When BMS was getting ready to start late stage clinical trials, they decided to seek a development and co-marketing partner.
Thiel puts his money where his mouth is, funding not only early-stage start-up companies but long-shot research into sci-fi inventions.
YCombinator founder Paul Graham has stated that a healthy early-stage start-up should be growing roughly 7% week-over-week across its key metrics.
Some early-stage, start-up exposure might be just what the doctor ordered for return-starved, sub-optimized portfolios.
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The trouble is, most talent-development programmes start at a later stage in people's careers.
The outgoing caretaker government has given its successor a running start on the next stage of privatisation.
So now we see expect early stage business start to kick off.
Envestors is a London-based angel network, which has over 1000 certified 'high net worth individuals' on its books who are looking to back early stage and start-up ventures.
Hopes were raised when the companies decided to start a late-stage trial of the drug, but data from mid-stage trials is not yet available, so it's difficult to know whether that bet will pay off.
As these high growth early stage companies start to list on the public markets and become mature businesses, a new layer of the startup ecosystem around which other startups can be nurtured and launched will be created.
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Most companies start out in the Ambiguous stage, reaching the Aligned stage is realistic and attainable for any company.
The report stage consideration will start on Monday, and conclude on Thursday, and the third reading will follow immediately after.
Graf said that in the first stage, companies start paying attention to sustainability in a comprehensive way that includes use of resources and business practices.
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Venture for America is a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates to work in a start-up or early stage company in a low-cost city.
These animals start breeding during the early stage of grain development.
Rovio and iRobot's ConnectR start to hint at the third stage of robotics: small, mobile robots with all the capabilities of a PC.
Ireland played really well at the start and I thought at one stage it was going to be a 30-pointer, but we held in.
The goal of the program, Mr. Yang says, is to help start-ups and early-stage businesses get off the ground, and its target is to create 100, 000 jobs by 2025.
Mattias Ljungman of Atomico Ventures was in Ireland last October as part of an international tour by his venture capital firm seeking new investments in start-ups and early-stage businesses.
They argue that if Congress passes a carried interest bill, start-up money will either diminish or venture firms will shift their investments from start-ups to later-stage companies in order to minimize risk.
Wiggins was bidding to become the first British winner of the Giro, but he was laboring in 13th place overall -- five minutes and 22 seconds behind leader Vincenzo Nibali -- when he withdrew before the start of Friday's 13th stage.
And only if the start-up has reached a further stage of development does it get equity investment.
Nevertheless some fear that once this next stage is approved it would start a ball rolling whose momentum could not be stopped.
Later, Otellini brought on stage an executive from software start-up eJamming.
Laois start to get nose bleeds at this stage of the competition and just as everybody's beginning to warm to them again, they usually produce a tepid performance and limp out.
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It is improbable, first, in that his campaign got off to such a terrible start that his resurrection at this late stage, just in time for the Iowa caucuses in January, is a minor psephological miracle.
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And I see the power of music when I'm on stage in China: I start a Chinese song and the audience roars with delight that the blond, curly-haired girl with the banjo can sing their music.
Second, we believe that large established companies will continue to invest in New York based start-ups, particularly at the seed stage.
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The Finn was running third but a leaking radiator caused a blown engine after Saturday's last stage and he was unable to start Sunday's action.
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