Sentences with phrase «of venture capitalists»

In most entrepreneurship courses, students learn to generate and pitch ideas for new companies — sometimes directly to a panel of venture capitalists.

It can't possibly help that only about 6 percent of venture capitalists are women.

The teams have to present a business plan to a panel of business, financial, and academic representatives who play the role of venture capitalists.

Small companies also need more «hand holding» on the part of the venture capitalists.

I also think the more success examples that we have of women building their ventures successfully, the more that will create new patterns of success in the eyes of venture capitalists.

They don't look like the vast majority of venture capitalists.

He introduced us to about 20 angel investors and a couple of venture capitalists.

While going through the process of selling my first company to a venture - backed firm, we were introduced to a variety of venture capitalists from all across the country.

Not long after, hundreds of venture capitalists began reaching out to us — simultaneously.

The firm manages $ 25 billion in assets of venture capitalists, private equity fund managers, chief executives, and entrepreneurs who founded companies that went public or received private equity funding.

But when things go wrong, losing the confidence of venture capitalists is far less painful than losing the faith of one's family.

He added that the same is true of venture capitalists, who are now more willing to pour money into early - stage ventures.

I've heard tons of horror stories of venture capitalists firing founders post funding.

After the bubble burst in 2000, I was talking about the ideas in Good to Great with some portfolio companies of venture capitalists.

Another survey of venture capitalists found that 74 % had companies that experienced «significant impacts» from patent demands.

Essentially, angel investors are the opposite of venture capitalists.

All the while, these firms have proved immensely profitable for a relative handful of venture capitalists, founders and IPO participants.

A company may also solicit the participation of venture capitalists due to the need for additional business expertise.

Now we have a massive network of venture capitalists that help us vet deals or pass along something they're investing in and want us to invest with them.

These companies have also attracted the interest of venture capitalists, raising almost $ 4 billion in both equity and debt funding to date.

Students present their projects and are judged by a trans - disciplinary panel consisting of venture capitalists, lawyers, academics, entrepreneurs, and business professionals.

His practice includes the representation of venture capitalists, corporations, and entrepreneurs in venture capital financing.

Adam Pritzker, co-founder of General Assembly notes, «There were a lot of young companies, a lot of designers and artists, and a lot of venture capitalists working in that neighborhood.»

The entertainer made an unusual appearance in front of venture capitalists Wednesday to talk about taking risks, thinking big, and investing in Jennifer Lopez, the brand.

When entrepreneurs first started rating venture capitalists on TheFunded, a number of venture capitalists complained that they did not have voice on the site.

The project itself drew support from a group of venture capitalist firms including Polychain Capital, Blockchain Capital and Pantera Capital, along with Chinese investment firms Jen Advisors and FBG Capital, all of whom contributed in exchange for discounted tokens during the sale.

The workshop highlights how venture capitalists respond to entrepreneurs who seek funding and assistance, and focuses on teaching the fundamental elements of due diligence, deal structures and terms, legal requirements, small business strategy and operations, and exit strategies from both the perspective of a venture capitalist and entrepreneur.

Moreover, if it was to keep its promise of acting as a kind of venture capitalist for education reform, at some point these design teams would need to become self - sustaining, taking fees from school districts in return for their expertise.

Moreover, NASDC would be a sort of venture capitalist for education, constantly evaluating its investments and continuing to fund only those designs that proved their effectiveness.

Small businesses — i.e., those with 10 employees or fewer — have clawed their way to profitability and revenue growth without the help of venture capitalists.

After all, the job of venture capitalists is to foresee the next big thing — unless, of course, in the case of bitcoin, they're wrong.

Back in 2009 Canadian Business Online published an interview with Steve Newcomb, the multi-millionaire head of venture capitalist incubator Virgance.

Twitter's moneymaking potential has minted the company with an estimated market value of $ 10 billion, based on the appraisals of venture capitalists and other early investors.

And while this has largely benefited residents of Silicon Valley, who have immediate admission into a row of venture capitalists, on a macroeconomic scale, this has proven to be inefficient, as the majority of people with ideas and talent do not have admittance into this elitist group.

Today, with the Indian financial domain having adapted technology - driven models to offer services online, ventures in the field are increasingly coming under the radar of venture capitalists and investors desirous of mentoring startups.

Fleece vests — paired with a button - down shirt — have become the de facto uniform of venture capitalists, particularly in the Bay Area.

Marketability models are a primary concern of venture capitalists when determining how fast and profitably you will be able to grow the business once they invest.

The result: at the second fair, Vincent says, Exam Master caught the attention of some venture capitalists who want to follow its growth.

Solid Relationships Dig under the surface of a venture capitalist, and you'll likely find a onetime entrepreneur who has worked with a trusted roster of managers, investors and other entrepreneurs for years.

But we don't need innovation to make a bunch of venture capitalists even wealthier, or to give my kids another reason to stare at their phones for hours on end.

Bolt Threads has caught the attention of venture capitalists with technology that it claims can produce artificial spider silk that can be used to create clothing.

A panel of venture capitalists analyze local businesses and pick a select few to invest in, with the goal of igniting growth, while also helping the Cleveland neighborhoods they are in.

This is the lesson that Johnson wanted to convey to the crowd of venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs at the Upfront Summit as the tech industry grapples with its lack of diversity.

DreamIt, a start - up incubator founded in Philadelphia hosted a demo day in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday for about 250 attendees, many of them venture capitalists and angel investors looking for the next Dropbox or Scvngr.

When you're starting out in your career, you're not going to understand the role of venture capitalists unless you're in a VC - backed business or want to be, or are trying to raise capital.

Their sneakers could become a quintessential part of the venture capitalist dress code, in the same way that a hoodie and T - shirt currently make up the «startup uniform.»

After successfully silencing the tug boats whose tooting tormented her on the porch of her Riverside Avenue mansion, Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, the wife of venture capitalist Isaac Rice, founded the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise in New York in order to combat what she called «one of the greatest banes of city life.»