Sentences with phrase «well as backers»

Long chided by analysts for its insular nature, the seven - member board included Koogle, Mallett, and Yang, as well as backers Moritz and Eric Hippeau of Softbank.

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At the lowest levels, the campaign offered backers exclusive access to Ries's new book, «The Leader's Guide,» as well as a copy of Riese's next non-exclusive book.

Other investors in the round include past backers Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Stanford as well as new investor Hostplus, another Australian superannuation fund.

In total, it has raised $ 589 million from prominent venture backers including Fidelity Investments, which led the last round, as well as Andreessen Horowitz and Venrock.

The transactions are structured so as to spare institutional backers of the ride - hailing firm the pain of marking down the value of their investments, while at the same time offering staff an exit well below what they may have been hoping for before the company was hit by a string of governance scandals.

For instance, there was an entrepreneur who was raising money for his coffee business and alongside his reward of coffee shipments, he offered backers the chance to be a «barista for a day» and have a coffee drink named after them, as well as a coffee tasting evening in his shop.

What you need to do is design your price points and rewards properly so as to reach your goal, while at the same time giving your project's backers the best possible deal.

Backers included impact investors such as Omidyar Network, Soros Economic Development Fund, Accion and Calvert Foundation as well as JP Morgan, TIAA - CREF and several development finance agencies.

Many of the companies using crowdfunding today are actually organizations with their own substantial PR and marketing budgets — as well as a full back - office support staff of internal PR people, marketing experts and financial backers fueling and helping their campaign.

When we hit 5,000 backers, you got a free hour - long webinar from Alex Osterwalder as well as exclusive posters and excerpts from his books Value Proposition Design and Business Model Generation.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

He also the primary backer of Macklowe Properties» $ 585 million acquisition of 1 Wall Street, as well as an investor in 432 Park Avenue «s retail condo.

In addition to GAC, a state - affiliated car maker, Uber China's backers now include the HNA Group, a major travel and logistics company (best known in China as the owner of Hainan Airlines, the country's largest privately - owned airline); China Taiping Insurance, a Hong Kong - listed insurance company; China Life, another insurance company; and CITIC Securities, an investment bank part of the state - backed CITIC Group.

Well known as investors in Twitter and early backers of Foursquare, which recently raised $ 20 million in Series B funding, Union Square Ventures is lead by Brad Burnham, Fred Wilson, and Albert Wenger.

Union Square Ventures Well known as investors in Twitter and early backers of Foursquare, which recently raised $ 20 million in...

You have to figure out how to ship everything to your backers as well as stay on top of any issues that arise.

Crowdfunding relies on the online as well as real world identities for issuers, commenters, and backers being transparent to one another.

What is with the Christian backers of their god as soon as they are backed into a corner and they do not have a logical answer they come back well after the fact and start the same BS arguments all over again.

Time for a reality check the dream was that self finance from the satdium would put us up their with major players, good idea in the years we moved, however time for investment from Usminov or get some Chinese backers (looks like liverpool are) as football has moved the oalposts from the dream eg Man City, Chelsea, PSG etc

The Patriots are pegged as 1 - point favorites at most of the Vegas sportsbooks monitored by Oddsshark, although Seattle backers can still find a better line for their team at some of the online books.

I love Diaby, he is such a talent and I have been one of his biggest backers, I have always wanted us to give him chance after chance to get his fitness back as I think he is very very good when fit.

As you can see, BetOnline is posting the best number for Clinton backers -LRB--280).

That is a good thing though for Stoke backers as the home team need to win by two clear goals to fully cover this line.

He will have powerful backers from the unions and among the new members, as well as strategic and managerial input from a committed backroom team.

In the Senate, many Democrats as well as members of the Independent Democratic Conference are backers, and several Republicans also are in favor.

Political backers included MPs who had first - hand experience of the perversity of police having the power to set bail conditions and lengths without even having enough evidence to make a charge such as Damian Green MP and my good friend Nigel Evans MP.

This year, Ukip has attracted a number of high - profile backers including former Tory donors Paul Sykes and Arron Banks as well as the newspaper proprietor Richard Desmond.

Among its listed backers are several actors and figures who have been major supporters of de Blasio's mayoralty — like actors Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon and Steve Buscemi, as well as left - leaning political magazine The Nation's editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel.

The five month - old Akufo - Addo government has severally come under severe rebuke from well - meaning Ghanaians, including some of government's known backers as a result of some «strange» decisions of the President and, actions and / or, inactions of some appointees and activities of the ruling party's vigilante groups.

And just as Cameron celebrated by flipping burgers for his MPs, Labour's union backers seemed to have delivered the PM an almost too - good - to - be-true opportunity to revive the «Red Ed» tag and paint Miliband as weak.

With Skelos and Cuomo on the same page, teachers unions will no doubt continue to point to the wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign as well as independent expenditure campaigns backing Republican Senate candidates last year.

Backers feel that first - year record of accomplishment puts lawmakers in good stead to maintain control as they head into a new election cycle in 2015.

He said he has backers from a cross section of the criminal justice system, «as well as citizens who want politics out of the DA's office and law enforcement.»

Nigel Farage has described multi-millionaire Ukip backer Arron Banks as a «good friend» despite his Hillsborough gaffe comments.

Cuomo decided to prohibit fracking in the state a month after his re-election in 2014, but had previously been criticized by backers of the process, who accused him of hindering economic development, as well as opponents convinced he was about to give his blessing to environmental despoliation.

Some senior Labour figures who know the inner circle well say that nothing will happen until Len McCluskey, his most powerful union backer, has secured re-election as the leader of Unite, in April.

Brown's biggest financial backers during the recent six - month period come from the local business community and include the Buffalo Niagara Partnership as well as the 43 x 79 political action committee formed by some of the city's top business leaders.

As an ardent and well known Eurosceptic, Dr Fox's endorsement would have given her campaign major credibility with Brexit backers.

The backers hope that this genetic information will lead to identifying genes for draught, disease, and pest resistance as well as tolerance for poor soils.

Contributors to the soundtrack include fellow developers, like Insomniac Games, as well as gaming music composers and even Kickstarter backers.

Well, its backers seem to believe so, as jOBS is premiering as the closing night entry at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival this month.

WayForward turned to crowdfunding in order to bring Half - Genie Hero to life, and while that doesn't always mean good things for a game's development, here it was a definite boon, as the developer clearly took the responsibility of delivering a quality title to backers very seriously.

For more details about codes for Kickstarter backers, as well as development status for what's left for the game, make sure to check out this Kickstarter update!

He called the results a turning point that demonstrated the political power of charter school backers as well as others who are seeking more high - quality learning opportunities for local students.

Part of the concern is due to her past support of charter schools and connections to Broad, as well as her connections to Bill Gates and the Walton family, who are also major financial backers of charter schools that directly threaten union teacher jobs.

Backers say it would require voters to approve guaranteed pension benefits for new workers, as well as benefit increases for current ones.

My base was small as well, but I successfully funded two of my own projects through Kickstarter, and have advised several others (all successful so far) To be sure, doing a Kickstarter campaign is a ton of work before, during and after, and you would be well advised to do your homework and have as much of the project done, and your target backers scoped out and ready to contact before you start the clock ticking.

Likewise, I have the shorter works I want to finish off as well and get to Kickstarter backers who are LONG overdue for getting the shinies that are due them.

The publishing houses made a lot of money on their own genre best - sellers, but the Amazon backers were not wrong to think that some of the institutions associated with American publishing — such as The New York Times, which has reported on the Hachette - Amazon standoff in great detail — did not take self - published genre writers all that seriously, and probably never would.

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