Sentences with phrase «just venture capitalists»

But it's not just the venture capitalists...

Thiel — who, let us not forget, is not just a venture capitalist but a hedge fund founder — has controlled his downside exposure in a volatile world with his New Zealand estate and citizenship, and whatever other emergency readiness plans he might have.

If there was one thing I wish he did was emphasize how his methodology works for angel group raises, and not just Venture Capitalist.

Not exact matches

Investing in start - ups is not just for venture capitalists anymore.

Women - led teams received just $ 1.9 billion of the total $ 85 billion invested by venture capitalists in 2017, which is just 2.2 percent of the year's total, according to data from VC database PitchBook, an M&A, private equity, and VC database, reported by Fortune.

The real numbers are eye - opening: Venture capitalists (VCs) fund only 0.05 percent of startups, and angel investors are responsible for funding just 0.91 percent.

Angel investor Joanne Wilson is most definitely a woman in a man's world — just seven percent of venture capitalists are women — but on her blog recently, she admitted to not being much troubled by imposter syndrome.

Just last month, financial powerhouses Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered PLC raised their investment in the operator of e-wallet MoMo by $ 28 million, while Silicon Valley - based venture capitalist 500 Startups announced a $ 10 million Vietnam - focused fund.

Of particular interest to venture capitalists, however, is Vietnam's tech - savvy population with a median age of just 30.

While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.

That legend enabled Holmes» fraud, and the victims of her fraud weren't just yacht - owning venture capitalists.

Most plans probably receive no more than a glance from a given venture capitalist before being rejected; others get just a cursory inspection.

So, after a multi-year decline in Canadian venture capital funding — hitting a low of just $ 1 billion in 2009, despite US$ 132 billion invested by venture capitalists south of the border over the past five years — the March budget finally screamed an end to business as usual.

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.

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.

Internet entrepreneurs, Nobel laureates, Ivy League schools, textbook publishers, venture capitalists, corporate raiders, and junk - bond kings — just about everyone, it seems, is betting that the Internet plus education equals a very big sum.

Venture capitalist Ted Dintersmith, of Charles River Ventures, in Waltham, Mass., says that HighWired.com's first - mover advantage was a key reason his firm agreed to back the two students after just one presentation.

What's most remarkable about this scene is that seven months ago, when Guru.com was a fledgling idea just out of Harvard Business School's hatchery, venture capitalists were ambivalent about it.

For now, technology companies like ours — who lack the crucial support of venture capitalists — are forced to rely on angel investors and the generosity of companies like Google, which just partnered with Beit Issie Shapiro to grant $ 1 million in order to donate the Sesame Enable technology to every individual in Israel whose life could be improved by such a phone.

And that lack of gender diversity encompasses not just engineering departments and founders, but venture capitalists as well.

Famed Apple analyst turned Venture Capitalist, Gene Munster at Loup Ventures, recently attempted to answer Wall Street's burning question — isn't Tesla just another car company?

In April 2016, venture capitalist Kaifu Lee noted that a «capital winter» is just what the doctor ordered for China's bloated tech industry.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

Getting an opportunity to pitch a Venture capitalist is like being given a gun loaded with just a bullet.

Venture capitalist William Mougayar calls blockchain «the second significant overlay on the internet, just as the web was the first layer back in 1990».

A lamentably small percentage of venture capitalists are women — just 4.2 percent among the largest firms, according to one recent report.

Venture capitalists have invested over a billion dollars in Bitcoin, (CNN) and just about everyone in tech and finance has an opinion on the cryptocurrency.

Venture capitalists have been pouring money into clean meat companies such as Memphis Meats, which has attracted capital from billionaires Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jack and Suzy Welch, and Just (formerly known as Hampton Creek).

There are many ways to be successful in this world and our sons and daughters need to be fully aware that a good life can come just as easily from being a pianist, a teacher, a nurse or a venture capitalist.

«Just 14 percent of engineers and 3 percent of venture capitalists are women; 98 percent of VC funding goes to companies headed by men, and most of the companies pitching new ideas on the breast pump front are headed by women,» Schama writes.

Just two months after curb stomping venture capitalist Sean Edlridge by 30 almost points in a district that President Obama won twice, Chris Gibson will announce today that he won't run for re-election in 2016.

A Siena poll released the same day suggested his lead over Democratic venture capitalist Scott Murphy had plummeted by two - thirds over the past two weeks, to just 4 points, despite the district's traditionally Republican bent.

But in 2016, at the climax of the United States election — of this election, in these times — Inferno opts to menace us with an asocial Silicon Valley businessman (played by Ben Foster) whose views on humans are just a hair to the right of some actual Silicon Valley CEOs and venture capitalists.

It's Just Not That Simple «The people most visibly drawn to extolling the joys and the privileges of teaching are high - powered attorneys, successful venture capitalists, and exceedingly youthful movie stars Meaning they have not come near an actual school in quite a while.»

That is just the way that the people in the offices along Sand Hill Road, where you find the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, like it.

So it's hard to just dismiss venture capitalist Tim Draper and his latest fantasy of subdividing California into three smaller states, even as the know - it - alls of government and politics scoff at...

However, in her annual Internet trends report, venture capitalist Mary Meeker points out that the Amazon Echo sales are growing just as iPhone sales are starting to fall.

It's just like a venture capitalist looking to get in on the ground floor of a brand new business idea, your IRA can help a promising business grow by pumping cash into it early during its lifecycle.

In just the last month or so, I have had a number of conversations with manufacturers and venture capitalists all looking for the same thing: a pet manufacturer or two to acquire.

It would have been a lot simpler to just do the kickstarter, get the funding he needed from it and the venture capitalist backers he had lined up, stick to the original scope and go quiet after funding to build the game.

The time when we're all venture capitalists may be just around the corner.

It isn't just the founders» bravery that the venture capitalists said they admired.

The launch of Founders for Change by more than 400 budding and established tech companies is a sign of just how top of mind diversity has become in an industry riven by the #MeToo movement and a series of allegations and admissions of sexual misconduct by workers, managers and venture capitalists.

Passing strong patent reform legislation will enhance the patent system we support and protect the people we have been fighting for, including retailers, auto manufacturers and dealers, angel investors, venture capitalists, casino owners, newspaper publishers, small print shops, credit unions, non-profit groups, hardware and software manufacturers, Realtors ®, and home builders, just to name a few.

Christopher Woodrow expects these tokens to democratize filmmaking — just like other ICOs have enabled common people to invest in early stage projects which were previously restricted to venture capitalists.

The need to pitch an idea to a bank or venture capitalist firm in exchange for funding seemed to be, for all intents and purposes, redundant when startups could just present their project to the crypto community directly.

That's because it is bringing together more than 100 of the most respected developers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and «smart money» investors from all the most important emerging technology fields — not just blockchain tech.

News headlines... Peter Thiel, venture capitalist and supporter of President - elect Donald J Trump, spoke of the threat Bitcoin poses to fiat money and the financial freedom it grants to its users; With Vulcan Project, PwC Wants Banks to Rethink Bitcoin; Blockchain Won't Just Change Regulation, it Could Reshape the SEC and Bitit is currently partnering with Neosurf and...

Those are just a few of the companies billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel had an early financial hand in helping bloom.