Sentence examples for before founders from inspiring English sources

But venture capital investments are structured to ensure that the venture capitalists are paid before founders and employees.

Mr. Davidoff writes: "Venture capital investments are structured to ensure that the venture capitalists are paid before founders and employees," a requirement that "can sometimes hit founders and employees in a brutal manner".

A 3x liquidation preference, for example, means the VC gets to take out 3 times his/her initial investment before founders and employees get anything.

Y Combinator hasn't always just been in Silicon Valley — it used to have classes in both Silicon Valley and Cambridge before founders Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston decided to stay on the West Coast year-round.

It is yet another blow to Mr. Schmid, who founded MobilCom and turned it into Germany's No. 2 long-distance provider before foundering on a costly foray into third-generation cellular phone service.

Cook, who became the boss of Apple in August 2011 shortly before founder Steve Jobs died from pancreatic cancer, said he had not previously opened up about his sexuality in an effort to maintain his privacy while running one of the world's most scrutinised companies.

As I said in our previous posts, it's too bad Delicious 2.0 couldn't launch before founder Joshua Schachter left the company in frustration.

The app was formerly known as Trimit (which we covered back in July), before Founder (and 16-year-old programmer) Nick D'Aloisio raised a seed round from billionaire Hong Kong investor Li Kandhisg and hinvestmentent vehicle, Horizons Ventures.

On the right of the British advance, the I SS Panzer Corps launched a counter-attack with 80 tanks, which was disorganised by artillery fire, before foundering on the anti-tank guns of the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division, who then resumed their attempt to secure VIII Corps flank.

Harnessing the African sun has been considered before and foundered due to high cost and complexity.

(Walrath has discussed this before on Founder Stories).