Sentences with phrase «raise less money»

Not only did it raise less money than it was hoping for, Stitch Fix had trouble convincing the stock market to buy it at $ 15.

Don't undersell your product or service to investors, and don't aim to raise less money than you know you need, Sacks recommended.

Sometimes entrepreneurs raise less money for their startups than they have the ability to.

But they raised less money — only $ 36 million through IPOs and $ 1.8 billion in total financings, compared to $ 99 million in IPO financings and $ 3.4 billion in total financings in the comparable period in 2011.

I think his answer to Labour groups around the country is, reportedly, that had he raised it above 40 %, he would have raised less money in taxation rather than more.

Loser: Joe Sestak Despite barely losing to Toomey in 2010, Sestak has raised less money than both his opponent in the Democratic primary and the Republican incumbent.

Other freshman lawmakers from districts considered less competitive raised less money in the first quarter, including Rob Woodall, Republican of Georgia, who reported raising only $ 8,725 during the period, and Larry Bucshon, Republican of Indiana, who brought in $ 45,330.

In comparison, the winners raised less money, and their cost - per - vote was significantly lower: for Christiane Buggs it was $ 12.92, for Jill Speering $ 13.66, and for Amy Frogge a mere $ 6.44.

Not exact matches

It's unclear why the company would need to raise so much more money less than a year after a previous fundraising round, Recode reports.

Airbnb doesn't need the money, Chesky said — whether for ongoing operations or for M&A (the company just completed another $ 1 billion funding round and has reportedly spent less than 10 % of the $ 3 billion plus in equity it has raised), resources aren't a limitation.

By all accounts Fisker is feverishly trying to raise more money from private investors while it attempts to unfreeze its DOE financing to build out a manufacturing plant in Delaware and continue work on its less expensive Atlantic sedan.

Start by raising money for a less risky venture, such as real estate.

It's no surprise, then, that businesses are turning to less conventional means of raising money.

The draft, seen by Bloomberg, was circulated on Friday and outlines how a targeted levy on gross revenues would increase the tax bill digital giants face, as the bloc seeks to raise money from an industry it says provides less than it should to public coffers.

Lean means shorter cycle time, less money raised, which limits the entrepreneurs time for experimentation.»

This is why deep - pocket investors, like DST and T. Rose Price, are less valuation sensitive: if you sell anywhere above the amount of money you raised from them they can't really lose.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

Of course, if you say it's not about the money, you could prove it's not about the money: You could forgo that raise, give back that bonus, take less equity or profit.

If you look at the actual money raised, less money by far than Joe Khan [who placed second and was the frontrunner at the beginning of the race], less institutional support than Joe Khan, who in many ways was the mainstream liberal candidate.

But by raising the lowest price plan to $ 70, T - Mobile risks scaring off potential new customers with lower data needs or less money.

They needed less money, since they were only offering one kind of shirt, but they also figured they might raise that amount quickly, and have a shot at going far beyond — a correct guess, as things turned out.

Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin explains how you can raise boatloads of money on crowdfunding sites and what you can do to reach your goal with less than 24 hours to go before your deadline.

While it may seem like raising outside money would actually make it easier to build such a company, even that achievement is often out of reach for women: Less than 3 percent of venture capital goes to female CEOs.

Your chances of raising money from any given VC fund are less than 0.5 percent.

If you need to raise more money but are unable to do so at standard terms, will you accept less favorable terms or will you raise at a lower valuation?

Remember, if the government gives us a tax cut they'll still have to make up the budget shortfall somehow, chiefly by selling more bonds to American citizens (who happen to be the same people getting the tax cut) or foreigners (who will raise the money by selling us more of their goods and services, or buying less of ours).

Young people often make less money, need to save for a down payment on a house, and spend a high percentage of disposable income raising their children.

And so an attempt to make raising money less central to our politics comes to an end.

The money our counterparts were raising to build products with fewer users and less technical sophistication baffled us.

Some 52 % of executives said that they are finding it requires much harder work to raise much less money as compared to 2008, whereas 45 % state they are still able to raise similar amounts, though it requires a lot of hard work and effort as compared to the good old days.

The less money you raise, the more control of the company you keep.

But it also means he has to sell the company to a bigger company or to shareholders for a lot more money than if he had raised less.

now, basic economic theory tells us that when there is more money, it's not worth as much, if the minimum wage is raised, there will indeed be more money, and it will indeed be worth a lot less, because prices will skyrocket.

Clearly the «traditional» marriage in which it is automatically assumed that the man will earn the money and be more or less dominant and the woman will raise the children and be more or less submissive — which has been and still is the commonest pattern in Western society — is changing.

That he would use job openings to keep getting ungodly raises and just stick around making a crazy amount of money taking an SEC West team with a cupcake non-conference schedule to lesser bowl games every year.

Along the lines of better food for less money, a new study that was covered in Medical News Today (via Slow Food USA) showed that farm to school programs can improve school meals while not raising costs.

Selfless is a father having to spend less time with his family in order to go away to work to make money to raise that family.

Raising a baby can be expensive and trying to save money is a good thing, but $ 8 a day on baby food isn't that bad, an adult would have a hard time having one heathy meal for less then $ 8.

Most political advocacy groups are formally nonprofits, but that doesn't mean that they care any less about their budgets than corporations — most end up having to spend a ridiculous amount of their time raising money.

And I suspect, I hope, that the money's just simply going to become less important and that ultimately, campaigns make a determination that hey, they might better spend their time with the candidate out doing other things and actually thinking about the argument and the message that you want to send, than constantly raising all this money that buys you maybe some TV ads that nobody's watching but nothing that's gonna actually turn the campaign in your favor.

Nathan McMurray, the Grand Island town supervisor and party - anointed Democratic challenger to Republican Rep. Chris Collins in NY - 27, has raised far less campaign money so far than did four of the Democratic candidates who have dropped out of the race.

Senate Minority Leader John Sampson raised $ 89,650, ending the most recent six - month reporting period with less money in the bank now than he had in January.

As a fundraising tool, for instance, Facebook has largely failed so far, with most Facebook «causes» raising a few dollars at most — even the successful campaigns have generally raised far less money than a well - tended email list would yield from the same number of members.

I have a similar quibble with the article's section on fundraising, in which the authors note that less than 5 % of the money raised for the 2006 election will come from online sources.

As such, if 100 % of campaign money raised was spent as part of the federal budget, it would cover less that 0.1 % (1 / 1000th) of said budget, even if we only cover «important spending on the people» and not entire budget.

«We have seen the office of the mayor enter onto a new level of political terrain in using a nonprofit to advance his political agenda — with a nonprofit that also was raising money from people who do business before the city, which amounts to more or less being a political committee, and not just a nonprofit organization.»

Im not disgusted at all at the fact David Miliband (and other candidates to a lesser extent) have been able to raise money for their campaign and for the Party.

The Professor's out - of - state — much less out - of - district — fundraising doesn't begin or end with California: the ardent Iranian Nuclear Deal and taxpayer - paid campaign proponent has also raised more money out of New England than out of New York.

The money raised from ticket sales and donations at the venue was according to the organizers (Muslimah Foundation and Light of the Ummah) were intended for developmental projects to assist the less - privileged.

Clinton raised significantly less in March — $ 29.5 million — and her campaign said more than half of that money «came in online from the grassroots donations,» though the Clinton campaign did not specify in its announcement what the average donation amounted to.