Sentences with phrase «while most founders»

Note the use of plurals: a venture capitalist will invest in tens if not hundreds of companies over their career, while most founders will only ever start one company; that means that for the venture capitalist investing is an iterated game.

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The Huffington Post founder had collapsed of exhaustion and broken her cheekbone as a result of the fall — a collapse that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building the site, now one of the most widely - read in the U.S.

While the number one slot on this list will shock absolutely no one and the rest of the top ten contain plenty of big name schools, PitchBook is at pains to point out that, while the most famous schools might produce the most successful founders, the vast majority of entrepreneurs bagging VC funding have more down - to - earth names on their degWhile the number one slot on this list will shock absolutely no one and the rest of the top ten contain plenty of big name schools, PitchBook is at pains to point out that, while the most famous schools might produce the most successful founders, the vast majority of entrepreneurs bagging VC funding have more down - to - earth names on their degwhile the most famous schools might produce the most successful founders, the vast majority of entrepreneurs bagging VC funding have more down - to - earth names on their degrees.

While she's most widely known for her four - year stint as the administrator of the SBA under President Obama, she also served as executive chairwoman and founder of ProAmérica Bank, which services businesses within the Latino community.

Most venture - capital firms — Sequoia included — are used to the old equity model in which investors purchase private shares of a company, often while mentoring the founders to help the company reach its full potential.

«While Warren Buffett might be able to be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy, most of us just follow the herd,» said Allan Roth, founder of the Wealth Logic financial advisory firm.

In what was probably the most SXSW moment of SXSW, Mashable combined them both: Outside the convention center, I caught Pete Cashmore, the website's founder, and its chief correspondent Lance Ulanoff, weaving through the crowd while talking into a screen perched atop a selfie stick.

While most startups will be self - funded by its founders or the founder's immediate family and friends, some seek and accept third party «seed funding,» an investment at the very early stages of a company.

Today's infographic celebrates some of the most successful women in technology and business, while also highlighting workforce composition, female founders, and how companies can prioritize retention of women.

In January 2013, Jody Sherman, the 48 - year - old founder of Ecomom, one of the most prominent Vegas tech - funded startups, shot himself while in his car.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

Remote work helps businesses make the most of the workers they do have, while still keeping the needs of each worker in mind, says Emily Morgan, founder of

Cruz has largely followed the classic Moral Majority model that was the face of the conservative movement — he has received endorsements from figures such as Focus on the Family founder James Dobson — while Trump «tends to work most closely with the prosperity wing of Pentecostalism» which tends to believe that God would financially reward believers.

The most generous Tory donor was Addison Lee founder John Griffin, who handed over # 900,000, while hedge fund manager John Armitage gave # 500,000.

Still, while it is exciting to see the rapid advance in Indian science, the emergence of world - class institutions, and the increase in collaborations and external engagement, Aseem Ansari, a professor of genomics and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the founder and director of the Khorana and S.N. Bose Scholars exchange programs, reckons «it will take another decade to remodel national research infrastructure and create scientific ecosystems that are comparable to what one has access to at most R1 research institutions in the U.S.»

As heroic and important as RBSS's activism is, however, it's the quieter moments of personal reflection that linger most, as when one of the organization's founders succumbs to a fit of uncontrollable shaking, his body processing the grief and loss that he has so assiduously tried to keep at bay while literally trying to save his country.

The founder of AudioFile Robin Whitten elaborated on the most popular genres on the website «Mystery & Suspense gets the most attention, while Science Fiction and Fantasy are popular with a fairly distinct audience; we have a lot of listeners who like Young Adult titles, because of of very popular summer SYNC program.

Studio founder Jeff Strain broke the news in a company blog post, and while most details won't be revealed until later in the year, he hinted strongly that the deal involves the State of Decay IP.

While most of the press that attended their announcement found it almost laughable, the founders of the group seemed to believe in it.

While some, such as Greenpeace, denounce chlorine, Dr. Moore, a founder of the group who later left in part due to his science - based understanding of the benefits of chlorine says, «Chlorine is the most important element in the periodic table for public health and medicine.

«While most tokens are bought and sold on speculation, Token Report has researched and analyzed which ones are being put to use on their various decentralized apps and platforms,» indicated Token Report Founder and CEO Galen Moore.

«While most tokens are bought and sold on speculation, Token Report has researched and analyzed which ones are being put to use on their various decentralized apps and platforms,» said Galen Moore, Founder and CEO of Token Report.

«Our most optimistic group of experts projects average annual home value appreciation of almost 5 percent annually through the five - year period ending in 2022, while the most pessimistic group expects an average annual rate of just 1.4 percent,» says Terry Loebs, founder of Pulsenomics, which conducted the survey in conjunction with Zillow.