Sentences with phrase «early investments in»

Our Thomasville dining room set was one of the first early investments in our marriage.

Local landmarks like Dinah's and the Culver City Studios set the tone for life in Culver City years ago, and today its residents enjoy the results of those early investments in culture and business.

Roger Ver, also known as «Bitcoin Jesus», is an inspirer and advocate of Bitcoin Cash, and is well respected as key influencer in the crypto community; not just because he was one of the earliest supporter and adopter of bitcoin, but also because of his early investments in crypto - related startups including Ripple, Blockchain.info, Bitpay and Kraken.

«Much of banks» early investments in blockchains were based on this expected use case, rather than more general ideas of shared data storage (for which blockchains are well suited).

Samsung's early investments in the technology have proven to be a great move as the company now accounts for 99 % of the global smartphone OLED market.

A valid question, since not many potential investors are aware of the prospects of early investments in term plans.

The good news, says Paulson: «The most severe risks can still be avoided through early investments in resilience and other immediate actions we can take now to reduce the pollution that causes global warming.»

CEIP seeks to reward early investments in renewable energy and energy ef ciency measures that generate carbon - free electricity or reduce end - use energy demand during 2020 and / or 2021.

Despite early investments in Kobo Books and its line of cutting - edge e-readers, Borders held only a minority stake in the digital reading platform and therefore may have missed out on garnering a large enough share of the ebook market to stay in business.

«While our opponents fight to take the most extreme liberal position on the issues, we are taking nothing for granted and have made early investments in our campaign infrastructure to earn the support of every voter,» said Nicholas Weinstein, Reed's campaign manager.

Early investments in prevention of low birth weight and stunting, and early initiation of and exclusive breastfeeding, contribute to reducing the risk of later obesity and chronic diseases.

Roger Ver, also known as «Bitcoin Jesus», is an inspirer and advocate of Bitcoin Cash, and is well respected as key influencer in the crypto community; not just because he was one of the earliest supporter and adopter of bitcoin, but also because of his early investments in crypto - related startups including Ripple, Blockchain.info, Bitpay and Kraken.

In recent years, for instance, early investments in unicorns satisfied many limited partners.

Hamid has a proven track record of investing in many of the leading enterprise startups of the last decade — including early investments in Slack, Box, Yammer, Intercom and Netskope, where he also served on the board of directors.

He argues that there's a very small overlap in the venture firms that made early investments in the largest successful startups.

The stake in line with Thiel's iconoclastic investment philosophy, which has paid off handsomely with huge gains on early investments in companies like Airbnb and Facebook.

Top rival MillerCoors has acquired fewer craft brands because it tapped the craft movement with two early investments in Blue Moon and Leinenkugel's.

«This was not Stanford, not Silicon Valley, where leaving (a prestigious university or a good job) to start your own company is a badge of honor,» said Technology Crossover Ventures partner Woody Marshall, who led his firm's early investments in Netflix, Spotify and Airbnb.

Sacca, who is known for his early investments in tech companies such as Twitter and Uber, launched into an impassioned speech criticizing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, firing off a barrage of charges against Trump that were as fast, furious, and hard to fact check as those coming from the candidates themselves.

Sacca is known for his early investments in Twitter (twtr) and Uber as well as appearances ABC's startup competition show Shark Tank.

Early internet investor Tim Draper says bitcoin will be bigger than his early investments in Tesla, Hotmail and Skype combined.

This is the first space - related investment from lead Accel, which held early investments in technology companies such as Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify and Venmo.

Its Sam's Club unit is still slugging it out with Costco in the big box category but earlier investments in groceries from meat and produce to floral and pharmacy appear to be paying off.

The firm's portfolio companies include FanDuel, Lemonade, and Rippe, but in the tech world, Tusk Ventures is most known for its early investment in Uber when it was just a «small transportation startup.»

That's a function praised by Jeff Jordan, the Andreessen Horowitz partner who led the venture firm's early investment in Tilt.

For years, Home Depot has clocked in better sales performances, thanks to better store locations, earlier investments in e-commerce and more nimbleness in updating its product assortment.

For instance, Lone Pine Management shared four of the top 10 picks of Tiger Global, the hedge fund run by Chase Coleman, who is famous for his early investment in Facebook (FB).

Marc Sandroff, a managing director at Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, a Chicago - based venture firm that followed up its earlier investment in HealthHelp with more money, notes: «Good companies continue to be financed.

It was his early investment in Facebook that allowed the company to build a hosting platform that would help the social network scale in its early days.

The company owns 30 % stake in Alibaba, hitting the jackpot with its early investment in Jack Ma's vision.

The firm made an early investment in Bitcoin - focused incubator Boost VC in 2013.

McDonald's early investment in the burrito chain gave it capital to grow, an inside look at ultra-efficient supply - chain economics, the know - how it needed to manage its expansion from 13 stores in 1998 to almost 500 in 2006.

Founders Fund, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early investment in Facebook, has reportedly put money into a cryptocurrency startup that aims to optimize the bulk trading of cryptocurrencies.

It's also an early investment in defining what this moment means to the constituents who'll be voting for them next year.

As of this week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is hiring full - time operatives to do political organizing work in 20 key Republican - held districts — an unusually early investment in House races that do not even have declared candidates yet.

OLSEN: Hart is a great example of how a festival like SXSW allows you to feel as if you're making an early investment in promising talent, because her «Miss Stevens» played here two years ago.

Policymakers and civic leaders, who understand this science, are more likely to support more informed and earlier investments in the most vulnerable of our youngest children.

Preschool, they argue, is an early investment in youth that yields significant economic results later on.

Education in Vietnam has benefited from early investment in both school and teacher quality.

Both philosophies maintain the importance of early investment in core skills, but they part ways on the ideal order of presentation.

«An early investment in people becoming the leaders that our schools need will result, we are confident, in a higher degree of effectiveness for novice principals and a lower degree of turnover in the first two to five years of the principalship,» says John Youngquist, director of principal talent management for the Denver Public Schools.11

In a Special Report, Life Changes: The Case for Early Investment in Our Kids, The American Prospect highlighted the need to continue the investment in children's education to support strong Third Grade outcomes.

«The lessons we learn from the experiment will inform local, state, and federal policy - makers on how an early investment in low - income students» college education can have a positive return - on - investment.»

Hybrid stalwarts Honda and Toyota are making a move to capitalize on their early investment in gas - electric technology by increasing production numbers, lowering costs, and offering hybrids for around $ 20,000.

What happened was that this shyster opportunist — as I reported here, part of his vast fortune comes from his earlier investments in Big Coal — has simply reached the very expensive conclusion that no one gives a damn about the greenies» imaginary climate problem.

As discussed in my book, Environmentalism Gone Mad, most earlier investments in wind farms have ended in unsightly scrap heaps that taxpayers must then often pay to remove after the subsidies have run out.

Some of my study respondents reflected that their own, earlier investment in costly clothing was a source of revenue for tailors who then left them on their own to finish the job.

As a former associate at a prominent Silicon Valley law firm, the VC helped pioneer some of the early investment in legal tech, albeit not all investments worked out well.

But every young gun should remember that the earlier investment in a health insurance, the better it results into.

Shares of disk drive company Seagate Technology (STX) were flying Monday, reportedly due to its early investment in a cryptocurrency called Ripple that has soared in value, though it was sinking on Monday.