Sentences with phrase «worked as venture capitalists»

Most brand - new venture funds don't start life with $ 180 million in capital commitments, especially if they are launched by people who have not worked as venture capitalists before, and particularly not if those people want to focus narrowly on the global interactive entertainment industry.

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Previously worked as a venture capitalist, and once served as the chief financial officer of Priceline.com.

Becker's experience in intellectual property law and technology is extensive — prior to Lex Machina he was part of the founding team at Dice.com, ran corporate development at Agile Software, and worked as a venture capitalist at Redpoint Ventures.

Little wonder that Busque, whose company sold to Ikea last year and who today works as a venture capitalist, now wants to help women across a broad range of industries more easily come together to learn, to laugh, and to amplify each other's power.

Not exact matches

As long as you can prove your idea works at a small level, you may be able to convince a venture capitalist to back yoAs long as you can prove your idea works at a small level, you may be able to convince a venture capitalist to back yoas you can prove your idea works at a small level, you may be able to convince a venture capitalist to back you.

As one American - born Russian venture capitalist told Fortune: «Guys in their 40s are still working on their first fortunes, and the guys in their 60s running the big traditional industries don't have a taste for this young, risky, entrepreneurial stuff.»

He had enjoyed early success as a venture capitalist, working with Fred Wilson to launch one of New York City's first VC firms.

(His brother, Darren Bechtel, is a venture capitalist in San Francisco, and his sister, Katherine Bechtel, works as a cost and schedule planner for Bechtel.)

Jeb Miller joined Icon Ventures in 2009 as a General Partner, bringing over fifteen years of experience working with early - stage technology companies as a venture capitalist, operating executive and investment banker.

He brings more than 10 years of experience working with entrepreneurs and startups as both a founder and a venture capitalist.

That, for example, is why few folks are willing to criticize their colleagues or former companies: 1 today's former co-worker or former manager is tomorrow's angel investor or job reference, and memories are long and reputations longer.2 That holds particularly true for venture capitalists: as Marc Andreessen told Barry Ritholtz on a recent podcast, «We make our money on the [startups] that work and we make our reputation on the ones that don't.»

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He has also worked as an equity analyst covering basic materials and industrial stocks, as a venture capitalist in Prague, and as a tax consultant advising on numerous M&A, real estate, and oil and gas transactions.

GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

Other potential Democratic candidates include David Calone, a venture capitalist who also worked as a federal prosecutor; William Wexler, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who shares offices with Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer; Tad Scharfenberg, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who ran for district attorney in 1997; James Chalifoux, deputy bureau chief of the district attorney's major crimes bureau; Maureen McCormick, a top Nassau prosecutor who lives in Huntington; and Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan's Law, an advocacy group for victims of sexual assault.

Calone said he had experience as a venture capitalist creating private sector jobs and helping build affordable housing and working on solar regulations as chairman of the Suffolk County planning commission.

According to Newsday, other Democrat contenders include, former Congressional hopeful, David Calone, a venture capitalist who has also worked as a federal prosecutor; William Wexler, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor; Tad Scharfenberg, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who ran for district attorney in 1997; James Chalifoux, deputy bureau chief of the district attorney's major crimes bureau; Maureen McCormick, a top Nassau prosecutor who lives in Huntington; and Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan's Law, an advocacy group for victims of sexual assault.

It also comes from working as a biotech venture capitalist, where I read dozens of business plans written by scientists.

Researchers who join a start - up, in particular, find themselves routinely pitching their work to venture capitalists and potential corporate partners — giving the «dog and pony show,» as one scientist put it.

Jesse Eisenberg is at least working a more exciting tonal range as iconic villain Lex Luthor, positioned as a wunderkind venture capitalist / tech innovator who wants to disrupt Superman.

And the more Maslin, director of the leading provider of data - as - a-service geospatial data analytics, is cited in a major historical work on the murder of tens of millions, the better it is for him and his fellow venture capitalists at the Royal Society.

And through the course of the show you witness the successes and failures of the Project Earth Task Force ---- eco-designer Jennifer Languell, quantum physicist Basil Singer, and venture capitalist Kevin O'Leary — as they work with environmental engineer Mark Hodges to test his theory that aerial reforestation is a viable methodology.

«What we found working with venture capitalists is that they appreciate our expertise and Dentons as a potential first major customer who can help to shape their nascent companies» offerings,» Jansen says.

I'm not a military veteran myself, but I wanted to help; as a venture capitalist, I get to work with a lot of people in tech companies.