Sentences with phrase «from 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.

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.

Not exact matches

Migicovsky, who relocated to Palo Alto, Calif., after graduating from the University of Waterloo, tried and failed to drum up funding from venture capitalists.

After being fired from an apprenticeship with a printer, Hershey started three separate candy - related ventures, and was forced to watch all of them fail.

Take it from Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, who has seen many of his business ventures, including Virgin Cola, Virgin Cosmetics, Virgin Cars and more fail.

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

«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.

We have to reignite the premises of that «failure»... Selling most of the shares to the American was the «massive mistake... This is someone who is acute on the business side of things but has no clues, not a iota about football and what it means to the fans... From that it was going to be a successful business venture but a failing sporting / results franchise.

Nevertheless, it was a still a very poor team performance from the Reds» but when results are the moneymaker nowadays and players thrive on points, perhaps the win is all that matters and people can start criticising Liverpool if they do fail to win on their next venture.

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 Park.

ALBANY, NY — Alison Boak's 40th Senate District campaign faces major ethical questions today after her recently - filed 2015 ethics form revealed she failed to disclose interests and income from a non-profit corporation she controls and other business ventures.

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.

But the career enhancing skills even from a failed business venture are sizable.

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.

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).

Enthusiastic ventures continue to bubble up from a Third World eager to educate itself, impractically by trying to sneak into more advanced nations, more practically by accessing the power of technology reaching out to where its billions of children are; while Americans remain shackled to the failed approach of the past, illegitimate administration that brought us No Child Left Behind, which continues to leave behind our nation.

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

We've covered Better Place a number of times, sometimes accompanied by a lot of well - founded skepticism, and other times with admiration for the technology and infrastructure being developed by the company, but now it's time to bite the bullet and take a good hard look at the lessons that can be learned from a failed green venture.

Defended Spanish water services company in federal and state court in New York from claims arising from failed joint venture in Argentina

• Experience includes a leadership role in the firm's joint venture acquisition of US$ 4.7 bn of residential and commercial construction loans from a failed U.S. financial institution.