Sentences with phrase «investing in companies like»

When you invest in mutual funds, you don't buy stocks like you do when investing in companies like Apple or Google.

Investing in companies like ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) helps to make that time advantage even more rewarding.

Organizers shined a spotlight on the hypocrisy of New York investing in companies like ExxonMobil.

A partner with Bain Capital's Ventures division, Agarwal leads the West Coast office's early - stage software investing in companies like Kenshoo, Optimizely, SurveyMonkey, and SendGrid.

Since then, he's invested in companies like David Tisch's swipe - to - shop startup Spring, and adoption startup Binti.

Also, over the past five years, Thrive Capital has invested in companies like Twitch — which was sold to Amazon over the summer for $ 1 billion.

Since it was founded in 1995, venture - capital firm Insight Venture Partners has raised more than $ 13 billion and invested in companies like Udemy, Zenefits, Docker, Nextdoor, and Hootsuite.

Its previous funds in this series have invested in companies like Airbnb, Stripe and Toutiao.

He has earlier invested in companies like Diapers.com (acquired by Amazon) and WarbyParker.com.

The Firm currently manages over $ 4 billion of committed capital and has invested in companies like AppDynamics, DataStax, Fusion - io, MuleSoft, Nest, Nicira.

IDG Ventures has invested in companies like Flipkart, Yatra, Newgen, Lenskart, Vserv, Firstcry, Manthan Software and Zivame.

I think that would be the difference in investing in a company like Sallie Mae (Broad Spectrum) versus SoFi or CommonBond (Specific Subset).

That's why a lot of us tend to invest in companies like PG, JNJ, KMI, PM, MO, T etc because those companies have pretty wide moats / competitive advantages, long histories of dividend raises, shareholder support and solid revenue, cost controls = > positive net income and generally healthy operating cash flow, sometimes high amounts of free cash flow after capital investment.

Instead of purchasing a 10 year US government bond that is yielding 2.5 %, they invest in a company like Southern Co (NYSE: SO) and receive a 4.8 % dividend.

But when you actually crunch the numbers, you'll realize how ridiculous it is to blindly invest in a company like McDonalds for the next 50 years.

It is important to understand why churches and charities like to invest in companies like energy majors in the first place.

The company announced today that it raised $ 30 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures, which has also invested in companies like Dropbox and Skype, with additional funding from Horizons Ventures, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, RRE Ventures, TTV Capital, Sir Richard Branson and AME Cloud Ventures.

According to Naoki Murakami, a well - known day trader in Japan and frequent speaker, investors who are either not comfortable with trading directly with bitcoin or simply don't have accounts on bitcoin exchanges are using their traditional brokerage accounts to invest in companies like Remixpoin, Infoteria, and Fisco.

He has worked at companies like LinkedIn, Google, and Factual and invested in companies like LendUp, Robinhood, and Flexport.

Not exact matches

Discovery Communications, which owns networks like the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, on Thursday became the latest TV company to invest in digital content in an effort to reach mobile viewers.

«If they eventually use this cash for something else, like investing in their own company or investing in other people's companies — not in stocks, but an actual company — then it's as optimal as investing in the stock market, or perhaps even moreso.»

That growth has helped convince the likes of Danhua Capital, First Cut Ventures, and Long Capital Ventures to invest $ 1.5 million in the company.

Like most angel investors, Dyson has invested in a range of companies across several industry verticals.

Large oil companies like ExxonMobil, which in 2011 earned more than $ 40 billion, make no hiring or firing decisions based on government handouts, but startup green - energy companies will hire more engineers and technicians, more marketing professionals and managers if governments invest in them.

«It's like investing in an ethical company,» he says.

«I still feel like I'm behind enemy lines» as a founder turned investor, Busque said, «So I'll say this: I've learned that there are thousands of reasons why an investor won't invest in your company that have nothing to do with you.»

Since Doug McMillon became CEO of Wal - Mart Stores in 2014, the company has been investing heavily in tech to offer services like in - store pickup of online orders, while giving workers pay raises to motivate them to improve customer scores and keep stores cleaner.

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

«We thought we'll invest in something like 10 to 20 companies over a 12 - month period,» said 500 Startups partner Eddie Thai.

However, the company never invested too much energy into the feature and it didn't become as popular some of the Facebook's other features like location check - ins, for example.

No one likes to invest in a one - product company.

Online marketing certainly has the potential to save your company, but if you invest in the wrong channel, your marketing spend will be less like a life jacket and more like a cannon on your bootstraps.

Perhaps for this reason, many people who invest in start - ups tend to favor companies that are based on small, executable ideas over grand strategies like Martian colonization or the resurrection of the electric car.

Online financial advisor Betterment said in a Jan. 16 blog post that cryptocurrency investing is like high - risk early stage investing in companies.

Companies like Google, Facebook (fb), and IBM (ibm) are investing millions of dollars in AI - related technologies like deep learning that have made it possible for computers to more quickly perform data - heavy tasks like translating text into multiple languages.

«Given how long it will take for pre-revenue companies to demonstrate whether they are successful, for retail investors, it's almost like investing in bitcoin,» she said.

Cold brew coffee, in particular, has become a popular beverage, leading companies like Starbucks and Dunkin' to invest in cold brew kegs to ensure the quality and freshness of the drink.

Previously, the company has invested in AImotive and Renovo for automated driving, as well as other tech companies like Quanergy and Graphcore.

The company invests a lot of money in these pups, as they need to be healthy and happy and live just like a dog at home (to gather accurate data of a pet's natural routine).

Companies like NEA are investing mainly in on - demand mobility services when it comes to transportation, largely because the company finds it easier to see a quick return with software.

«It's like when Warren Buffett talks about investing in companies with a large moat — that's what Latin American investors are trying to do,» says Colmenares.

Hoffman said that companies like LinkedIn need to be investing in technology over a five - year time horizon.

With a company like this, you need to watch overhead, invest wisely in growth, and cut unnecessary costs quickly and decisively.

Investors like the idea of corporate tax cuts because the companies in which they invest could become even more profitable.

On the other end of the spectrum, Big Food companies like PepsiCo and Campbell Soup are cleaning up their ingredient lists, launching new healthier products, and investing in food startups to participate in the trend away from big brands.

There have been some small successes, like $ 25 million in commitments to Maiden Lane, a quasi-independent fund that primarily backs companies via AngelList's syndicates program, which allows well - known individual investors to create pools of committed capital that gets invested on a deal - by - deal basis.

No one likes dealing with financial stuff but the president of financial service company Consero Global Bill Klein provides us the skinny on the importance of investing in your startup's financial dat...

Dell Ventures, headed by Jim Lussier invested from specifically created funds — a $ 60 million fund aimed at storage startups launched in 2012 and a broader $ 300 million fund aimed at later - stage startups like Dropbox in 2013 — in which the parent company was the only limited partner.

Consumers today might experience a gut - level cringe at the idea of an artificial intelligence that can recognize and analyze their Instagram photos, but companies like Google and thought leaders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are investing heavily in it, making huge bets that people will accept it someday.

«The network effect can be invested in, really still quite cheaply, through the quoted market through companies like Google and Facebook,» he said.