Sentences with phrase «venture the world as»

In Mugen Souls Z, you'll be venturing each world as you activate story segments and come across a whole bunch of monsters.

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She sees her role on the panel of judges as one of mutual benefit, bringing her research and experiences in entrepreneurial and philanthropic ventures to the event while meeting other promising social entrepreneurs from around the world.

«DEFINITELY NOT A BUBBLE:» China's digital revolution was bankrolled with dollars, and it has emerged as the world's second - largest destination for venture capital with more than 3,000 funds.

There were some clues in the press release as to the inauthenticity of this brave new venture: we dated the release March 31 but datelined it from the Republic of Vanuatu, an island with two of the most active volcanoes in the world.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

Nathan Gilliland was the founder of Boston - based biomass energy company Harvest Power and more recently served as an entrepreneur - in - residence with Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of the world's largest venture capital firms.

Chamath has never been afraid of controversially calling it as it is within the venture world, such as in his late - 2015 piece on what's wrong with venture capital, and is even part of the Golden State Warriors ownership group, which he joined in 2011, during an abysmal 23 - 43 run which seems a lifetime away from two years of triumph.

«We will continue to have access to infrastructure and resources Alphabet provides, but in this new world as Waymo we also have this feeling like we are a venture backed startup,» Krafcik said.

Initial Coin Offerings, a fundraising mechanism for companies using cryptocurrencies as a mechanism to buy their service, seem to be upending the world of venture capital.

As important as the difference to the world, that difference — if you act according to your values, as Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourselAs important as the difference to the world, that difference — if you act according to your values, as Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourselas the difference to the world, that difference — if you act according to your values, as Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourselas Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourself.

In the online world, Williams is seen as a truth teller, an engineer who's not afraid to stick it to the suits and the venture capitalists.

«Some of the heroes of today's would - be entrepreneurs, such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Michael Dell did not have business plans in hand when they embarked on ventures that changed the world,» the study noted.

One of the start - ups to receive a no - action letter was FundersClub, a Y Combinator - incubated company that fashions itself as the world's first online venture capital firm — but doesn't bill itself as a crowdfunding site.

More than 500 digital technology startups around the world have raised funds by selling their own cryptocurrencies, or tokens, that sidestep banks or venture capital firms as intermediaries.

While the experiences of women entrepreneurs in the developing world are as diverse as the countries they inhabit, since the difficulties facing a small woman - owned business in Vietnam looks nothing like that of a new venture in, say, Turkey or India, there are some common challenges.

So says Bill Gurley, partner at VC firm Benchmark of Menlo Park, California, who on Thursday posted a lengthy blog post on the new world of venture capital investing for startups as he sees it.

For example, the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card and the Barclaycard Arrival Plus World Elite MasterCard both offer double miles on all purchases, and each mile is worth one cent as statement credits toward travel reservations.

John Lee Dumas's guests all have something new and interesting to share, and provide a blissful glimpse into what life is like for those who have been able to venture out into the harsh world of the entrepreneur and come through the other side - far from unscathed, as you'll hear, but certainly wiser for the experience.

Mills, who served on Obama's SBA transition team, has been described as a venture capitalist, but she's really from the world of private equity.

Now, the Svensons are rapidly expanding their next venture — transforming the world of pizza as co-founders of MOD Pizza, which they claim is the first fast - casual customizable pizza company.

Mehrdad Baghai, the managing director of Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique advisory and venture firm in Sydney, Australia, spent months researching the world's most innovative and successful companies for his book As One: Individual Action, Collective Power.

Or maybe you're launching a new venture in a particular sector, and you want the eyes of the world on it - but do you have to do that by disregarding (read as «disrespecting») the work of others already in that realm?

Allbirds» debut sneaker, the $ 95 «Wool Runner,» has been called the world's most comfortable shoe by venture capitalists and startup founders — as well as the company itself.

«If what we as a nation are going to focus on is pulling stuff out of the ground, selling it to the world and then buying back the finished goods, I can tell you from a prosperity perspective which way we're going, and it's not up,» says John Ruffolo, head of the venture capital arm of OMERS.

Because in the venture world, you're looking for businesses that can get scale very, very quickly, and as a result, need capital in order to fund that growth.

It has emerged as the world's second - largest destination for venture capital, with more than 3,000 funds.

As a 30 - year veteran of the venture capital business in Silicon Valley, the cycle of our world has become all too familiar.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Also joining the round as new investors are Silicon Valley's Sapphire Ventures, Japanese company Mitsui & Co, Ltd, and U.S. - Japan venture firm World Innovation Lab.

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.

With some companies accepting investments of as little as $ 100, crowdfunding makes it easier for those of limited means to participate in the exciting world of venture capital.

As they say in the venture capital world: sometimes there is no there - there.

I would say it probably wasn't until I was two years into the process that I even had confidence to write a check, to make a decision as a venture capitalist, because the first couple years all I learned was shocking and confusing and I'm realizing that was very different from a normal world.

In the tech world, misconduct allegations have resulted in the ouster of CEOs at BetterWorks Systems Inc. and Social Finance Inc., as well as several venture capitalists, including Justin Caldbeck and Steve Jurvetson.

If those people were as engaged as online World Cup viewers — and I'd venture that, on average, they were less engaged than people watching the most popular sporting event on the planet — those 10.7 million digital views would translate into an average - minute TV audience of 28,563 persons.

The saga speaks to the broader problems that China's state - owned giants are having as they venture into the wider world.

NASA's Deep Space Gateway would serve as an international hub in orbit around the Moon; available to partner agencies from around the world as well as commercial ventures active in cislunar space.

As I pointed out in my first blog, the percentage of women in corporate leadership positions today is abysmal, and it's even worse in the venture capital world.

More than 200 investors and entrepreneurs from around the globe will soon converge in Kansas City as part of one of the most highly - esteemed venture capital organizations in the world.

«As a world leader in entrepreneurial skills development and venture services programming, MaRS is a natural partner for SDTC.

As far as women being deterred from joining the venture world, she believes that there is work to be donAs far as women being deterred from joining the venture world, she believes that there is work to be donas women being deterred from joining the venture world, she believes that there is work to be done.

Initially, the bitcoin exchange will only be restricted to users in the U.S.. However, the firm has plans of venturing overseas as revealed by Chief Executive Brian Armstrong who hopes that this will go on to become the biggest exchange in the world.

«One of GFI's senior scientists, Liz Specht, has given presentations at some of the largest venture capital firms in the world, such as Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, and DFJ.

Social Venture Partners has been recognized as one of the innovators in the philanthropic world combining the best facets of Venture Capital into the philanthropic world.

For instance, GFI's science team has met with some of the largest venture capital funds in the world, from Andreessen Horowitz to DFJ to Kleiner Perkins, as well as many key innovation - focused investors.

The return on investment for these rookie investors «will be as bad as in the venture capital world, but that doesn't mean that people won't do it,» Wilson said.

Now, as one of the world's largest venture capital firms, we have more than $ 20 billion in committed capital across 16 funds, including a $ 3.3 billion fund that closed in 2017.

To learn how the God of the Christian heritage is addressing us in the new world, calling us, as he ever does, to venture into the unknown by faith alone, let us start at the very beginning and examine the nature of faith itself.

To see the world in the Christian way — which, as I say in the book, requires the eye of charity and a faith in Easter — is in some sense to venture everything upon an absurd impracticality (I almost sound Kierkegaardian when I say it that way).

The Christian heroism (and perhaps it is rarely to be seen) is to venture wholly to be oneself, as an individual man, this definite individual man, alone before the face of God, alone in this tremendous exertion and this tremendous responsibility; but it is not Christian heroism to be humbugged by the pure idea of humanity or to play the game of marveling at world - history.