Sentences with phrase «early investors in»

The early investors in projects like these are not in the business of keeping a position in a company rather they like to build it quickly and then cash out.

Where too, is the outrage over early investors in Pepsi and other now - lucrative stocks?

Advice from Fortune 500 company founders, next generation of entrepreneurs, early investors in Apple, Facebook, and other billion dollar startups.

As early investors in Uber, the venture capital firm was able to sell 40 % of their shares to SoftBank back in January (netting approximately $ 800M).

However, many early investors in bitcoin such as Draper had strong belief in bitcoin as the next global store of value and digital currency.

Early investors in the operation are usually motivated to buy the cryptocoins in the hope that the plan becomes successful after it launches which could translate to a higher cryptocoin value than what they purchased it for before the project was initiated.

The first product, the Centra Card and Wallet, a virtual / physical debit card currently supporting Ethereum, Centra Token (CTR), DASH, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Zcash, Monero and other ERC20 tokens has already shipped its first batch of VISA cards to early investors in the United States.

This situation can be explained simply by knowing that a lot of investors wanted to have the same ROI as the early investors in Bitcoin.

Cuban, one of the most accomplished early investors in the digital media sector of the internet boom, sold his company, Broadcast.com, for $ 5.7 billion in 1999.

Early investors in PROPS include some pretty big names like; Union Square Ventures, Comcast Ventures, BlockTower Capital, Chris Dixon, Oren Zeev and Notation Capital.

Additionally, many early investors in bitcoin and ethereum have either held or reinvested profits into other cryptocurrencies.

As such, it was perhaps not surprising when Draper invested was again one of a few early investors in decentralized projects seeking funding by use of the method.

The largest and most influential investment group in the Chinese blockchain space, we're among the largest global holders of Bitcoin and are early investors in meaningful blockchain applications.

Just like we saw as early investors in Spotify within the music business, this will be potentially an even bigger game changer as television consumption moves online to mobile devices, computers and TV apps.»

They're the venture capital rockstars of the social web as their jaw - dropping track records shows — they have been very early investors in companies like Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare.

The Mercers were early investors in the company, dismayed that the Republican Party had lost the data war in the 2012 elections.

Paul Arnold, I believe, was one of those early investors in you.

The couple were early investors in Beatriz Milhazes» work, now one of the most expensive artists on the contemporary Brazilian market.

Imagine being one of the early investors in a Dividend King.

In the end the presentation went well and we had some quality time with a few loyal Intelligent Investor members and early investors in the fund.

As one of the early investors in Kobo, Borders has a minority stake in our company and serves as part of our distribution in the U.S. along with Walmart, Best Buy, Sears and other retailers.

«As one of the early investors in Kobo, Borders has a minority stake in our company and serves as part of our distribution in the U.S. along with Walmart, Best Buy, Sears and other leading retailers.

• While Borders is one of the early investors in Kobo, it holds only a minority stake in Kobo, approximately 11 percent.

Borders was one of the early investors in Canadian based Kobo contributing 5 million dollars and held a 11 % stake in the company.

I think the only companies that might be able to make e-book codes in the print edition is Chapters / Indigo in Canada because they have a good relationship with Kobo, primarily they were early investors in the company.

Early investors in the company are also reaping the rewards of their trust in Alibaba.

Our VCs include First Round Capital (early investors in Uber), American Express Ventures, Ratan Tata, and a long list of leading financial services investors from around the world.

Where too, is the outrage over early investors in Pepsi and other now - lucrative stocks?

More typically, the point of the IPO is to give the early investors in the company — venture capitalists, early employees, and founders — the opportunity to get their hands on cash so they can begin to enjoy the fruits of their work.

Investor and entrepreneur Roger Ver was one of the early investors in Bitcoin, and he made a great deal of money from the blossoming digital currency during its early days.

Many early investors in BitCoin experienced just that — they made a good decision by investing, but outside forces snatched away both their gains and their initial investment.

Not only are you supplying capital to the economy — capital that can grow real businesses that provide real goods and services to consumers — but you get to enjoy the dream of repeating the experience early investors in firms such as Wal - Mart, Home Depot, Walt Disney, Dell, Tiffany & Company, Microsoft, Nike, Coca - Cola, Target, or Starbucks.

But when one hits, it could be a 1,000 % return or more as is the case with early investors in Uber, AirBnb, Facebook, Pinterest, and many more.

Some of the early investors in Matrimony were venture firms Canaan Partners, Mayfield and Yahoo.

For the most part, early investors in Unicorns are in the same position as founders and employees.

DST Global, a company that was early investors in Facebook and Spotify, led the funding round, which included other high profile venture capital firms Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital.

Doerr was one of the early investors in Twitter, but mentioned he was not consulted about the recent management shake up during the interview.

Early investors in the startup were U.S. Renewables Group and Rustic Canyon Partners.

Facebook was faced with — and evaded — similar questions about its relationship with Thiel when Forbes revealed the early investor in the social media network and member of its board was bankrolling a lawsuit that ultimately drove Gawker Media into bankruptcy.

We're just not,» says David Frankel, a managing partner with Founder Collective and an early investor in PillPack.

Thiel, an earlier investor in Facebook and creator of Founders Fund, and Y Combinator's Sam Altman are two of Silicon Valley's more outspoken voices and, when it comes to politics, they land in very different places.

Last month, Wilson, who is also chairman of Tech: NYC (and an early investor in Twitter (twtr) and MongoDB (mongodb)-RRB-, published his top ten reasons as to why Amazon should come to his hometown.

Now, with Spotify going public — Kutcher was also an early investor in the streaming music platform — he is excited, but with reservations.

It was a natural move for Gurbacs, an early investor in the ethereum network (he got into crypto back in 2013), whose academic interests in mathematics took him to Williams College, Harvard, and MIT.

He was also an early investor in one of the hottest companies in China at the moment called Meituan, a local services platform often referred to as the Groupon of China.

Thiel is probably best known for being an early investor in Facebook and a co-founder of PayPal.

Sacca was an early investor in Uber and a Kalanick confidante, but the relationship soured.

It's worth noting that Felicis Ventures, which led the seed round, was also an early investor in Flexport, the «Uber of oceans.»

The comments came on the heels of similarly dire remarks from billionaire Chris Sacca, one of the earliest investors in Twitter, who said that he now hates the company's stock and that its continued issue with «bots» or automated accounts on the platform is «embarrassing.»

As an early investor in E-Trade, Yahoo and China's Alibaba Group, and a bold risk - taker who recently bought 70 % of Sprint Nextel for $ 20 billion, you would never guess how Son grew up.