Sentences with phrase «went about raising»

So, how do you go about raising money for a company pre-product?

Although none present had first - hand experience with crowdfunding, it sounded like it might be a good way to go about raising additional funding.

What has irritated Murphy is how de Blasio is going about raising money, which he says is «politics at its worst.»

Not exact matches

The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA's first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department's expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

But at least some of what the service is going through raises questions not just about its core value — namely, that it's run by musicians for musicians — but also about its long - term prospects as a competitive streaming business.

It also makes your strategy more real; now, rather than just saying you want to raise money, you have to think about how that's going to happen, how much you need and how you'll use it.

I mean we're going to see this continued back and forth between the Fed talking about raising interest rates and therefore markets trying to absorb that higher term structure of rates, that's going to continue.

And while the book doesn't have anything useful to say about Canadian business leaders, it does raise some interesting questions about what's going on in Canadian business schools.

The documents provided by the coalition do illustrate the needless complexity of the tariff system, the red tape that companies go through in order to import goods and raise troubling questions about the conduct of the CBSA.

Those factors raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.

Of the roughly $ 25 billion in venture capital raised in 2006, only about $ 5 billion went to businesses under development or just beginning operation, according to separate surveys by Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Prior to going public, GrubHub had raised about $ 84 million from venture and private equity firms including Warburg Pincus Private Equity, GS Capital Partners, and Benchmark Capital Partners.

And the Fed can go about its path of raising short - term yields, confident that the Chinese authorities will do their part to push up long - term yields faster than the Fed is pushing up short - term yields.

When Zynga went public in December 2011, raising $ 1 billion in 100 million shares valued at $ 10 each, it instantly made Pincus a billionaire, worth about $ 1.12 billion on paper.

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

«We kind of go through it all with our customers, and most people are really open and excited about it,» says Cohen, who has not raised her menu prices.

But they are going to have to dismantle some of their welfare state, create labour market flexibility, stop being terrorized by organized labour and the farmers, accept real austerity in the offender countries, abandon this imbecility about leading the world, raise the birth rate and develop less meddlesome and authoritarian institutions.

Schwerin went on to say that adviser Minyon Moore had raised tough questions about the wisdom of making the speech because it could «unintentionally end up elevating questions that aren't yet being widely asked and introduce new damaging information, especially super predator, to a lot more voters.»

«Our goal is not only to support our listed companies doing business in the region, but to enable companies that are interested in raising capital in Canada to learn best practices about the going public process.»

The enterprise storage startup originally planned to go public Thursday and intended to raise about $ 100 million with its shares priced between $ 10.50 to $ 12.50.

But now, according to The Journal, we learn that Flynn's work involved a meeting on September 19, 2016 with senior Turkish government officials to discuss how to remove a Turkish dissident from the United States without going through judicial or other legal processes — actions that could violate U.S. criminal laws and that certainly raise anew serious questions about Flynn's judgment and ethics.

MADRID / LONDON, April 20 (Reuters)- The private equity funds of Blackstone and Apollo are the only two bidders left in the sale of Spanish gaming hall operator Cirsa, raising doubts about whether the sale will go ahead, sources familiar with the matter said.

MADRID / LONDON, April 20 - The private equity funds of Blackstone and Apollo are the only two bidders left in the sale of Spanish gaming hall operator Cirsa, raising doubts about whether the sale will go ahead, sources familiar with the matter said.

Too many Millennials complain about not getting paid enough while they do one of two things: they either do not ask for a raise, period, or they do not take the time to understand what would warrant a raise and going all - in on acquiring that skill set.

Tiny Speck raised about $ 17 million from notable VCs like Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners, and went on to release Glitch, a «massively multiplayer» online game.

«When we think about why companies go public, they do it for liquidity, to raise their profile, for capital,» John Tuttle, head of global listings at NYSE, told Business Insider.

That's according to PitchBook in tandem with Smith & Crown, which tallied up the latest numbers: ICOs have raised almost $ 1.3 billion in 2017 so far, while only about $ 358 million in traditional VC money went to blockchain startups over the same period.

Every person on your team needs to feel comfortable enough to talk about something they aren't comfortable with, or to raise the red flag on an idea they feel is going awry.

By the time Bhakta went to raise funds from investors, he says he was transparent about his intentions to hold on to the company for the long term.

«If you're thinking about raising capital or going public, then it helps to have a Big Six auditor.

About 80 percent of TechStars start - up graduates go on to raise venture capital or a significant angel - funding round, versus maybe 1 percent of all startups who seek funding.

That prompted Lauer to cite the timeline laid out by the Post; that the Justice Department last month raised concerns about Flynn's truthfulness, going as far as to say the general could be blackmailed by Russians.

I had raised an issue to everyone in the car beforehand, saying, «I don't feel safe about this road we're going down,» and sure enough, within 200 or 300 metres, we were under fire.

The company just filed a regulatory document that said, «If acceptable terms of a sale or partnership or out - of court restructuring can not be accomplished, we may not have enough cash and working capital to fund our operations beyond the very near term, which raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.»

I spoke with Cavale coming off the recent raise to learn more about some things he has learned in the early goings of his company.

To find a relevant precedent, one has to go back to 1994, when the Fed raised rates by 25 bps despite the market assigning only about a 30 percent chance (around what is expected now) of a tightening.

Companies are going public later, and initial public offerings are now often about cashing out earlier investors rather than raising money for productive enterprises.

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I have owned and rented, now with some financial assets growing in a dividend growth portfolio, I'd rather have the freedom of going anywhere I want and not have to worry about a broken pipe, all I have to worry about is paying my rent to my landlord, who will have a hard time raising rents, when my credit score is 800 and I am a great tenant who pays on time, He will DO ANYTHING to keep me, ah the power of renting... lol.

It is also raising questions about the company's potential plans to eventually go public.

Oil and gas producer Midstates Petroleum Co Inc raised doubts about its ability to remain as a going concern and said it may need to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The hiccups and the successes illustrate what's difficult about changing a city, and raise questions about just how far money can go.

Weak growth and low inflation have raised skepticism about whether the Federal Reserve can go ahead and hike rates this year.

Maybe going to the gym, talking to your boss about a raise, asking someone out on a date, one of those things you have to will yourself to do.

NetSuite's high - end pricing has to raise questions about its ability to achieve significant margin expansion going forward.

I liken this to a scuba diver who goes down and he has about an hour's worth of air, and then he's got ta come back up again and either get another tank or refill his tank, so you're limited on how much air you can have if you're scuba diving, but in business, unless you have a scuba diving type business, you don't wan na have to keep having to refill your tank, and so that's the issue that I see faces a lot of entrepreneurs and startups, is the amount of time and energy it takes to raise money for your business.

If you're committed to getting your business off the ground, though, there are several ways you could go about it: you could invest your own money, raise capital from others, or continually reinvest your company's earnings back into the business until it takes off.

«The prospect raises a range of thorny issues about how to go about slimming down the big banks.

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