Sentences with phrase «get at the funds»

The first attribute of a good emergency fund is liquidity — as in, you need to get at these funds within a few hours.

With the backdoor option or the 72t SEPP option, it's not that difficult to get at those funds, so the bridge fund isn't as critical as we also thought.

Not exact matches

Everyone who raises a first - time fund probably says it's really hard, but it's got to be easier if it's three people at Sequoia starting their own fund.

Hougan got his start at MetaMarkets, which created the world's first transparent mutual fund, OpenFund.

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

In the Minutes from the January FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve addressed the financial situation, and noted that the increasing role of bond and loan mutual funds could pose a liquidity risk if everyone tries to get out of the market at the same time.

Did you really start your own business, or did you join a company at the right time before it got funded?

You don't have to be courting VCs to notice the change in mindset: According to Alicia Robb, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation who analyzed more than 25,000 Kickstarter projects, female crowdfunders on the site are more likely to get fully funded than men.

To do that, fellow panelist Edith Yeung, a partner at Mountain View, Calif. - based early - stage venture fund and seed accelerator 500 Startups, advised venture - seekers to attend so - called «demo days» to watch fellow entrepreneurs pitch, because «it's a good way to get a sense of the language.»

Take a look at the infographic below generated by San Francisco - based startup organization Funders and Founders for more stories of how many of the most successful entrepreneurs got started by looking at their own problems and finding a solution.

At the angel investor level especially, Bearse believes, «it seems like a lot of companies are getting funded, and it may not be sustainable.»

So if it can get customers to buy its currently offered 25 - months CD at 2.75 %, it locks in this source of funding for two years at a lower overall rate.

Round A funding: If you're beyond the «3F» (friends - family - and - fools) investment stage and seeking about $ 500,000 — at the low end of a Round A funding, you may get your best advice now from an experienced «super angel» in your field.

«There is an important shift in the industry that is driven by mobile technology at the point - of - sale, integrated with a finance marketplace that is finding innovative ways to help small business get funding for mission - critical equipment, said CEMC founder and currency CEO, Charles Anderson.

However, Diego May, the Argentine co-founder of Junar, an open data platform for businesses, says if you promote yourself well and land funding, you will get attention from good engineers — so long as you can provide a job for at least a year.

Dogpatch Labs, for example, is funded by Polaris Venture Partners, a venture - capital firm that gets a first glimpse at startups that use its free space.

A big part of the problem is the Silicon Valley mentality that tends to treat companies like wannabes until they've gotten at least an A-Round of funding, he adds.

If you're relying on the funds from selling your business at retirement and believe you can easily get $ 1 million only to discover your top potential bid is $ 800,000, that dip in savings could highly impact your retirement plan.

It's a lot easier to get to [on - the - ground] truth,» says Matthew Granade, chief of the newly created data - crunching team at Point72, the reincarnation of Steven Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors.

Michael Dickinson, commercialization and investment manager at Launchpad, said money from the European Regional Development Fund helped get the program off the ground.

It had already been two years since investors in the Canadian Fund had been able to get at their money.

If you're doing assessment of your mutual funds, you want to be able to take a look at the decisions that were made, compare against benchmarks, and get a report.

Michael Underhill, chief investment officer at Capital Innovations and manager of the Sprott Timber Fund, says he thinks they're just getting started.

At about 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday, after getting a call from the Anti-Money Laundering Council, RCBC finally placed a hold on the remaining funds: $ 68,305.

They plan to plant at least 25,000 more over the next year and 50,000 each year after that, scaling up to a million fragments a year if they can get enough funding.

Founders Fund had a manifesto that once said, «We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters,» a ding at Twitter that expressed his disappointment with what he considered a lack of big ideas from startups.

Ahlborn has stated he has more than 400 investors willing to buy into the project — and says the Hyperloop could potentially sell energy by producing more power than it needs — but even at the lowest possible estimate, it's unclear whether the project would be able to attract enough funding to get off the ground.

As he notes, while investors who have risked their funds in a company «lose real dollars» when a stock declines, option holders lose nothing and even get a second chance to buy the stock at a better price.

I've got something to prove,» the billionaire told a room full of hedge fund managers and investors at the annual SkyBridge Capital industry conference in Las Vegas, known as SALT.

«While the U.S. funded our very early growth, for a variety of reasons at this phase, we get better ROI with Canadian customers.»

Adam Fisher, who oversees macro investing at the New York - based Soros Fund Management, got internal approval to trade digital assets in the last few months, though...

The refinery is underperforming, operating at just over 60 % of its capacity in 2017 and getting less funding than in years past.

New York - based Internet retailer Fab took in the highest amount in a single funding round, getting $ 150 million in June to put the company's overall valuation at more than $ 1 billion.

«All you're trying to do, whether it's a three - minute pitch or a six - or eight - minute presentation, is to whet the appetite for a follow - up and get an in - person meeting,» says Somak Chattopadhyay, principal at Greenhill SAVP, an early stage venture capital fund in New York, and a longtime Pace judge.

«We've already seen a couple of deals in Europe where it's been pre-negotiated that, if there's a subsequent funding round, you're going to get bought out at a set price,» says Swart.

A coach at the college reportedly told Dawkins to «call Jim Gatto, who's the head of everything» at Adidas» basketball program, to get the required funding.

Even if you only have a concept — and not a full - fledged business — you may still be able to get funding at this stage.

When he started approaching LPs, the people who fund venture capitalists, after graduation, many people thought his intro email was just a way to get a job interview at their firms.

Jim Casparie is the «Raising Money» coach at Entrepreneur.com and the founder and CEO ofThe Venture Alliance, a national firm based in Irvine, California, that's dedicated to getting companies funded.

I think that we are not a strategic fund for them in the sense that a lot of corporate VCs are, but what we are doing is really getting an early look at how consumer behavior is changing, what consumers want, what's going to make them really happy, and that I think is incredibly valuable.

Two weeks earlier, he had gotten a call from the company's largest shareholder, Texas - based fund manager US Global Investors Inc., warning that a broker at another firm had received an anonymous call, saying Muddy Waters was about to publish a report on Silvercorp and US Global should dump its stock.

Non-bank lenders are more willing to accept risk, so the odds of getting funded are better than they would be at a bank.

Moran has refocused the company's funding to target earlier - stage start - ups and get in at the ground level of young companies that might still be trying to figure out their business paths but are generating innovating technology in the process.

An inside look at how these entrepreneurs got the crowd to fund their businesses to the tune of some big bucks.

Yet at some point something changes: the founder gets bored, the company starts making money in a pivot that wasn't part of the original vision or even funds run low but not low enough to justify shutting the doors - especially when there's revenue involved.

Once in the program, the entrepreneurs do, in fact, have a shot at getting funded.

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson is getting into the private equity game, becoming a star partner at a new fund managed by London - based Metric Capital.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

At the end of the weekend, Saunder and the two other mentors left the women sequestered in the house to divide the funds, with just two rules to consider: everyone had to get something, and it couldn't be split evenly.

If you still get the same dollar amount in matching funds, should it matter if you get it in installments or in a lump sum at year's end?