Sentences with phrase «significant early funding»

«He's all about bootstrapping but the only way a startup ever succeeds is through significant early funding.»

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While some skepticism arose over the search fund model in its early days, continued success (and average returns north of 30 percent) has led to significant growth of the category in recent years.

In particular, since all tri-party repo is unwound at the same time, there is no possibility of early return of funds, which, as I mentioned earlier, is a significant benefit some federal funds and Eurodollar borrowers are able to offer.

While there are exceptions to this rule, chances are such anomalous funding only happens with serial entrepreneurs who have already returned significant capital to their earlier investors or very experienced founding teams that can hit the ground running in a particular industry very quickly.

Hedge fund assets have climbed from $ 38 billion in 1990 to $ 2.8 trillion in 2015,1 representing a significant change in asset allocation, perhaps the most meaningful shift since many investors began moving their money from bonds to stocks in the early 1980s.

Specifically, smaller funds prioritize early - stage investments in companies with modest capital required to reach profitability where small amounts of capital garner significant ownership due to low entry valuations.

Under Matthew's leadership, Arrowroot has achieved significant early success and recently closed its oversubscribed third fund for $ 177 million (November 2017).

Up until now the organization did not have a fund in its portfolio focused solely on early stage mobile technology ventures, which represents a significant segment of Alberta's growing technology sector.

The types of high - risk high - return investments that the traditional Venture Capital funds have to make also result in significant early capital losses.

There are two major «challenges» in Atlantic Canada that Cohort aims to take on: (1) founders that raise a significant funding round find it hard to engage with peers, (2) there are not enough very early founders receiving «get started» funding from people that can help them at that early stage.

The Orfalea Fund — in partnership with First 5 of Santa Barbara County — committed significant time, energy, and financial resources to help early childhood education center directors and teachers develop cutting - edge, evidence - based skills and competencies.

At 11:30 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey announces a significant increase in federal funding for child care and early learning services as part of the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2018, Ossining Children's Center, 90 South Highland Ave., Ossining.

«The inclusion of competitive tax parity, a plan that keeps the three Western New York racetrack casinos as vital partners to state and localities, and the assurance that our two successful downstate partners can continue providing good paying jobs and generating significant funding for schools are significant improvements from earlier drafts of this bill and critical to our support,» said Association President James Featherstonhaugh in a statement.

Many scientists who have received this early funding for their work in the past have used it to advance their research to stages where they have become eligible for significant additional funding from national, state and private organizations.

The Academy and Free School agenda, national funding reform, national curriculum and assessment changes including the introduction of the phonics check, distribution of Pupil Premium, significant changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage and the introduction of two Ofsted frameworks in one year all need to be considered alongside these SEND legislative changes.

If the gaps between groups exceed state - determined thresholds for «significant disproportionality,» the state must examine local policies and require the district to devote more of its federal special education funds to early intervention.

Miles acknowledges that capital funds, bricks and mortar funding, can be hard to get, and so it was a big break when they were awarded a significant grant under the Victorian education department's Children's Facilities Capital program, which supports early childhood programs and services.

Mr. Unz, who earlier said he would not fund a ballot campaign here unless there was significant local support, said he is now prepared to give money to the effort, though he expects local contributions.

The proposed rule would require states to assess whether disparities in the treatment of students with disabilities have become significant; if so, districts must set aside a specific amount of funding to provide comprehensive, coordinated, early intervening services.

Fund a significant literacy initiative that supports students from early childhood through high school.

Despite a low turnover, in the late 2016 and early 2017 the fund had significant capital gain distributions, which made it less suitable for taxable accounts.

While there are some significant differences in approach between this fund and the Alpha Plus fund, we chose it because it is a market neutral fund that has been running since early 2002 — some 16 years — and has been managed by one of the best - regarded investment managers in the country.

But, as noted earlier, the record shows that Couch Potato investing has a very high probability of providing a higher return than 60 to 75 percent of all managed funds — and still more if you are paying significant fees for managing your portfolio of funds.

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However, if you withdraw funds early, you'll be penalized with a significant amount of interest.

Venture capital — These firms provide early - stage funding, but are typically looking to make relatively large investments and take a significant share of the company — often a controlling interest.

On the flip - side, if you're relying on Early Access for significant production funding or looking to release a story - based game episodically, Early Access generally isn't the right place for that.

If you're relying on Early Access for significant production funding or looking to release a story - based game episodically, Early Access generally isn't the right place for that.

This summer Tate Modern unveils a series of major new photography displays including a significant new body of work by Taryn Simon, iconic works by Diane Arbus and two important early works from Boris Mikhailov including Red 1968 — 1975, which were acquired with the support of the Art Fund.

In 1855, a bequest by the Basel art dealer Samuel Birrmann (1793 - 1843) established a significant fund to purchase contemporary Swiss art, an early acquisition of which was a large group of paintings by the Basel artist Arnold Bocklin (1827 - 1901)- who was, along with Ferdinand Hodler (1853 - 1918), the greatest Swiss painter of the 19th century.

Small, community organizations in the community power sector require significant funding in the early stages of developing their energy projects, but it is very difficult for them to obtain loans from banks because such loans are considered risk capital.

Congressman Maurice Hinchey, an early advocate of the project who secured the first significant funding appropriation for Walkway in 2006, said, «Today, we are taking a critical step forward in fulfilling our shared dream of restoring this magnificent bridge.

In the early 1990's, Heartland fought government regulations on tobacco by denying the health effects of second hand tobacco smoke, while taking significant funding from tobacco corporations like Reynold American Inc..

Other suggestions, based on earlier ABA reports, include: provide legal representation as a matter of right where basic human needs are at stake; provide adequate compensation and funding to those who deliver legal services to ensure effective and competent representation; and have courts adopt standardized, uniform, plain - language forms for proceedings with a significant number of self - represented litigants.

Cryptocurrency offerings have quickly become a significant source of funding for early - stage technology companies, outstripping traditional forms of venture capital financing.

Harbour's funding helped review and organise a significant volume of date, and achieve early settlement.

But if an insured incurs significant health issues, we may decide to fund the policy to an earlier age, if the probability of living to the earlier age is low because of health issues.

Funding quality early childhood programs can have a significant financial return on investment, but more importantly, making healthy development of young children a national priority while addressing social determinants of health helps families and communities build a foundation for lifelong health.

One Colorado study showed that paraprofessional home visiting, when combined with an early - intervention program focused on children with developmental delays, resulted in improved involvement with the program.25 In North Carolina, the combination of a public health department's home - visiting program with links into private physician's offices was helpful in overcoming personal and structural barriers to care.43 The Commonwealth Fund's Healthy Steps intervention included home visiting by masters - level healthy development specialists with significant gains in the quality of well - child care, although the multifactorial nature of this intervention made it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the home - visiting component.44 — 46 A South Carolina study showed that a program that linked school - based home visitors to group well - child visits resulted in greater retention of anticipatory guidance and improved satisfaction with care.47

Funding quality early childhood programs, for example, can have a significant return on investment.

After the fifth year of Strong Start's implementation, 60 percent of children will still not have access to a publicly funded early learning program without significant state or local investment.

Such changes will only come about with significant additional funding, which requires sustained commitment to early learning and state legislatures willing to pass budgets that prioritize early learning.

Ultimately, a substantial investment of new funds will be required for the significant expansion of early learning programs necessary to meet the growing needs of American families.

The approved budget — the first full - year, fully - funded budget since FY2014 — provides significant funding to early childhood programs including Preschool for All and Prevention Initiative, home visiting programs, the Child Care Assistance Program and Early Intervenearly childhood programs including Preschool for All and Prevention Initiative, home visiting programs, the Child Care Assistance Program and Early IntervenEarly Intervention.

The approved budget — the first full - year, fully - funded budget since FY14 — provides significant funding to early childhood programs including:

Democrats in the Legislature for years have pushed for tapping the Land Grant Permanent Fund to pay for significant expansion of early childhood programs available in New Mexico, such as preschool, child - care and in - home visiting for first - time parents.

Earlier this month, the Family First Prevention Services Act became law, ushering in significant changes to the way that the federal government funds child welfare systems.

On the funding front, banks are one sector of corporate America with a significant focus on early childhood education.

Despite significant federal expansion for home visiting programs through the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), state - funded home visitation programs have not increased even though costs and demand are increasing.

2 A significant contribution towards the funding of the 2008 NATSISS was provided by the Council of Australian Governments (CoAG), as agreed through the Working Group on Indigenous Reform, and the Victorian Government Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD).