Sentences with phrase «raising big dollars»

To accomplish all this, Liriano is using a new fundraising vehicle that is gaining popularity and raising big dollars.

«So, the people who decide to run are the people who feel comfortable and have those relationships and can raise those big dollars.»

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Eventually, the MDA presented Lewis with the idea of staging a bigger show, and in 1966 the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon debuted, launching a legendary 45 - year run that has raised billions of dollars for MD services and research.

Many high - growth companies fuelled by investment dollars were spending as if they were about to raise another big round, he says.

I'm not talking about the.1 percent of big - name startups that raise millions of dollars in venture capital and build up a user base of millions before they need to make any money.

It's still early of course, but Andreessen raises a thought - provoking point: The rise of the super angel may be helping to create a culture in which the mid-sized acquisition is celebrated — and the big ideas and billion - dollar exits are scant.

The CEO demonstrated willingness to bite the hand that feeds by ridiculing representatives of Wall Street's biggest banks, some of which have helped the company raise billions of dollars to fund his other - worldly ambitions.

Did we want to raise a billion dollar fund and jump on the «ever bigger» band wagon?

But in another sense, Uber keeps raising billions of dollars from investors to pay for its losses as it grows, so it can't easily afford to alienate all the big investors it already has.

The million dollar list: New Crowd - sourced list provides details of Israeli Angels Photo Credit: Eden Shochat's Angel list A new list now available online includes the names of more than 100 Israeli investors, and their areas of investment interest The biggest obstacle facing an entrepreneur who's looking to raise money is getting to the right investor.

Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network has been among the biggest contributors, raising millions of dollars for food,.

Of course, Barack Obama paid Blue State Digital and other vendors a big chunk of change for online services in 2008, but he was also raising tens (later hundreds) of millions of dollars at the time.

And even though Gov. Andrew Cuomo is 1) sitting on $ 19.3 million worth of political cash as of mid-July; 2) fresh off hosting one of his biggest fund - raising events of the year — his 55th birthday bash at the Waldorf Astoria for which tickets ranged from $ 1,500 to $ 50,000 a pop; and 3) pushing for campaign finance reform; he's still interested in squeezing some additional dollars out of his donors before reporting his latest haul to the Board on Jan. 15.

«We can raise hundreds of billions of dollars by closing corporate tax loopholes and assuring that the rich pay their fair share, so that big corporations and the wealthy take responsibility for contributing to building strong communities,» the party's draft platform says.

Cuomo is the state's biggest beneficiary of the so - called LLC loophole, raising millions of dollars through a campaign finance fluke he has pledged repeatedly to close.

In a state assembly race one big donor can give $ 4,100 dollars — already 150 % more than what you can raise from 50 neighbors giving $ 50.

Israel also noted that Democrats raised $ 1 million online in December — a big haul for internet fundraising, which generally relies upon low - dollar donors.

«That would raise a big red flag,» McClelland said, citing the lengthy vetting process and large amount of paperwork a recipient — almost always a nonprofit — would need to complete to get city discretionary funds, which more typically are doled out in parcels of several thousands dollars and not close to $ 100,000.

Rightly or wrongly, every action she takes and every dollar she raises is going to be closely examined because she is playing in the big leagues now,» the source said.

Wurst has one big problem: he has managed to raise only a tiny fraction of the «hundreds of millions» of dollars he says he'll need to build a prototype.

Over at the National Journal blog, Mike Antonucci is absolutely right to point out the big new dollars in the D.C. deal but, as Mike knows better than anyone, those kinds of big raises are hardly unusual in K - 12 schooling.

If Gov. Roy Cooper has his way, the average teacher will get an 8 percent raise next year, other state employees will get their biggest raise in a decade, and schools will get millions of dollars to upgrade security, buy supplies and hire new resource officers, nurses, counselors, social workers and psychologists.

This model is doing so well for one company, Chegg, that the group has just filed for IPO status with the Securities & Exchange Commission and is hoping to raise an additional $ 150 million dollars to grow its current offering as a digital textbook rental and online student learning hub into a much bigger entity.

Pat McKeough recently responded to an Inner Circle Member interested in his opinion of an ETF that covers big U.S. tech stocks, uses covered call options to raise income and hedges against movements in the U.S. dollar.

However, the associated dollar amount that came with the raise wasn't big since ENSG has a low yield and is one of the smaller positions in my portfolio.

In 2016, the BIG BANG BIRTHDAY BASH Gala raised over half a million dollars for science education!

Phil Harrison, the new big suit at Atari / Infogrames has raised these little birds from the ashes with a dream to build them into 100 - million dollar franchises.

There's a big stink being raised about Suikoden II being unavailable for purchase on PSN, and that game can sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay - how is a new player supposed to familiarize his or herself with that game if they feel that way inclined?

Let's see... one side raises alarms because of their pride, but the other side is totally immune to any ulterior motive, in spite of billions of dollars from big oil companies and conservative think tanks?

In fact, he raised more than one million dollars from big oil just last month, most of which came after he announced his plan for offshore drilling in a room full of cheering oil executives.

As if the battle wasn't uphill enough, we now have witnessed the first round of elections post-Citizens United, in which powerhouses like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce raised tens of millions of dollars from the corporate titans it serves and funneled the money into attack ads, sending a warning message to politicians who aren't bending over backwards for big business, if not delivering a crippling blow to their election campaigns.

Opponents of Proposition 23, the ballot initiative that would suspend California's climate change and clean energy law, have raised $ 11.9 million in the past two weeks; big - dollar contributors include the film director James Cameron, Microsoft's Bill Gates and the Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

But as marginalized as they have been, the critiques of this multibillion - dollar solar land rush raise some troubling questions: Could the big new solar installations be draining money from more worthy alternative energy investments?

On the other side of the token raise, hackers are stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from ICOs, according to new research by big - five consulting firm Ernst & Young.