The best performing early-stage funds always do better than the best performing growth-stage funds because they get in earlier at lower valuations.
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If you go back and look at the industry statistics and returns of growth-stage funds as a whole vs. early-stage funds as a whole, the returns over time tend to be quite similar.
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Forrester expects Britain and Germany to go into the same hyper-growth stage of e-business about two years after America, with Japan, France and Italy a further two years behind.
If we want to hasten the transformation of education, we should not only acknowledge that we are in the awkward early-growth stage, but fully embrace it.
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But, he said, there was a funding gap between early funding, which was relatively easy to get, and later-stage growth funding which was very much harder.
Provide tax incentives to create locally-managed angel funds and seed and early-stage capital focused on minority high-growth entrepreneurs.
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To make things worse, before the financial crisis and enormous stimulus, China was already suffering from what I call late-stage-growth obesity, inefficiencies that are a byproduct of high growth rates sustained for a long period of time.
Her work life has been varied from nimble early-stage to slow-growth traditional companies.
Then peers take a detailed look at another private members' bill to have emerged from the Commons, the Prisons (Property) Bill , before turning to their fifth committee-stage day on the Growth and Infrastructure Bill.
One fund, Accel-IDG Growth Fund III, will be used to back early stage deals while the other fund, Accel-IDG Capital Fund II, will focus on later stage deals.
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All this will stimulate in the short term and set the stage for long-term growth.
We have seen a dramatic growth of students interning and working at early-stage companies over the past few years.
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While there are no hard and fast rules, option pools for early stage companies with high-growth potential often provide for a pool of option shares that would represent between 15%-20% of the total outstanding shares of the company.
In stage two, growth recovers and the longer-term process of reducing government debt begins.
We also look forward to the closing of strategic transactions and to the integration of process improvements that will set the stage for continued long-term profitable growth across all our business units.
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Onyx has data showing that Sorafenib slows tumor growth, compared with a placebo, but in late-stage trials only 2% of patients had their tumors shrink enough to be counted in the response rate.
The round was led by Europe-based late stage private equity firm Investor Growth Capital, with new investors Goldman Sachs and Accolade Partners (which is a limited partner in venture funds), along with existing investors Northbridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners and Tenaya Capital.
There exists a juvenile-growth hormone which prevents the ants from maturing past the drone stage.
Now, under Rahul's son, Rajiv, Bajaj has taken its own first steps onto the global stage with organic growth of exports, mostly to South-East Asia.
Amgen has moved two other cancer drugs in final stage trials, including an antibody to insulin-like growth factor 1 that is being tested in pancreatic cancer.
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As it came into being and strengthened in the 2004-2008 stage, the novelty of relative stability and economic growth was still fresh, and people overlooked its faults.
At this stage, I would probably steer clear of some of the more growth-oriented names out there, or we say high-beta names, and the reason for that is because volatility is so large.
At the May cancer conference Genentech was expected to unveil second-stage trial results showing that its antibody in combination with chemotherapy delayed the growth of colon tumors for up to four months compared to chemo alone, and added months to patients' lives.
Q3 statistics from Gust, which powers a majority of the organized early stage financing world, show a continued expansion of new, high-growth ventures outside the traditional startup centers, along with an increasing number of entrepreneurs seeking their first round of equity financing with products that are fully developed and ready to take to market.
The firm uses a foundation- and endowment-like approach to portfolio construction, investing primarily in early-stage technology companies, with some allocation to life sciences as well as early and growth investments in India and China.
Unlike an early-stage startup, Qualtrics has significant customer traction and the resources to pursue a number of growth opportunities.
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Weather-related work stoppages probably held down hiring and slowed wage growth in much of February, setting the stage for a surge in both job growth and wage growth this month.
Some of the largest tech companies--Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Dell--are at some stage of rethinking the structure and focus of their businesses in response to lackluster growth.
At this stage in the mid-1990s recovery, for example, we had averaged 0.9% growth each quarter since the end of the recession.
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