Because in the scheme of investment priorities, you'll always be able to prove out the core business before you'll be able to prove out some of these mobility services.
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"This is yet another opportunity to prove out a market."
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Contracts could prove out to $2.6 billion and extend through 2028.
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"Uber became a case to prove out the team," Jett said.
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There's no telling if Musk's boast will prove out in practice.
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We're going to start by developing games that maybe share more traditional gameplay experiences, but at the same time try to prove out a couple of key things that I need to prove out for the future.
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Entrepreneurs can prove out quite a bit with little to no capital.
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If they prove out in practice, it could be a huge deal.
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At the same time, it's continued to prove out the basic hyperloop technologies.
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We think that as we prove out what we're building [that will change].
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Only long-term use can prove out Apple's claims and soothe my anxious mind.
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The investor expects Sunflower Labs to use its seed funding to prove out its technology.
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For now, it is sticking to these launch markets to prove out its model first.
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"We first did the buttons as a reference device internally to prove out gadgets," says Limp.
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We wanted to prove out the lighting API so we put some lights in some buttons.
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Though this developer had yet to test out the TrueDepth API to prove out their supposition.
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While there was significant interest from investors the firm still needed to prove out its concept.
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We need to prove out the value of all these investments in our smart city infrastructure.
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The BEAM will help the company prove out the technology needed to maintain inflatable structures in space.
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He expects it will take Virgin Galactic between five to ten years to prove out the technology.
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In an update to the original story, Reconnect Research has been continuing to prove out its thesis.
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"They're starting to really prove out their profitability," said Mark Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets.
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In short, to prove out our concept, we needed more time and money, that unfortunately, we don't have.
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Meanwhile, the clock is ticking: companies participating in Loop won't wait forever for the concept to prove out.
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To prove out their business models, these companies needed to build out factories, supply chains, and distribution channels.
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Each should be capable of orbiting Earth to prove out and refine launch, reentry, and landing-system technologies.
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Although whether increased platform chatter is something that correlates with increased hires required some hard data to prove out.
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Ammann built at a scale where no one knew for certain how the calculations on paper would prove out.
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The two main technologies NASA hopes to prove out on the mission are miniaturized forms of propulsion and communication.
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Between GOAT and Flight Club, they can carry thousands of SKUs with data behind them that prove out desire.
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Unfortunately, many existing telehealth players, including the OG Teledoc, have struggled to prove out their economics and maintain critical partnerships.
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JL: It can take 10 years to prove out a company, so you have to make some sort of bet.
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"Let's continue to prove out the model with this money, then let's raise more if we have to," he said.
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In fact, Wali says he has personally invested $1 million into Merit to prove out that Merit's software can work.
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It will take the testing of hundreds of vehicles for thousands of hours to refine and prove out the design.
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After all, the PowerWatch is an attempt to prove out the technology on a wider scale as much as anything else.
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I also think that the long term will prove out that it's the right thing to do for the form factor.
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"We will just avoid industries that take a lot of capital to prove out, such as pharma and cleantech," Moon said.
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"The launch is to prove out that ground simulations and computer modeling are correct — or at least mostly correct," said Sanford.
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The company is rolling out with Philz, one of Silicon Valley's favorite coffee projects, to try to prove out such a concept.
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Should a credible deal prove out of reach, only the normal uptick in winter demand could save the market from declining further.
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So we do prove out with 200,500 or something in-- in ventures that we have-- a capability to make innovation everyone's job.
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Ascend also added a couple of developer partners to test the product and prove out the data efficiencies that the company promised.
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The first mission won't be an entire swarm, but a single rover sent up as a demonstration unit to prove out its technology.
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Though there's still a ways to go before Brave is in a position to prove out its claims — including several more testing phases.
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Apple waited for others to prove out the technology until the mainstream was ready, then invaded the market with something easier to use.
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After that, it'll be up to states and manufacturers to do the heavy lifting and prove out how drug importation could work safely.
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We can prove out ideas that would not be accepted through the gatekeepers of Hollywood and prove them out in audio and validate them.
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Each "class," so to speak, has roughly 15 teams who work to prove out their ideas over the course of the next six months.
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Northrop Grumman and Astroscale are trying to prove out a concept known as satellite servicing, which isn't an option for satellite operators right now.
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Remember, that staying lean in your software development, marketing, travel and everywhere you can, will give you more runway to prove out your idea.
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"Eldorado has proven its ability to execute ... We expect the long-term positives (of the deal) could prove out," Jefferies analyst David Katz said.
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Pandora, however, is a notable customer win — and one that could prove out the viability of voice-activated ads on a sizable user base.
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Dudley has hopes to expand to other cities eventually, but he said the priority is to prove out the business model in SF first.
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"Netflix continues to prove out the thesis that Internet TV is replacing linear TV on a global basis," Evercore ISI analyst Vijay Jayant said.
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If it can prove out a way to rapidly build battery infrastructure, maybe Gogoro can become a new source of electric transportation around the world.
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If Panoz can get the car running at Le Mans, it'd be another big step forward in using motorsports to prove out electric vehicle technologies.
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That's been helpful to companies that have needed more than the average amount of capital or time to prove out their business models, Murphy said.
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And to prove out the concept of how an application would run on its new network, Dfinity today demonstrated an open social network called LinkedUp.
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But in our society (and legal system), we need to prove out what actually happened — even when it comes to allegations of offenses against women.
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This is your chance to set goals, prove out the value you sold in your interviews, and bond with colleagues outside of your own team.
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Schiaparelli was designed to serve as a technology demonstration to prove out the landing system needed to send full-scale mission to the red planet's surface.
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Correct. Especially the model we're in now, where investors are less interested in what you might become and you still have to prove out a business.
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And the company has just raised $9 million to prove out its chief executive's aspirations for the business as a new model for entertainment and commerce.
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Rocket Lab also tested a guided re-entry of the first stage of its rocket in order to prove out the system's reusability in the future.
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These reusable rocket tests are designed to help Blue Origin prove out the technology they need to be able to launch and land boosters in the future.
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Ultimately, the launch in Tel Aviv will allow Mobileye to prove out its RSS, a hypothesis that other autonomous vehicle founders in the industry have privately questioned.
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I recall the state of it when I joined: There was a big lack of clarity around whether this was going to prove out long-term, financially.
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NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock, a technology demonstration which is designed to prove out tech that could one day be used to help astronauts navigate on Mars.
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"There's still a fair amount of work that needs to be done to prove out the applicability of 5G through various Internet of Things applications," Aberle said.
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Instacart, the grocery delivery startup that works with grocers like Whole Foods and Publix, has years of experience trying to prove out its model in dense, urban areas.
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A characteristic of the careful work required to probe and prove out competitive harms that's nonetheless especially problematic set against the blistering pace of technological innovation and disruption.
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Second, little to no impact on sub trends in the face of price increases is beginning to prove out the company's potential for medium/long term pricing power.
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The era of satellite servicing is very much in the beginning stages, but this year, a handful of demonstration missions will take off to prove out the technology.
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Let's just hope that they all prove out their promises a bit more in the next 12 months, or all we'll be left with are more promises yet unrealized.
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And so what we're going to do is test all such things, and half of them will never prove out and half of them will turn out to true.
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The probe's primary purpose is to prove out the entry, descent and landing technology needed to get the life-hunting ExoMars rover on the ground several years from now.
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In fact, this month Blue Origin continued to prove out their reusable rocket capability with the fourth launch and landing of a single New Shepard rocket and crew capsule.
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If there is any state that can prove out this virtuous circle of policy unlocking technologies that in turn empower greater ambition, the Golden State is a likely candidate.
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"The 500 Distro Dojo helped us prove out the model, and now we want to offer that coaching to promising startups all over Europe, without taking equity" adds Lerner.
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"Our goal with Tango was really to prove out the core technology and show the world that it's possible," Google AR/VR boss Clay Bavor told TechCrunch in August.
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SpaceX — which has already done its uncrewed test flight to the station — is expected to prove out the Crew Dragon's abort system during an in-flight test in January.
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The intention now is to focus spending on marketing and product, according to Chong — hoping, ultimately, to prove out the mantra that if you build it the users will come.
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However, he said, it may look to investors before the end of the year after it ushers brands onto its platform this fall and begins to prove out its model.
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Volley itself could become an interesting consumer play, or Volley might help to prove out Manifold's serverless blockchain technology, which could find renewed adoption in the enterprise in the future.
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The company also plans to launch robotic missions to Mars starting in 2020 to perform science experiments and prove out technology needed for a human landing in the coming decades.
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Those will likely be easier to obtain if it can prove out that it was able to boost music sales, merchandise or concert tickets by promoting Universal Music Group's library.
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The video includes footage shot during the Lucid team's testing, which was designed to help it prove out its computer-based simulations in actual snow, ice and mixed road conditions.
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One of the other cool things is that we were able to get motion‑capture data on these figures initially as a way to prove out, how would a human move?
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There's another reason SpaceX wants to catch these fairings and recover them in good order: Doing so could potentially prove out the viability of a similary recover system for Crew Dragon.
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We continue to believe that Lyft is beginning to prove out its path to profitability from competitive dynamics improving, long-term pricing power, insurance leverage, and expense leverage from scale advantages.
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I guess if you want to help keep it alive, you should buy a lot of concessions whenever you use it and help prove out that it really is good for business.
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This is just one new site in a number where Toyota Research Institute tests its vehicles, but it's an important addition its ability to trial and prove out its autonomous vehicle systems.
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Indeed, if you have wondered if we are in a fallow period of innovation in mobile, internet and straight computer technology… look no further than this list to prove out that thought.
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A century later, Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz would prove out a Henry George theorem, showing that in certain cases increased investment in public goods boosted land rents by at least that much.
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Apple is one of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world, and Spotify is still scrambling to prove out the long-term financial viability of music streaming as a business model.
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Boom has a new design for its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator jet, the working prototype aircraft it's creating to prove out its tech before beginning work on building real, commercial supersonic passenger aircraft.
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Incorporating "acoustic superiority" that is expected to provide unparalleled stealth capability, the USS South Dakota will be used as a "demonstrator to prove out advanced technologies," according to Navy spokesperson Lt. Seth Clarke.
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"With this work we've taken a solid first shot at this to demonstrate and prove out that '3D all at once' fabrication is possible," lead researcher Maxim Shusteff told TechCrunch in an email.
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I think really sort of two pretty obvious theses that we've been able to prove out — which is one, if someone made this easier and more affordable, people would do it more often.
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But we now know that Mueller was literally quite upset [and] wrote not one but two letters to Barr, and if the facts prove out that he lied to Congress, he should resign.
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There are companies that are burning cash, surviving from financing to financing based on hype and yet, to prove out a scalable business model, will face brutal down rounds, if not outright existential danger.
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Later this year, the company will launch a demo store in the San Francisco Bay area, as well as a pilot store with a larger grocer in New York to prove out these claims.
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So there's a lot of synergy there, and I think there's a lot of ways for us to be able to accelerate and prove out how people are gonna benefit from the human genome.
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The goal is to bring FEND to states for a pilot in five states for a period of 14 months, to further prove out the concept outside the progress made with the Warped Tour sponsorship.
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That theory seemed to prove out in practice: I didn't have to go back over a piece of hair to remove the waves multiple times, as I would normally have to do with other straighteners.
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Supersonic aviation startup Boom is making progress on its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, the airplane that will prove out its tech and pave the way for construction of its future production commercial supersonic passenger jets.
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By contrast, mezzanine loans (usually three to five-year terms) are better suited to provide the flexibility and runway needed to prove out certain initiatives prior to securing an equity investment or a liquidity event.
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The company signed on 50 dispensaries in Oregon to help prove out the product and just raised $3 million in a seed round from Casa Verde Capital, The Durant Company, Sinai Ventures and other angel investors.
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The second benefit, Lu said, is that they can start to slowly make a name for themselves if they are able to prove out their skills and move up the ranks at any of those restaurants.
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But that's a new kind of fight I'd be happy to watch — along with seeing a startup try to prove out a subscription model, something a number of automakers have so far only half-heartedly attempted.
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We broke the attraction to pieces and could ride it in the facility to really prove out that what we thought we were getting with our vehicle is what we were going to get in the attraction.
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They have to prove out and defend their design and engineering choices, and even pitch these cars to fake investors (in order to learn about marketability) — and that's all before they race the cars on the track.
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Moon Express plans to do this by launching a series of missions starting this year that will help them prove out the technology needed to land on the moon and eventually even mine it for resources like water.
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"I think these guys are going to be left to muddle on their own and prove out the business model," the managing director of equity research for Wedbush Securities said in an interview with CNBC's "Closing Bell " on Thursday.
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For businesses eager to bring AI into the fold, it's not about flashy new products and dazzling tech, but more importantly about using those tools work harder to meet businesses' goals and prove out the value inherent to the tech itself.
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Fiance politely declined, convincing investors instead to invest in The House Fund, which has already made six investments and is targeting companies that were started by Berkeley students, alums or professors who need $250,000 or less to prove out their models.
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Sieg: Fundamentally in these second and third tier markets, an idea on the back of a napkin doesn't get funded, so you really have to bootstrap to a certain degree and prove out really economics before you can unlock capital.
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Not just to make money, or to prove out his thesis, but because of what failure would mean for other firms that take a broad approach to their investment thesis trying to back the best founders — no matter their background.
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This means there's a requirement on data controllers to minimize processing of personal data — limiting activity to only what's necessary for a specific purpose, carrying out privacy impact assessments and maintaining up-to-date records to prove out their compliance.
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And maybe especially so for Natural Cycles — whose product relies so acutely on users trusting the efficacy claims its business makes because it hasn't yet conducted a randomized control trial to be able to robustly prove out those claims via the standard science.
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Assuming that future studies prove out the idea that sharing fake news is primarily a consequence of old age — or the digital illiteracy that old age effectively serves as a proxy for — then we have a good starting point for a fix.
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Aside from actually making a significant dent in the amount of unneeded waste heading to a landfill from a sizeable office, this development helps X prove out some of the feasibility of its ultimate goal of making robots everyday affairs for most people.
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The collaboration with Johns Hopkins is the first of several planned partnerships — with "international leading companies", as Bahagon puts it — which are aimed at supporting Qure's portfolio companies to prove out early stage ideas and get digital health products and services to market more quickly.
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The smaller-scale effort, however, helped to prove out Easton's ideas, and in 22015, Deputy Defense Secretary William P. Clements, Jr. approved a more elaborate version of the idea, called GPS, that was said to accurately nail down a location to within 30 feet.
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Each additional flight offers SpaceX an opportunity to not only prove out its efficiency as a launching company, but also that it can provide a wide array of companies with a potentially cheaper option to get equipment into orbit for purposes like providing broadband.
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And be the go-to platform for that just because one of the biggest problems in the food waste space is it's been really hard to prove out this model — and create scale and to prove that you can do good and make money.
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It's a first but important regulatory step for a business that was founded back in 22014, and plays in a still nascent digital health space where untested 'wellness' apps are far more plentiful than medical technologies with robust data to prove out the efficacy of their interventions.
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Tesla's test with this facility isn't just about dealing with the Australian summer, however – it'll be a key proof point in helping prove out the long-term viability of renewable energy sources as a realistic total replacement for traditional, less environmentally friendly means of supplying the grid.
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Now, eight years and several investments later, the firm has raised $288 million in new funding from outside investors and is pushing to prove out its model, which leverages its parent company's network of 1,700 data scientists, engineers and industry experts to support development inside its portfolio.
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It's in the process of running longer tests to prove out the engines, and will aim to qualify them in their entirety through life cycle testing, which aims to replicate the kind of stress and operating conditions the hardware will undergo through its actual lifetime use.
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X's job is to prove out that technology is both viable and profitable and even though we don't yet see self-driving cars on the roads in any real way, it's obvious that the case has been made, both by Google and virtually every company in the auto industry.
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And then once the technology starts to prove out, the opportunities again for safety, for low-cost mobility, for mobility for people who can't see or can't otherwise drive, reducing congestion and all this stuff, cities will want ... because we're only seeing ... in the U.S. we're seeing urbanization.
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Most markets in consumer technology go through multiple phases, often pioneered by one or two companies who prove out the opportunity, followed by a rushing in of new players as the opportunity becomes obvious to others, and an eventual thinning and consolidation of the market as the winners begin to emerge.
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With respect to the 7-nanometer process, Swan said Intel has obviously been investing there and that the rate of investment it makes to "prove out" the technology would factor into capital expenditures next year, along with growth in 14-nanometer process and the rate that it scales the 10-nanometer process.
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Indeed, as the world shifts away from the previous paradigm, wherein it took many years and millions of dollars to prove out a concept, Conde wanted to "use my experiences to guide and ultimately invest in companies and opportunities at this intersection" because things are moving so much faster at this point.
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"Since completing its transformation to a wholly franchisee company, YUM has been intimating that it would be receptive to an acquisition and we believe starting small is appropriate to mitigate risk and prove out the company's ability to successfully integrate and grow a concept," Bernstein analyst Sara Senatore wrote in a note Monday.
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For its part, Loon seems eager to prove out its commercial viability, after having already demonstrated that its balloon networks have the technical chops to provide connectivity on the ground via engagements in Peru and Puerto Rico, where its tech was used for free by local carriers to bolster networks brought down by natural disasters.
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But the aim, should they be able to prove out enough demand for robotically generated content blocks, is to move to a SaaS model, feeding the digital void with a steady stream of machine-curated "word textures" — which I think is a phrase that more properly describes the quality of the commercial output at this germinal stage.
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Moderator Tess Hatch, vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, addressed the topic in response to an audience question that noted while we've heard a lot about how much money will flow into space-related startups from the VC community, we haven't actually seen much in the way of liquidity events that prove out the validity of these investments.
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As has been reported here and elsewhere, there are promising signs that they could prove effective in either treatment, or treatment and even preventative use (in the case of remedesivir), but these are, as Dr. Fauci puts it, only the first step that should lead to more sophisticated clinical studies, which themselves will then need competing peer studies to eventually prove out.
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Two-hundred and twenty-three days beats Loon's previous record of 198 days in the air by nearly a month, which is great news for the company's mission of being able to do this stuff with even more efficiency, which is huge for its ability to prove out the commercial viability of its method for delivering connectivity where it's been difficult or impossible previously.
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All of the risks that they would take to prove out the equipment and procedures — launching; Earth-orbital docking; the three-day Earth to Moon cruise; lunar orbit undocking; descent of the lander nicknamed Snoopy almost to the surface; reascending and re-docking; three more days back to Earth; then a Pacific Ocean splashdown — were the same risks the Apollo 11 crew would have to take, with one distinction.
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To prove out its software, the startup first built an app based on the platform that it calls Neera (Sanskrit for "water"), which specifically parses footfall and other "human movement" metrics, useful for applications in retail, real estate and civic planning — for example to determine well certain retail locations are performing, footfall in popular locations, decisions on where to place or remove stores, or how to price a piece of property.
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