Sentences with phrase «launch such a venture»

Agustina Ferreyra noted that the upcoming slew of shows associated with «Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA,» which is previewed in the September issue of Artforum, made it seem like an auspicious moment to launch such a venture: «Most of us will have artists participating in projects there, and it's a good city to have a foot in right now.»

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, GSK said it would launch a review of its consumer healthcare nutrition products, such as Horlicks — a malted hot milk drink that's particularly big in India — in order to help fund the joint venture buyout, and to focus its efforts on over-the-counter medicines and the oral health category.

Running a business was a blast, Newman found, and three years later, he launched a new venture — Niche Marketing, which advertised and distributed products for progressive companies and nonprofit groups, such as a militant left - wing T - shirt maker and a manufacturer of water - saving showerheads.

Since its 2012 launch, the Toronto - based «virtual garage sale» site had raised more than US$ 34 million, including from heavyweight American funds such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

A number of venture capital firms, such as Revolution Growth and Binary Capital, have launched or plan to launch funds dedicating to dolling out tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars to startups outside of Silicon Valley.

Launched in April 2014, Casper has sold more than 50,000 mattresses and raised $ 70 million in total venture funding, including investments from celebs such as Ashton Kutcher, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire.

Venture - backed robo - advisors, such as Betterment, Personal Capital and Wealthfront, are competing with new automated investment advice services launched earlier this year by Charles Schwab and Vanguard.

According to the report: «Much of the AI innovation [is] happening at the university level, and the graduating students joining cloud AI providers such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft (with lofty salaries) or launching their own startups to take advantage of the feeding frenzy of investments from the venture capital community.»

In some cases, some of the initial offering is held back for a while, and then used for promotions once the product has been launched, such us on the forums or on social media to raise even more awareness of the venture.

The key market players adopted diverse strategies such as product launch, expansion, acquisition, joint venture, partnership, and investment to gain competitive advantage in this market.

Other telescopes designed to detect high - energy wavelengths, such as x-rays, need considerable distance between their mirrors and x-ray detectors and therefore must be built at large scales — an expensive venture in terms of construction and launch.

Many companies are investing in the technology, including pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline, which launched a venture - capital fund that will invest $ 50 million into companies creating bioelectronic medicines.

I spent the next several years with NOW, growing and expanding it and launching other alternative news weeklies and ventures such as the North by Northeast (NXNE) music festival and conference.

Digital manga is clearly that future whether paper purists like me like it or not, and the past two years has been full of new ventures offering just such a thing as publishers experiment with formats and distributions, such as the launch of Viz Media's SigIKKI and Shonen Sunday, Yen Plus going fully digital and Digital Manga's fledgling DM Guild, to name a few.

«Most newspaper publications have ventured into the digital platform by launching websites and other online services such as email newsletters, RSS feeds, and news apps,» says Ujjwal.

Hearst Magazines has had success rolling out new print titles with launch partners, such as Food Network Magazine and HGTV Magazine, which are joint ventures with Scripps Networks Interactive.

Penny stocks are almost always involved in riskier ventures, such as finding mineral deposits that can be mined at a profit, commercializing unproven technologies or launching new software.

Hitman GO was a surprise hit at launch, with many apprehensive about Square Enix's mobile ventures, but they've done rather well with their licenses in the form of both the aforementioned and games such as Final Fantasy Record Keeper.

Pinsent Masons is to launch a freelance lawyer service, offering businesses temporary legal professionals on an ad hoc basis.Dubbed «Vario», the new service which will go live in the spring will provide competition to similar ventures such as Eversheds» Agile service and Berwin Leighton Paisner's (BLP) Lawyers on Demand.

And even professional services firms bearing a closer resemblance to law firms, such as the big banks, have been ramping up their venture activities in recent years (particularly in fintech) and launching startup incubators and accelerators.

The SCET has helped create the foundation of Berkeley's entrepreneurship ecosystem by launching institutions and programs such as SkyDeck, the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, the Engineering Leadership Professional Program, Global Venture Lab, and cultivating an extensive network of Silicon Valley and global partners.

It was launched in 2012, and since their launch they have attracted a significant amount of investment capital from reputable investors, venture capital firms, and even banks and financial institutions such as BBVA, USAA Bank, and the New York Stock Exchange.