Sentences with phrase «new venture development»

The CTO will report directly to the CEO and be responsible for directing the very first steps of the new venture development process...

Overall the book provides detailed, pragmatic guidance with details of new venture development work that often is overlooked by students who are developing a business plan.»

Ben Burke, Arch Grants» director of entrepreneurship, said in an email that the UMSL initiative «has the potential to be very impactful on the attraction and retention of entrepreneurial talent in our region, and could help to differentiate St. Louis as a destination for new venture development.»

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Canada's newer mines, such as De Beers» Snap Lake, or those in development (like Gahcho Kué, a joint venture between De Beers and Mountain Province Diamonds currently in environmental assessment) aren't large enough to fill the void.

Just days before the Detroit show, he announced a venture capital fund that will invest $ 1 billion in new developments in electrification, artificial intelligence, connectivity, and autonomy.

To fund the development of the app, AVOS, the company behind MixBit, raised venture capital money in April last year from Google Ventures, the China - based incubator Innovation Works, Madrone Capital and New Enterprise Associates.

In her current role as head of new ventures at Sultan Ventures, a startup catalyst and boutique venture firm, James leads a team tasked with identifying and recruiting potential portfolio companies; provides mentoring and support to make portfolio companies investor - ready; and works with local companies to provide business - development and deal - structuring strategies.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Following similar innovation drives in the early days of Java and the App Store, Cloudflare has partnered with three VC investors — New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Venrock, and Pelion Venture Partners — who will fund $ 100 million in development projects, at their own discretion.

Companies use corporate venture capital as a compelling means to drive outside - in («open») innovation for: access to new and disruptive technologies, the development of new business models and participation in emerging markets, all of which may provide meaningful contributions to corporate growth.

Partnership will advance General Mills strategy to invest in and grow emerging brands through its 301 INC new business development and venturing unit

Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder / CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder / CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder / CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder / CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder / CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder / CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President / CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder / Chairman / CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder / Chairman / CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder / Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co - Founder / Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co - Founder / Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder / CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc..

Preview: 301 INC, General Mills New Business Development and Venturing Unit, to Invest in and Grow Emerging Food Brands

Sean is a Founding Partner of GrowthX, a Silicon Valley - based venture capital fund, market development training school and corporate advisory firm helping companies bring new products to market and reduce the innovation failure rate through capital, talent and know how.

With Verizon's headquarters in New York, this unique space will provide the venture development team the opportunity to collaborate more closely with our portfolio companies on a regular basis.

In addition to his public and private ventures, Michael also has experience in the nonprofit sector, where he was Director of Business Development for the Food Bank for New York City, the largest of its kind in the country.

New venture Attorneys can be that partner, with over 20 years in contract and corporate business development, tax, securities, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, commercial finance, and virtually all disciplines related to business development, emerging businesses and business exit strategies.

We are seeking applicants with relevant work experience, including managerial, supervisory, leadership, new venture ownership, professional, and project development experience.

Unlike an investment in a mature business where there is a track record of revenue and income, the success of a startup or early - stage venture often relies on the development of a new product or service that may or may not find a market.

The lead investors are Hyde Park Venture Partners and Hyde Park Angels; others include New World Ventures, the I2A Fund, Amicus Capital and product - development firm IDEO, where Food Genius was a startup in residence.

Tom Light, Senior Vice-President of Business Development at SBTech, is to leave the group to establish a new business venture that will unite blockchain and gambling and leverage the power of the crypto - currency in a gaming and betting environment.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development development strategies.

Michael Volker is an entrepreneur active in the development of new high - technology ventures.

Prior to joining BPC, Kurt spent 4 years working as a consultant and corporate development executive with several technology and marketing companies, including NewView Technologies, Inc. (formerly eSteel, Inc.), a supply chain software company backed by $ 100 million in funding from leading venture capital investors (Goldman, Sachs & Co., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners), and CM Media Inc., a leading new media cventure capital investors (Goldman, Sachs & Co., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners), and CM Media Inc., a leading new media cVenture Partners), and CM Media Inc., a leading new media company.

«The creation of this new venture fund will make a big difference to Canada's many high - impact ventures,» said Tim Jackson, EVP Corporate and Community Development, MaRS and Lead Executive, MaRS Centre for Impact Investing.

Venture capital is the lifeblood of new business development.

Construction is underway for a new phase of development at the 650 - acre Westcott Venture Park site, located between Aylesbury and Bicester.

DuPont Nutrition & Health announces the development of a significant new initiative with the creation of a Microbiome Venture to spearhead development of new microbiome science - based solutions.

High Performance Beverage Co. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Jammin Java Corp., in order to create a joint venture partnership for the development of a new line of cold coffee beverages.

The next - generation multi-media production company STUDIO RAMSAY has a joint venture with All3Media to develop and produce both unscripted and scripted television shows, creating new formats and innovative programming that includes a scripted arm focused on food - related themes, and development of new talent on a global front.

The new 365 SmartHub completed development in early 2012 due, in part, to a seven - figure round of venture funding completed in December of 2011.

The 36 year old Englishman has recently started a new sports venture as he partnered up with Mark Wright in business which is aimed to help out the development of Football Academies in China.

The SEQR that was previously completed for a prior development proposal is being applied to this new venture.

Apart from individuals, corporate organisations were also named as beneficiaries in the new charges and they include AMP Solar Service, Afro - Arab Investment, Bam Project and Projecties Limited, Bob Oshodin Organisation Limited, Wehsac Farms Limited, Wehsac Limited, Dimaris Mode Coolture Limited, First Aralac Global Limited, Stellavera Development Limited, Jawaz Multi-purpose Venture Limited, Little Italy Global Services Limited, Belsha Nigeria Ltd and Syvan McNamara Limited among others.

At a public meeting organized by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez Tuesday, representatives of the Port Authority and developer George Washington Bridge Development Venture LLC announced the names of new retailers that have signed leases on the space, including the clothing retailer and restaurant as its anchors.

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, says the culture where people choose politics as a money - making venture will be fought and defeated under his administration, God - willing from January 2017, explaining that it is frustrating the development of the country and breeding poverty.

Beyond the governor's office, investigators have subpoenaed agencies that regulate solar power and implement solar initiatives, the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, which has been the guiding force in a number of state - backed high - tech ventures, and Empire State Development Corp., the state's economic - develDevelopment Corp., the state's economic - developmentdevelopment arm.

It seemed ESD «was largely cut out of» the Buffalo Billion and various nanotechnology ventures by design, the Investigative Post noted in their recent series on economic development incentives in New York.

Monday night, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, along with the Queens Economic Development Corporation, hosts «New Ideas to New Venture» to provide information, resources and advice to those looking into start a new busineNew Ideas to New Venture» to provide information, resources and advice to those looking into start a new busineNew Venture» to provide information, resources and advice to those looking into start a new businenew business.

Besides the substantial increase in investment activities, there are many new developments in the venture capital industry.

This is a new collaborative venture between Leukemia & Lymphoma Research, Cancer Research UK and its development and commercialisation arm Cancer Research Technology, aimed at accelerating the delivery of promising new treatments into blood cancers.

[Phil Jones, Atlanta - based director of new ventures at IMERYS Mineral Ltd.] «Supporting the application development side is the critical bit.

Most recently, CRI has launched a new «venture philanthropy» program called the Cancer Vaccine Acceleration Fund (CVAF) as a means to catalyze development of next - generation therapeutic cancer vaccines and other immunotherapies by helping to address the critical shortage of capital available for early stage clinical trials.

New York is a major player in high - tech research and development, where Fortune 500 companies traded on Wall Street seek partnerships with high - tech start - up ventures in Tribeca.

The trade show will cover: payments, dating software, advertising, mobile technology, legal issues, background checks, venture capital, business strategies, partnerships, and new developments.

Subjects at the convention include: payment systems, legal, wireless / mobile technology, mobile, business strategy, mergers, acquisitions, venture capital, online marketing, background checks, and new developments.

The expo will cover: personality profiling, payment systems, venture capital, legislation, business strategies, mobile, advertisement methods, mergers, acquisitions, software, and new developments.

Topics explored include: alternative payment systems, venture capital funding, dating software, matchmaking software, mobile, business strategies, legal, mergers, acquisitions, advertisement methods, personality profiling, and new developments.

Topics discussed include: venture capital funding, partnerships, wireless, wireless / mobile technology, business strategies, traditional advertising, legal issues, background search, payments, and new developments.

Subjects at the trade show include: marketing methods, mobile & wireless technology, wireless / mobile technology, payments, mergers, acquisitions, venture capital funding, business planning, legal issues, background search, and new developments.