This figure is similar to other companies in the same industry and at the same growth stage.
At Betterment, the growth stage investing service I founded in 2008, we began taking calls out of necessity.
Most (78%) emphasize growth stage investments, as opposed to, say, seed (18%).
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Others will get pushed out, with some pain, by investors who see the need for a new team to lead the growth stage.
If we want to hasten the transformation of education, we should not only acknowledge that we are in the awkward early-growth stage, but fully embrace it.
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Forrester expects Britain and Germany to go into the same hyper-growth stage of e-business about two years after America, with Japan, France and Italy a further two years behind.
The company is in a high growth stage, despite hitting some road bumps in the most recent quarter in which it expects some subscriber losses due to service and cost restructuring.
Juniper also has a JUNOS innovation fund that invests alongside venture capitalists to place bets on early stage or growth stage companies that might offer innovations Juniper can later deploy in its networking gear.
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The respondents estimate that it will take approximately three years for cloud platform and infrastructure services to be firmly placed within the growth stage, and at least two years for software services to reach that stage.
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The best performing early-stage funds always do better than the best performing growth-stage funds because they get in earlier at lower valuations.
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If you go back and look at the industry statistics and returns of growth-stage funds as a whole vs. early-stage funds as a whole, the returns over time tend to be quite similar.
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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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The historical average for economic growth at that stage of recovery is well over 5%.
But, he said, there was a funding gap between early funding, which was relatively easy to get, and later-stage growth funding which was very much harder.
The increase in growth made possible by these initiatives also would set the stage for additional growth augmenting policies including reform and simplification of the personal income tax code and restoration of gold as a standard of value for the dollar.
Other states are setting the stage for growth and prosperity, too, thanks to smart tax structures.
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Golden Seeds makes investments in early stage high growth companies led by women.
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Judging from the latest wave of Pinspire redirect notes on Pinterest right now, the parasite just might stage another growth burst in coming months.
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As the West approaches a saturation point with the site, Facebook is looking to emerging markets in Asia, South America and Africa to fuel its next stage of growth.
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To make things worse, before the financial crisis and enormous stimulus, China was already suffering from what I call late-stage-growth obesity, inefficiencies that are a byproduct of high growth rates sustained for a long period of time.
Weather-related work stoppages probably held down hiring and slowed wage growth in much of February, setting the stage for a surge in both job growth and wage growth this month.
In stage two, growth recovers and the longer-term process of reducing government debt begins.
Venture capital is usually used to refer to investments in young, high growth companies at an early stage of their development.
To do that, it's likely that the company will be heading out again to raise more capital for the next stage of its growth.
Now, under Rahul's son, Rajiv, Bajaj has taken its own first steps onto the global stage with organic growth of exports, mostly to South-East Asia.
The fact that computers are now being used by people around the globe as a source of entertainment is powering the next stage of technology growth.
Then peers turn to the committee stage of the Antarctic Bill - a private member's bill from the Commons dealing with environmental safeguards in Antarctica, followed by the first of three days devoted to the report stage of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill.
Her work life has been varied from nimble early-stage to slow-growth traditional companies.
As more nations became integrated into a rapidly expanding world economy, it set the stage for modern economic growth.
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