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If parents choose a 529 plan, they may select a growth - focused strategy early to take advantage of a long time horizon.

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According to Ed Quattlebaum, founding partner at Polaris - Crux Group, a strategic advisement firm that focuses on helping early - stage innovation companies with capital raising and commercial scaling, one of the most effective strategies to better position you and your startup during negotiation is to acknowledge and address one anxiety that all investors loathe: risk.

Matt Bodnar, called a «Rising Restaurateur Star» by the National Restaurant Association and a «Strategy Pro» by Restaurant Hospitality magazine, is a partner at early stage investment firm Fresh Hospitality, where he focuses on deal making and sStrategy Pro» by Restaurant Hospitality magazine, is a partner at early stage investment firm Fresh Hospitality, where he focuses on deal making and strategystrategy.

Early on, when the need for that money is still a couple decades away, the fund will adopt a more growth - focused strategy.

While seed stage companies are focused on product development, early stage companies typically have a handful of users testing a beta product while fine - tuning their go - to - market strategy and building out sales channels.

The Seoul based operator opened a new floor of workstations earlier this year, and their marketing strategy is focused on acquiring international clients.

While we are proud of our early growth, focusing on near - term growth is not our strategy.

With Okta since early 2010, he is currently focused on company and product strategy, product management, product marketing, technical marketing and platform evangelism.

Declining revenues kept the share price low early this year, but that is in part due to GT's strategy of focusing more on its high value added (HVA) tires, which have higher margins.

Pieter is a seasoned advisor, investor, and mentor is President & CEO of Redpeaks Management Inc., a consulting firm focused on advising early - stage technology companies on finance and investment, corporate development, legal structure, and overall business strategies.

Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat - footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors.

In the early stages of development, many entrepreneurs focus on developing business and marketing strategies, leaving community development as something that can be done later on.

«Like with bitcoin, our early adopters are certainly crypto - focused either in their career or their overall investment strategy,» he said.

However, noting that even their increased earnings barely took the participants» income above poverty level, the evaluators recommend that an early focus on education and training rather than on income - generation may be a more productive long - term strategy for these young men and their children (Spaulding et al, 2009).

We believe that trauma - informed, attachment - focused therapy and teaching parents therapeutic parenting strategies are significant factors in helping our children overcome their early traumas and build resiliency and healthy relationships.

Earlier versions of this guide focused on strategies for MySpace and the plethora of other social networks, but over the past two years Facebook has come to dominate the social side of online advocacy to an unprecedented degree.

Still, certain elements of that strategy, which is more focused on later - stage technology than early - stage research, would receive some plus - ups — including DOD's Strategic Capabilities Office, which would receive a more than 30.0 percent increase.

Maggie Blanks, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund's CEO, said: «It's because of these bleak facts that our funding strategy focuses on finding and developing alternative, effective treatments for patients as well as finding a way to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early stage.

He led Daiichi Sankyo's international research unit focused on early oncology therapeutic programs, strategy and development, and was accountable for development activities from post-target identification basic science research to first - in - man trials and proof - of - clinical concept.

Dr. Hallett's research interests focus on understanding early neuronal dysfunction and degeneration in neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on Parkinson's disease, and testing therapeutic interventions using regenerative and neuroprotective strategies.

Rob Carlson is the Managing Director at Bioeconomy Capital, which invests in early stage biotechnology companies, and is a Principal at Biodesic, a consulting firm that focuses on strategy, security, and engineering at the intersection of biotechnology and the economy.

Since the late 1980s, the company has implemented a comprehensive strategy of verticalization, creating a global luxury brand which now ranges from fabric to clothing to accessories, is focused on retailing, pioneering early entry in emerging luxury markets, BRIC and Asia in particular, and was the first luxury brand to open a monobrand store in China in 1991.

When Usable Knowledge launched in September — with a handful of stories focused on the Common Core, how teachers can make caring more common, and the best strategies to expand high - quality early education, among others — we had no idea what the response might be.

The second core element is an adult - focused strategy of professional learning, represented by the Saul Zaentz Academy for Professional Learning in Early Childhood.

Inspired by what they heard, Lesaux and Jones asked several attendees to write chapters focused on pressing issues in the field, including pieces on assessing the needs of bilingual learners, programs for students and their parents, and early intervention strategies.

My focus is still on the early adolescent years (ages 10 - 12), but the strategies can be tweaked to help students of all ages become more competent at recognizing higher - priority information and self - directed in planning their time.

Reflecting on the field's past and future, Lesaux observed that the focus of early childhood education is already shifting from the «whole child» to blurring skill areas and bridging strategies, examining the impacts of stress, and harnessing the power of the learning environment over characteristics of a child.

Is it that we should use many of the Chinese strategies (that promote self - discipline, a deep respect for learning, the understanding that effort is critical, and a strong foundation of basic facts and knowledge) early on, and then, in later grades, focus more on critical - thinking skills, analytical abilities, and the pursuit of individual passions through curious exploration?

Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.

Since 2016, our focus has been new classroom strategies, practices, and curriculum to improve reading in the early grades.

The updated «Taking Action» handout focuses on practical strategies that education leaders can use at school, with families, and in the community to help ease the transition into kindergarten and the early grades.

First, we are working to more strongly connect our turnaround practices to our statewide strategy for improving curriculum and instruction, in particular by focusing on early grades literacy and middle grades mathematics.

Focus on content: The program built on teachers» pre-existing mathematics and early childhood education expertise by focusing primarily on infusing arts - integrated strategies into mathematics instruction.

This role is primarily focused on evaluation and strategy, particularly as it relates to the foundation's investments in Washington State and Early Learning.

Strategies include: approaches that encourage parents to read and talk with their children at home or to participate in activities in the early years setting; programmes that focus directly on parents themselves, for example, providing training in parenting skills or adult numeracy and literacy support; and more intensive programmes for disadvantaged families or families in crisis, for example, through schools appointing a family liaison that work with parents through either home visits or other targeted approaches.

Chris Daniels is a Project Director with TNTP, where he focuses on early literacy academic strategy with a consortium of districts in Tennessee and cross-LEA collaboration on staffing policies in Washington, DC.

«All of our strategies; which included early interventions, collaborative teaching teams, updated curricular resources, focused professional development, and more productive parent involvement hinged on our ability to derive better data from better benchmarking.

RFA examined the planning and early implementation of the School District of Philadelphia small schools strategy for high school reform, focusing especially on the significant role of public / private sector collaboration in developing and carrying out...

Written by education reporter Linda Jacobsen, On the Cusp in California: How PreK - 3rd Strategies Could Improve Education in the Golden State seeks to help policymakers and advocates focus on connecting high - quality PreK and full - day Kindergarten with a high - quality, aligned early elementary learning experience through Third Grade.

Examples include the delivery of the initial training and follow - up webinars on the Working Systemically approach in Texas, professional development of a Georgia SEA initiative to assist low - performing schools raise student performance by building student thinking skills using Thinking Maps ®, design and delivery of professional development sessions focused on dropout prevention and increasing graduation rates in Alabama, and the delivery of professional development sessions and dissemination webinars for an Early Warning Data System in Texas that identifies at - risk students and connects them to appropriate intervention strategies.

The report focuses on strategies that postsecondary institutions currently employ such as intervening before students start college with early assessment programs, bridges, boot camps, and brush - ups; reforming developmental math on college campuses; and improving math instruction in developmental and college math classrooms.

At Paris, Ford is delivering on that promise by revealing an early preview model of the exciting next - generation Ford Focus ST. Targeted for launch in all global markets from early 2012, the all - new Ford Focus ST will be Ford's first high - performance model developed under its global Performance Vehicles strategy.

Of course, better detection and early intervention strategies have led to more intensive and focused assistance at an earlier age, but the digital tools available for the patient's support community — especially tablets such as the iPad that have literally hundreds of apps that can enable special needs users — have also meant greater educational access, more inclusion in social settings, and unheard of independence for people with autism.

At the recent IDPF Digital Book 2013 conference in New York earlier this summer, a panel of publishers offered to share their experiences and strategies during a session that focused on factors relating to in - sourcing and outsourcing of ebook production.

This entails a focus on asset growth early in participants» lifecycles with a transition to an income - focused strategy over time.

While a small business loan might be a challenge for the earliest stage businesses, focusing on building a strong business credit profile in the first year or two of business is a good long - term strategy.

There are a variety of articles that focus on tax avoidance strategies, and ways to invest to get the most out of your money if you plan to retire early.

Chart 2 below at right illustrates this by focusing on the performance of SMI's Upgrading strategy during the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the bear market of 2000 - 2002, with the S&P 500 also shown for reference.

At first blush Apple may appear an unusual choice for a strategy focused on dividend growth; however Apple is a great example of the «New Dividend Payer» concept discussed earlier.

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