Sentences with phrase «get funds more»

Having fewer categories will reduce the time it takes for NASA to evaluate proposals, he adds, and that will ensure that applicants who write winning proposals will get funded more quickly.

But they get funded more often than not, so something must be working for them.

Not exact matches

In other words, companies run by men got more than 16 times more funding than companies run by women.

«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.

There is, unfortunately, no getting around the fact that the government will need to spend even more money on farmers than it does today if it wants to save the industry, whether it's for developing a perennial wheat, funding a home - grown advertising campaign or investing more into making car parts from plants.

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.

Now with the greater number of accelerators, it could potentially be more difficult for startups to be seen as exceptional and get additional funding.

Think long term, he advises: «If you don't get retirement fully funded, you're going to be on your kids» payroll for 15 or 20 years,» which could end up being more expensive in the long run than student loans would be.

Alternative ways of raising money are increasingly available, and crowd - funding has for instance raised more than # 1 billion for UK small and medium - sized enterprises last year.Of course, don't forget to inquire about the regulation in place in your country, and get professional advice to mitigate risk.

Part of what needs to happen to change that statistic is that we need more women with big ideas going after it, and the other part of it is the right funding structure to help them get there.

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.

With something that might be more complicated and not as obvious, I think having women around the table will help get more female entrepreneurs funded.

He told me that he expects more education companies to get funded in 2018.

With respect to analyzing the sort of models that gets investors interested in pumping - in funds to significantly newer entrants in the financial lending vertical, More explains that it was the customer experience focus over which the business models were developed.

When they run out of air, they drown (lose everything), come up for a new tank (raise more funding) or get out of the water (pivot to something new).

When things get tough, you'll need that scrappiness to survive, Smith says, and you won't get it if you've had a million or more in VC funds right from the start.

«More often than not, it's the obvious questions people fall down on because they think them through superficially,» says Martin Soorjoo, founder of San Francisco - based Investor Pitch Clinic and author of Here's the Pitch: How to Pitch Your Business to Anyone, Get Funded, and Win Clients (Wiley, 2012).

More than 50 % of them have to agree to allow Valeant to restructure, according to reports, so that means Valeant may have to get managers that represent as many as 377 funds to agree to whatever deal the company puts forward.

The network doesn't track how many startups get funding due to its demo days, but half a dozen founders and investors told CNBC that they'd set up one or more meetings following the event.

In a 2015 survey by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, two out of five adults with deductibles representing 5 percent or more of their incomes reported that they avoided getting care, including preventative tests, because of their deductibles.

The battle between Apple and David Einhorn got more heated after the fund manager responded to comments made by CEO Tim Cook early Tuesday.

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As Silicon Valley grapples with an uncertain political climate, Canadian startups are getting more attention than ever (tech execs even launched a fund to help foreign - born U.S. employees move north).

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.

Your cofounder helps balance your skillset, open you up to a new network of important people, flesh out your ideas, and even help you get funded, since investors often look for a more secure team dynamic.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

More diversified than Visa (v), Mastercard gets a higher proportion of its revenue from outside the U.S., positioning it to win as consumers around the world switch from cash to electronic payments and from bricks and mortar to e-commerce, says Greg Dunn, comanager of the Thornburg International Growth Fund.

TUNG: There will be more education companies that will get funded.

Three of us started the company, we were first time software entrepreneurs, we were starting in a difficult environment in late 2000 when the Internet bubble had burst, we couldn't get funding, we were working without salaries and having no financial cushion... but almost in a linear fashion it just got better and better: more momentum, more customers, better culture, better technology.

It's true, everyday we hear of a new startup ideas (some more obscure than others) that have been able to get funding in order to jump - start their small business.

It will be easier to understand who's getting what, there will be more choice and advisers won't be beholden to the fund companies that pay up.

But this shift is happening within the overall downturn of CRE, after a most phenomenal seven - year price surge, funded by cheap loans that are now getting a lot more expensive.

In general, as mutual funds get larger, their expense ratios drop, as operating costs get spread across more investors.

Indeed, Hirway's guests have had to deal with low funds, tight deadlines and more to get their art out into the world.

Apple's impressive second quarter earnings should get more mutual funds to buy the company's stock, as many are currently underweight, said one analyst.

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.

Mayor David Bing plans to challenge the census findings, saying the city can qualify for more federal and state funding if it can get its population count to 775,000.

We have to fund innovations, we have to seed new ways of doing things and we have to get them in place so we can get the money out of the system that is being spent unnecessarily today without getting good results for patients and is causing more complexity than necessary.»

As if they couldn't get more chill, a startup is seeking funding for a hoodie that let's you lay all the way back — any time, anywhere.

Maine, Kentucky, Arizona, and Alaska all get more federal funding than the original in the new version, according to a state - by - state breakdown released by the authors.

Beyond those basics, you'll get approved more readily and with better terms if you give the banks precisely what they need to make a decision: tax returns and audited (if possible) financial statements (P&L, balance sheets and cash flow) for the year to date and the previous three years; monthly statements for the previous 12 months; a business plan explaining what you do, how you do it and why your company would be a good risk; a detailed projection showing how you will generate the funds to pay down the line; and a backup plan (collateral) to repay the bank if the projections don't pan out.

Angel investment groups and boot camps designed to get female entrepreneurs funded and more women to the investment table are cropping up throughout the U.S.: X Squared Angels, 37 Angels and Pipeline Fellowship, to name a few.

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.

KERNEN: You want... PRESIDENT TRUMP: We need almost more than ever before — I mean, we've been in wars so we needed it then — but we need to be sure that our military is properly funded, and it would be really great to get rid of the, you know, we'd like to have a regular budget.

For instance, women - run companies are far more likely to get funding through peer investing than through traditional funds.

With the Senate voting on a provisional bill to fund the government for three more weeks, Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the road ahead for getting a final spending bill and work on immigration.

«The whole goal of the program is to see more Southern California companies get funded.

«Salesforce Ventures gives us more than just funding — we've got an inside track to the Salesforce ecosystem,» said Keith Krach, CEO of DocuSign, in a statement announcing the launch of the fund.

One way to counter this is to start simple: for example, a target - date retirement fund, serves this purpose, as you can set it and forget it, and it will automatically become more conservative the closer it gets to the target date.

Funds will invest in a way that helps get more money directly into the hands of women and organizations that support their advancement.