The Earl of Carnarvon, who lived in Highclere castle where Downton Abbey is set, financed Howard Carter's expedition that eventually led to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
But Kickstarter does require the creators to meet a set financing goal in a specified amount of time or they will not receive any of the money their backers have pledged.
In cases where they set financing terms themselves, they often set a high valuation cap and sign initial angel investors onto those terms rather than waiting for VCs to join.
He reorganized the tax structure, set his finances in order, and reformed the educational system.
Conditions for Greece to set its finances right "are very precise," Mr. Trichet said, and the Greek government must carry out its responsibilities "with extreme vigor".
After weeks in denial, the government of South Korea, the largest Asian tiger, said on November 21st that it would after all need the IMF's billions to set its finances in order.
There was no way to set its finances to rights without tackling the city's huge pension costs.Thus this week's ordinance, in which the city suspended the cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) by which pensions are increased each year.
The expense set his finances back by years.In Steinbeck's novel, "the migrant people, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure," often of a boisterous sort.
This was not an outward shift in the portfolio possibility set of finance.
Standard Chartered and HSBC also have plans to set up finance companies.
The current rules set separate financing standards for large airplanes and regional jets with 100 or fewer seats.
