Sentences with phrase «than the capital of»

He said that Bangkok welcomed 18 million tourists per year, adding that Bali actually had more to offer than the capital of Thailand.

Indeed, the name «Maskerdam» speaks of the close ties and the friendly coexistence with the Dutch, as it pronounces, to Indonesian ears, none other than the capital of Belanda or Holland itself, namely «Amsterdam».

As the second largest city in the Philippines, Cebu City has a population of just over 1 million, which is significantly less than the capital of Manila.

Not exact matches

Passport Capital sold 325,434 shares of the social media company, cutting its stake by more than one quarter.

What has really happened in private equity over those decades is that investors, net of fees, did about 25 % better than the S&P up through the 2005 «vintage» year (denoting funds that first drew capital in 2005).

He?s a former software executive, entrepreneur and fund manager, and has founded or financed more than 40 companies that have launched more than 100 products with transactions exceeding one billion dollars of capital.

A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

In the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did it.

Long Pond Capital's Khoury suggested that D.R. Horton has more than 60 percent upside, while Ran of Half Sky Capital said GrubHub could hit $ 160 a share, up about 55 percent from its Monday closing price of $ 102.17.

In mid-February, investment giant Capital Group more than doubled its Lululemon stake to 12.7 million shares, or about 11 % of the company.

Age when he turned pro: 14 Start - up capital: $ 80,000 of the co-founders» personal savings Total video - game sales: More than $ 1 billion through a licensing agreement with Activision

Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said increased costs from the delay means that Bombardier will need to sell more than 800 aircraft to break even, or 12 per cent market share over the next 20 years.

The tax code also permits the owners of a corporation, however small, to use his or her company to shelter income from passive investments, and to convert surplus revenue into capital gains, which are taxed at lower rates than income.

Unfortunately, for the average entrepreneur, the odds of their child getting into Harvard are significantly higher than the odds they will ever receive a venture capital investment.

The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

The 12 - year - old company, which calls itself «the front page of the internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a valuation of nearly $ 1.8 billion.

For the past five years, venture capital firms have pumped 25 percent to 100 percent more than they've raised into a diverse array of investments, including clean energy technology, health care, and pharmaceuticals.

«[Women's] natural conservatism means women end up owning more of their company and may get to profitability sooner than if they had all the capital in the world,» says Singh Cassidy.

In a hugely capital - intensive business, that means increasing its volumes of freight far faster than it adds new employees, locomotives, and boxcars.

In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012.

More than that, a non-provocative political discourse is vital to carry messages effectively to other cultures; Trump's childish use of capital letters and exclamation marks («SAD!»)

Technology stocks, rather than industrial heavyweights, are driving much of the surge in capital investment in the first quarter, preliminary data show.

More than half of all business startups shut down in the first five years, and the top reasons are all related to financial mismanagement and a lack of operational capital.

Moreso than either government - funded labs or venture - capital - backed rivals, General Fusion has reached out to create a community of partners.

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

Thanks to the new law, the largest tech companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result in a bottomless well of capital to fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»

It also has 100 trucks for distribution of products across its more than 500 retail outlets which would require a lot of capital to expand.

«The issue is not that middle - class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long - term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change.»

Even in the capital city of Lima, a couple can live on less than $ 2,000 per month.

Rather than charging 2 % of the fund's total capital commitment, Sequoia has told investors the management fee will be 1 % based only on the smaller stages of «called capital» drawn from the investors, one of the people said.

In fact, in Andorra's capital city of Andorra la Vella, a three - star hotel (# 43, or $ 59) is not only just half the cost of the average Airbnb (# 79, or $ 108), but you can book yourself into a five - star hotel for less than the average listing on Airbnb's website too (# 77, or $ 105).

It will be a war more serious in terms of human suffering than anything we've seen since 1953,» Mattis said, also noting the danger to the heavily - populated South Korean capital of Seoul: «It will involve the massive shelling of an ally's capital, which is one of the most densely packed cities on earth.»

And when it comes to getting around its streets, many of the Danish capital's residents choose to cycle rather than drive.

EXCLUSIVE: Shopping centre owner AMP Capital has lodged plans for a $ 600 million expansion of its Karrinyup mall, taking it to more than 113,000 square metres of total floor space and adding 150 apartments to the mix.

To date, more than half of NaturAll Club's capital — a total of $ 120,000 — has come from pitch competitions sponsored by, among others, Harvard Business School Club, the entertainer Steve Harvey, UBS, and Under Armour.

So when the time comes to dispose of it for good, the reported capital gain will be bigger than if the investor had just bought and held.

• TPG Capital amended its deal to acquire Exactech, a Gainsville, Fla. - based orthopedic implant maker, for $ 49.25 per share rather than the previous amount of $ 42 per share.

Many great companies sat out the IPO market last year for a myriad of reasons, including the abundance of private capital, funds flow out of conventional funds ($ 224 billion in outflows, to be exact), and more «blackout» windows than normal — post-Brexit and post-Trump in particular — where companies were afraid of political uncertainty.

Pappas Capital has raised more than $ 500 million in capital and has guided the launch or development of more than 70 comCapital has raised more than $ 500 million in capital and has guided the launch or development of more than 70 comcapital and has guided the launch or development of more than 70 companies.

Last year, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets concluded that a single episode of The Big Bang Theory was more valuable to advertisers than an entire week's worth of viewing on YouTube.

There's no definitive answer as to why female founders raise less venture capital than male founders, but one of the main theories is the lack of female VCs.

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

It's backed by a roster of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms, and boasts returns of more than 500 %.

Now, less than two years later, Dror has left his position as the head of marketing at AngelList to start a venture - capital fund.

While dozens of hedge funds have sprung up this year to invest in the white - hot digital currency market, this one, known as Arrington XRP Capital, is the first to be denominated in a crypto - currency rather than dollars or euros.

According to First Round Capital's analysis of its own portfolio, companies with at least one female founder provided them with 63 % better returns on investment than companies with all - male teams.

Why have venture capital investments become ever more concentrated along a single stretch of Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, rather than diffusing out across the country as the industry has grown?

Nowhere is the lack of access to capital more conspicuous than with aboriginal people in Alberta.

Republicans and Democrats began this year with ambitious talk of reaching a bipartisan agreement on tax reform, but it has now become clear to most that it will require the investment of more time and political capital than President Obama has remaining.

In summary, make sure to get a consultation regarding the raising of capital and multi-member LLCs when you have «silent partners» or more than five partners.