Sentences with phrase «potential early investors»

This may have lost us some potential early investors who were focused solely on a return on investment.

Not exact matches

That's the sort of potential that drew early, big - name investors, who helped urge Beshara and his co-founder, chief technology officer Khaled Hussein, toward the «fun» social rather than the «do - good» social.

You should research potential investors before you talk with them so that your company fits the stage — early, middle or late — and the industry that the investor prefers.

Investors are far more willing to back early - stage companies because the amounts of cash required are relatively small, and the potential payoff is huge.

To nurture very early - stage companies along, Acceleprise invests $ 50,000 initially and provides a 4 - month program that includes mentorship from seasoned tech entrepreneurs, sales coaching, and introductions to big potential customers and investors.

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.

In early 1993 Berger gathered about 40 potential investors and raised $ 1.5 million.

The hedge fund manager's investor call came on the heels of Valeant's announcement earlier Friday morning that it was «severing all ties» with Philidor Rx Services, the mail - order pharmacy whose relationship with the drug company had sparked the whole hullabaloo about potential wrongdoing.

My advice is to start your networking early with potential investors to establish a relationship before they see you as an entrepreneur asking for money.

He recalls that in the company's early days, a big potential investor backed out at the last minute.

The audience was mostly composed of early - stage VCs and other potential investors, and Lazaridis's primary message to them was that even though quantum computing is in its infancy, they need to jump on the opportunity now.

Seasoned entrepreneurs understand the need to take risks with their IP, typically by sharing early - stage product ideas, concepts, or business models with potential investors.

Since donation and reward sites like Kickstarter are large mass - market platforms that allow anyone older than 18 to participate, a mass of potential early - adopter consumers vet companies» products and services before venture capitalists and other investors decide to perform their own due diligence.

Many entrepreneurs worry about sharing too much information too early on with their potential investors.

Those investors got a reminder of the potential volatility in recent weeks, when emerging - market stock funds lost just as much as S&P 500 index funds during the sell - off in late January and early February, even though the trigger for the market's fear was an economic report out of the United States.

Early in the year, investors bought on the hope of potential infrastructure spending, tax cuts and a reduction of regulations across a wide swath of industries.

Angel investors typically invest earlier in the life of a business than venture capital investors and also consider medium - growth potential businesses.

As part of the early stage vetting of potential investors, do your research to identify firms or individuals that have invested:

Florida Angel Nexus works with many institutions, accelerators, and incubators to connect early - stage companies with potential qualified investors.

In the area of growth potential, angel and early - stage investors differ from venture capital investors.

In early 2017, global investors were rightly concerned about the potential for a populist backlash by voters in France and how it might affect Europe and the rest of the international economy.

RL: We're an earlier investor in Wag and we see SoftBank as a great partner and complementary resource for companies that have the potential to become category kings.

About Social Venture Connexion SVX (@theSVX) is a full service impact investing platform that connects impact ventures and funds with accredited investors looking to make investments with demonstrable social and / or environmental impact and the potential for financial return, from nonprofit education projects to health ventures focused on early cancer detection.

The US dollar looks to be on target for its best weekly performance against the Japanese yen since early June, despite yesterday's slip on the back of concerns for the stability of the US economy with the potential tapering of the Federal Reserve's $ 85 billion a month bond purchasing program once again coming to the forefront of investors minds.

This Cheap Marijuana Stock Is All Set to Soar in 2018 Early investors of pot stocks struck it rich by merely investing in cheap penny stocks that had the potential to multiply.

The 10 - year US Treasury yield hit the key psychological 3 % earlier this week and now threatens to extend its gains, placing risk assets in jeopardy as investors weigh the potential consequences.

«A new venture launched in Cambridge is leveraging the experiences of a «super-network» of serial investors to help new generations of early - stage startups avoid common pitfalls and reach global potential.»

Unlike early 2016, when investors fretted over the potential of China dragging down the global economy, most recent economic indicators point to stability.

«Freehand should be of potential interest in an emerging robotics market that supports the work, technique and role of surgeons,» says Edge, now a professor of engineering and mathematical sciences at City University, London and an early investor in Freehand.

LLNL's Industrial Partnerships Office has established a program called the «Innovation Development Fund» (IDF) that provides researchers with money to further develop promising, early stage technologies, so that they are less risky for businesses and potential investors.

As governments make tough choices about where to spend their limited funding, and more investor attention is focused on filling the gap in government budgeting for early childhood education, Every Child Ready has the potential to be just the innovative, scalable approach needed when making these decisions and for investing in future Pay for Success models to make them successful.

You could argue a Silicon Valley investor who saw the early potential of Tesla, Skype and cryptocurrency has a keen sense of knowing what we want before we do.

At Bamboo Innovator, our task is to support fellow value investors to understand and appreciate the early signs of potential problems and red flags in Asian companies ahead of the market, to see the real attic portrait of the companies» financial health and economic worth.

And from the long - term investor's point of view, it might be too early to evaluate their true potential.

Such a portfolio would offer the same dynamics / economics as a traditional seed / early stage venture capital portfolio — a ground - floor opportunity to invest in startups which might only require millions in funding, but which might ultimately offer investors (despite the inevitable failures) the huge long - term upside potential of a unicorn (or even decacorn).

As an early investor in EquityMultiple's platform, you have the potential for outsized returns.

In recognition of the technology's potential in a high - demand market, ClearView Social received $ 400,000 in funding from technology incubator Z80 Labs Inc. and several angel investors earlier this year.

A valid question, since not many potential investors are aware of the prospects of early investments in term plans.

Expose your company to early adopters, potential investors and partners by exhibiting on our business floor for one day of TNW Conference.

RL: We're an earlier investor in Wag and we see SoftBank as a great partner and complementary resource for companies that have the potential to become category kings.

Therefore, an early - stage startup investor needs to invest in every deal thinking they have the potential to earn at least 10x and hopefully 20x on their investment if everything goes well.

Or they may worry that potential investors could shy away from a relatively unknown legal structure that could carry different tax implications (although mission - driven startups may view the ability to screen out mismatched investors early on as an advantage).

After postponing presentations to potential investors early this month, the online coupon giant is now aiming to go public in late October or early November, according to people briefed on the matter.

I was an early investor in cell phones back in the ' 80s, and I believe #blockchain has the potential to be just as transformational as cell phones.

However, per «two potential investors who declined to be identified, citing confidentiality agreements with the company,» a new round that could close in early March will see tokens sold at a price of USD 1.33.

Earlier this month, the justice ministry prosecutor in charge of cryptocurrency - related crimes claimed the measure is to protect retail investors from potential scams.

While there has been a good amount of debate as to whether Reg A + will achieve the full potential of equity crowdfunding, without limiting to accredited investors, so far — the early results have been positive.