Sentences with phrase «much about raising»

According to Thompson, this resulted in educators caring as much about raising scores by a few points as about the physical and mental well - being of students.

There's no denying Audi's new program is as much about raising brand awareness as it is about offering a service.

I started freaking out because I had never been around a little boy and didn't know much about raising one.

Not exact matches

Much ink has been spilled about the global tide of nationalism, but these leaders, raised with the freedom to zip around Europe without passports, using a common euro currency, see their individual nations» interests as inextricably bound to the state of the whole world.

But it has raised questions about how much Manafort has been paid throughout his decades as a political consultant — and who paid him.

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.

Sometimes the focus is too much on raising capital and announcing some big round, but ultimately, it's about building a durable business.

Scott's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about how much money had been raised so far.

«Women tend to ask for about half as much as they need,» explained Stengel, to which MacPherson elaborated: «Raising money is gut - wrenching and exhausting.

Funding: Reserve hasn't disclosed how much money the startup has raised, but a spokesperson told TechCrunch that Reserve is «pre-Series A» and has about 30 employees.

What it will take: Be prepared to talk about why you deserve a raise, why you should get it now and how much you should receive.

Speaking in Houston last week at the Circular Summit, Marcelo talked about the early days of her company, and particularly her experiences raising so much money, while also sometimes being underestimated as a woman tech CEO.

The case definitely raises legitimate concerns — particularly, in an age of social media where so much information is suddenly available about anyone online, says Neal Hartman, senior lecturer and head of the managerial communications group at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Instead, it's a creature of politics, brought to life by our lack of political courage when it comes to tough decisions about what taxes to raise or what spending to cut, and by how much.

Having raised about $ 6 million, Wagz created a unique ID tag to attach to either their collar or your own and can connect to its water bowls (measure intake, while also providing multi-vitamins), food dispenser (to feed your dog when you are running late), dog door (for bathroom breaks) and we are guessing much more.

This crock has pretty much imploded over the last few years, although I sense a creeping rebirth when I hear the President talk about how the JOBS legislation is such a triumph of democracy since pretty soon every Tom, Dick and Harry will be able to buy and own cheap stocks, and raise money through new and virtually unregulated crowd - funding vehicles.

The case and others like it pending in lower courts raise questions about how much companies protect the privacy rights of their customers.

Conservative Solutions, the pro-Rubio super PAC, raised more than $ 14 million in the second half of 2015, about as much as Rubio's campaign committee did in the fourth quarter.

The idea was a simple marketing appeal — customers could stop worrying about how much data they had left every month — combined with the possibility that many would move up to the new unlimited plans from cheaper limited plans, raising more revenue.

Though she isn't saying much about her business idea aside from the name, CarBuckets, Esteve has raised $ 50,000 from friends and family so far.

But for me, a leadership scholar, the fiasco raises much more interesting questions about Winterkorn and Horn's leadership styles: Did the CEO image or illusion they projected blind them from the realities of their own business?

When initial coin offerings emerged as a new way for startups to raise money a few months ago, there was much speculation — and some doubt — about whether the cryptocurrency crowdfunding method could disrupt or even replace the traditional venture capital industry.

A drop in the unemployment rate to a 16 - year low raises a tantalizing question about the job market: How much better can it get?

While Rettenmaier is unlikely to receive much sympathy, the case does raise important questions about how the FBI works with companies like Best Buy to conduct investigations.

For far too many small business owners, when they think about raising capital, they think too much about «control.»

And while their numbers aren't huge, there are enough of them to suggest a pattern of behavior that raises questions about whether pre-politics Trump was much of a friend to small business in practice.

On a recent Ventured podcast, I spoke with KPCB general partner Randy Komisar about whether or not there's a tech bubble and the consequences of raising too much capital.

from Unicef's side this is clearly about raising much needed funds in a very difficult fundraising climate, and there will also be further Unicef brand recognition and awareness which is again much needed in the face of charity competition and indeed fatigue.

Troy Jones, who runs the website www.nukepills.com, said demand for potassium iodide soared last week, after Trump tweeted that he had a «much bigger & more powerful» button than Kim — a statement that raised new fears about an escalating threat of nuclear war.

Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk's refusal to answer «boring» Wall Street questions about finances sent the electric vehicle maker's shares down as much as 7 percent on Thursday, jarring investors and raising concerns about its ability to raise money in the future.

But the disruptive nature of the tech companies raises questions about how much they can grow.

Around the time Carrick closed their first fund, we were thinking about raising a little money, but what we needed and wanted more than capital was to continue the partnership that had delivered so much value.

Foreign visitors to the Reserve Bank over the years have tended to raise questions about household debt much more frequently than they have raised questions about government debt.

For example, we have helped entrepreneurs identify comparables for their businesses, guided management teams in prioritizing their development programs, helped companies gauge when they might be IPO - ready, and informed companies» decision about how much capital to raise, when to raise it, which banks to work with, and which investors to talk to.

But, as seen in the Figure above, because income taxes have been cut, the province's reliance on income tax revenues have dropped by one third over the last decade, so much so that income taxes now raise about the same amount as sales taxes.

«The decision to raise funding from Portag3 was about much more than capital,» he said.

And the NDP's hints about raising the corporate income tax are unlikely to be enough to offset future austerity, much less finance any new spending that they have in mind.

On this episode of our podcast, we feature an interview with HotJar co-founder Jonathan Vella, talk about funds raising funding, and much, much more:

I liken this to a scuba diver who goes down and he has about an hour's worth of air, and then he's got ta come back up again and either get another tank or refill his tank, so you're limited on how much air you can have if you're scuba diving, but in business, unless you have a scuba diving type business, you don't wan na have to keep having to refill your tank, and so that's the issue that I see faces a lot of entrepreneurs and startups, is the amount of time and energy it takes to raise money for your business.

Before making plans on how to raise startup capital for your business, you should have a clearer idea of how much would be needed to setup the type of business you are about to start from the scratch.

Review some of the other companies listed on the site to learn more about how much each individual company has raised over a limited period of time.

Even as the Fed has sought to give much clearer signals about its intentions to raise base rates, the performance of US risk assets has continued to improve, suggesting that markets are comfortable with the prospect of a small rise in base rates in December.

(Reuters)- Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk's refusal to answer «boring» Wall Street questions about finances sent the electric vehicle maker's shares down as much as 7 percent on Thursday, jarring investors and raising concerns about its ability to raise money in the future.

Of course the Toronto born and raised Harper was about as much of a real cowboy as Trudeau is a real Bollywood star.

Some big ones are: (a) whether the draft PROMESA legislation raises retroactivity issues that make it unfair to bondholders (including mutual funds and their investors) who may be subject to restructuring ex post without having had notice of that possibility ex ante; (b) relatedly, whether creating a bankruptcy - like restructuring process for Puerto Rico is bad for bondholders because it prevents holdout creditors from holding up restructuring negotiations, (c) how much oversight and sovereignty Puerto Rico should cede (for example, different stakeholders feel differently about the installation of an oversight board); (d) the extent to which austerity measures are feasible and should be imposed [fn1], and (d) and what substantive reforms should be put enacted going forward.

The BOE is talking openly about looking through higher inflation and not raising rates, and some Fed officials have talked about letting the US economy (and presumably inflation) run «hot» for a period, without raising rates much.

Your initial email should include a brief overview of the business, telling us in no more than one page about: - Your technology, any IP, and why it's better than the competition - Traction so far / planned route to market and your business model - Team - Funding until now, how much you're raising and at what valuation - Whether you envisage further funding rounds being necessary in the future You can include links to a business plan or any other documents with the email if you wish.

Though the starting salary wasn't much — he didn't break even at the job until about three months in — Ebner has received incremental raises and equity with the company since joining.

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!).

Chinese asset managers who have raised nearly $ 70 billion are about to deploy as much as 20 percent of these funds to gold ETFs, according to Bloomberg News.