Sentences with phrase «who first ventured»

Defendor marks the directorial debut for Peter Stebbings, a seasoned Canadian TV actor who first ventured behind the camera as writer and producer of Jack and Jill vs. the World.

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It's within this context that I present today's newsletter: a Q&A with Myrna Soto, who has just been hired as the first female partner at Trident Capital Cybersecurity, a San Mateo, Calif. - based venture capital firm focused exclusively on digital security.

But he is sending his sister, Kim Yo Jong, who has been described as one of his most trusted advisors, as his representative, marking the first time any member of North Korea's ruling family has ventured below the DMZ since the Korean War.

The Gawker founder has reportedly had talks in the past with billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban as well as eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, who already funds his own independent media entity, First Look Media.

Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist turned hedge fund manager who is also a former Facebook executive, has built up some credibility since his first appearance last year at the conference, which benefits pediatric disease research: Amazon stock is up some 34 % in the meantime.

One of the venture funds I work with specializes in seed investments: early - stage deals that are often made with young, bright, first - time entrepreneurs who've been working hard to get the chance to build their dream company.

«I wouldn't be surprised if Meg ended up the first female President,» says Bob Kagle, a cofounder of venture capital firm Benchmark, who helped recruit Whitman to eBay.

First and foremost, Dejoria said that anyone who is embarking on a business venture should be ready to hear the word «no» a lot.

But Prabhakar, who first led a major federal office when she was only 34 and later spent time as a venture capitalist, is meeting the challenge with an outsider's enthusiasm.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

Both of those homegrown companies built a formidable strategic advantage by being first in the Latin American market, says Alan Colmenares, who worked for Intel's venture capital arm in Mexico and Brazil and now serves as a facilitator in his native Colombia for the Founder Institute, an incubator focused on tech start - ups across the globe.

Lest we forget, James» first job upon returning home was as program manager for Blue Startups, a venture accelerator bankrolled by Henk Rogers, the man who developed the video game Tetris.

Although founders of a previously successful business have a 30 % chance of success with their next venture, founders who have failed at a prior business have a 20 % chance of succeeding versus an 18 % chance of success for first time entrepreneurs.

That's when Mokhtarzada, out of his element in the realm of venture capitalism, took on his first advisory board member — who quickly posed a fortuitous question: «If you sell this company right now, what are you going to do tomorrow?»

WHO: Joan P. Neuscheler, principal at Tullis - Dickerson & Co., a venture - capital firm in Greenwich, Conn., and board member of AmericasDoctor, which (among other things) offers a health - information Web site for consumers RATING: 4 «I think they have strong management and a good board of directors — and that's usually the first place I look for flaws.

Frankly, many venture investors who see a race to lock up market share as a first mover in your space may want you incurring big losses in the near term to sign up as many customers as possible today before a competitor does.

And after two years of bootstrapping, it's cash - flow positive, thanks in part to investors like John Stix, who started out as one of the company's first clients and has since become an investor (Plasticity raised $ 2.1 million in a financing round led by the venture arm of Stix's company in 2014).

The first Apprentice, who is now a motivational and business speaker as well as a restaurant owner and real estate developer, said he used those lessons in building the brands of his own ventures.

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Peter Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist who was one of Facebook's first investors and is close to President Donald Trump, has reportedly invested millions of dollars in Bitcoin through his Founders Fund venture capital firm.

Peter Thiel is a renowned American entrepreneur and venture capitalist born in Germany who inter alia co-founded PayPal and Palantir and was the first outside investor in Facebook.

First, unlike a traditional office, coworking spaces consist of members who work for a range of different companies, ventures, and projects.

Yesterday Wylie told the committee that Kosinski had asked for $ 500k up front from CA and 50 % equity in the commercial venture to work on the project — which he said was ultimately why it ended up signing a data licensing deal with another Cambridge professor, Aleksandr Kogan, who agreed to work first on gathering the Facebook data and to discuss commercial terms later.

If there are some noticeable gaps in the European venture scene, the first is there is still a small number of European entrepreneurs who have built products and scaled and exited and then went on to become investors, relative to the size of the market.

The venture capitalists I admire most are roll - up your sleeves and work people like Lee, instead of fickle cheerleaders who turn and run at the first sign of a problem.

Chris is the first professional allocator I've spoken with who focuses specifically on venture capital funds, so I had a ton of questions for him on how to build a portfolio in an asset class known for uncertain, but often enormous, outcomes.

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

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VC's who've watched as no startup business plan survived first contact with customers continue to insist that startups write business plans as the price of entry to venture funding.

The report, which was first made by Sky News, says that Google is in «advanced talks» to place a minority $ 30 million stake in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and invest an undisclosed amount that is somewhere in the range of «hundreds of millions of dollars» in Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism venture, which aims to take well - heeled clients who can pay $ 200,000 for a ticket to an orbital space flight around the Earth.

This article focuses on yet another challenge for first - time micro venture capital fund managers who seek to grow a successful and durable business — deploying the raised capital prudently with an eye towards subsequent, larger funds.

Right now, venture firms are reacting in part to the $ 100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund, which SoftBank has hinted is merely the first of more gigantic funds it plans to raise, including from investors in the Middle East who'd like to plug more money into Silicon Valley than they've been able to do historically.

Angels also often act as the primary sources of capital for early - stage «Seed» Venture Capital firms who in turn often act as the first institutional money source for startups.

The Venture Center's Pre-Accelerator is for early - stage or first - time entrepreneurs who are serious about building a scalable, repeatable and investable business.

Let's agree first that there is [a] God, and then we can venture into Who that God is and what He wants, and all.

First, nothing that follows will have any impact on those for whom marriage is simply a self - satisfying venture and who are incapable of seeing it as a calling, a mission, and a commitment of service and love.

In the strictest sense, and let us really be strict with ourselves in order that we may not venture to call ourselves sufferers, the first time anything goes against us; but let us be all the more tender with those who are in the strictest sense sufferers.

Those who are finally venturing online for the first time may not immediately see the expected spike in sales.

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Who: Marcie Macari launched Bloomin» Belly Soaps (her first product venture) less than two years ago but she is no newbie to being in business for herself.

The Times unearthed a corporate intelligence company with a close interest in Sri Lanka, a property investor who lobbies for Israel and a venture capitalist keen on strong ties to fund the # 147,000 bill he notched up on travel and hotels, sometimes including first class travel and five - star hotels.

On a frigid Tuesday morning in Brooklyn, Cynthia Nixon, in her first official campaign venture, made the case for herself to become the next governor of New York, an impassioned liberal who would lead vigorously from the left.

Ganesh was less forthcoming about Kumar's kidney venture, so I went to see Rakesh Maria, a top official of the Mumbai Police who shut down Kumar's first foray into transplants, in 1995.

First contacted in 1972, they violently resisted intruders and over the decades had clubbed to death many who ventured into their territories.

It's also clear how this mild region, sheltered by mountains from the cold steppes to the north and from arid plains to the south, would have appealed to a band of human ancestors who may well have been the first to venture out of Africa nearly 2 million years ago.

He's joined on the paper by several other members of both the CBMM and the McGovern Institute: first author Joel Leibo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who earned his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT with Poggio as his advisor; Qianli Liao, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Fabio Anselmi, a postdoc in the IIT@MIT Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, a joint venture of MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology; and Winrich Freiwald, an associate professor at the Rockefeller University.

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