Sentences with phrase «funding efforts on»

Will we continue to see more and more projects skip kickstarter all together and run their own funding efforts on their own sites?
Despite the crowd - funding efforts on Kickstarter not coming to fruition, Karaazmak and the rest of the developers at Blue Arc Studios will continue to work on the game while funding their efforts through Patreon.»
TVGB: What are your thoughts regarding the funding efforts on Kickstarter and how did that affect the finished product?
If you, like me, think this is an idea long overdue, you can fund their efforts on their Indiegogo site, where you can also find more information.
A story in today's issue reports that Shearman & Sterling received more than $ 1 million from the Kuwait - based International Counsel Bureau (ICB) to fund its efforts on behalf of Guantanamo detainees, while Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman collected $ 250,000 for its work on recent Supreme Court cases.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, April 25 - Venture capitalist Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, as part of a settlement freeing the billionaire from possible lawsuits for having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.
And then at the end of that year, just before things really took off in crypto, White focused his efforts on attracting Wall Street clients: brokerages, large global banks, and hedge funds.
Development of a Zika vaccine is still ongoing (despite the effort running low on funds).
Attempting to raise funding for their effort to develop a novel therapy for persistent viral infections, the co-founders, who've been best friends since they grew up together in Philadelphia, were on the verge of giving up and heading back to the east coast when Peter Thiel personally persuaded them to stay in town.
After selling Trader Classified Media in 2006, John MacBain has been focused on philanthropic work, founding the Geneva - based McCall MacBain Foundation, which grants funding for efforts in education, health and the environment.
NEW YORK, April 25 - Billionaire Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, enabling the Silicon Valley venture capitalist to avoid a possible legal fight over his having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.
While cost may be an issue, if you are confident that your efforts will be successful, there are sources of funding available to get the ball rolling on your expansion campaign.
Meanwhile, GSK said it would launch a review of its consumer healthcare nutrition products, such as Horlicks — a malted hot milk drink that's particularly big in India — in order to help fund the joint venture buyout, and to focus its efforts on over-the-counter medicines and the oral health category.
Luckey had not posted on social media or made any public statements since September, when it was revealed that he had anonymously funded a group, Nimble America, aimed at supporting then - candidate Trump's election efforts.
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will create a 100 billion won ($ 85.8 million) fund to compensate cancer - stricken workers and their families, and for efforts to prevention such diseases at its chip and display factories.
Of course, when takeover appraisal cases do make it all the way to court, there's no guarantee that the hedge fund will reap a return on its efforts.
An important reason these contract workers were able to start getting benefits is because i2i saved SurveyMonkey 5 percent on its total benefits cost, freeing up surplus funds for the effort, and employees went to bat for their contract counterparts.
That effort largely focuses on reducing Energy Department spending energy subsidies and stopping the agency from issuing any more loan guarantees — the same program that funded Solyndra.
The company also paid $ 1.2 million to consultants who were lobbying on behalf of the company's efforts to change law related to how grant funds are taxed, the report said.
In three rounds, the last of which concluded in 2014, the central bank credited itself with funds that it then used to buy debt — Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities, the latter in an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great Depression.
After all, Mylan acquired the EpiPen from another company, and while Bresch insists that significant improvements have been made to the epinephrine - delivering product itself, she also admitted on Thursday that a big part of the price increase rationale was to fund marketing and awareness efforts for the device.
«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»
An 80 - year - old ban that has prevented private companies from publicly advertising their efforts to raise funds will lift on Monday.
When the Securities and Exchange Commission lifts its 80 - year - old ban on general solicitation on Monday, private companies will be allowed to publicly advertise their efforts to raise funds.
H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.
For many years it has been predicted that retail brokerage houses would engage in a «race to zero» on commissions, choosing instead to make money on deposits, margin accounts, and fund fees in an effort to gain more customers.
From the shelter, the presidential motorcade travel to First Church to help load water and food on vehicles bound for flood victims in need, and the president, who was asking Congress for almost $ 8 billion in emergency funding, also repeatedly applauded the federal relief efforts thus far.
Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer acquisition) • Reduce risk by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation • Raising funds via crowdfunding markets is a very public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot of effort and commitment • The majority of Ideas fail to reach their funding goal • How will this affect your companies brand?
South African technology major Naspers announced on Friday that it has raised $ 9.8 billion from the sale of 2 % of its holdings in Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent as part of efforts to strengthen its balance sheet and fund growth in its e-commerce businesses.
Southeastern Asset Management, another institutional investor, worked with Mr. Icahn on another offer to buy Dell, and also supported an effort by Barington Capital Group, a hedge fund, to shake up the retailer Dillard's.
SEOUL (Reuters)- Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will create a 100 billion won ($ 85.8 million) fund to compensate cancer - stricken workers and their families, and for efforts to prevention such diseases at its chip and display factories.
It may seem strange to focus marketing efforts on people who have already received your product as a reward for funding you, however in most cases, this isn't the case for every campaign.
This allowed MAN1 to focus efforts and funding on the truly undecided voters in key regions of the electoral map that would ultimately decide the race.
Mr. Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for - profit private equity fund focused on minority - owned and inner - city businesses that has raised nearly $ 500 million.
Against this backdrop, closing deals will continue to require significant effort on the part of private equity funds.
In another effort to fund offsets, as predicted, the Senate increased the deemed repatriation rates on accumulated retained foreign earnings to 14.5 % on cash - backed earnings and 7.5 % on all other earnings, from 10 % and 5 %, respectively.
For example, there are environmentally focused funds, funds that concentrate their efforts on finding companies who have sound corporate governance policies, others that look at the impact a business has on society as a whole, and this is just to name a few.
Through Jeff's work on the Fund, his volunteer efforts and his role on the Michigan Venture Capital Association's board of directors, his passion for fostering a productive environment for venture capital investment in the State of Michigan is clearly evident.
Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure investors their business models are compatible with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging with oil companies on the issue.
In response, loss aversion tightened its grip on investor behavior, causing many business development companies, hedge funds, and private equity firms to redeploy their capital elsewhere in an effort to avoid further losses.
The foundation funded a task force, known as the U.S. Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, to launch the effort.
Several of GlobalGiving's local nonprofit partners are responding to survivors» immediate needs and have asked us to help fund their relief and recovery efforts on the ground.
President Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.
Eventually, Rockefeller's oil operations became so vast that he could fund all of his expansion efforts from his own profits, but there was a point in time in which Morgan was mad as hell that he couldn't get an asset override on Rockefeller's wealth, and you better believe there is a take - home lesson in that anecdote.
The new fund marks the latest effort from Chinese government entities in taking the lead on blockchain development initiatives in the country.
This pro-fiduciary editorial came on the heels of a Times news article that reported on JPMorgan's successful and profitable efforts to promote its own proprietary mutual funds ahead of non-proprietary funds.
And after working on various low - profile GOP political efforts in 2014, Cambridge landed a major job with a Mercer - funded Super PAC supporting Ted Cruz's presidential candidacy.
The chamber already has a number of other, critical items on its plate, from allotting billions of dollars to recovery efforts following Hurricane Harvey to funding the U.S. government itself.
Although discussions of monetary policy since the crisis have mainly had to do with the quantity of money, and central banks» efforts to expand that quantity so as to stimulate spending, the effects of the crisis, and of governments» response to it, on the quality of money, and especially on the investments its holders have been funding, deserve at least as much attention.
Because of that, content creation itself has very little to do with the winners in these niches — the victor often has manipulated (or used extreme creativity, depending on who you ask) their way into 95 % percent of their link profile that probably had nothing to do with their on - page content — beside its reciprocal ability to fund link building effort.
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