Sentences with phrase «scale investment of»

It appeared to me that they were struggling with integrating the addition of two young children, Jared's recent job change, and the large - scale investment of buying a new home.

It appeared to me that they were struggling with integrating the addition of two young children, Jared's recent job change, and the large - scale investment of buying a new home.

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They also focused on improving their economics of scale and making «de-risked investments» while at the same time maintaining autonomy and their core values.

White and partners bought back the company at a fraction of the investment cost, but had to scale back from 60 employees to 3.

While the president's report does not propose any quick fixes for growth, it suggests that large - scale investment in infrastructure improvements, regulations that ensure the internet remains open to all, and protections for the increasing number of workers who wind up as contractors in the gig economy will be essential.

In order to come up with 10 names, we included six stocks with debt ratings as low as BBB +, which is still investment grade, albeit at the lower end of the scale.

«Consequently, it will spur economic growth in Canada by attracting talent and investment, supporting scale - up firms and enabling established firms to be best - in - class adopters of artificial intelligence.»

«We're starting to see for the first time some scale in the space and the investments are reflective of that playing out,» Davidson said on a phone call.

«The scale that they are putting toward this as well as the amount of investment we are doing to support it are consistent with that,» Box CEO Aaron Levie told Fortune after the company's analyst briefing.

«We're not seeing the kind of growth and scale - ups, and if we can solve that problem we'll also keep our most talented in Miami by using entrepreneurship as a tool for community building,» says Matt Haggman, the program director in Miami for the Knight Foundation, which committed a $ 2 million investment to help bring Endeavor to the city.

That would signal a scaling back of the investment bank.

Sewing also confronts a decision on scaling back the investment bank — both Deutsche Bank's biggest source of revenue and a perennial laggard against U.S. giants — and winning over long - suffering shareholders.

The team of over 250 global employees works with consultancies, private equity firms and investment banks across the globe to help its clients — typically business professionals and leaders — scale.

The idea is that traditional seed investing doesn't scale for institutions, which often have a minimum investment threshold of $ 10 million or $ 15 million.

If you just look at the scale of our investment in Ontario, B.C. and Alberta, it's bigger compared to the other new entrants.

On a smaller but still notable scale: This was the year of potato - salad capital investment.

«I always liked the tangible element of physically selling something and understanding how you build and scale a brand,» says Zak, who before Google had spent four years at Aéropostale after stints in investment banking and at McKinsey.

To learn how to scale up — and what mistakes to avoid — we spoke with Andy White, director of the Las Vegas Tech Fund, which is part of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's $ 350 million personal investment in the city.

* The Orange Chef The San Francisco - based startup developed a smart kitchen scale that could measure the nutritional value of ingredients as you cook — a product so advanced it also attracted investment from Amazon rival Google.

As the traditional venture capital industry continues to consolidate, CVCs are also playing an increasingly prominent role in venture commercialization — filling financing gaps, providing operational and market development support and enabling scale through M&A and other forms of investment partnerships and collaborations.

The Concept: Move the majority, or all, of the core infrastructure and technical team to a central location and gain economy of scale by leveraging larger resources and spreading the investment of those resources across numerous clients (a jump in the MSP model).

However, cookie earnings alone aren't enough to power and expand the reach of Girl Scouts — large - scale investment in Girl Scout programming is crucial during cookie season and year - round, if the organization is to grant girls unparalleled leadership development experiences.

Business investment is weak except for mergers that create economies of scale, less jobs, less competition, less money available for R&D and improved productivity.

In reality, however they are pretty simple in their investment philosophy and offer the investor a host of benefits such as diversification, professional money management, economies of scale, transparency, liquidity to mention a few.

There are no economies of scale in the market for indexed investments.

In addition to the large scale investment team predominately composed of European nationals, Cerberus has established Cerberus European Servicing, Ltd. («CES»), with offices in London and Belfast.

At present I would suggest that there is large scale deflation at present as property values unwind worldwide, this will be followed by falling stock values as investors realize that large sectors of investment returns are also headed for long term decline.

This time, concerns are being voiced about the scale, scope, and terms of investments from China.

We have only glimpses of the scale of this investment, but there is no hard comprehensive annual data.

This relationship helped us to achieve more significant scale and to build greater awareness with prospective sellers, strengthened our board of directors by adding Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to our board for a 12 month period, and included an equity investment by Starbucks in our Series D preferred stock financing on the same terms and conditions as all other sales of our Series D preferred stock by us in that financing.

This last point was a win - win: developers would have access to enterprise - level computing resources with zero up - front investment; Amazon, meanwhile, would get that much more scale for a set of products for which they would be the first and best customer.

«Traditional investors increasingly view utility - scale solar as a strategic investment, and this transaction with a global energy leader highlights that trend,» said Shawn Qu, chairman and chief executive officer of Canadian Solar.

By real assets, think of large, illiquid investments that are out of the realm of traditional investors — bridges, water dams, ports, pipelines, and other large - scale investments.

A consortium of New Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital, and EverStream Energy Capital Management today announced that it has closed an investment of $ 67.3 million to fund the development and construction of utility ‐ scale solar photovoltaic power projects in Central... Continue reading →

«Canadian entrepreneurs need international sales and investments to scale their startups,» said Iain Klugman, CEO of Communitech.

If you are ready to accept outside investment and believe you will be able to access sufficient financing from private investors, develop a long - term financing strategy for your business that plans for equity investment and the use of debt to start and scale your business.

As a result, bilateral ties between the two countries have become highly personalized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping directing government commissions, sitting officials, and heads of state corporations to develop financial and trade deals — most of which are large - scale, top - down investments of Chinese money into key sectors of the Russian economy.

As a historical matter, the original purpose of the corporation — reflected in debates about limited liability and general incorporation statutes — was to facilitate economic growth by enabling projects that required large - scale, long - term investment.

The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund, a leading investor in clean infrastructure real assets, has made a follow - on investment in Cypress Creek Renewables, a leading developer and long - term owner of small to mid-size utility scale solar energy projects.

These include restaurants as well as tech investments, both categories that we believe can scale, but the method of scaling is obviously different given the different industries.

blooom is a Registered Investment Adviser with the SEC, and aims to scale fiduciary best practices on low fees, and appropriate asset allocation and diversification, to millions of Americans who have no access to a financial advisor.

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

Bonds with a rating of BBB -(on the Standard & Poor's and Fitch scale) or Baa3 (on Moody's) or better are considered «investment - grade.»

Jeff is the Founder and CEO of BCG Digital Ventures, the corporate venture investment and incubation firm that builds and scales category - changing businesses for the world's most important companies.

Others referred to smaller - scale expenditures, such as investments in information technology or office equipment in the case of many service firms.

Government investments have been directed towards public works of scale (such as from the Hoover Dam), military - industrial contracts, and the financial industry.

The following chart compares on a logarithmic scale monthly values of $ 1.00 initial investments in aggregated value and growth at the end of August 2001.

On the other end of the scale, Schwab will only let you search investment grade bonds online (you must call the bond desk to trade junk), will only let you buy online (you must call to sell), and does not allow limit orders at all.

Rebates generated through Sweden's Premium Pension system will be paid out on 5 May, but only one in 10 users of the system recognise the scale and advantage that the rebates bring them, according to the Swedish Investment Fund Association (Fondbolagens förening).