Sentences with phrase «tech fund so»

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Additionally, realize that tech companies are often hugely expensive to launch, which is why so much effort is put into generating startup funds.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

Many fund managers like this tech company, so it's no surprise that its stock price has appreciated by 34 % so far this year.

However, he did not mean it for the fund to be so tech - heavy.

Roku also has the backing of a handful of major players in both media and tech, with nearly $ 210 million in reported funding so far from a list of investors that includes News Corp, Viacom, 21st Century Fox, and Netflix.

Backed by tech giants including Apple, Qualcomm and Sharp, as well as by sovereign funds from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, SoftBank's Vision Fund has so far raised $ 98 billion, making it the largest technology investment fund eFund has so far raised $ 98 billion, making it the largest technology investment fund efund ever.

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).

Making clean tech an innovation priority (p. 79, 81, 82, 95 — 100 and 100 — 111): This year's edition was billed as an innovation budget, so it's no surprise that Ottawa allocated funding for skills, research and more.

Andy White, who is in his mid-40s and is helping distribute Hsieh's $ 50 million Vegas Tech Fund, likened living so close to the Strip to living in Anaheim or Orlando, near Disneyland or Disney World.

They often move to Las Vegas because they received venture capital from the Vegas Tech Fund, so their closest friends may be venture capitalists.

Behind these funds» impressive performances so far this year are a few different story lines: historically low volatility in the U.S. stock market; a mind - boggling rally in bitcoin prices; a forging recovery in emerging markets; and across - the - board strength in the tech sector.

In 2008 tech industry giants Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, concerned that the job applicants they were seeing were poorly prepared for crucial tasks, began funding their own research through a group called Assessment & Teaching of 21st Century Skills (ATC21S) to identify and promote so - called 21st - century skills — roughly the ability to think critically and creatively, to work cooperatively, and to adapt to the evolving use of technology in business and society.

But the site was so successful — with more than 30,000 visitors — that the Google - owned tech firm Motorola Mobility offered to fund the space for at least another year.

In fact, some of the most successful diverse charter schools, such as the Denver School of Science and Technology and High Tech High, have decided to pass on federal start - up funds so they can use lotteries that achieve their integration goals.

One such way of doing so would be to set up and fund digital skills colleges, such as female - led Ada, which are focused on training up future tech workers and software developers.

Yota Devices is a fine example of why its so hard to support tech companies that are soliciting funding from Joe Average in order to have a product reach customers.

As time passed, the number of funds increased as they began to specialize in certain types of investments: foreign - country bonds, high - tech stocks, high - yield (junk) bonds, and so forth.

Just as hedge funds have a hard time holding onto good employees when performance goes bad, so it is for tech companies when financing dries up, and the stock price craters.

Apple makes up a large part of that index fund, so you're not really diversified (plus, the NASDAQ is mostly tech, like Apple).

In my pursuit to somehow monetize my content and help pay this weblog's maintenance fees (hosting and tech support) as well as fund my travels so I can continue providing my readers free travel resources, I had signed up as an affiliate to some known and well trusted brands and advertising platforms.

I know that, after the tech bubble burst, funding for fiber optic gizmos wasn't so easy to get.

Heartbleed drew attention to just how underfunded this critical piece of software was, so big tech companies committed to chipping in money every year to fund the development of OpenSSL and other important projects as part of the «Core Infrastructure Initiative ``.

Will.i.am funds a lot of tech products, some of which are pretty expensive and not so popular.

These savings are intended to fund innovation in future tech investments so that they can keep spending down,» Deniece Peterson, director of federal industry analysis at Deltek, told the E-Commerce Times.

This is an area where investors and the broader funding and startup community should have a voice, since so many future innovators depend on an Internet with strong interconnectivity where the right to innovate doesn't require getting permission from the current tech giants.

Becoming one of the best funded African tech startups ever, he said, was a «major validation» of all the work that had gone into building the ecosystem, and specifically a pat on the back for every team member that has given their all to make the company successful so far.

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