Sentences with phrase «sought by our founders»

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Unicorn startup Medallia was bootstrapped by its founders for 10 years before they sought venture capital investment.

Attended by seasoned founders, executives, investors, and philanthropists who are seeking to leave their mark on the world, The Human Gathering continues to defy conventional conference norms and carefully curate a community of exceptional people.

According to research conducted by economist Alicia Robb, founder and CEO of Next Wave Ventures, and University of Hartford finance professor Susan Coleman, men and women differ in the forms they adopt to raise capital, how much capital they seek, how much of that capital they procure, how much of it they spend and the ways they choose to spend it.

As the founder of Childs Capital LLC, a Wall Street firm that seeks to alleviate poverty in developing nations by investing in private enterprise, her business trips take her around the world, from Africa to Latin America.

Second, though many of Uber's recent controversies are apparently unrelated to its inability to be a profitable enterprise, it seems to me that both share a common cause — its risk - seeking culture, partly due to and propagated by its founder.

While most startups will be self - funded by its founders or the founder's immediate family and friends, some seek and accept third party «seed funding,» an investment at the very early stages of a company.

With venture capital networks historically dominated by male investors, female founders seeking funding will be less likely to have the opportunity to access these streams.

Instead of putting up ads on freelance sites and hoping to find work (like every other freelancer), you aggressively seek out your target customers by going to conferences and getting coffee meetings with dozens of founders, just to land 1 client at a time.

In his book, he tells of how at the dawn of the cleantech boom in Silicon Valley, Founders Fund was frequently approached by startups seeking support.

If situation arises, founders should seek consensus by agreement among their co-founders as to what opportunities they can pursue outside the corporation.

Founders should understand the process by which startups seek global patent protection for new inventions.

Many backgrounds are woefully underrepresented in the homogenous tech industry, and many founders are disappointed by the lack of diversity when seeking investment partners.

Launched by former finance - types John Ballay and Matt Mueller, the New York - based Knot Standard intended to fill a dearth in bespoke suiting in the United States, after the founders noticed their American colleagues in Dubai weren't dressing up to snuff at international business meetings and didn't have the desire to seek out a traditional tailor.

The city is a destination for an underground railroad operated by Mark Arabo, founder of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks safe passage for Iraqi Christians fleeing ISIS.

The first, widespread in nineteenth - century America and kept alive by popular Christian authors today, is that virtually all the founders were pious, orthodox believers who sought to establish a Christian nation.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

The years following the Second Vatican Council... Catholic theology has sought to follow the path opened by the Council, which wished to express its «solidarity and respectful affection for the whole human family» by entering into dialogue with it and offering «the saving resources which the Church has received from its founder under the promptings of the Holy Spirit» [Gaudium et Spes, 3].

Founder and creator, Amy, grew easily frustrated with her typical baby / toddler, and sought out to solve the problem by designing the ingenious and beautiful Lil» Sidekick product.

«Unhindered by the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives will now seek to widen mass surveillance and data retention,» founder Aral Balkan wrote in a farewell blog.

On the eve of this year's anniversary of Founder's Day, Ghanaians were taken aback by an announcement which sought to downplay the historical significance of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah as the undisputed Founder of modern Ghana.

The Success Academy schools, headed by Founder and Chief Executive Officer Eva Moskowitz, had sought to bring Harlem 4, a middle school of grades 5 to 8, into the building.

This vision was inspired by the founder a forward thinking technology entrepreneur who recognised the potential of bringing together people seeking illicit encounters, married dating or extra marital affairs across the world.

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This vision was inspired by the founder a forward thinking technology entrepreneur who recognised the potential of bringing together people seeking casual encounters or discreet encounters, married dating and extramarital affairs across the world.

It uses a process called the Partner Perfect Compatibility ™ Matching System developed by its founder, Dr. Patrick H. Perrine, which is specific to the complexities of gay men seeking gay men.

But, through SeekingMillionaire app, established in the year 2006 by Brandon Wade who is also SeekingArrangement.com's founder, seeking a millionaire date has become so much easier.

«Seeking Arrangement», a guide that has been written by the site's founder, Brandon Wade.

Interface Founder Ray Anderson, who funded the Foundation upon his passing in 2011, was famously inspired by radical new approaches to centuries old design and manufacturing techniques, and sought them out when rethinking his $ 1 billion, global carpet tile company's products and processes.

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«We are delighted to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Franklin Income Fund, which was introduced by the company's founder Rupert H. Johnson Sr. to address investors» need for income, especially in retirement years,» said Dan O'Lear, executive vice president of Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. «As today's massive Baby Boomer population moves into retirement, they are seeking an income solution that they can count on to replace the cash flow from their working years, with the potential for some growth as well.

(Seeking Alpha: Jul 24, 2009) ETF Digest founder, David Fry, provides commentary in support of leveraged and inverse ETFs, stating, «Leveraged issues should be used strategically and tactically by experienced investors over short periods of time...» Read more.

TLCAD began as a small non-profit, all volunteer organization in 1998 by the original founders, Steven Ross Fritsche, Heather Jo Fritsche & V. Lee Wells, with a goal to train service dogs for those seeking a fuller, more independent life.

I have long argued that although we have no definitive diagnosis of the condition which motivates the bizarre and cruel behavior of PETA's founder, Ingrid Newkirk, there is one psychological condition which appears to shed some light on what might be motivating her to seek out and poison thousands of animals every year: Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.

Often forced to euthanize animals for lack of space, AHS became a primary target of ACN, whose founders strongly endorsed a no - kill philosophy and were seeking to improve the situation by fostering and placing animals for adoption, funding low - cost spay / neuter, providing a pet food assistance program, and sponsoring transports of animals to shelters in the North and Midwest.

A separate suit was filed by former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella in March, seeking $ 36 million unpaid royalties and alleging an «Orwellian,» «pre-ordained» investigation designed to «manufacture a basis to fire» the studio founders.

Founders Susanna Bixby Dakin and Linda Frye Burnham sought to create a non-profit that would serve the needs of Los Angeles artists directly by offering studio space, opportunities to exhibit and perform, and a community of peers.

Sixty works by Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968), Italy's most sought - after contemporary artist as founder of the post-war Spatialism movement, will go on show in a new gallery opening in Paris's exclusive Avenue Matignon.

In opening his museum in 1921, Phillips sought to establish a collection that included these «immediate ancestors of the modern art movement» — a tactic that was followed by the founders of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, inaugurated in 1929.

Each have a prolific multi-decade artistic career deserving of further scholarship, but a palpable coincidence further connects these three gures: Betty Parsons was the founder of the eponymous gallery which launched the careers of the likes of Pollock, Rothko and Newman; Arakawa and his wife co-founded the Reversible Destiny Foundation, seeking a new model for architectural practices by borrowing from disciplines including experimental biology, quantum physics, and medicine; Lohaus co-founded the Wide White Space gallery (WWS) in Antwerp in 1966, which exhibited artists such as Beuys, Broodthaers, Christo and many others.

A grandson of museum founder Norton Simon has expressed misgivings over how the Norton Simon Museum is handling a lawsuit in which heirs of a Dutch Jewish art dealer are seeking the return of two prominent German Renaissance paintings that were seized by the Nazis during World War II and are highlights of the museum's collection.

-- Eric Heist was the Founder and Director of Momenta Art, an artist - run institution that seeks to expand the dialogue of art by showing work by young artists or artists» who are not well represented in commercial galleries.

Benyekhlef is the founder of both Lex Electronica, the first - ever online French - language journal and of Cyberjustice Laboratory, an international initiative based in Montreal that seeks to improve access to justice by putting information technology in the hands of the courts.

Obtained a defense award in an arbitration of claims by a former company founder seeking multimillion dollars in stock options.

A new white paper, co-authored by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, seeks to tackle challenges in the fast - moving market for initial coin offerings.

Olivier Janssens, founder of Freedom Investments, and Roger Ver (Bitcoin Jesus) of Bitcoin Foundation, along with a trove of attorneys and other professionals, are seeking to establish their own independent nation, governed by libertarian values.

This app is currently being called «an experiment» by Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel, suggesting that this is only the newest in a line of ways the company is seeking to «reduce the time between our experience of a moment and our ability to share it.»

Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), a leading global screening firm, has released a complimentary whitepaper written by ESR Founder and CEO Attorney Lester Rosen titled «Ten Critical Steps for Ex-Offenders to Get Back into the Workforce» to provide helpful insights and suggestions to assist ex-offenders who are seeking to re-enter society through gainful employment.

Written By Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder & CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR) The «Ban the Box» movement that seeks to eliminate questions about past criminal conduct on initial job applications is quickly heading towards becoming a national standard and will be a hot issue for employers in 2014.

Colby Sambrotto, the founder and former chief operating officer of ForSalebyOwner.com, tried to sell the property himself by listing it online and through classified ads, but after six months of it sitting on the market, he sought the help of a real estate broker.