Sentences with phrase «investing in company»

Wikipedia gives a crisp definition of DGI — a strategy that involves investing in company shares according to the future dividends forecast to be paid.

Standard Life Investments cited a recent poll of UK residents that showed that only 39 percent of 18 - to -24-year-olds and 35 percent of 25 - to -34-year-olds were «more concerned in investing in a company that provides high returns on investment than societal / environmental issues».

For example, that could mean investing in a company that's actively working to reduce its carbon footprint through its supply chain operations, or a company that is a leader in promoting gender diversity through maternity and paternity policies, or one that is improving access to high quality healthcare for poor people globally.

One female entrepreneur says Pishevar asked to meet with her a few years ago to discuss investing in her company.

It was determined that after the strategic review process and corresponding significant decrease in the share price on the announcement that Fairfax and other institutional investors were investing in the company through a $ 1 billion private placement of convertible debentures, in lieu of purchasing the company, that the carrying value of the company's assets exceeded their fair value based on the impairment testing performed by management.

As you wrap up your pitch, make an argument for investing in your company in this round.

ShareBuilder does not allow for directly investing in company or government issued bonds, but you are able to invest in bond funds, which are mutual funds or ETFs investing in bonds on the shareholder's behalf.

What kind of analysis do you perform financially before investing in a company?

Cramer, whose charitable trust owns shares of GE, has admitted that investing in the company was one of the biggest mistakes of his career.

According to a press release from Hyperloop One, Branson's Virgin Group is investing in the company, which will rebrand itself as Virgin Hyperloop One.

But if a union considers investing in your company (either directly or through a private - equity fund), you may experience a due - diligence investigation, as Schoenhoeft did, in which an investment manager reviews your company's benefits package (or intentions to set one up), employee - training programs, and handling of layoffs (if you've ever experienced any).

It's not clear why Amazon and Tencent are investing in the company which has had a rocky start, losing its vice president of marketing, head of user experience and head of communications all before the smartphone's debut.

Before he flew out to Silicon Valley to fundraise, the NYC - based CEO started sending emails to venture capitalists and made sure to ask if they were interested in investing in the company, not just asking to meet up.

According to the article, Bezos is actually investing in the company, helping them expand their newsroom.

«If I'm investing in a company that was created and coddled by a big company early on, my presumption is that their market is going to be limited,» says Harden, whose firm has invested in YouTube, Practice Fusion and InternMatch.

Meanwhile, Apple re-placed Microsoft as the world's most valuable tech company, and prominent Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs raised doubts about investing in the company's stock, downgrading its rating from Buy to Neutral.

If you are considering investing in a company, or even buying it outright, do the sensible thing and get a company credit check.

Sometimes the call comes from on high: the VCs who have invested in your company.

Because some of these people may come to me a year later and send me a tweet and say «Hey, I think your advice helped, and here's how the company's doing,» and I may actually subsequently invest in that company.

We obviously want to invest in companies that operate where the market is fully legal.

Fielding is a friend and former mentee of the legendary Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, who also invested in the company.

Dell reasoned that going private was the only way to invest in the company's future, because the public markets do not respond kindly to any sort of investment that might eat away at company's near - term proft margins.

Then she invested in companies such as Pico, Kensho, Circle and Symphony.

«As an entrepreneur, I have had products and services shut out of closed cable networks, and as a venture capitalist, I've invested in companies that would not have been able to innovate if these network were not open.»

The two funds have invested in companies including Snapchat, Oscar Health and Glassdoor.

Secondly, we made a decision that we don't want to invest in companies that grow or touch the product.

For others, it might mean lending your advice and wisdom to other entrepreneurs and perhaps even investing in their companies.

Between being a minority at pretty every much industry event, having to convince (mostly male) venture capitalists to invest in your company, and having those investors constantly question your judgment, being a female founder can be an isolating experience.

Details of 401 (k) offered: According to T - Mobile's website, employee's are eligible to invest in the companies 401 (k) plan as soon as they are hired.

In 2013, after hearing Kraft's idea for the world's first in - ear computing device, Lanman was ready to write a check and invest in the company.

I make it very clear that we're interested in investing in companies that can be $ 1 billion or more one day.

«Focus on investing in companies with good earnings and great growth that can grow their dividends,» he says.

We want to be a catalyst investor, so our $ 150 million ends up being over a billion dollars as it gets invested in these companies.

Raise a fund that invests in companies founded by underrepresented entrepreneurs, including women, people of color, LGBTQ company founders, or any combination of the three.

It's worth noting, however, that while investing in companies for their cash distributions is a relatively risk - averse way to grind out returns, it's not necessarily a strategy that will keep pace with the broader market.

Two years later, Frank Yeary, Citigroup's former global head of mergers and acquisitions, invested in the company's Series A round and joined its board.

They are 100 percent invested in the company and its core idea.

Being there shows the local team that the founder is personally invested in the company, and reduces the high turnover that is a classic headache for every early - stage business.

«Most of our directors have a major portion of their net worth invested in the company.

«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.»

It's great to see that people are becoming invested in a company's purpose or mission.

It has already invested in some companies that graduated from the Labs incubator, including Modern Meadow, a New Jersey — based startup that's biofabricating leather without the need for animals, and 3Scan, a company that enables 3D analysis of tumors and organs.

Upon encountering either extreme, steer clear of investing in those companies.

Venture firms with a woman partner are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with women CEOs.

Khosrowshahi was meeting with regulators in London who had revoked Uber's license when he had to work with the board of directors over a deal for SoftBank Group Corp. to invest in the company.

Alibaba Group invested in the company in 2013 and is expected to hold a 32 per cent stake in the company following the offering.

Not only does Ironwood believe in his plan, the fund has experience investing in companies in the wholesale distribution business.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune's Lucinda Shen on a new electronically - traded fund that specializes in investing in companies with more women in top management rolls.

Now Krawcheck is launching an index fund, called the Pax Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund, which will invest in companies that have a strong commitment to women.

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