Sentences with phrase «failed ventures in»

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Overlooking the competition — in both formal and, more importantly, informal economic sectors — is a chief reason why ventures fail in new locations.

Entrepreneurs tend to be an action - oriented, onwards - and - upwards lot — a longitudinal study published by the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2014 associated successful entrepreneurs with higher - than - normal levels of hardiness, resourcefulness and optimism — meaning that when their venture fails, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to rebound quickly, with a nifty second - act tale of adversity to slot into their narrative.

Many venture investors have shared that, when a founder fails in their portfolio, they work to re-patriate that founder into a new business, project or concept as quickly as possible, so to not lose them to their own self - shame.

Waugh and Mayberry would be in China, where the bank had just set up a joint venture with Bank of Beijing, when Waugh's BlackBerry buzzed with a message: Lehman had failed.

SoundCloud was reportedly forced to raise the debt funding after it failed to raise $ 100 million (# 77 million) in venture funding.

With a lack of standard addressing systems in the Middle East region, efficient logistics systems continue to be a key barrier in e-commerce ventures scaling up, with e-commerce businesses bearing huge costs in failed or delayed deliveries.

It's not all altruistic — whether Vidyard eventually IPOs, is acquired or fails, Litt says he is likely to start another venture, and it'll be easier to do if he has helped solve some of the sector's challenges in the meantime.

If they don't realize that you might fail for reasons completely beyond your control, then they don't belong in a high - risk business venture.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

In fact, many venture capital investors evaluate potential partners on how they reacted to a failed business, seeing it as a test of character rather than a mark against them.

Given the trouble the company got itself into under previous CEO John Manzoni — overinvesting in North America and failing to control costs at its far - flung global ventures — the theme for 2013 will continue to be divestitures and financial discipline — «living within its cash flow,» as Kvisle likes to put it.

For retirees who are still paying off large loans (think failed business ventures or real estate deals), a guaranteed level - premium term life policy is ideal, said Scott Simmonds, a fee - only insurance consultant in Saco, Maine.

In this infographic, you see the 20 reasons startups most often fail, as determined by research from venture capital database CBInsights.com.

In venture capital, a «zombie» is a start - up that raises money but fails to attract a buyer or grow big enough to go public, leaving backers without hope for a return on their investment.

Instead, even when a venture has failed, we try to look for opportunities, to see whether we can capitalize on another gap in the market.

If YADAC fails in year 5, the venture debt company still makes its 15 % return, but only loses out on its warrants.

SpoonRocket, a venture - backed delivery startup in Berkeley, Calif., closed last month after getting squeezed out by competitors and failing to raise additional funding.

«The investors said [the wave of layoffs] was part of the conditions» one source said were in reference to the $ 70 million debt funding SoundCloud received in March from Ares Capital, Kreos Capital and Davidson Technology after it failed to raise $ 100 million in venture funding.

Like most venture investors, the companies we invest in stand a chance of failing, and unbridled success is rare.

They decried pure - play online retail as a failed business model being propped up by endless streams of venture capital that, in the end, would collapse under its own weight.

In my view, this mismatch of interests compared to key business drivers is the primary reason that the majority of new ventures ultimately fail.

It is no longer news that 99 % of all new business ventures fail in the first ten years.

Also anyone who actually has some business experience knows that businesses and start - ups fail frequently and Venture Capitalist traditionally invest in 10 opportunities knowing that 1 will succeed.

Simply creating locations dubbed «innovation centers» by the government fails to produce the requisite mix of talent, expertise, market, and culture necessary to prompt success in this sort of venture.

Catalini and Gans show, as a result, that ICOs may sometimes fail to raise enough funds even when they are predicted to be viable, whereas equity financing, in their model, always raises sufficient money to fund viable ventures.

Referring to Matthew Arnold's remark, made almost a century earlier, to the effect that the saving remnants failed in Judah and Athens because they were not large enough, but that in America the remnant was larger, Reston ventured the hope that popular education meant that the remnant was growing.

Instead, I worked because I grew up in a home where my own dad both regretted my existence and had failed in his own business ventures.

Their last venture into Europe was in 2015, by virtue of Dinamo Moscow failing FFP, and last season's $ 40m transfer splurge and experiment with Javi Gracia have caused them no end of trouble financially, and their first team squad now only contains 21 players, two of whom have yet to make their senior debuts.

In 1997, the Park District sought $ 1 million in a lawsuit that claimed a joint venture involving Bismark Food Service and Sportservice had failed keep a contractual commitment to pay the district 34 percent of gross receipts from food and beverage service in Grant ParIn 1997, the Park District sought $ 1 million in a lawsuit that claimed a joint venture involving Bismark Food Service and Sportservice had failed keep a contractual commitment to pay the district 34 percent of gross receipts from food and beverage service in Grant Parin a lawsuit that claimed a joint venture involving Bismark Food Service and Sportservice had failed keep a contractual commitment to pay the district 34 percent of gross receipts from food and beverage service in Grant Parin Grant Park.

When he ventured to lawmakers» districts for speeches on spending or ethics, Mr. Cuomo never failed to invite them along — an exercise not only in deference, but also in demonstrating to legislators the full force of his popularity with voters.

I hear you grumble: Well with 42 page watchers and 922 edits in 9 years, it probably is true) Hunt is said to have «tried his hand at a number of different entrepreneurial business ventures including a failed attempt to export marmalade to Japan.»

The SA - Best result in South Australia is an example of this: while his party failed to win a lower house seat, Xenophon's latest venture did secure two seats in the proportionally elected Legislative Council.

Pike, of Rochester, stopped work on July 26 after failing to be reimbursed by the state for roughly $ 8 million in work on the project, a joint venture between SUNY Poly and General Electric Co..

Of course, bankruptcy is no mark of shame in either Silicon Valley or the solar industry, where ideas can fail for any number of reasons, including the so - called «Valley of Death» between venture capital funding and a revenue stream from commercial sales.

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 righIn 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 righin the U.K., a failed venture is considered a great learning experience, and a success in its own righin its own right.

These attempts failed, in no small part because it was difficult to recharge the vehicles when they ventured outside their local range.

In the realm of video games, the 149 views Smith's video has logged may be far from viral, but Minecraft is becoming what some video game makers hoped Christian - themed games like Catechumen and Adam's Venture that failed to sell well would become — a tool for exploring and advancing religion among gamers.

Failing once in a business venture doesn't doom you to demand less from life.

I don't venture out of my beauty box often, but when I do, I try to keep it affordable in case it's a total fail.

He established his own acting school in Hollywood in the 1950s, though this and other ventures ultimately failed.

Suffragette doesn't capitalise on its chance to explore its female friendships, or to demonstrate the experiences the women share and how, despite being failed by society and often by loved ones, they stand in solidarity with each other.1 Gavron never really ventures into the lives of the other women — perhaps a result of having gone the route that zeroed in on her protagonist.

Their newest venture, Anon, directed by Gattaca alum Andrew Niccol, is another one of those failings and is quite possibly one of the blandest sci - fi thrillers released in recent memory.

Instead of venturing out beyond this kind of familiar comic material, the script (by Jeff and Craig Cox, John Altschuler, and David Krinsky) brings in the strange Van Waldenberg brother and sister duo (Will Arnett and Amy Poehler), whose predictable final note isn't bothered to be set up throughout (apparently in a failed attempt to shock, since it's obvious from the beginning).

But most start - ups fail or bump along in the purgatory of mediocrity, even in sectors that, unlike education, enjoy abundant venture capital and a ready stable of capable entrepreneurs.

The other enrolls disadvantaged students, works very hard to educate them, but after graduating most of them fail to get decent jobs and many of their start - up ventures end in bankruptcy.

Some of these ventures were «failed missions» in the end.

Many new ventures opened to advise schools on how to meet NCLB testing tar - gets, how to analyze NCLB data, how to «turn around» failing schools, and how to meet other goals embedded in the legislation.