Sentences with phrase «success than funding»

A strong web of relationships can be more essential to a startup's success than funding.

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Bogle has always adhered to the belief that one of the greatest determinants of investing success is keeping it simple — he has even criticized Vanguard Group on select occasions since retiring for launching more funds (both traditional index and ETF) than he thinks are necessary.

Coursera, like most MOOC providers, has had moderate success sorting out a revenue model (Coursera charges students for identity verification and certificates of completion), but it will need to do a lot more than that to justify the $ 85 million in venture funding it's raised.

Finding funding during the financial crisis proved tough, but eventually it came, and Clio has grown into an unqualified success, employing more than 200 people and offering a suite of services and applications — from time - tracking and document management to task management, bookkeeping and billing.

The Fund held its first close in the first half of 2016 and has already committed more than one third of its capital to portfolio investments, further building on the success of NEC's previous funds.

But for a huge media conglomerate like Disney, even that kind of success isn't enough, especially when Disney knew that a licensing model would mean higher margins and less risk than running an internally - funded effort that shoulders responsibility for marketing, distribution, toy production, physical inventory, and a 300 - person game development studio.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

Part of this success is due to President George W. Bush's President's Malaria Initiative, which helped ensure that more than 1 million bed nets were distributed across the country, and leadership from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

The Governor is insisting that we focus on student achievement rather than funding the education bureaucracy as a measure of success.

In an open letter to de Blasio on May 12, Moskowitz stated that a payment of more than $ 1.9 million in per - pupil funding for Success Academy Harlem 3's location on West 111th Street was due on May 1, but had not yet been received from the Department of Education (DOE).

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

The workshop brought together more than 150 practitioners, administrators, and funders of interdisciplinary research to identify keys to success and strategies for overcoming barriers.

In most countries, men had a higher success rate than women in securing funding.

The big issue here — much bigger than independent funding — is your unsupportive adviser, who seems to view you (and the other postdocs in the lab) as instruments for his own success rather than as protégés whose career success he is responsible for.

Newly public data on grant funding success rates reflect one impetus for abandoning the set - aside: At many institutes, AIDS grants have been much easier to get than non-AIDS funding, suggesting that officials were struggling to find ways to spend the money.

Following this success the Improving Human Potential Programme will fund more than 8000 new Marie Curie Fellowships within the 5th Framework Programme (the current European science budget).

This year the funding process has been made more frantic than ever by government guidelines linking success in attracting research grants to pay outs for improving infrastructure.

NIH faces «a perfect storm,» he said, partly driven by a flood of more than 20,000 applications for stimulus - funded grants, that could bring record - low success rates if the agency's budget doesn't rise above the current $ 30.6 billion.

More than 60 percent of people also believe that government funding for science is essential to its success.

It takes more than a few government - funded science education programs to give a race of people back their self - pride and self - worth (which are essential for success).

Murphy adds, «The success of the Skills for Life program, including the results in our current paper, has led the government of Chile to fund a major increase in the size of the program, adding more than 400 schools during the next school year.

During 2 funding cycles in 2002, applications involving human subjects tended to have less favorable median priority scores and less funding success than applications not involving human subjects.

Rather than providing students skills that have real currency in today's labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.

Under this model, the school's funding is based on students» successful completion of their courses, a step that places far more pressure on FLVS to ensure its students» success than exists in traditional public school systems.

Few regulations would limit the use of public funds for this task, since creativity is needed to bring about more success than resulting from the current monopoly.

In part due to your generosity, College Success Arizona was able to award total scholarship funds of $ 1,750,500 in 2014 that provided college access to more than 384 Arizona students.

The revolving - loan fund will target schools with financing needs of more than $ 7 million, and the schools must have a proven track record of academic and financial success, the company said in a press release.

The budget increases school spending per student to $ 10,591 in 2016 - 17 — a boost of nearly $ 3,600 compared with 2011 - 12 levels, according a post on Brown's website: «The budget provides a fourth - year investment of more than $ 2.8 billion in the Local Control Funding Formula, which focuses on students with the greatest challenges to success, bringing the formula to 95 percent implementation.

A caveat here in the history of such an initiative more than two decades ago: The California New Teacher Project, which funded reduced class loads and extensive mentoring for rookie teachers, resulted in improved performance of both students and teachers, but that success did not continue when the efforts did not take hold in a systemic way.

Paredes already has put a proposal on the table to tie higher education funding to course completion rather than enrollment, a tactic he thinks will force colleges to rethink the way they treat student success.

WHEREAS, charter schools operate more autonomously than traditional public schools in the use of funds, adherence to state laws and school policies, selection and removal of students, and the selection and removal of staff, thus creating separate and unequal conditions for success; and

Success is asking for about $ 720,000 from the city to fund its pre-K program for 72 children, which is less than the network spent on the 2015 rally in Albany.

As she points out, it is much more worthwhile and less expensive to fund future success, proven programs, than to remediate failure.

The strategy to fund the «whole school» rather than a specific program also represents a shift in education reform efforts in LA, so that all resources, and not just one program, within a school are aligned with the mission of student success.

Not later than 2 years after the date on which a project receives assistance under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the success or failure of the projects funded under this subsection and any plan for broad - based implementation of the innovation promoted by successful projects.

We have historically had success in this segment of the market, and we think small - cap valuations in the Fund's investable universe are as attractive as they have been in more than two years.

The VanguardS & P 500 index fund, one of the most popular ways to invest in the index, holds more than $ 500 billion in investor funds, a testament to its success.

But an ETF, mutual fund, or separate account are simply different ways to hold a given portfolio of assets; as such they are less important to an investor's ultimate success than the choice of which portfolio to hold.

We varied the holding period of the portfolios, varied the number of asset classes in the portfolios, measured the performance of actively managed portfolios that held more than one fund in each asset class, and tested a subset of active funds with lower fees to see if there was a meaningful change in the active fund portfolio success rate.»

Obviously, it is better to invest in a fund that is a success than one that is a failure, but being a shareholder in a fund that closes is not usually a financial disaster for U.S. investors.

Startup businesses have totally different funding needs and expenses than established businesses, and finding the right startup loan can affect your early success.

But if you're inclined to invest on your own, following the three steps I've outlined above will certainly give you a much better shot at success than just picking the funds that look best.

I know for many it's far easier said than done, but this is why building an emergency fund is fundamental to long - term money success.

Success rates for actively managed U.S. mid-cap funds have tended to be more diverse and variable than for U.S. large - and small - cap funds.

For example, U.S. equity funds with the lowest expense ratios had a 62 % success rate over the five years ended Dec. 31, 2015 — three times greater than the success rates of funds with the highest expense ratio.

In a start - up phase it's likely your expenses will be greater than your income so accurately estimating your expenses and making sure you have the funds to cover them is vital to the success of your business.

That is more than two decades of success in the mutual fund market.

More than anything, the lopsided success of Givling — low daily revenues and a long funding queue — highlights the desperation felt by many borrowers and the need for new policy measures to address the long term economic burden of student loans.

It has always offered loans under the principle that smart borrowing is the key to success, and it provides more ways to fund higher education than just private student loans such as scholarships and grants.

In the mid-value fund group, the highest - cost products had a success rate of 23.5 % — less than half that of the lowest - cost funds and about half that of the category as a whole, according to Morningstar.