberg or wasn't said at that point in time, in the late 70s, early 80s you wouldn't actually know that the Fed was actually targeting or adjusting interest rates until you actually saw those processes or felt them in the marketplace occurring in the short - term markets.

Because many traditional venture funds have ballooned and expanded to late - stage and international companies, there was a need for new, smaller investors who were focused on financing early - stage companies.

Generally, mutual funds are best for earlier retirement planners because they allow a safe vehicle for growing funds.

Dad reminded me that not everyone can be Shane Claiborne because Shane Claiborne is pretty radical, then I reminded Dad that Jesus was radical too, then Dad reminded me that someone had to fund Jesus» ministry, and then I reminded Dad that the apostle Paul urged early Christians to pursue «equality» (2 Corinthians 8:13 - 15).

Because everyone knows that, rationally, Congress will vote to increase the debt ceiling in the last stage of the game, that affects how the earlier stages of the game are played: Congress votes for new programs, anticipating that funds for the new programs will be paid for by borrowing.

The funding could help counties that have been wary about early voting because of the additional costs involved.

The General Fund ended the first half of the year with a balance 33 % higher than the year earlier, largely because of legal settlement dollars.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

Despite the new funds, the creation of the beach is still several years away because it is in the early stages of planning, officials said.

The U.S. Senate defeated an effort to set aside $ 600 million in emergency funds to address the nationwide opioid epidemic, with top Republicans arguing that the extra money wasn't needed because lawmakers had addressed the issue in an earlier spending bill.

The most recent nod came early Friday, when Make the Road Action — a grass - roots immigrant rights group that receives ample funding from labor — said it would back Ms. Nixon because of «her strong progressive platform and her commitment to passing and implementing the full protections and supports that our communities need and deserve.»

The metro rail was first established in the early 1980's but deteriorated in recent years because of age, lack of capital funds, and operating conditions.

But because the city's budget for 2016 has already been set, the earliest the park could receive new funding would be 2017, a spokeswoman for City Council Member Laurie Cumbo said.

And he'll get millions more for the general election, further adding to his cash edge over Republican Nicole Malliotakis — who doesn't get early matching funds because she has no primary opponent.

Earlier this month, Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud declined to appoint anyone to Miner's stadium task force, saying there was no rush because the opportunity for state and county funding had passed.

• $ 966 billion million for NOAA weather satellites, which are important early warning tools to help save lives and money, and includes funding to restore critical climate sensors that were deleted from our next generation polar satellites because of cost overruns.

This early onset form tends to receive less attention and funding than the late - onset form because it makes up less than 2 percent of all of Alzheimer's cases — though that still amounts to more than half a million people.

Maggie Blanks, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund's CEO, said: «It's because of these bleak facts that our funding strategy focuses on finding and developing alternative, effective treatments for patients as well as finding a way to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early stage.

HIV / AIDS funding may be affected the most, because, «[s] ince the early 1990s, Congress and [NIH] have agreed to dedicate roughly 10 % of the NIH budget to fighting HIV / AIDS,» which some feel is now out of proportion with the burden the disease imposes in the United States.

Early in this fiscal year, NIH gave many investigators only 90 % of their full approved grant amount because the agency didn't yet have a final budget; some of the reserved funds will be released later in the year.

Under the proposed NIH policy, taxpayer funds would be allowed for experiments in which human cells are added to early - stage embryos of all animals except nonhuman primates, such as chimpanzees and monkeys, because they are so similar to humans.

At a news conference earlier this year for «Behind the Candelabra,» Soderbergh and company expressed their gratitude to HBO for picking up the film when major studios balked at funding it, reportedly because the gay content was too much to handle.

The report says this is probably because SATs converted during the early stages of the coalition government, when greater funding incentives were available.

Another state that cut taxes deeply — Kansas — also has imposed large reductions in general school funding, but the precise size of those cuts can not be determined because the state eliminated its funding formula earlier this year.

For decades, districts have also chosen to invest their Title I funds primarily in their highest poverty elementary schools because addressing student learning needs at the earliest age possible produces the greatest return on investment.

Earlier this year, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Foundation published a list of principles for school finance which includes the fundamental point that the basis of the equity argument for increased education funding should be challenged, because educational equity is not the same as school funding equity.

In states with universal access to publicly funded preschool, nearly all families enroll because they value high - quality early education.

Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood issued an injunction earlier this year to stop the program, siding with critics who say it's unconstitutional because the private school scholarships are funded with taxpayer dollars.

Portable funding, also known as «backpack funding» because it follows the child, was included as an option in a draft bill released by Alexander earlier this year and a K - 12 education reform bill that passed the House education committee in February.

I then multiplied this real average tuition by 1.25 because in earlier research in Arizona I found that, on average, 20 percent of total private school funding comes from non-tuition sources (mainly parish subsidies and alumni donations).

Earlier, we mentioned that index fund investing is also called passive investing, because all the fund does is buy and sell whatever underlies the index — computers do all the heavy lifting.

Second, some programs have limited funding and require an early application (meaning don't wait because it could be gone).

We too own TD e-Series funds in our kids» RESP accounts because, as I noted in earlier posts, these mutual funds are ideal for relatively smaller portfolios.

Adds sabbatical coach Clive Prout: «More and more people are dipping into their retirement savings to fund sabbaticals, in part because they're losing faith in the idea of early retirement.

We've been following AVGN (see earlier posts here and here) because it's a net cash stock (i.e. it's trading at less than the value of its cash after deducting all liabilities) and it has a specialist biotechnology activist fund Biotechnology Value Fund (BVF) pushing it to liquidate and return its cash to shareholdfund Biotechnology Value Fund (BVF) pushing it to liquidate and return its cash to shareholdFund (BVF) pushing it to liquidate and return its cash to shareholders.