Sentences with phrase «of accessing capital»

But the job of accessing capital has gotten a lot easier lately as lenders and agencies alike step...

John Coumarianos, a Morningstar equity analyst, however, pointed out that even then REITs have other ways of accessing capital.

When Nino saw crowdfunding emerging as a means of accessing capital, he saw an opportunity to use crowdfunding as a way of matching smaller investors with large, commercial real estate assets.

The WePower is moving ahead with the aim of eliminating the current problems of accessing capital for renewable energy producers and access to investments in profitable projects for final consumers directly.

Not exact matches

Jeanne Hulit, the Small Business Administration's associate administrator in the Office of Capital Access, will take over as interim head of the agency when Karen Mills departs at end of the month.

Specifically, this legislation truly democratizes the access to capital for entrepreneurs by eliminating the last few major limitations in holding entrepreneurs back from using these important new regulations,» said Ron Miller, CEO of equity crowdfunding platform Start Engine Crowdfunding, in an email to Entrepreneur.

As any business owner knows, the ability to successfully access capital is part and parcel of growing their business.

And thanks to Yale's network of alumni and faculty connections, it could access the best PE firms, the best venture capital, and so forth.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

In March, she became co-chair of C100, an organization established in 2010 to promote Canadian startups and help them access capital and expertise in the world's most important technology hub.

It's all about getting the capital access — the politics of it we can talk about another time.

• Kuvare, a portfolio company of Altamont Capital, Makena & Access Holdings, acquired United Life, a Cedar Rapid, Iowa - based insurance firm.

Overall, the scorecard highlighted several overarching trends: globally, women don't get access to an equal share of resources; men still dominate in key leadership positions; and growth capital and innovation ecosystems primarily focus on businesses run by men.

And we found that access to capital remains a huge challenge, especially for minority - owned businesses, which have loan denial rates three times as high as those of non-minority-owned firms.

Their website and mobile app, Breaux Capital, offers a free automated savings platform and social network, charging an onboarding and annual subscription fee of between $ 9 and $ 19 to users who want access to more features, such as financial education materials.

In other words, if talented entrepreneurs starting companies outside of those three cities don't have access to capital, all of us are worse of economically and politically.

While roughly a third of its portfolio companies are in St. Louis, the fund also invests in startups located in places where founders face a similar lack of access to venture capital.

Nowhere is the lack of access to capital more conspicuous than with aboriginal people in Alberta.

In addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capital.

• On Location Experiences, a portfolio company of RedBird Capital Partners, Bruin Sports Capital, and 32 Equity, acquired PrimeSport, a Atlanta - based firm providing direct access to sports and entertainment events.

Digitalundivided is a nonprofit that helps provide networks, coaching, and access to capital to tech startups led by women of color.

Corporate venture - capital efforts also have the advantage of involvement with startups at the early stages, when they can most benefit from access to a large, established customer base, credibility through brand association and a larger network of partner companies and advisors.

Sanctions imposed by the U.S. and European Union in the wake of Putin's intervention in Ukraine have blocked some major Russian banks and companies from accessing financing in the West, starving them of much - needed foreign capital.

Sanctions, the bank noted, «negatively affected business confidence, limited the ability of companies and banks to access international debt markets and contributed to an increase in private capital outflow.»

One smart thing we did at the recommendation of my capital access team: we could have taken the money out slowly with some fee reduction, or just eliminate fees right away.

The underlying message here is that the startup boom is far from over — we live in the age of innovation, ubiquitous internet access and loads of free capital.

The district director, Ron Bew, has an unusual pedigree: a long career in commercial banking and then a political appointment at SBA headquarters as head of the Capital Access division.

Entrepreneurs look to their business credit cards for all sorts of good reasons: to build up their business credit, to have flexible access to capital for a variety of purchases, and for a cash cushion in case of emergency.

«Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up,» Mills said last month while introducing the borrowers rights bill in Washington.

The decline of community banks and the collapse of the market for home - equity loans may have made it harder for would - be entrepreneurs to get access to capital.

Perhaps most interesting, the report calls for Ontario to legalize crowd - funding for financial gain to provide startups and small to medium - sized enterprises with the same levels of access to seed and venture capital as their counterparts in the U.S and Europe.

There's the familiar refrain about the lack of access to capital.

According to Deloitte's 2016 Global Outsourcing survey, approximately 3 in 10 of companies surveyed that used outsourcing wanted access to intellectual capital and saw outsourcing as critical to meeting business needs and enhancing service quality.

«Toronto has many of the critical elements to become a digital media capital,» says Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics and professor of management at the Rotman School of Management, noting the city's access to quality talent, good infrastructure and strong universities, as well as its large media presence.

Indiegogo pioneered crowdfunding in 2008 when the company's cofounders, Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin and Eric Schell grew tired of the options available for securing access to capital.

As a result, more entrepreneurs and businesses have access to outside capital than ever before and for the first time, investors can efficiently build diversified portfolios of private equity and debt investments.

Most of the work of a switch can be done in four weeks, they say, stabilizing the economy and allowing easier access to capital.

The way it works is that a business sells its accounts receivables to the factor at a discount, giving the business immediate access to capital instead of waiting the 30 or 60 days for a customer to pay.

Whereas Janna often struggled to access capital, NexJ was able to tap into «a good circle of previous investors that were predisposed to work with us again,» he says.

The startup, which has $ 51 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Silver Lake Kraftwerk as well as Autodesk's Spark Investment Fund, now counts Ford as a customer in the company's early access program for its device, which isn't being sold to the general public as of yet.

One of the biggest advantages that U.S. firms enjoy is access to the largest and deepest capital markets in the world, and policy - makers around the world would very much like to provide similar environments for their entrepreneurs.

As Eric Reis and Steve Blank of the Lean Start - up movement have pointed out, and as Cindy Padnos of Illuminate Ventures echoes in her column and Bo Burlingham in his, easy access to capital can sometimes be a start - up's worst enemy.

While there have long been small players in the venture capital community who defied the stats and were able to attract some LP money, they tended to be relegated to the fringes of the industry, with less access to sizable funds and the buzziest companies.

«This has an enormous potential to bring access to capital to franchisees without networks of wealth,» he says.

That's led to a slew of calls for government intervention and new policies designed to juice startup activity: savings accounts to finance new companies; immigrant entrepreneurial visas; programs to facilitate startups» access to capital; and expanded tax incentives for new businesses.

Jeanne Hulit, the SBA's associate administrator in the Office of Capital Access, has been serving as a temporary chief.

He noted that mega-incubators like 1871 are great places to get started because they enable entrepreneurs to avoid all kinds of costs and commitments that are bad uses of their scarce capital and — at the same time — to secure access to enormous amounts of «free» resources, education, networking and mentoring that will be crucial to their long - term success.

As Tesla's market cap rises, the company will be able to access larger amounts of capital to fund its Musk - sized (that's massive for the unfamiliar) ambitions of becoming an energy sustainability company that makes and sells electric vehicles, heavy duty trucks, energy storage products, and solar.

If you have access to this kind of capital, and to external validation, your college education may not matter as much as it would have to someone with less money, fewer connections and less - developed skills.

Talk of using the MBA experience as a place to fine - tune an idea, recruit partners, gain access to seed capital, and finally launch a startup is becoming as ubiquitous as discussions about forthcoming job interviews at McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs.