Sentences with phrase «stage talking with»

Amanda Palmer stood on stage talking with her friend Kyle Cassidy and they were talking about fame, being a celebrity and social media.

• Univision Communications Inc, a New York - based media company, held early - stage talks with John Malone's Liberty Media Corp in the wake of its stalled IPO plans, according to Reuters.

Humana has held early - stage talks with Walmart focused primarily on new partnerships, according to multiple news reports.

Go - Jek is already looking to step into the void by expanding its Indonesia - based service into Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, but now a source tells TechCrunch that the ambitious startup has held early - stage talks with Comfort that could see it enter Singapore as ride - hailing partner for its 15,000 drivers.

U.S. retailer Walmart Inc is in early - stage talks with health insurer Humana Inc about developing closer ties, with the acquisition of Humana being discussed as one possibility, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Higuain had then been given permission to enter final stage talks with the North London club which were seemingly brief as Arsene Wenger had already met with the player's father Nicolas, who acts as his agent, to draw up the general terms of a deal during a meeting in Paris last month.

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is in early - stage talks with Yorkshire Water over a possible deal with its Managed Legal Service (MLS) arm, as it emerges the firm also held discussions with Buckinghamshire County Council this summer.

Not exact matches

«An applicant then moves step - by - step through our interview process, talking with another person they'd work with at every stage of interviewing.»

Even though we're working with early - stage founders, there's a clear indication very early on of what they've been able to build, not what they're able to talk about.

In a conversation with Fortune, Gupta talks about the evolution of the venture ecosystem over the last decade and his firm's contrarian approach when it comes to investing in early - stage companies.

You should research potential investors before you talk with them so that your company fits the stage — early, middle or late — and the industry that the investor prefers.

For example, he captured images of playing miniature golf with friends, walking up to a stage to deliver a TED talk, and paying his final respects at a funeral.

«We respect, and naturally we demand respect, for our country,» he said in an emotional speech to members of the Italian community in Munich, the first stage of a state visit that includes talks with Merkel in Berlin on Thursday.

Our program is packed with world - class designers, architects, branding pros, artificial intelligence experts, and design executives like Gilbert, who will be joining me on stage to talk about his playbook for design at IBM.

As you stand on the stage, trying to engage with them about your product, you see some of them turn to talk to friends, yawn and text — one even leaves to grab a soda.

The man tasked by the EU to lead the bloc's discussions with the U.K. over «Brexit» has been rehearsing his Grinch imitation, pouring cold water over the brief uptick in optimism that followed a summit last week that formally blessed the advance of talks to a new, second stage.

Separately, the company said that its talks with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over its business practices were in advanced stages and it could face a payment of about $ 200 million, CNBC reported on Thursday.

Halliburton is in late - stage talks to acquire a fast - growing U.S. oilfield equipment supplier backed by Oklahoma energy and banking billionaire George Kaiser, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The event will kick off with a talk titled «How to Fundraise» by Lee of Sequoia and Jenny Lefcourt, a partner at seed stage fund Freestyle and founder of Weddingchannel.com.

FanDuel and DraftKings are in early - stage talks to merge, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.

«That will require us to talk with the provinces, and we're not going to negotiate in public or talk about those options publicly at this stage.»

The two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc., are in early - stage talks to merge, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, as the industry faces a crackdown by U.S. states over whether it runs illegal gambling.

1: The stock swings did not cause VC tourists like hedge funds and mutual funds to pull out of late - stage financing talks, according to several VC sources who regularly work with such groups.

Walmart and Humana are having early - stage talks about strengthening their existing partnership, people familiar with the matter tell CNBC.

The Flipboard co-founder said he had been talking with McCue for some time about moving on, primarily because he was looking for a way to recapture the excitement of an early - stage startup.

Walmart and health insurer Humana are having early - stage talks about strengthening their existing partnership, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.

Swiss Re said on Wednesday that talks with SoftBank over a minority stake of no more than 10 percent in the reinsurance giant were continuing and «at an early stage».

Earlier this month, Bill Gates took the stage at the Recode conference to talk about philanthropy with his wife, Melinda.

* COPPER: Chile's Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, said on Thursday early contract talks with its workers» union ended without an agreement, setting the stage for legally scheduled negotiations to begin in June.

We are expecting more than 800 attendees, at least 35 headline speakers, and upward of 50 exhibitors — with talks from founders, developers, and early - stage investors of blockchain startups, including many that are planning ICOs throughout 2018.

Freeland, Canada's lead minister, said in late April talks were in an intensive stage, with technical teams working long hours and weekends to get a deal done.

J. Crew's talks with Fast Retailing are at an early stage and other potential bidders have also expressed an interest in the company, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

Based in the author's experience with pursuing his dream and opening his own company, the book describes the author's feelings and thoughts that took him to this stage and talks about topics which he considers important for the young entrepreneur's success.

In their conversations, they often talked about how much enjoyed working with early stage companies, building them from the ground up.

True Wealth Ventures General Founding Partner Sara Brand spoke at the Dallas Startup Week along with other investors, talking about deal points of early stage venture deals with knowledgeable founders.

I've talked with countless early - stage entrepreneurs over the years that keep their mouths shut to play the «KC nice» game.

The agreement capped four years of on - and - off talks between the third and fourth largest U.S. wireless carriers, setting the stage for the creation of a company with 127 million customers that will be a more formidable competitor to the top two wireless players, Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) and AT&T Inc (T.N).

That set the stage for renewed talks with the U.S., and resulted in the signing of the bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) on March 23.

On stage at the Ritz - Carlton the chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs was talking about Marcus, the bank's new online savings and lending platform, which is targeting borrowers with scores as low as 660 on the 300 - 850 Fico scale.

Breyer will be taking the stage today in Portugal, but he also sat down with us behind the scenes yesterday to talk about Facebook, Softbank, and ICOs, among other factors playing an outsize role in the startup ecosystem.

In talking about these books with some friends, I was reminded that books that challenge us at one stage of life or faith may not seem so challenging as we continue to mature.

Would I be correct in detecting a theme running through with what you have talked of recently with stages, the cans on the beach and the light bulbs with Fowlers stage 5?

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

I heard more of their intersecting stories, and when Idelette was done talking about her book, about her passions, I wanted to see her on every stage of every slick Christian conference, to bring some mama - truth, to preach the Gospel of Being With Each Other, but then I kind of had to shrug because part of Idelette's power is that she's outside of that system, outside of that church - marketing world, too busy living the truth of it to package it.

And I'm not just talking about object lessons where a pastor brings a ladder or a watermelon on stage, and illustrates a sermon point with them.

I had a different mindset when we first began — believing that living together with other Christians in the same life stage would lead to all - night talks about how church should really be and how we would inspire one another.

Years ago, when my wife and I saw Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd - Webber's rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar on a London stage, the cast came down and talked with the audience during the intermission.

Behind such talk is the conviction that we know what we are doing in theology, Bible and history, and that the problem is to stage occasions on which the student learns to work with people «applying» the «input» part of his education to life.

Merrick is thus not only a Beast with a Beautiful Soul, but a walking (lame), talking (barely articulate) symbol of transcendence on the stage.