Sentences with phrase «failed venture»

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that Trump converted nearly a billion dollars in business losses — from failed ventures in casinos, real estate and a now defunct regional airline — to win a free pass with the IRS with the potential to shield as much as 18 years of his personal income from taxes.

Whether you are an innate entrepreneur or a scientist bursting with ideas, the aim of these modules is to help students identify what distinguishes successful companies from failed ventures.

«For every Facebook, there were hundreds of failed ventures,» he says.

Background articles about BN show a renewed focus on brick and mortar, and consider the Nook as failed venture.

One failed venture hardly defines your career.

This type of advice tends to be riddled with remorse for their own failed ventures rather than sage wisdom.

You're acting like you know how this stuff works and you've even pointed out a prior failed venture as though that lends some kind of credence to your knowledge of this topic.

It's no secret that since the collapse of Digital Anvil, the Chris Roberts founded studio that Microsoft bought, and subsequently kicked him out of, Chris Roberts and his long time business partner, Ortwin Freyermuth have been involved in various failed ventures.

Critics also harped on his involvement with a past failed ventures called GetGems.

Ever since his move to the United States, he has been linked to pets or animals in his ventures and is shadowed by a history of failed ventures, lawsuits, unpaid bills, and fraud allegations.

As entrepreneurs, we start out intending to build a successful business; however, behind any successful business is a leader who has had at least one failed venture in their past.

Timing comes into play a great deal — the wrong timing can lead to missed opportunities and failed ventures.

Done right, this separation will afford the independence of the business from personal finances and investments, sheltering any loss of income or liabilities from a failed venture.

Once I was able to walk away from the failed venture I was available to invest in the next idea.

Without passion, it's very hard to get through the downs or to pick yourself up after a failed venture.

Often business owners perceive debt as a last - resort effort for sustaining a failing venture, but even the most healthy ventures will need influxes of cash to keep their momentum strong.

In the U.S., where the fear of failure is not as acute as in the U.K., a failed venture is considered a great learning experience, and a success in its own right.

Most start - ups will last at least a few years, and the experience and remuneration you receive from even a failed venture can be valuable additions to your skill set.

It is fascinating to think that this beautiful iconic public space (long a tourist destination) is somewhat of a failed venture in its original plan.

If you're not listening and providing constructive criticism for each other, then this will be a failed venture.

There are some very disturbing trends that all of these failed ventures have in common, and many others are on the cusp of falling suit and hopefully could avoid the same fate.

This since the real plans of HP appear to be selling off its failed venture without incurring any loss.

From time to time there's talk on the App Hub forums about Xbox Indie Games being a failed venture.

Another failed venture for Sony LOL

And Xbox is cautipons yet moving towards vr as for PS VR will be another of their failed ventures on their portfolio

Here we are in 2017, and people are still talking about the failed venture between the two companies.

One could argue that Sony emerged from that failed venture in a better place.

Given the fact that the PS Vita has two analog sticks, it should be no surprise that it would be an excellent console for first - person shooter games, but many saw that as a failed venture.

We wouldn't be surprised if the Move ended up in a list of the PlayStation's failed ventures.

It should be noted that, aside from all the usual suspects from these failed ventures, and who are now involved in Star Citizen, John Schimmel who used to be «President of production» at Ascendant, is also part of the Star Citizen project; along with Ortwin Freyemuth, the Roberts brothers, the Elms brothers — and all their cohorts (some of them, such as Tony Zurovek and Eric Peterson, from back in the day) enrolled in their friends and families program.

Kimballs recognizes that his failed ventures are mainly due to «user error,» but he was able to successfully use alcohol to his advantage, such as using Faust wine to cook nettles and bartering Widmer Brothers» Upheaval IPA with some a fisherman for fish and water.

His father, Abram, traveled from one failed venture to the next, leaving his family behind.

Vinod Khosla & Khosla Ventures, and Al Gore & Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are venture capitalists responsible for a lot of failed ventures, laid off workers and untold sums of government money taken and never paid back - but pay no mind... Mitt Romney is the evil vulture capitalist that likes firing people!

«Show me a failed venture in Mexico and I will show you a naive, if not negligent, business development team,» he says.

There are lots of them, but for a long time we didn't really have a good idea how many, since the only directory was on AngelList, and it had become lousy with spam and failed ventures.