At Salesforce, which is a founding member of Sherpa Foundry and one of the top five most active CVCs on the globe, each investment requires a business unit sponsor that commits to working with the startup.
That June, the staff sergeant, who was Smith's "unit sponsor," a noncommissioned officer responsible for easing recent arrivals into their new assignments, invited him to dinner.
This takes patience, attention to detail, familiarity with governance systems, database management, stability, reliability, liaison with support staff (governance, trials unit, sponsor).
It described Forum as a propaganda unit sponsored by the CIA to combat communism and to further conservative politics.
The Russian European Centre for Economic Policy, a monitoring unit sponsored by the European Union, using 1994 data calculated that Russia was spending roughly 6% of GDP on subsidies to households.
The balance comes, if at all, in barter, bills of exchange, mutual offsetting of debts, and tax credits.The Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy, a monitoring unit sponsored by the European Union, estimates that barter rose as a proportion of all industrial sales in Russia from about 10% in mid-1993 to 40% by the end of 1996.
"The world is going to a place like this," says Manning Field, a senior vice president at jpmorgan Chase, whose credit card unit sponsored an early three-screen deal: U-verse customers will be able to watch on-demand clips on tv of Swampstock, a charity event hosted in October by country crooner Tim McGraw.
"Fraudsters can use personal information in a number of ways including to access a victim's bank account, make fraudulent purchases and commit identity theft," said Detective Chief Inspector Dave Carter, head of the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit (DCPCU), a police unit sponsored by the cards and banking industries.
The firefighters lost in Arizona on Sunday were members of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew — an elite wild-lands firefighting unit sponsored by the Prescott, Ariz., Fire Department.
It also houses two major research units sponsored by the society, the Wellcome Institute of Comparative Physiology and the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine.
To counter that, CBS tried to sign "more multi-unit sponsors," he added, so viewers would see "less clutter, more campaigns".
