Sentences with phrase «raising money because»

If your «elevator pitch» is longer than one minute, you will have a very difficult time raising money because you will not have enough time to make a compelling investment case.

Humility and coachability are important, but you raised the money because you know, inherently, something that others don't.

«Maybe the incumbent simply chose not to help raise money because President Obama doesn't take special interest corporate PAC contributions at his events.

«We don't know what their needs are, how we can be of help, but we decided to be proactive and raise money because we know based on news reports that the island was impacted tremendously,» said David River, (D) Buffalo Common Council.

Maria Baez, as an incumbent, is struggling to raise money because people know what she is about and no longer believe in her.

We raise money because we believe every child deserves access to a high - quality public school in their neighborhood that prepares them for college.

«And then set out to raise some money because Ambien is no match for a $ 40 million mortgage.

Suzlon tried to get the contract for this project, but couldn't raise the money because they had too much debt for the banks to be interested.

Not exact matches

The number of startups that raise a lot of money, blow through it and then fail because they can't raise additional money is absurd.

And let's not forget that, because of the size of Ontario's debt, it has had to raise money outside of Canada, in order to to tap into larger pools of capital.

Their natural inclination is to believe that you're only there because you couldn't raise any money in your own country (now, where would they get that idea?).

A friend of mine recently missed out on raising venture money because of a mistake he made in the early days of forming his business.

I can't remember where in the presentation it was but Jason reminded me that one of Alex's great moments was when he said something like «We don't need to raise much money because we are cheap to keep alive.»

Homeowners» associations do well because of the ability to slowly raise money to be spent later on improvements.

«Everywhere I go, senior executive men say to me, «You are costing me so much money because all the women in my company are demanding raises.»»

Still, the massive price increase means that Mulesoft left money on the table when it offered because it could have set its IPO price higher than $ 17, potentially raising more money from investors.

«Because the wells deplete so quickly, they constantly need to raise money to replace the assets.

Raising the early money was easy, because it was my own.

April 13 - Silicon valley billionaire Elon Musk said on Friday his Tesla Inc company will not need to raise any money this year because the electric car maker will have positive cash flow and be profitable in the third and fourth quarter.

But capital has very low latency: It takes a long time to raise money, because those who need capital have to go through intermediaries to get to those who have capital.

«The issue of me running for political office frequently comes up because I am constantly touring around, giving speeches and raising money for the party,» he said in a statement.

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.

Noting that the San Francisco ride - sharing startup lost somewhere north of $ 1.2 billion in the first half of 2016, Bloomberg's Justin Fox says that's a problem not because Uber's in danger of running out of money — it has raised around $ 15 billion — but because it spent that money without getting anything concrete in return, on ephemeral stuff like incentives to attract new drivers.

I have often seen cases in which entrepreneurs are unable to repay relatives because they subsequently raise money from professional investors who do not look kindly on business owners who try to repay one class of equity investors before others.

Donovan says she wasn't worried because the company had not had trouble raising money before; the business was on an $ 11 million run rate, and was burning $ 400,000 a month — «which in San Francisco terms is nothing,» she says.

«That's one of the reasons you raise money,» Mokhtarzada says, «because the people who give you the money will want you to be successful.»

You're raising money from friends and family because they know and believe in you as a person.

You think you've resolved problems by handing out a raise, but you haven't solved any problems, because money is not likely to be the problem anyway.

That's largely because Donald Trump, who has seen one Wall Street super PAC raise $ 16 million against him through the end of March, has neither been campaigning heavily for Wall Street money, nor has he been hugely popular among business people.

Facebook Inc.'s IPO has been highly anticipated, not just because of how much money it will raise but because Facebook itself is so popular.

Men usually don't ask for raises or promotions because they're already in roles they want making enough money, the study found.

That is, raise money when you have the chance, because if you wait until you need it, it might not be there.

That's because printing money tends to depress the U.S. dollar, lower interest rates and raise commodity prices — all of which tend to make farmland attractive.

It askedFortune not to publish this story because it could hurt the company's ability to raise money.

Raise rates because a da Vinci painting sold for a lot of money?

Bonds get their «tax - free» status because the money raised by the bond issue is usually for a «public good or service» such as schools or roads.

If I was an entrepreneur launching a crowdfunding campaign, I would probably go with IndieGoGo because, if my goal is $ 20,000 and I only raise $ 10,000, at least I'm halfway there and I can try to find other sources of money.

Paul Vigna, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal who covers cryptocurrency, wrote that ICOs are risky because many teams are untested and the companies are «opaque structures» that provide «little transparency» into how the money being raised will be used.

Is Davidoff suggesting that the SEC should get rid of this tax because it is not really raising money?

Most of our new properties aren't cashflowing great now because we're raising rents and putting a bunch of money into repairs as we speak.

RK: I think there's a big danger in raising too much money in many companies, particularly seed stage companies, because it allows the entrepreneur to ignore the market feedback and continue to believe what they want to believe for too long.

While she and her female partners were fund - raising in March, one investor told them that they should marry for money, that he liked it when women fought back because he would always win, and that they needed more attractive photos of themselves in their presentation.

While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

When I was raising money in late 1999 I had an investment team in Germany (I was in the UK) suggest that they should get a lower valuation than others because they were ex McKinsey guys and had better access to industry.

So the more money you go and raise when you don't have any revenue yet, as people observe if they ever watched Dragons» Den or Shark Tank, is the more of the business you give up — because they say well, your business has no value.

Increase your 401 (k) Contribution - The minute you receive a raise at work, because it is bonus money that has not been spoken for yet, you should raise the amount...

Raising capital for technology in Canada is difficult because so many investors are losing money.

... The current generation of founders want to raise money from VCs, and Sequoia specifically, because Larry and Sergey took money from VCs, and Sequoia specifically.

Because well - educated white men have the easiest time raising money today, any model using demographics to predict success would favor them — the opposite of her intention.

«The RTO process was chosen because it provides flexibility to access the Canadian capital markets and enables us to raise money quickly,» he said.