Sentences with phrase «profile backers»

The concept of involving the private sector to help solve the foreclosure problem has some high - profile backers.

Here's why: The Common Core has plenty of high - profile backers, including President Barack Obama, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Some of Paterson's remaining high - profile backers — most prominently his Harlem - apartment - building neighbor, Congressman Charles Rangel — have suggested Cuomo risks antagonizing black New Yorkers if he challenges Paterson in a Democratic primary.

This year, Ukip has attracted a number of high - profile backers including former Tory donors Paul Sykes and Arron Banks as well as the newspaper proprietor Richard Desmond.

Among the high - profile backers is the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, who said «behaviour that seeks to deliberately target women for harassment and intimidation should not be tolerated».

The push to decriminalize marijuana has picked up another high - profile backer — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer — just a week after Trump endorsed letting states decide how to regulate the drug.

Mr Huhne found his own high profile backer over the weekend, when former leader David Steel said he would back him over his «boldness» over Trident.

Payment Rails, a Canadian startup building an API - first payouts platform for businesses, has won a high - profile backer in the shape of ex-PayPal president Scott Thompson, who has invested in the firm and signed on as a board advisor.

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He raised $ 5 million from the venture capitalists Charles River Ventures and a number of high - profile angels, including O'Reilly, Google backer Ron Conway, and Lotus founder Mitch Kapor.

So far, backers have invested $ 1.3 million in upstarts through the site, which features more than 100 upstart and 160 backer profiles.

Still, if you can swing it, nabbing a celebrity endorsement or backer, especially from a high - profile, savvy businessman like Branson, is invaluable.

American venture capital investor Tim Draper, an early backer of Tesla, Skype, and SpaceX, is one of the most high - profile Bitcoin investors.

American enterprise capital investor Tim Draper, an early backer of Tesla, Skype, and SpaceX, is among the most high - profile Bitcoin traders.

Thickening the entanglement for Facebook is the fact that Cambridge Analytica, which has ties to high - profile Trump backers, has been under scrutiny by Justice Department investigator Robert Mueller during his investigation into Russian interference in the U.S.

VW: a diesel - fuelled sacking In a sure sign that the panic button has been activated at free - falling Wolfsburg, the club's Volkswagen backers have moved to oust high - profile managing director, Klaus Allofs.

Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was one of the only early high - profile Moore backers.

Theresa May picks up high - profile Cabinet backers as she steals a march on Michael Gove in race to be PM

The announcement caused a series of high - profile Boris backers to jump ship to Mr Gove's team, including Skills minister Mr Boles and Justice Minister Dominic Raab - crippling the former favourite's campaign.

In their analysis of Kickstarter.com, when the page creator's profile photo exhibited a broad smile that tended to elicit perceptions of warmth, the total amount of money pledged decreased by more than 50 percent, and the average contribution per backer was 30 percent less than when the creator's photo included only a slight smile.

Backers of the latest high - profile push for common standards believe it can succeed where previous national - standards efforts have failed, partly because it comes at standards from a different direction.

In the Massachusetts debate, charter proponents were hamstrung by a lack of high - profile Democratic backers.

Then again, the standards enjoy strong support from business leaders and a pair of high - profile conservative backers: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (PDF).

Trying to counter the political muscle of teachers and labor unions, statewide charter - school backers are pouring tens of thousands of dollars into low - profile school board races.

We don't have any plans to support the Nintendo Switch but if we do, then we'll be sure to announce it and anyone that already answered a survey (Kickstarter only allows sending of one survey per backer, they're weird like that) can just message us if they want to change their preferred platform and I'll put a note on their backer profile (Kickstarter at least allows us that).

Meanwhile, Camelot Unchained teased testing for beta 1 backers, Path of Exile launched its latest expansion, Crowfall profiled a dev, Dogma Eternal Night tinkered with its mission system, Descent Underground released a demo on BrightLocker, City of Titans returned to Twitch, and Global Adventures successfully funded on Kickstarter.

But the confluence of delays, departures of two high - profile employees, and the continued sales of items that don't actually exist yet has some backers feeling nervous.

One of our favorite Kickstarter traditions is the «gamer profile tier,» in which one of our authors interviews a Kickstarter backer.

With the steel - link band that's not currently available yet — but is part of the Kickstarter backer package — it cuts a much sharper profile.