Sentences with phrase «own war chest»

And — if you can stand the short term pain and the forced smiles (until you take your money and leave to start your next business), you should think about taking a bunch of their money to build your own war chest before they wake up and smell the coffee and are replaced by the next savior CEO.

A sizable war chest would allow Globalive to have more influence with portfolio companies and within the venture capital scene in Canada at large.

«It's a substantial war chest, but we need it,» Fielding tells Business Insider.

That will be an advantage for the Conservatives, who sit atop a larger war chest than the other parties, as Alice Funke recently noted in Maclean's:

Some have claimed that VC firms are building their war chests in effort to compete (or at least keep up) with SoftBank's mammoth $ 100 billion Vision Fund.

Having taken the browser world by storm, fueled with its IPO war chest, it faced a bruising battle with Microsoft.

Woodman says GoPro hasn't touched the money; it's there as a war chest.

They hadn't gone back to raise money in a few years, so maybe that would have been a good time to go to market and raise a war chest and set aside a bunch of people to try and do the full innovator's dilemma salvation plan.

Winners will be determined not just by their financial war chest, but by the size of their voter information database.

In the period leading up to the 2008 global recession, KingFisher established a war chest that allowed it not only to ride out the downturn but also finance its subsequent purchase of two Washington - based manufacturers: Renaissance Marine Group and Hells Canyon Marine (KingFisher also employs approximately 200 people at its U.S. facility).

Exxon has a big war chest of its own stock, allowing it fund a takeover with shares.

If you are an entrepreneur launching your first venture, you might be tempted to fall back on the common misconception that «the customer is always right,» and make a decision that will pull funds from your hard - earned war chest.

It has socked away a US$ 2 - trillion - plus foreign reserve war chest.

As a result, venture firms are adjusting to this cash - rich environment by stocking their war chests with significant capital.

But usually, founder Travis Kalanick and his multi-billion-dollar war chest find a way to prevail.

«Netflix basically has a war chest for this kind of content.

That doesn't make them any less successful, particularly since they probably have raised a war chest of cash to burn.

The speed of innovation is only increasing, which means successful executives will keep a war chest of strategies for keeping up.

That war chest, along with Elliott's 400 - person staff, has rendered the firm virtually impossible for adversaries — from industry titans to nation states — to beat in a fight.

Didi recently closed a $ 3 billion round of venture capital funding, and it's valued at $ 15 billion, so it's well - equipped financially — in total, Didi Kuaidi has amassed a $ 4 billion war chest of venture capital funding.

He co-founded incubator Expa, which has a US$ 50 - million war chest to help find and grow the next Uber.

Though he faces an uphill battle — he's a pro-business fiscal conservative who also supports gun control, abortion rights, and efforts to curb climate change — his personal war chest will come in handy.

Supporters in the five states set to vote on recreational marijuana had a war chest of $ 30 million as of Oct. 20, compared to just $ 6.6 million for their rivals, according to campaign finance data collected by the nonpartisan site Ballotpedia.

Ferro put $ 44.4 million into the company and gained a 16.6 % lead stake in TPUB (POLITICO: «Tribune Publishing builds a Southern California war chest»).

It's part of an acquisition spree that comes from a war chest of $ 50 million that Solium has told the public markets is going to buying companies and developing new products.

This means at the very least it has the potential to do damage to the online dating industry leaders, like Match.com and eHarmony, given Facebook's war chest of some 200 million users.

As this federal election unfolds, Harper has all the advantages of incumbency, a huge war chest of election funds and polls that show Canadians would much prefer him to Mr. Dion as prime minister.

The Beijing - based company has in recent weeks been in talks with bankers about the feasibility of tapping the public markets for cash in the second half of 2018, as it looks to amass a large war chest to fend off rivals in China and other countries, the people said.

The value of XRP has increased over five-fold since then, giving Ripple an even more powerful war chest.

With its $ 100 billion war chest, the Japanese conglomerate is a saviour for such privately - held companies both in India and globally.

Overall, the company has brought in close to $ 950 million since it was founded in 2008 — taking account of initial seed funding, grants and partnership deals with big drugmakers — giving it war chest to finance operations well into 2019.

The thin - film maker topped $ 1 billion in quarterly revenue with impressive profitability and a strong war chest as it continues its retooling for Series 6.

There could be a big debt crisis brewing in places like China, India, Latin America and Africa — and a growing number of investors are amassing war chests to cash in on the distress.

I am hoarding cash to build up our war chest and secretly hoping that Jane will allow us to buy a condo in Hawaii.

That would have given us a war chest of cash and significantly increased return on capital.

A decent war chest is worth having in case the naira needs defending.

The article notes that Anthemis» «war chest» is focused on financial technology startups...

Even Uber, with its breakneck growth and massive war chest, isn't immune to the power a lawsuit has to taint a company's image.

Meanwhile Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger still has a bigger war chest than his GOP primary opponent, Mark Harris.

Microsoft Ventures has a war chest at its disposal, and yet the group's true power resides not with its checkbook but all of the other benefits that a deal with the tech giant can provide.

Most newsworthy in this year's edition, the 87 - year old billionaire pointed out that Berkshire Hathaway now has a $ 116 billion war chest to spend on a deal, but that prices were too high for him to spend any of it in a big way last year.

Assuming that Giustra, Warman and Matysek don't build a company to flip it very quickly for a modest gain, especially when Giustra named it after his mother, my guess is just the PEP property will be sold in an outright buyout, and the remaining assets etc will be spun out, or more likely only the PEP property will be sold for cash, reinforcing a possible war chest of Fiore, enabling them to buy top notch projects.

You need to have a bigger war chest,» said a Hong Kong - based investment banker familiar with Sequoia's strategy.

Two companies backed by venture capital have been recent buyers: Halifax Media Group (buyer of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and a couple of others since its purchase of the New York Times Company's Regional Newspaper Group in 2012) and the new Gatehouse / New Media (recent buyer of the Providence Journal), which has announced a $ 150 - $ 300 million war chest for newspaper company purchases.

The fund - raising has also taken place against a more compressed time period, with Zenefits boosting its war chest in less than a year from a previous financing round.

«Some companies view these as war chests being raised to weather the inevitable corrections,» he said.

Just five months ago the company collected $ 1.2 billion for its war chest, an amount that later swelled with the addition of a strategic investor.

And that's just the beginning: The Saudi war chest will grow next year when the nation's state oil company, Aramco, goes public — money that could immediately be invested in U.S. tech.

(1) will have a billion dollar campaign war chest from Super PACs.

Why buildup a political «war chest» when you can help the poor?