Sentence examples for capital climate from inspiring English sources
In the cold capital climate that is coming we need to offer more solid proof, and that can only be giving up the power to print the currency in which we borrow by joining the euro.
I asked SkyGiraffe why it raised $3 million for its Series A, an amount that in the current capital climate is almost closer to a seed round.
Combining this coverage Google Ventures appears to be making more public moves in what is already a very competitive venture capital climate.
What's required, says the report, is to combine an improved venture capital climate to support high growth firms with "reforms to encourage competition, entrepreneurship and labour market flexibility".
In the current capital climate, which is mostly a typhoon of bored cash looking for something to do, many startups are raising ever-larger rounds to grow as quickly as possible.
I asked Sparkcentral why it decided to raise $12 million for its Series B — in the current capital climate, the sum is slightly modest, even if standard by historical norms.
The cautionary tale most often recounted in Chicago is that of Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, who studied at the University of Illinois and then took his fledgling business to California, where the venture-capital climate was warmer.Strong economic growth has created problems of its own, notably traffic jams, geographic sprawl and a shrinking amount of affordable housing.
(In 2010 Jakarta's governor blamed massive flooding in the capital on climate change even as the head of his public works office admitted that 80% of the city's drains had been clogged).So the witch hunt began.
It is however difficult for the poor to build capital for climate risk management and risk transfers (insurance) in the short run as current consumption competes with future savings.
Over the past decade, some of them have stuck their necks and spent their political capital on climate policy.
"We see them as a really promising vehicle for bringing a range of impact investment capital to climate projects," said Susan Phinney Silver, who heads Packard's program-related investment initiative.
