Sentences with phrase «own failed ventures»

One failed venture hardly defines your career.

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that Trump converted nearly a billion dollars in business losses — from failed ventures in casinos, real estate and a now defunct regional airline — to win a free pass with the IRS with the potential to shield as much as 18 years of his personal income from taxes.

Often business owners perceive debt as a last - resort effort for sustaining a failing venture, but even the most healthy ventures will need influxes of cash to keep their momentum strong.

In the U.S., where the fear of failure is not as acute as in the U.K., a failed venture is considered a great learning experience, and a success in its own right.

«For every Facebook, there were hundreds of failed ventures,» he says.

If you're not listening and providing constructive criticism for each other, then this will be a failed venture.

There are some very disturbing trends that all of these failed ventures have in common, and many others are on the cusp of falling suit and hopefully could avoid the same fate.

Ever since his move to the United States, he has been linked to pets or animals in his ventures and is shadowed by a history of failed ventures, lawsuits, unpaid bills, and fraud allegations.

From time to time there's talk on the App Hub forums about Xbox Indie Games being a failed venture.

And Xbox is cautipons yet moving towards vr as for PS VR will be another of their failed ventures on their portfolio

One could argue that Sony emerged from that failed venture in a better place.

Given the fact that the PS Vita has two analog sticks, it should be no surprise that it would be an excellent console for first - person shooter games, but many saw that as a failed venture.

We wouldn't be surprised if the Move ended up in a list of the PlayStation's failed ventures.

It's no secret that since the collapse of Digital Anvil, the Chris Roberts founded studio that Microsoft bought, and subsequently kicked him out of, Chris Roberts and his long time business partner, Ortwin Freyermuth have been involved in various failed ventures.

It should be noted that, aside from all the usual suspects from these failed ventures, and who are now involved in Star Citizen, John Schimmel who used to be «President of production» at Ascendant, is also part of the Star Citizen project; along with Ortwin Freyemuth, the Roberts brothers, the Elms brothers — and all their cohorts (some of them, such as Tony Zurovek and Eric Peterson, from back in the day) enrolled in their friends and families program.

Vinod Khosla & Khosla Ventures, and Al Gore & Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are venture capitalists responsible for a lot of failed ventures, laid off workers and untold sums of government money taken and never paid back - but pay no mind... Mitt Romney is the evil vulture capitalist that likes firing people!

«Show me a failed venture in Mexico and I will show you a naive, if not negligent, business development team,» he says.

There are lots of them, but for a long time we didn't really have a good idea how many, since the only directory was on AngelList, and it had become lousy with spam and failed ventures.

Critics also harped on his involvement with a past failed ventures called GetGems.

Not exact matches

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

Overlooking the competition — in both formal and, more importantly, informal economic sectors — is a chief reason why ventures fail in new locations.

Entrepreneurs tend to be an action - oriented, onwards - and - upwards lot — a longitudinal study published by the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2014 associated successful entrepreneurs with higher - than - normal levels of hardiness, resourcefulness and optimism — meaning that when their venture fails, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to rebound quickly, with a nifty second - act tale of adversity to slot into their narrative.

Opportunities may abound, but ventures will still fail without the right connections.

Migicovsky, who relocated to Palo Alto, Calif., after graduating from the University of Waterloo, tried and failed to drum up funding from venture capitalists.

Many venture investors have shared that, when a founder fails in their portfolio, they work to re-patriate that founder into a new business, project or concept as quickly as possible, so to not lose them to their own self - shame.

The National Venture Capital Association estimates that only 20 percent (or less) of venture - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the resVenture Capital Association estimates that only 20 percent (or less) of venture - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the resventure - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the rest fail.

Lots of positive feedback on this column, but the most common criticism went something like, «Actually, you're not including startups that failed before they could raise venture capital!

It may take a while to reach that milestone, as most venture - backed startups fail (of the 33 startups that presented at the 2016 Xoogler demo day, fewer than two - thirds still have an active web presence).

Waugh and Mayberry would be in China, where the bank had just set up a joint venture with Bank of Beijing, when Waugh's BlackBerry buzzed with a message: Lehman had failed.

You might have picked up on the hullabaloo over venture capital icon Sir Michael Moritz mentioning that Sequoia continues to fail to find any significant senior female talent.

SoundCloud was reportedly forced to raise the debt funding after it failed to raise $ 100 million (# 77 million) in venture funding.

«Entrepreneurs need to recognize that even 75 percent of venture - backed firms fail completely,» she says.

The No. 1 reason startups fail, according to a recent analysis by venture capital database CB Insights, is that there is no market need for them.

With a lack of standard addressing systems in the Middle East region, efficient logistics systems continue to be a key barrier in e-commerce ventures scaling up, with e-commerce businesses bearing huge costs in failed or delayed deliveries.

But I've also had to tell investors that ventures failed.

Perth - based oil explorer Red Emperor Resources says delays at its Georgian project have been caused by joint venture partner Range Resources, which has failed to carry out a planned drilling program.

University of Waterloo professor Larry Smith says, referring to Jobs, «And what about «John Henry» and the 420,000 other people who tried ventures and failed?

Both — a cell - phone sales plan and a real - estate venture — failed.

«Even if the thing you are trying to create fails, you can have passion for the other ventures and other products and other ideas,» Hawk says.

After being fired from an apprenticeship with a printer, Hershey started three separate candy - related ventures, and was forced to watch all of them fail.

New ventures are usually exploratory and risky by nature, so don't let any business plan process convince you to commit more than you can risk as a person, should your exploration fail.

After reaching the semi-finals of the MIT $ 100,000 competition, the venture ended up failing because the path forward was vague, and at the end of the day, our appetite for risk was very different.

It's not that we are unaware of the fact that on average 9 out of 10 new ventures struggle or fail.

If you were giving away your services for less than cost, or just breaking even, you'd be operating a non-profit venture — or a business that's likely to fail.

Take it from Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, who has seen many of his business ventures, including Virgin Cola, Virgin Cosmetics, Virgin Cars and more fail.

However, some of his ventures have failed or had unexpected setbacks.

Among so - called growth companies, the failure rate is even higher, according to a 2012 Harvard Business School study: About three - quarters of startups with venture backing fail.

It's not all altruistic — whether Vidyard eventually IPOs, is acquired or fails, Litt says he is likely to start another venture, and it'll be easier to do if he has helped solve some of the sector's challenges in the meantime.

If they don't realize that you might fail for reasons completely beyond your control, then they don't belong in a high - risk business venture.

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