Sentences with phrase «in business ventures with»

She proposes that, state supreme courts consider amending their Rules of Professional Conduct to grant more flexibility to lawyers so they may participate in business ventures with other professions.

He has been in business ventures with Bunker Hunt, who gave him the name Cadillac Jack.

He compares it to being in a business venture with a client where the lawyer receives a percentage of the venture and documents need to be drawn up.

Not exact matches

Robert Herjavec remembered Rebecca's tenacity from her first appearance, her strong business sense and was not going to be happy until he knew he could jump on board with Rebecca in her next business venture.

Business opportunity ventures, like franchises, are businesses in which the seller makes a commitment of continuing involvement with the buyer.

Accounting firm KPMG is launching a business «accelerator» that is designed to assist early - stage technology ventures and bring them together with major companies in the energy and resources sector.

Her $ 8 billion division has 23,000 employees whose main business is partnering with Chinese companies across 34 joint ventures in China that manufacture everything from wind turbines to oil pipeline equipment.

Making sure your business can effectively fill orders and get them to their destinations in a timely manner is paramount to any venture with global aspirations.

Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

Recent business news is slick with reports about startups, usually in the tech industry, getting millions of dollars in investment capital, typically from the gold - plated venture capital names.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

Many business opportunity ventures supply the buyer with print advertising slicks, radio ads, TV storyboards, etc., in order to provide a better marketing effort.

None of this behavior is ever supposed to happen in the Valley, because who would want to do business with such a litigious venture firm?

While there were plenty of people running their own businesses, the general propensity toward growth - oriented, innovative, dynamic venturing — the type associated with successful entrepreneurship today — was limited, especially in Canada.

He is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager with 10 + years of experience in the IT arena, advisor to several fast - growing ventures, popular blogger and contributing author in tech and business media (Inc., Wired, Pando Daily) Also, Andrew frequently speaks about project management, business and innovation at such events as E2 Innovate, PMI Global Congresses, Enterprise Connect, IBM Connect and more.

Earlier this week John Doerr, the illustrious investor and chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, proselytized his bible for business management — a system he calls «objectives and key results,» or OKRs — in a video conference call with several Fortune staffers (myself included).

These are more than buzzworthy ventures with youthful founders — they're strategic business models that may very well be on their way to iconic status in their respective sectors.

«With a lot of the ways banks have traditionally embraced the relationship - management side of business, they just can't reach these younger kids,» says David Unsworth, co-founder at Information Venture Partners, a Toronto fund specializing in fintech.

In addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capitaIn addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capitain accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capital.

Evans, who previously ran a design and marketing agency in Montreal, was looking for a new business venture, and connected with Mansbridge a few years ago.

Sigel recommends using venture capitalist and business author Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 PowerPoint Rule: 10 slides presented in 20 minutes, with no font smaller than 30 - point type.

And in the midst of its troubles throughout 2014 — Levi stepped back as president and CEO to become executive chairman in November — GrowthWorks was the recipient, along with BDC Venture Capital, of the «Deal of the Year» award from Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association following its sale of Layer 7 Technologies, a developer of security software for businesses.

So the most evident problem with this new venture is that it is illegal and in the current political climate, no matter the lobbying dollars involved, is unlikely to change the laws sufficient to allow this business to ever launch.

With a lack of standard addressing systems in the Middle East region, efficient logistics systems continue to be a key barrier in e-commerce ventures scaling up, with e-commerce businesses bearing huge costs in failed or delayed deliverWith a lack of standard addressing systems in the Middle East region, efficient logistics systems continue to be a key barrier in e-commerce ventures scaling up, with e-commerce businesses bearing huge costs in failed or delayed deliverwith e-commerce businesses bearing huge costs in failed or delayed deliveries.

My Business Venture (MBV) is a nationwide technology service company, with over 25 years» experience in our field.

News broke earlier that Boeing was in talks with Embraer — the world's third - largest plane maker — for a 80 to 90 percent stake in a new venture encompassing Embraer's commercial jet business.

Stratum Metals has become the sixth Western Australian company to cancel a backdoor listing deal in the past year, with the Nedlands - based business reviewing its future options, including plans for the East Menzies gold project, after walking away from a planned reverse takeover of a US technology venture.

The mainstream news media caught onto the story while venture capitalists lined up to fund any business with «bit» in its name.

Second, it's also a manner in which you can test the viability of your business, with seasoned investors offering feedback and advice before backing your venture.

Skilled Group says it will buy - out its partner in the Offshore Marine Services Alliance joint venture for $ 6.9 million, and plans to merge it with its Broadsword Marine operations to create a single marine services business.

In the meantime, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capital firms could start with a resounding acknowledgement that contract wokers are essential to the businesses they run.

Carlo Ferro is Executive Vice President, Finance, Legal, Infrastructure and Services, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of STMicroelectronics and has held the CFO position since May 2003, with temporary suspension during his tenure at ST - Ericsson, where he first served as Chief Operating Officer (February 2012 — March 2013) and then was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2013 to lead the re-organization to split up the joint - venture business and resources to the two shareholders and wind down the JV.

AFTER 33 years in the steel industry and having grown the family business into one of the state's biggest names in steel retailing, former Midalia Steel managing director Geoff Midalia has taken a completely different tack with his newest business venture.

There are some good things in there for business, particularly for innovation and technology with the $ 400 million to a venture capital initiative and $ 100 million to BDC for their VC initiative.

Not surprisingly, Wylie's venture has angered affected publishers, and Random House has said it will do no new business with Wylie because, said a spokesperson, Odyssey «undermines our longstanding commitments to and investments in our authors, and it establishes this Agency as our direct competitor.»

That's because, rather than handing the capital over to any one of 17 government agencies with a finger in the innovation pie, or giving the money to the Business Development Bank of Canada, which deployed just $ 408 million of its $ 18.4 billion balance sheet to the venture capital industry, the Conservatives have decided to invest that money directly in entrepreneurs.

Taking a detour from her usual celebrity haunts, Lopez made an unusual appearance Wednesday at a venture capital conference in San Francisco to talk about potential business deals with the tech industry.

When I had ventured into entrepreneurship, like most, I had the lofty idea that «being my own boss» would provide me more freedom and independence, and with managers and employees in my business, I would no longer need to apply a complicated algorithm when I took my holidays.

Still, Empire has operated a joint venture with a Chinese partner to manufacture ride components since 2011 — and Nelson has come to know a thing or two about doing business in the Middle Kingdom.

Ideally, benefits of this special 8 (a) program to the protà © gà © firm — which can have only one mentor at a time — will include technical and management assistance; options to enter into joint - venture business agreements with mentor firms to compete for government contracts; financial assistance in the form of equity or loans; and qualification for other SBA assistance programs.

But as with many a business venture announced in China with much fanfare, it's hardly a done deal — more of a memorandum of understanding.

Some prospecting entrepreneurs have been all over this trend, using innovative new business models to turn passion for exercise into thriving brands with venture backing and millions in annual revenue.

The decline in the startup rate hasn't cut the rate of formation of two categories of companies with very high potential for wealth creation and job creation: angel and venture - capital - backed businesses.

«We've had the pleasure of consulting with both the SAIL Capital Partners team and the investment banking team at Stifel Nicolaus in the U.S. on various deals,» says Rob Peterman, Head of Business Development for the technology sector for TSX and TSX Venture.

She's launched a half - dozen ventures of her own in the past eight years, and almost all of them — including Sprouter, BetaKit and BrandProject LP — helped those building their own businesses connect with people who can help them.

Along with working at Goldman Sachs and running her startup, she was the co-head of the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club and a member of the Darden Capital Management Club, Retail and Luxury Goods Club, and the Graduate Women in Business.

Canadian Business» Western Editor Michael McCullough sat down with Rubinoff, Summerhill's Boston - based managing director, at the Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association annual conference in Vancouver on May 27 to talk about the state of Canada's venture capital inVenture Capital and Private Equity Association annual conference in Vancouver on May 27 to talk about the state of Canada's venture capital inventure capital industry.

He owes some part of his undisclosed fortune to business partnerships with companies and individuals in the oil - rich Gulf, between his golf - course and hotel - building ventures and the Manhattan office space he reportedly rents to Qatar Airways.

In her current role as head of new ventures at Sultan Ventures, a startup catalyst and boutique venture firm, James leads a team tasked with identifying and recruiting potential portfolio companies; provides mentoring and support to make portfolio companies investor - ready; and works with local companies to provide business - development and deal - structuring strategies.

By the time Mark Platshon landed a meeting with celebrated Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr in mid-1999, Platshon and his online digital - photo business, Zing Network Inc., had already been snubbed by a dozen other VCs.