Sentences with phrase «say more funding»

If these snakes rid this country from even part of the plague of religious conservatives, I say more funding for them!

Steve Fouch, from the Christian Medical Fellowship, also said more funding is needed for research into tackling superbugs.

Afua Atta - Mensah, executive director of Community Voices Heard, also criticized the announcement, saying more funding is needed «given the gravity of the city's heating crisis.»

ALBANY — Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) emerged from a meeting with legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying more funding for mass transit and crumbling public housing in New York City are part of a «tentative deal» on the state budget.

These sentiments were echoed by Friends of the Earth London campaigner Jenny Bates, who said more funding was needed for better public transport and schemes to boost walking and cycling.

The group praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his free college tuition plan announced Tuesday, but said more funding is needed for New York public schools.

However, Veenstra said more funding is needed and the allocation is only one quarter of what is really required.

Not exact matches

Consistent delays can potentially taint crowd funding in the eyes of the public, Mollick says, adding that entrepreneurs need to be more realistic about their goals, and that backers need to be more patient.

John Khoury, founder and managing partner of the $ 2.7 billion Long Pond Capital hedge fund, revealed a long position in U.S. homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc, which he said should rise as more millennials age into the first - time home buyer market.

«The current pace of repricing in fed funds is not immediately problematic for the Fed and there is yet time to price more into the curve, though we'd argue that at the June meeting, it's likely the markets will have to come to grips with the possibility of a fourth hike in 2018 and price more appropriately,» Lyngen said.

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

Curbing all kinds of gun violence and other crimes comes down to more funding for effective enforcement, says Jake Novak.

David Jr. says he hopes the legacy of the Rockefellers isn't about their wealth, but the more enduring causes that wealth has funded.

The new regime at the money - losing retailer, backed by a hedge fund, may have had more in mind than just changing the optics around a brand best known for its sexually provocative — some would say sleazy — advertising.

It also provided one more opportunity for Vanguard Group founder and index fund pioneer Jack Bogle to say it's most likely a bogus argument.

The company — which doesn't release its exact finances, but reportedly has an annual revenue run rate near $ 1 billion — is said to be raising a new round of funding that would value it at more than $ 5 billion.

Governments could also commit to collecting more gender - specific data in order to benchmark progress, she said, citing as an example Mexico, which tracks gendered data for all government - funded entrepreneurship programs.

The low - interest - rate environment has allowed it to borrow to fund operations at levels that are about half the 10 percent interest rate the company paid for its financing more than a decade ago, says Clark Balderson, the company's chairman and chief financial officer.

Flombaum and Enbar, who self - funded the operation up to this point and who say tuition alone can keep the school easily afloat, say they want to work first on perfecting the methods their more than a dozen instructors employ before expanding to other cities or to online courses.

While the net outcome of the investigation is likely to bring more transparency to a previously opaque pricing process, the ripple effects on other startups could be profound — pushing down valuations and funding rounds universally, financial experts say.

The company will use the funding, and tap into Logan's network, to hire more engineers, and add more retailers and intelligence to the Drop app, Fung said.

With the SBA funding, the Gwinn, Mich. - based aviation cluster hosted networking events that helped it create about 50 jobs and obtain more than $ 2 million in new contracts, Kulju says.

«My guess is that they are looking at sources of funding so they can refurbish or revamp their stores here or expand more aggressively,» said Ben Cavender, Shanghai - based principal at China Market Research Group.

Entrepreneurs often make the mistake of talking about more general plans for the funding, such as marketing, Klaff says.

«If you have no money coming into the fund and more people wanting out, you have a cash and liquidity problem,» he says.

Now, Partner and two other investment funds say Theranos suggested the investors should accept more equity or it would seek Chapter 11 protection, according to Bloomberg.

Meanwhile, more and more fund managers do not see benefits of investing in U.K. equities, the survey said.

Each of the company's two $ 20 million funding rounds occurred prior to the lawsuit being filed, although a source familiar with the situation says that investors in the more recent financing were aware that a lawsuit was possible.

Doing so freed up «more funds for fun things like costumes,» Baackes said.

It's more like science than entrepreneurship,» said Nick Tomaino, the founder of a crypto fund called 1confirmation.

Social media stocks to see further sell - off because more data issues will come to light, fund manager says

When things get tough, you'll need that scrappiness to survive, Smith says, and you won't get it if you've had a million or more in VC funds right from the start.

«More often than not, it's the obvious questions people fall down on because they think them through superficially,» says Martin Soorjoo, founder of San Francisco - based Investor Pitch Clinic and author of Here's the Pitch: How to Pitch Your Business to Anyone, Get Funded, and Win Clients (Wiley, 2012).

«Given France's cultural ties and economic ties around the emerging markets and the presence of major international French banks already in London and internationally and large pension funds like Amundi, I think France and Paris have a great chance of becoming even more of an international market than it already is,» he said.

Those kinds of struggles had led 53 percent of those small businesses to apply for funding or credit lines over the past five years — and more than one in four said they had sought loans multiple times.

While the BCG report has the rosy title of Capitalizing on the New Golden Age in Private Equity, it says the industry faces some serious growing pains as more and more investors keep throwing money at the industry as alternatives (such as hedge funds) have sucked wind.

Given Kik hasn't raised venture money since 2015, what's to say its ICO isn't a last - ditch effort to raise funding from more ignorant investors?

Indeed, that's happening more and more with the growing popularity of online trading and exchange - traded funds, which have cut transaction costs down to size, Kitces said.

«Even if you want to cover the market in a more granular way,» he adds — «say, by owning small -, medium - and large - cap funds to cover the total U.S. stock market, maybe because you want to overweigh sectors that have typically outperformed — you're not looking at needing 10 funds.

Many of the best known investors, like Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, say they don't want to do early stage deals any more — small investments don't move the needle for their huge funds.

What's more, while equity investors typically demand a say in running the company, mezzanine funds tend to be more passive, just slightly more meddling than your average bank.

«Research indicates that companies with more women in senior management have higher returns on capital, lower volatility, greater client focus, increased innovation and greater long - term orientation,» Krawcheck says on the webiste promoting the funds.

When asked what was holding these companies back from implementing more thorough security measures, most companies (29 %) said it was a lack of funds.

LONDON — The Brexit campaign's promise that leaving the European Union will mean more funding for the NHS must be honoured or people will lose trust in politics, the head of NHS England is set to say today.

Meiners said employees could have earned $ 323 million more in returns in the five years ended June 30 had Vanguard target date funds been used.

The partnership fund and BAA Lynton are thought to be worth more than # 1 billion, it said.

Aid agencies who are at the forefront of dealing with the influx say they are struggling and need more funding, a comprehensive long - term plan and better coordination with Ottawa.

«Over the last decade, the workplace and meetings have become a lot more relaxed and informal,» says Patty Buccellato, a certified image professional based in Rochester Hills, Mich. «The downside, though, is that many entrepreneurs have stopped making exceptions to this routinely casual style, especially when they're seeking funding.

Dual - class structures can be a good thing for investors if they're set up properly, says Som Seif, founder and CEO of Purpose Investments Inc., a fund manager with more than $ 1 billion in assets under management.

The standards of VCs are going to rise as startups must compete for more limited funds, says Bannister.