Sentences with phrase «even such ventures»

So eye - wateringly, crazily, stupidly expensive that it dwarfs every scientific endeavor there has ever been, even such ventures as the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb and the Apollo program to put man on the moon...

But even such ventures, while successfully expanding within a familiar state, find their reach limited.

Not exact matches

Chamath has never been afraid of controversially calling it as it is within the venture world, such as in his late - 2015 piece on what's wrong with venture capital, and is even part of the Golden State Warriors ownership group, which he joined in 2011, during an abysmal 23 - 43 run which seems a lifetime away from two years of triumph.

Coursera even can suggest ways to bankroll your business adventure, with courses such as «New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs.»

While it may seem like raising outside money would actually make it easier to build such a company, even that achievement is often out of reach for women: Less than 3 percent of venture capital goes to female CEOs.

They represent content and digital rights management platforms (such as SingularDTV), distributed venture funds (such as the the DAO, for decentralized autonomous organization), and even new platforms to make investing in ICOs and managing digital assets easy (such as ICONOMI).

This feature allows you to issue tokens for various utility uses such as rewards or event tickets, but also for things like shares or equity in traditional assets, startups, venture funds, and even real estate.

One in six institutional investors, in another survey, projected gains of more than 20 % annually on their investments in venture capital — even though such funds, on average, have underperformed the stock market for much of the 2000s.

Venture capitalists have deep pockets and as such they can provide more money to grow a business, even more than can be provided by other lending companies.

Even though existing businesses such as early - and late - stage startups record most successes with this option, some venture capital firms support new businesses with seed capital.

If a user has no desire to travel outside of the destinations offered by AeroMexico while spending predominantly on categories such as gas and groceries, then the value of the AeroMexico Visa Card can exceed that of even the Venture Card.

Compare that to real wealth generators, such as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, the mobile and flexible self employed, or even artists, to push things to a provocative extreme.

In some cases, some of the initial offering is held back for a while, and then used for promotions once the product has been launched, such us on the forums or on social media to raise even more awareness of the venture.

These carefully curated guests — «we look for community builders, not lone wolves,» Mr. Agrawal said — included venture capitalists such as Mr. Farris and successful entrepreneurs who were expected to provide feedback, introductions and even funding to the startups.

Given so much, we may be justified in believing that such a venture may honestly be reckoned as a grace - full sign of hope, even in these raddled times.

Without even remotely implying there are not similar or better studies on the topic, I do venture to say that I have not personally seen such a complete study on this.

If one means that a fundamental religious or moral idea is common in each instance, we can agree; but if one is saying that Jesus» particular way of conceiving such ideas can always, or even often, be paralleled, then I venture to dissent.

(24) Thirteen years later Barth stated his position even more radically: «At the risk of more headshaking and displeasure I will at any rate venture to whisper one thing to you, namely, that I have become increasingly a Zinzendorfian to the extent that in the New Testament only the one central figure as such has begun to occupy me - or each and everything else only in the light and under the sign of this central figure.»

Although the legal definition of a partnership is «a joint venture for profit», I doubt that even the most detached of such domestic arrangements could be regarded as chiefly a profit - making venture.

The Buffalo Billion includes more than a dozen other regional projects, a potpourri of state - backed ventures such as an information technology hub, a pharmaceutical research center, a pediatric hospital, a visual effects center, various residential redevelopments and even a candy store renovation.

With the increasing presence and appropriate nurturing of such scientists, Singapore's venture capital industry can expect to achieve even greater heights.

It's even, for this director, tantalizingly political, venturing into dark territory about such utopia - bursting ills as bigotry and authoritarianism.

It's a society in which nearly all emotion, pleasure and pain, have been eradicated through injections, where even such things as color and music are unknown to the citizens, who've never ventured over «The Edge» to see what's on the other side.

They can even venture to places they couldn't normally go, such as inside the human body, into outer space, or back in time.

We can make big - ticket purchases, such as gold jewelry, and even buy a house online thanks to successful eCommerce ventures like Bluestone and Zillow, among others.

The author wrings a humanity from her characters that magnifies even the smallest events, such as when Beth dares to venture over to the neighbors» house and is bewitched by the piano.

Even so, I pledge now never again to revisit my former workaholic life for anything, especially not for my love of writing, which would ultimately die from the unbelievable stress of such a silly venture.

Even worse is that often the photos have questionable licensing, meaning that they may not be available for use in a «commercial» (something that makes money) venture such as a book.

Going out even further over the spectrum, investment vehicles such as hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital, which are open only to high net worth individuals, charge even higher fees.

Such a portfolio would offer the same dynamics / economics as a traditional seed / early stage venture capital portfolio — a ground - floor opportunity to invest in startups which might only require millions in funding, but which might ultimately offer investors (despite the inevitable failures) the huge long - term upside potential of a unicorn (or even decacorn).

As you venture forth to one of our fundraising events such as adoption fairs, a booth at one of the major animal events, or even just to a local dog park, you will ALWAYS find one of Hull's volunteers — or a Hull's dog!

Even today, few issuers offer such flexible travel rewards redemption as Venture Rewards users enjoy — and the fringe benefits are nothing to shake a stick at.

If a user has no desire to travel outside of the destinations offered by AeroMexico while spending predominantly on categories such as gas and groceries, then the value of the AeroMexico Visa Card can exceed that of even the Venture Card.

Twilight of the Republic gives you multiple hubs on worlds such as Tatooine and Coruscant, and even gives you the opportunity to venture into space for ship - to - ship battles; don't worry, the spaceships are all part of the game and don't require you to buy spaceship toys in addition to the figures.

It is not impossible for an F1 game to cover historic seasons as F1 Career Challenge on PS2 officially covered the 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 seasons within the same game and Grand Prix Legends on PC successfully recreated the feel of the 1967 season, while a more recent example in other motorsports would be SBK Generations on PS3 which successfully integrated the 2009 to 2012 FIM Superbike World Championship seasons and even venturing into other sports such as WWE Legends of WrestleMania which successfully showcased a quarter of a century worth of wrestling action.

For Maurer the departure from Paris was painful, but he continued to increase his mastery of modernism, assimilating aspects of cubism and even venturing into abstraction at a time when such developments were anathema to popular opinion in the United States.

If there is any mention of total climate energy content, it is usually buried in a later paragraph and not represented in a prominent figure, such that I would venture to guess that most casual media consumers skim over it, if they even get that far in the article before moving on to something more scintillating.

Climate scientists are notoriously touchy about non-climate folks «meddling» in their profession, but they have no such qualms when they venture off into statistics or geology or even astrophysics without much knowlege of what they are doing.

While private investors and entrepreneurs are jumping into alternative energy projects, they can not be counted on to solve such problems, economists say, because even the most aggressive venture capitalists want a big payback within five years.

And even professional services firms bearing a closer resemblance to law firms, such as the big banks, have been ramping up their venture activities in recent years (particularly in fintech) and launching startup incubators and accelerators.

It was launched in 2012, and since their launch they have attracted a significant amount of investment capital from reputable investors, venture capital firms, and even banks and financial institutions such as BBVA, USAA Bank, and the New York Stock Exchange.

These companies currently offer their services for free, even though they are venture - backed — Lightning Labs recently secured $ 2.5 million and Blockstream has raised $ 80 million so far — and as such, it's believed they'll eventually need to find a way to generate profits.

Many of these new decentralized venture capital alternatives have a wide variety of services they offer, but there are similarities between them all that are worth comparing, such as an idea hub, a decentralized funding mechanism, professional blockchain startup assistance, and even businesses built solely to create more businesses.