Sentences with phrase «first round back»

Not many care about that, but CBS coverage in their first round back on Saturday was a huge improvement over the production that's drawn the ire of golf fans on Twitter in recent years.

Drafted in the first round back in 2009 (25th overall), Trout tore through the minor leagues posting a.342 batting average, 23 home runs and 108 stolen bases in 286 games.

This is the second playoff meeting between Philadelphia and Miami, with the Heat prevailing in five games in the first round back in 2011.

Not exact matches

-- Mike Zivin, co-founder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million Series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans, as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

Assuming company No. 2 works out as well as the first one, she hinted she might go back to the beauty industry for round three.

The French CAC 40 ended the trading week over 4.2 percent higher on the back of centrist presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron's first round victory in the French election.

Pre-IPO, Blue Apron is backed 23.8 % by Bessemer Venture Partners, 10.5 % by First Round Capital, and 6.5 % by Stripes Group.

-- Mike Zivin, cofounder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

Hotel Tonight closed a $ 3.25 million Series A round earlier this year, with backing from Battery Ventures, Accel Partners, First Round Capital and otround earlier this year, with backing from Battery Ventures, Accel Partners, First Round Capital and otRound Capital and others.

That being said, even if you have a startup short sale (i.e. selling for less than the valuation you did in your last round), you basically pay back the last round of funding first and start splitting the money on a percentage basis after that.

With the Cleveland Cavaliers and Indiana Pacers» first - round series tied, 2 - 2, James and Stephenson, old rivals dating back to 2012, have been going at it.

«Looking at the schedule of a typical CEO, a full 70 percent of that time is sub-optimal, and I'll back that up with my own experience,» First Round Capital Partner Bill Trenchard wrote in a recent blog post.

Two years later, Camp, Smith, and a group of venture capital firms, including Accel Partners and First Round Capital, bought the company back for a reported $ 29 million.

Worse yet for Facebook, lawmakers that they'd already pissed off were happy to circle back for a second round after the company weaseled out of the first one.

Valeri noted that could change, though, as occurred with the first round of quantitative easing, where a massive $ 1.25 trillion purchase of mortgage - backed securities was followed months later by a large - scale purchase of Treasury bonds.

He has also financially supported several start - ups and businesses that have been backed by notable venture capital entities including Google Ventures, NEA, Spark Capital, and First Round Capital, among others..

Upserve is backed by First Round Capital, Shasta Ventures, Index Ventures, Pritzker Group and Greylock Partners, among others.

Agari, a recipient of the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation Award and recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Security, is backed by Alloy Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital, Greylock Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Scale Venture Partners.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers managed to trade back five spots in the first round and still get one of the top defensive linemen in this year's class.

It was also the lead backer in Dollar Shave Club's first investment round back in 2012 — the same Dollar Shave Club that recently announced a sale to Unilever for $ 1 billion.

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We are a Chicago based venture fund that backs the most promising Midwestern tech companies and teams raising their first round of institutional capital.

In an attempt to kick - start the economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve implemented its first round of quantitative easing way back in November 2008.

In the first simple example, assume that the angel backed company raises only three rounds and is then sold at the end of five years.

«The paper's basic premise is that VC - backed boards are particularly prone to dysfunction, due to: (1) Conflicting interests; (2) The regular addition of new board members following financing rounds; and (3) The likely presence of inexperienced members like first - time entrepreneurs, junior VCs or independent directors with strong domain knowledge but no background on VC - backed boards.

Speaking further, Sahil said, «We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin / digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin Pioneers.

At this point, the first movie is set to come out this Christmas, and the second will hit December of 2013, but Warner Bros is definitely interested in exploring options for stretching things into a third movie, provided all the actors are willing to come back on for another round.

But first, a quick update on the status of the book: Next week I plan to send my first round of edits back toZondervan, which means things will start picking up soon.

I say kind of because my first post back after two weeks off is a recipe round - up post.

They come all the way from Thailand and are just a few of the souvenirs that we brought back (I will get round to finishing up my Thailand recaps) and this is the first time I have used them.

Dough scraps can pressed back together and cut into more biscuits; however note that these «second round» biscuits will not rise as high as the first round.

He continues: «He's got great backstory: a once - and - future first - round NFL draft pick who came back to school to get his degree in architectural design.

Most of Boston's problems trace back to the Ottawa captain, who's putting up a first round for the ages.

Game 5, however, brings this series back to Edmonton and gives the Oilers the chance to settle this first round down once more.

TT has not had a good history of trading up... Melvin Gordon, Manti Teo, Jerry Attouchu... no disrespect to Gordon, but I'm not a fan of running backs in first round and less of a fan of trading up for one.

He is battling the notion that running backs are not worth high picks - none have been selected in the first round since a trio in 2012 (Trent Richardson at No. 3, Doug Martin at No. 31 and David Wilson at No. 32).

The first - round pick to Los Angeles is the cost of doing business, and shedding first - round picks has been the Cavs» preferred way of doing work since LeBron came back to town.

He needed to go low on Friday (and early Saturday) just to get in two more rounds that counted, and at first it seemed he might just fight his way back into the tournament.

Since losing to Desmond Green back in April, Emmett bounced back with an impressive win over Felipe Arantes that included a round in which he knocked down his opponent four times in one round and followed that up with a first - round knockout over Ricardo Lamas.

They won 56 games in their first season back in New Orleans and reached the second round of the playoffs.

Hartwig has been fielding calls from various NFL personnel departments trying to sift through the national narrative and get a better understanding of the talented running back who most experts assume will be selected in the first two rounds.

He bounced back in Game 6 but struggled for most of the first round.

After a stop - start first two - thirds of the season, Juventus have finally rounded into form at a crucial time, retaking first place in Serie A and coming back in wildly dramatic fashion to beat a Tottenham Hotspur side in the round of 16 that many believed had what it took to make a deep run in the Champions League this year.

The first - round 59 was backed up on Friday with a sizzling 64 that set the all - time lowest 36 - hole scoring mark in PGA Tour history.

It's been difficult to work Guice into the first round of mock drafts just because running back is deep at the top of the draft this year.

They will get to sit back and kick their heels up while the rest of the League puts their Playoff lives on the line trying to meet them in the Final4... The Team who loses will need to shake - off their first Loss, which isn't always easy after a long W - streak and get ready to take on the Winner of the Opening Round Game.

As a freshman, Chubb looked like a future first - rounder in relief of lead back Todd Gurley, but then he tore multiple ligaments in his knee as a sophomore and was capably replaced by Michel.

Mack is back, and first - round pick Cameron Erving, a versatile O - lineman out of Florida State, gives the line needed depth and the flexibility to put the best five players on the field.

Fowler, who won his first PGA Tour victory last week in the Wells Fargo Championship, shot a final - round 70 today, including an 3 - under 33 on the back nine, but was crippled by a double bogey on the par four fifth hole.