Sentences with phrase «stage companies because»

Investors are far more willing to back early - stage companies because the amounts of cash required are relatively small, and the potential payoff is huge.

Not exact matches

At the beginning of 2015, Orlando predicted there would be a «mid-stage capital crunch» that year, owing to the fact that it has historically been the most difficult stage of a young company's growth, and because U.S. investors that might otherwise back Canadian companies have their pick of opportunities at home these days.

If you are an early - stage venture fund, you have to be thinking pretty hard about, «I hope I'm backing the company that ultimately becomes a «super-have» because they seem to have an unfair advantage.»

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

«There is right now no private companies doing any restorations, if you will, because we're still at the early stages of re-entry.

«I turned down at least one term sheet because of terms that might not benefit the company in later stages,» says Amir Trabelsi, CEO of Genoox, a tech company that runs a genetic data analysis platform.

Because these organizations are specialists at providing the type of hands - on assistance that entrepreneurs need at the pre-seed stage, and because entrepreneurs are co-located with the accelerator directors, the people running accelerators can provide more intense help to startup companies than most angels and venture capitalists, speeding up the development of the comBecause these organizations are specialists at providing the type of hands - on assistance that entrepreneurs need at the pre-seed stage, and because entrepreneurs are co-located with the accelerator directors, the people running accelerators can provide more intense help to startup companies than most angels and venture capitalists, speeding up the development of the combecause entrepreneurs are co-located with the accelerator directors, the people running accelerators can provide more intense help to startup companies than most angels and venture capitalists, speeding up the development of the companies.

The bottom line is, Canadian companies need to become better storytellers because it allows innovation to flourish and take centre stage.

But if you are in a group with companies that are at very different growth stages than you are, you might find it frustrating because your peers just aren't dealing with the same issues you are in terms of scaling or managing people.

Because the two exchanges accommodate companies from their early stages to their maturity, astute investors in Canada and elsewhere can identify promising young firms and then participate in their subsequent growth.

Phase III funding, the round where ideas are validated with up to $ 10 million in funding, is the very center of the valley of death, because it's the biggest test for early - stage companies.

«We haven't had the opportunity to know if we have that problem or not because a lot of companies will get acquired before they can get to that stage.

• The outlook for the tech sector is strong for investors, companies and corporates because we expect VC fundraising will increase and be in the $ 35 - 40B range, VC investment will be consistent with 2017, late stage valuations will increase, CVC investment will increase, and M&A will be between 600 - 700 deals.

Patagonia is a candidate for greatness because of the indelible imprint left by Kristine McDivitt during the formative stages of the feisty, renegade company.

I wrote the book because I believe that the best way to generate outsized results is to own stock in high - growth, private, early - stage technology companies.

Because angel investors assume a great deal of risk by investing in early stage companies, applicants should be able to make a compelling case for a 10x or better return on investment within 5 years.

We'll get to that in a minute, though, because also on stage was David Carroll, the associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York who filed a lawsuit against Cambridge to find out what data the company has about him.

RK: I think there's a big danger in raising too much money in many companies, particularly seed stage companies, because it allows the entrepreneur to ignore the market feedback and continue to believe what they want to believe for too long.

That's primarily because each company is at a different stage in its self - driving development and has performed different levels of testing on public roads.

Some early - stage companies might have a high valuation when you look at their relatively small asset and revenue base because they have the potential to grow very quickly or there are high margins in their business.

They are often one of the best sources of early - stage deal flow for VCs because one of the first companies most entrepreneurs do business with is their lawyers who incorporate their companies.

An early - stage company typically sells its shares (or grants options over its shares) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the Ccompany typically sells its shares (or grants options over its shares) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the CompanyCompany.

An early - stage company typically sells its units (or grants options over its units) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the Ccompany typically sells its units (or grants options over its units) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the CompanyCompany.

It's because angel investors provide this critical early stage capital, and are involved in so many more young companies, that I believe they are more important to entrepreneurs, and the economy, than traditional VC funds.

Because many traditional venture funds have ballooned and expanded to late - stage and international companies, there was a need for new, smaller investors who were focused on financing early - stage companies.

Jimboy's Tacos can celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2014 because it has never shied away from challenges, and growing into Texas, India and beyond will help the company set the stage for another 60 years of success.

Because Oak Bottle is in the early stages, Paglione says the company has not pinpointed a demographic, but considers its target audience to be wine and spirit enthusiasts of all kinds.

Spongberg realized he needed a change to enable the next stage of expansion because everyone on his team had started out at WKS and lacked experience working in a leadership capacity in a larger company.

In the final stage of product development, all former shareholders sold their interest in the company because they had lost faith in the new strategy.

April 19, 2018 - When companies offer perks and their team can not take advantage of them — whether it's because they are in a different stage of life (post college grads have different needs than the married with children crowd), they have allergies, they are remote...

The first product to market, Exubera by Pfizer, was withdrawn in 2007 because of this and several other companies shutdown their late - stage trials in response.

Researchers said the ability to record those two functions would be useful to pharmaceutical companies because it could alert drug manufacturers to cardiac problems caused by a drug early in the process before reaching the clinical trial stage.

On The Up: Because keeping an independent label afloat is far from easy, Timo Weiland has landed an investment from Project I, a boutique company focused on growing early stage apparel companies.

In the initial stage of company's existence, it was difficult for them to break through preconceived ideas of the general public because of negative images about matchmaker and marriage agencies.

North Adams - based theater company Main Street Stage is making BART's stage its home, which Bowen says will help with equipment needs since seating and lighting have been put on hold because of budget restrictStage is making BART's stage its home, which Bowen says will help with equipment needs since seating and lighting have been put on hold because of budget restrictstage its home, which Bowen says will help with equipment needs since seating and lighting have been put on hold because of budget restrictions.

Power output is pure speculation at this stage but because the new Toyota will be the company's flagship sports car anything less than 250kW — unless it's got a lightweight carbon tub — would be challenging to promote.

Unfortunately, because I am part of a start up, spending the amount needed for the next tier up of the report is hard to justify at $ 995 (we tend to spend on things that will net us a direct ROI at this early stage of our company).

Once again, this is easier said than done because, at this company - analysis stage of the process, what value investors are trying to do is to separate those businesses that are cheap temporarily from those that are cheap permanently — and for a good reason.

Leveraged because the company is just in the permitting stage and will take another 4 years to bring the Donlin mine to production.

But because you don't actually need software to start a credit repair company right away, you shouldn't have to incur the expenses during the startup stage.

Cyclical companies don't really bother me because many times the volatility can work to your advantage when you're in the accumulation stage of DGI.

Despite this nutritional statement for all life stages, per information from the company, EVO adult formulas should not be fed to large breed puppies because they encourage rapid growth.

That's not because the pet food company is trying to sell more food but the feeding guide is intended to ensure that proper nutrition is provided for even the most active of pets for a particular age and life stage.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

Because misery loves company, the game features a co-op mode where you and a buddy can team up and go through stages together.

Originally executed for Baxter Travenol Laboratories» newly built corporate headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois, Valentine had conceived of two immense vertical columns standing side by side, but because of architectural modifications (the ceiling in the company's reception area was lowered at a late stage of construction), Valentine was forced to install the two slabs on their sides.

For example, Tessera has projects on mine sites in developmental stage, though Coates said the company wasn't ready to make any announcements because the projects are «still new and in their infancy.»

They note that the company, «calculated its carbon emissions across every stage in the product lifecycle,» and that «this comprehensive, supply chain view is important because approximately 75 % of FIJI Water's emissions result from the operations of supply chain partners, e.g. raw materials suppliers, rather than from the company's own operations.»

«We thought this accelerator needed a corporate business law firm because they are strong on the art product side and we thought because we are mid-market and entrepreneurial it was a good fit,» says Jamie Firsten, partner at Cassels Brock who focuses on early stage financing for emerging tech companies.

According to the company, «More than 90 - percent of people diagnosed with lung cancer do not survive, in part because it is often found at an advanced stage.»