Sentences with phrase «so than funding»

More so than funding issues or other operational obstacles, such disputes can sometimes break a company.

Not exact matches

Rather than circulating reports among fund managers and investors behind closed doors, so - called activist short sellers are adept at deploying «shock and awe» campaigns by publicizing information and allegations on Twitter.

Financial technology («fintech») startups have received more than $ 11 billion in venture capital funding so far this year, 83 % more than all of last year, according to CB Insights.

But telephone fund - raising is high - stress work, so most employees are on the job less than full - time.

More than 50 % of them have to agree to allow Valeant to restructure, according to reports, so that means Valeant may have to get managers that represent as many as 377 funds to agree to whatever deal the company puts forward.

Women continued to be challenged more so than men when it comes to securing funding.

This explosion in popularity landed FanDuel in the top 10 of the Silicon Alley 100; its $ 275 million series E funding round in July valued the company at more than $ 1 billion, vaulting it to the ranks of so - called «unicorn» startups.

I still don't know what to do with the money I've earned, other than invest it, so external funding just doesn't seem important.

But hedge fund managers have never been so overwhelmingly convinced prices are set to rise further rather than fall back.

LONDON, April 23 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers have never seemed so convinced that oil prices are set to rise rather than fall in the near term, according to the latest positioning data published by regulators and exchanges.

We have to fund innovations, we have to seed new ways of doing things and we have to get them in place so we can get the money out of the system that is being spent unnecessarily today without getting good results for patients and is causing more complexity than necessary.»

It's a broad range that, according to your interpretation of the measure's wording, would include even very early - stage startups so long as they've received more than $ 1 million in funding over the course of a single tax year.

KERNEN: You want... PRESIDENT TRUMP: We need almost more than ever before — I mean, we've been in wars so we needed it then — but we need to be sure that our military is properly funded, and it would be really great to get rid of the, you know, we'd like to have a regular budget.

The trick is to fund your business in ways that actually get your score back on track so when you're ready to move your business to the next stage, your score will start opening doors rather than getting them slammed in your face.

Launched in 2007 with millions of members, New York - based Ideeli has raised $ 107 million in venture capital funding since its founding, so being sold for less than half of that appears to be a loss for investors.

Fidelity Charitable, the nonprofit arm of Fidelity Investments that runs its donor - advised fund program, found that 71 percent of millennial women give to charity based on the moment while less than half of baby boomer women do so.

Non-bank lenders are more willing to accept risk, so the odds of getting funded are better than they would be at a bank.

Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

More than 100 hedge funds currently invest in Starbucks (sbux), but their stakes are so small that they add up to less than 3 % of the company.

While this approach has worked so far — Edgepoint's four - star Global Portfolio Series fund has a 13 % five - year annualized return, nearly 3 % better than the category average, according to Morningstar — it's going to be tested.

So, if all this worries you, here are three ways to act like an Ant and plan for a self - funded retirement — just in case means testing becomes a reality sooner rather than later:

And by leveraging the above tips, hopefully more technology startups may boost their odds of taking a cut of the more than the $ 1 billion dollar pie of Kickstarter funding the platform has accrued so far.

More so than other stock pickers, low - volatility fund managers focus on metrics like beta, standard deviation and Sharpe ratios.

So if your ETF is charging even more than the average traditional mutual fund, or average index ETF, and it's not doing something wholly different from everybody else — or underperforming — think twice.

Plus you can pull your initial investment without penalties if something comes up so it can be safer than stocking it in a 401 in the event of you needing emergency funds.

Underneath the claim was a genuine problem with the message, that people truly wishing to assist the protesters could do so simply by checking in rather than sending funds or supplies to support their efforts.

Among so - called unicorns, tech startups with valuations of more than $ 1 billion, Airbnb trails only Uber (reportedly close to closing a new round of funding at a value of $ 50 billion) and Chinese phone - maker Xiaomi ($ 46 billion).

Once the momentum of this flow of money gets into full speed, public fund managers search for ways to produce returns that are better than their peers, so the window begins to open for IPOs.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

I absolutely do not believe that mutual funds are a better investment than individual stocks (companies that pay rising dividends over time) over the long run, so I invest the rest of my savings in a taxable account (as well as maxing out my Roth IRA every year, of which individual stocks are purchased).

Worldwide metal prices may fluctuate substantially over short periods of time, so the Fund's share price may be more volatile than other types of investments.

While APRs start higher than at other lenders, Kabbage has no minimum credit score requirements to apply, so it can be a good source of funding for small business owners with poor to fair credit.

Around the time Carrick closed their first fund, we were thinking about raising a little money, but what we needed and wanted more than capital was to continue the partnership that had delivered so much value.

But despite more than $ 900 million in recorded venture funding in 2017, and more than $ 375 million in known venture funding for the first two months of 2018 so far, traditional VC rounds — convertible notes seed, angel, Series A, Series B, etc. — now pale in comparison to ICOs in terms of dollar volume.

While the state of New York has invested more than $ 900 million of taxpayer funds to date into the project and its associated developments, SolarCity has spent just around $ 20 million in capital expenditures in Buffalo so far, according to multiple sources.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

Doing so will likely set you back far longer than the amount of time it took you to save those funds in the first place, thanks to compounding interest.

Some business financing techniques have higher repayment terms than others, so determining if and how much a business can afford in monthly payments is crucial to selecting the right funding solution.

(d) by causing Retrophin to pay cash to himself, Biestek, and Fernandez so that he would not have to invest $ 731,778 of his own funds in the February PIPE, and by using PIPE proceeds in contravention of the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement to fund investments by Shkreli, Biestek and Fernandez, resulting in an additional benefit to Shkreli alone of $ 360,000 in cash and 180,000 Retrophin shares and warrants worth more than $ 5.3 million (at current market prices).

Well, beyond 10 years you get more volatility than return, so I'd go with a 1 - 10 year bond ladder (or the bond fund equivalent).

U.S. and European banks and insurance companies have gained ownership of these funds, so that the revenue they earn is removed from the domestic economy rather than being part of its circular flow.

Indeed, so why would we think hedge fund managers are better qualified to make strategic decisions than boards?

Even so, as long as the yield on the preferred is higher than the Treasury's funding costs, the favorable terms will represent an insufficient risk premium but not a loss to the public.

1Returns and principal value of a Mutual Fund will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

Sure, this is relatively dumb money, but that's where those angel and incubator relationships come in: if startups increasingly feel they have the relationships and advice they need, then growth funding is basically a commodity, so why not take dumb cheap money sooner rather than later?

As a result, firms will be allowed to accept public funds from more than 20 persons up to 1 million Swiss francs before being classified as a commercial entity, so long as they don't re-invest those deposits.

Bitcoin is so much more than a way to send funds to his kids.

This is where angels can be so much better than VCs: they're willing to listen, can act quickly, there's less pressure to be a «me - too» investor, they don't mind contrarian stances, and there are no LPs, fund lifetime or thesis mandates they're beholden to.

Remember, the vast majority of the world thinks it's impossible to consistently make more than 10 - 20 % / year returns so everyone eats up boring, conservative, diversified mutual funds and long - term investments, at their most speculative being in giant companies like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG)... viewing inspirational stories like this turning $ 1,500 into $ 1 million and and this international trader and this teenager with skepticism...

So the risks here are higher than investing in a blind pool venture capital fund.