Sentences with phrase «up to the stage in»

When we grew up, most of us saw missionaries being brought up to the stage in church in order to receive prayer for their upcoming missions.

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HONG KONG, April 26 (Reuters)- Two Chinese biotechs have axed plans to list in New York and instead aim to raise up to $ 800 million in Hong Kong IPOs, seeking to cash in on new rules to woo early - stage drug developers, sources said.

«I don't want to say this is a great day — because it will have a negative impact on human beings, and I want to be compassionate,» says Linkner, the founder of Detroit Venture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in the city.

But as the day's final speaker, he couldn't leave the stage without blowing one more kiss at Ackman: Icahn disclosed that he has now asked his company for permission to take up to a 50 percent stake in Herbalife, the supplement company over which the two have battled so publicly.

The trick, according to Smith, is to get out ahead of the story and not get caught up in the «five stages of crisis.»

Stack's advice: «If you need to change what you're doing, change it in the prototype stage instead of in the final stage, when you're up a creek and can't really backtrack.»

At the end of the X-Prize award ceremony in St. Louis, when the giant check had been put aside and the celebrants huddled on the stage to pose for photographers, he suddenly looked up and started searching the skies.

VentureBeat, for instance, surmised that Graham had ulterior motives when he made the statement because Y Combinator competes with Google Ventures to invest in similar early - stage start - ups.

Intuitive has teamed up with China's Fosun Pharma, for instance, in a joint venture to detect lung cancers in their earliest stages, developing a flexible robotic catheter that can navigate into the cavernous regions of the lungs.

For now, all we're going to get is some close - ups of LeBron James riding in a staged demo car.

To infiltrate these corporate spaces and get them up to speed, I book keynotes (domestic and international) that put these insights on stage, as well as seminars for BOTs and Destination Marketing Organizations at CultureMeetsCorporate.com that does the same in a more intimate settinTo infiltrate these corporate spaces and get them up to speed, I book keynotes (domestic and international) that put these insights on stage, as well as seminars for BOTs and Destination Marketing Organizations at CultureMeetsCorporate.com that does the same in a more intimate settinto speed, I book keynotes (domestic and international) that put these insights on stage, as well as seminars for BOTs and Destination Marketing Organizations at CultureMeetsCorporate.com that does the same in a more intimate setting.

Despite pushback from her peers in Silicon Valley, Randi jumped at the opportunity, and after 10 years of setting her dream aside, Randi finally ended up on stage — and found a way to balance being a tech entrepreneur with her love of the arts.

Facebook shares have long been actively traded on SecondMarket, a New York financial services company that allows early stage investors and employees to sell their shares in privately held start - ups.

While his own salary saw a bump — to $ 50,000, up from $ 41,000, in the first stage of the raise — he worried the new policy didn't reward work ethic.

It's hard to open up to criticism, particularly in the early stages of a startup when passion is at its peak.

SAIL Venture Partners, the early - stage venture arm of SAIL Capital Partners, and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., have set up a $ 100 - million fund to invest in companies that have developed innovative products ready for market.

No one wants to see employees covering up their essential beliefs or wasting time hiding harmless bits of weirdness, but as Jarrett points out, quoting Shakespeare, it is worth keeping in mind that «all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.»

Sure enough, in the lead up to Apple's (aapl) new iPhone 7 announcement on Wednesday, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo (ntdoy) marketing manager Bill Trinen took the stage in San Francisco to unveil Super Mario Run, a Mario - themed runner you can play single - handedly.

Many workers who opt to join a startup in the early stages do so because they're fed up with the overly bureaucratic, stagnant world of traditional corporations.

While the pill is still in its experimental stage — the company has said it could take up to 10 years for the pill to be prescribed, the AP reports — this technology has the potential to dramatically transform the way we diagnose and treat a host of diseases, most notably cancer.

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.

«Startup Garage focuses on the seed - stage of funding — getting to the point where you can stand up in front of investors and ask them for $ 250,000 or half a million or maybe a million,» Zenios says.

«All you're trying to do, whether it's a three - minute pitch or a six - or eight - minute presentation, is to whet the appetite for a follow - up and get an in - person meeting,» says Somak Chattopadhyay, principal at Greenhill SAVP, an early stage venture capital fund in New York, and a longtime Pace judge.

Our customers have access to us, via social media as much as in real life and we are being watched to see how we act and if we live up to our «stage persona».

«Optum Ventures is uniquely positioned to help develop and grow start - ups and early - stage companies through capital investment, Optum's decades of experience in health care, and our access to the health - care marketplace,» said Renfro.

After he graduated in December 2014, he wrapped up working for another early stage firm in March and decided to go after starting his own fund himself.

«Inside our country, but also outside, in particular in our European neighbourhood, there would be concern and a lack of understanding if politicians in the biggest and economically strongest country (in Europe) did not live up to their responsibilities,» read a statement from Steinmeier, a former foreign minister who has been thrust centre - stage after taking on the usually largely ceremonial head of state role in March.

She is one of the four co-founders of Leap Ventures (her counterparts in this enterprise being Hervé Cuviliez, Henri Asseily and Noor Sweid), with the company set up as a late - stage venture capital firm for startups in this region, thereby fulfilling what was a definite need for the market here to further evolve and grow.

«Angel investors are picking up the slack to invest smaller amounts in early stage funding.»

The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday but set the stage for a hike in December amid signs the economy is picking up steam.

Moran has refocused the company's funding to target earlier - stage start - ups and get in at the ground level of young companies that might still be trying to figure out their business paths but are generating innovating technology in the process.

They'll be manufactured from powder that solidifies as it's heated up in stages to form the sneaker's various layers.

In every stage of my life, I've had to learn to stand up for myself and speak out.

While the team believes a Bolstr HQ is in the company's future, at these early stages of the start - up the 24/7 work - life mash - up model just didn't pay dividends, concludes Tribbet, and he doubts he's alone in being unable to resist the lure of socializing.

Russia, whose relations with the West have deteriorated to levels of Cold War - era hostility, has denied any gas attack took place in Douma and even accused Britain of staging it to whip up anti-Russian hysteria.

While on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, the VC and co-founder of Sun Microsystems called out his fellow VCs, saying that most provide little value to entrepreneurs in the early stages of their start - ups.

• The Knight Prototype Fund, which invests up to $ 50,000 in people with early - stage media and information ideas, invested $ 1 million in 20 projects that see to improve the flow of accurate information.

But business owners whose companies and families are in the early stages may not need to ante up... yet... for a pricey consultation.

When HEX was in its earliest stages, Westervelt had to remain agile and shift his business plan, but by making sure his product was perfect before he went to retailers, he was able to set his business up for success.

At the moment, he is holding stage in the basement of a Greenwich Village restaurant called Le Poisson Rouge, lecturing an audience of would - be Zuckerbergs on how to raise money for their start - ups.

«There are ongoing challenges in translating a reused rocket to tangible capex savings — worries about it failing, insurance implications, retrofitting turnaround, building up a critical mass of reused first stages in the warehouse,» Jefferies said.

Harper says the Liberals passed up on a chance to renew the softwood lumber agreement in exchange for supporting the Trans - Pacific Partnership, and he says their subsidies to Bombardier set the stage for huge tariffs today.

The Founder Institute was started by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi, who wanted to improve the rate of start - up success by providing high - potential entrepreneurs with «expert training, critical objective feedback, and peer support in the early stages of building a company.»

Most start - ups are short of cash in the launch stages and then lurch from one crisis to another as they struggle to keep afloat.

Peter Kirby, CEO of Texas blockchain - focused start - up Factom, likened the technology's stage of development to that of the internet in the early 1990s, when it was seen as little more than a way to send emails.

From ResQme to ResQMi to RescueMe, if you can think of a phrase with the word «rescue» in it, it probably showed up on stage among the roughly 30 emergency and disaster related hacks.

RNT Associates, the privately held investment firm of Tata Sons chairman emeritus Ratan Tata, has tied up with the University of California to jointly fund startups and early - stage enterprises in India.

In a nutshell this means that early stage startups and small businesses will be able to raise up to $ 1 million through investments as low $ 100 per person.

Tech startup entrepreneurs should seek professional legal advice when setting up or making changes to their capitalization structure, choosing legal counsel with experience in setting up early - stage ventures and working on investment rounds for their clients.

Robert offers this insight to explain why more marketers say they focus on creating the right content for the right person at the right time, yet fewer report crafting content specifically for the buyer's journey: «It could be a semantical difference to some degree, but rather than the «old - school» development of content for the buyer's journey, we're seeing a focus on dynamically serving up content in the audience's time — no matter what stage they happen to be in.