Sentences with phrase «make raising money»

And so an attempt to make raising money less central to our politics comes to an end.

Danae Ringelmann co-founded Indiegogo with a mission to make raising money easier and to empower others to change the world.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

The prize confers legitimacy on the goal; at the very least, it makes raising money in pursuit of the goal easier.

To be fair, President Donald Trump isn't the only person on the planet afraid of sharks — a fact that has made raising money for shark conservation groups a tough job.

Not exact matches

Chen raised hopes the company will start making money in new areas too, such as through BlackBerry Messenger.

In a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide votes.

An offer of that sort would make it more difficult to say the Trudeau government only is looking to raise more money.

Ben's ability to convey, in an easy - to - read, engaging, and thought - provoking way, his thoughts, fears, and struggles about raising money, rapidly growing, restructuring, and ultimately selling his company makes this a must - read for any CEO who wants to build and run a great business.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

When I was a technology entrepreneur doing startups, I kept having the experience that doing things the traditional way — a lot of advanced planning, raising a lot of money upfront, really making sure you call your shot — that didn't really work for me.

It also makes your strategy more real; now, rather than just saying you want to raise money, you have to think about how that's going to happen, how much you need and how you'll use it.

I had conversations and realized that with the position we were in after 10 months of bootstrapping, raising money made sense.

I want killer companies that are making money and will make money,» says Hamilton, who rarely raises her calm and confident voice.

Neumann said raising money from investors (which WeWork has done plenty of) is a commitment to make those investors a return.

As an industry we need to pay attention to those who are struggling as they build their startups and make sure we pay as much attention to the mental stresses of the job as we do to the business challenges like shipping product, hiring staff and raising money.

Tatham, who recently raised $ 22.5 million, concurs: «People take confidence in that fact that you've made the money before.»

To be sure, Irish venture capital firms have their own trouble raising money, which often makes it difficult to invest in startups for the long - term.

«A bigger move, say outside of a 20 percent band, might destroy confidence and make it harder for small business to raise money, or even to sell to larger companies who might be more worried about their viability, or ability to deliver on orders placed.»

Everyone is trying to make money or raise money.

But the company's willingness to spend (and lose) limitless sums money to drive competitors out of business raises a question regulators might soon have to answer: At what point does being too competitive make you anti-competitive?

And besides, to say that you can't charge a charity a fee would be to limit the speakers to which charities have access, and thereby harm the interests of organizations that regularly make use of prominent speakers as a way of raising money.

Many organizations make the mistake of focusing a release on the fact that they are raising money rather than what they are raising money to do.

A friend of mine recently missed out on raising venture money because of a mistake he made in the early days of forming his business.

«What made Klout hard was that we raised money at too high a valuation.

It worked: He raised more than $ 10,000 in $ 10 and $ 20 money transfers made through PayPal.

BlackBerry Ltd. said on Tuesday it will stop making its Classic model, raising further doubts about the future of the smartphone pioneer's money - losing handset business as the company shifts its focus to software.

He's referring to a weeklong, 500 - mile relay race, launched last July by Nerdist and Lucasfilm, that features teams of runners in Star Wars costumes raising money for the Make - A-Wish Foundation.

The legal dispute follows a confession from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in a profile for Vanity Fair that when Lyft was making the rounds raising money from venture capitalists, Uber was unapologetically going back to the same VCs to pitch Uber.

Founded in July, Version One has already raised $ 15 million in capital to make investments — much of that money came from local Vancouver tech entrepreneurs who wanted to give back to their community.

Basically, it will make it a lot easier for start - ups to raise money and will lower the cost of going public.

It's not much in the grand scheme of things, but that summer we were raising money and had to pay for travel so it made an impact,» Schiff says.

«Based on the progress we made during that period, we were able to get into startup accelerator The Brandery, move to Cincinnati, and raise some investment money,» Fortson says.

«When I made the difficult decision to cut expenses at Fab in mid-2013 I had essentially two options in front of me: keep growing at the pace we were growing and hope I could raise even more money down the road, or scale back and control our own destiny.

Mobileye N.V., whose collision - avoidance technology has been adopted in cars made by the likes of BMW AG and General Motors Co., said on Sunday it had raised money from five investors that valued its equity at $ 1.5 billion, highlighting the market potential for driver - assistance systems.

The SEC is forming a small - business committee to review rules that entrepreneurs say make it harder to raise money.

If you plan to raise money from venture capital investors make sure you get a clean term sheet, not one that could trip you or your other investors up later.

So, if Ning and Slide raised $ 50M at a $ 500M valuation and were to sell for $ 300M they would still make a lot of money despite the fact that it might not look like a win.

They see, day after day, that what they do makes a difference in the world, whether it's providing clothing to needy families or raising money to find a cure for a life - threatening disease.

I'm not talking about the.1 percent of big - name startups that raise millions of dollars in venture capital and build up a user base of millions before they need to make any money.

«That's what restaurant people can do: We can throw events, cook food, make people have a good time, and raise money with it,» Miller said.

Mark Connelly, an agriculture analyst, told Business Insider, «These companies want to make more money, they want to raise prices.

What started as a tongue - in - cheek campaign to make potato salad ended up raising $ 55,000 on Kickstarter — proving yet again that if you have a compelling story and know how to tell it, the money is there.

To make your online offering a success, you'll want to show that you are continuously raising money from the crowd and progressing towards your fundraising goal.

Men usually don't ask for raises or promotions because they're already in roles they want making enough money, the study found.

But all of a sudden, we were also raising a lot of money, so it was sort of a sideline to becoming a full - blown charity where you can actually make a difference.

Right now there's a guy raising money to make potato salad on crowd - funding site Kickstarter — and he's making a decent salary of it, having surpassed $ 44,000 with three weeks still to go.

While it may seem like raising outside money would actually make it easier to build such a company, even that achievement is often out of reach for women: Less than 3 percent of venture capital goes to female CEOs.

That's because printing money tends to depress the U.S. dollar, lower interest rates and raise commodity prices — all of which tend to make farmland attractive.

Seedrs makes money by taking roughly 6 per cent commission on funds raised, and then a share of any increase in value when the company is sold — similar to the «carry» earned by private equity firms.