Sentences with phrase «while venture capitalists»

While venture capitalists have invested some $ 140 million into Blockchain startups over the past 12 months, ICOs have raised over $ 331 million in the same time frame.

While venture capitalists backing an IT start - up may be able to get their money out in two to three years, investors in a biotech firm have to wait ten years even to find out whether a product will be approved for use.

While the venture capitalists who spoke to VentureBeat for this article were all enthusiastic about the role that Microsoft could play in the market, they each cautioned that the company still needed to prove it was playing a long game in the venture market.

While some venture capitalists have kept secret lists of those declining companies and many insiders have their proprietary predictions, there's at least one good way to predict the overall tech industry slowdown in San Francisco: the state of the commercial - property market.

While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.

The mainstream news media caught onto the story while venture capitalists lined up to fund any business with «bit» in its name.

Not exact matches

And while this has largely benefited residents of Silicon Valley, who have immediate admission into a row of venture capitalists, on a macroeconomic scale, this has proven to be inefficient, as the majority of people with ideas and talent do not have admittance into this elitist group.

Just last month, financial powerhouses Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered PLC raised their investment in the operator of e-wallet MoMo by $ 28 million, while Silicon Valley - based venture capitalist 500 Startups announced a $ 10 million Vietnam - focused fund.

Fishbein says that while corporations have been underinvesting in their security infrastructure in recent years, venture capitalists have been overinvesting in start - ups.

And the lawsuit alleges that Silicon Valley venture capitalist and board member Marc Andreessen was personally advising Zuckerberg, while also sitting on a supposedly impartial advisory committee overseeing the restructuring maneuver.

While many believe venture capitalists are the best source for small businesses, less than 2 percent will ever get funds from them.

Mehta has words of advice for the new AI entrants, he states that following the below mentioned approaches, startup owners could gain confidence while dealing with leading venture capitalists as far as raising post-Series A funding is concerned:

A panel of venture capitalists analyze local businesses and pick a select few to invest in, with the goal of igniting growth, while also helping the Cleveland neighborhoods they are in.

At a party last year, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz and Ashton Kutcher jumped on stage to dance while Nas rapped.

Joanne Wilson is an investor in 17 different startups as of 2012, while husband Fred is a venture capitalist to his own companies.

While Kik likely makes the ten - figure cut (Livingston also won't disclose Kik's own valuation figures), it tends not to attract the kind of buzz that venture capitalists and the tech press fawn over.

When sitting in my dark gray cell with my books, newspapers and magazines, while writing, reading and researching the tech sector, I would visualize myself in Silicon Valley at partner meetings, with my new startup, raising capital from prominent venture capitalists.

In its ruling, the agency also suggested it's looking for a way to encourage the promise of blockchain - based financial innovation — described in papers like this highly - cited one by venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan — while also protecting investors from scammers.

While the number of startups has increased exponentially, the number of active venture capitalists has shrunk by more than 2 / 3rds in the past decade to less than 750 today and still shrinking.

And, during a peer - reviewed study earlier this year in Sweden, researchers observed that venture capitalists described female and male entrepreneurs with drastically different words, from calling the male entrepreneurs «Young and Promising» while calling similar female entrepreneurs, «Young and Inexperienced.»

One female entrepreneur recounted how she had been propositioned by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist while seeking a job with him, which she did not land after rebuffing him.

And while some businesses are able to find equity investment from an angel investor or venture capitalist, many small businesses rely on borrowed money...

While some companies may develop and scale independently, many of the most impactful companies will require capital to grow and venture capitalists will play an important role.

While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to hold tremendous potential value as a medium of exchange, it is the underlying distributed ledger technology, blockchain, which has emerged to truly capture the interest of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, financial institutions and other corporations.

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur who has made a habit of reading online technology blogs and / or Twitter feeds of Silicon Valley venture capitalists (VCs), you might get the idea that the only «real» way to start a business is to formulate a «home run» idea, get deep - pocketed investors to provide the capital, then grind out a world - changing organization that puts a dent in the universe while making everyone involved ridiculously rich.

While in most companies the venture capitalists have to worry about their reputation along with their capital, in the case of Uber there is simply too much money at stake: transforming a $ 68 billion paper return to a real return (and guaranteeing a per partner return in the nine figures) is worth whatever reputational damage is incurred along the way.

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.

In 2004, while serving as a venture capitalist herself, Hoke had the opportunity to tour several Texas state prisons.

Some Venture capitalists prefer to invest in firms to the tune of $ 100million and above while others are comfortable investing $ 100k — $ 10million.

Designed by experienced venture capitalists for new and professional entrepreneurs, the seven week curriculum will improve your ability to consummate a transaction in venture capital financing while avoiding common mistakes.

Today's startups may take many forms: some are run as side hustles on shoestring budgets, while others may be backed by venture capitalists at multi-million dollar valuations even before a cent of revenue is generated.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

All the while, these firms have proved immensely profitable for a relative handful of venture capitalists, founders and IPO participants.

This proves an interesting point when correlated to the fact that many American venture capitalists (VCs) are serial entrepreneurs, while their Canadian counterparts generally come from financial, not entrepreneurial backgrounds.

Ben Horowitz and Peter Thiel are fellow venture capitalists, while Eric Ries developed the «lean startup» methodology based on his experiences advising startups.

And while it's funny, because venture capitalist, you know, whatever.

While the New Economy bubble may have burst long ago, information technology is still the darling of venture capitalists.

It's Just Not That Simple «The people most visibly drawn to extolling the joys and the privileges of teaching are high - powered attorneys, successful venture capitalists, and exceedingly youthful movie stars Meaning they have not come near an actual school in quite a while.»

While the market is maturing in the United States, venture capitalist experts see the field as crowded, which means that winners have yet to be firmly established, and when a field is crowded, mergers and acquisitions can't be far behind.

While it exudes presence, the subtle styling defused any ire from bystanders that might otherwise be aimed at a peacocking venture capitalist or Hollywood mogul.

Moreover, the various career opportunities that you get while pursuing this course include Financial Accountant, Management Consultant, Investment Banker, Venture Capitalist / Private, Equity and Financial Analyst - Corporate Finance.

Arizona State research indicates venture capitalists and institutions are cleaning up while normal investors miss out.

While this specific example is entirely fictitious, it is not entirely dissimilar to many of the situations that early stage venture capitalists have to study in order to make an investment decision.

If you have an entrepreneurial vision but don't have a parent, spouse, or venture capitalist supporting you, freelance writing is a fantastic way to pay your bills while you focus on your greater goals.

Ruby Lerner, director of Creative Capital, was charged with creating a «21st century arts organization,» drawing inspiration from venture capitalists and mutual aid models, and thinking through the possibility of bringing together grantmaking and artist services, while incorporating an entrepreneurial spirit.

While private investors and entrepreneurs are jumping into alternative energy projects, they can not be counted on to solve such problems, economists say, because even the most aggressive venture capitalists want a big payback within five years.

While many investments look sketchy for 2009, venture capitalists expect green technology to receive strong funding according to a KPMG survey.

While this was an arbitrary milestone, it was probably not a coincidence that the cryptocurrency soon started attracting the attention of Silicon Valley and venture capitalists.

The aim of the Midas List ranking is to identify the venture capitalists who are providing the best returns for their investors, while helping create the most valuable and impactful technology and life science companies.

Some early - stage venture capitalists selfishly acknowledge that while Son is a destabilizing force in Silicon Valley, he is a force for good if he can buy out their shares in secondary transactions — offering them and their own investors an early exit.