earliest

After all, the earliest investors do take the biggest risks.

I would forget about looking for a team until week four at the earliest - focus on tasks instead.

One of the earliest clues I was going to be screwed was, when discussing fundraising, A mentioned his own deferred pay.

They wanted to protect the idea that they would get significant extra rewards for taking the earliest-stage risk.

They were one of the earliest software services companies in India named Tata consultancy services.

But a "let's discuss your revenue model and see what makes sense" approach simply can't happen during the earliest stages of product development.

A resume comes into play at the earliest part of the recruiting funnel, when the hiring team has the smallest number of cycles to spend on each candidate.

Plato's Laws and Aristotle's Poetics mark some of the earliest attempts made by man to reason about the world simply through observation and lengthy reasoning.

As an introvert repeatedly flummoxed and exhausted by office politics in the earliest stages of my career, I very nearly resigned myself to always being overlooked.

The earliest really large-scale instance of this occurred in 2001, when more than 30,000 researchers signed a letter boycotting any journal which didn't make articles open access within 6 months of publication.

Singapore was settled earliest by ethnic groups similar to those in current Malaysia, with a big influx of wretchedly poor agricultural laborers for plantation labor during the British colonial period.

And, for every "windfall" gained by such investors, you have all sorts of cases where the failure rate is particularly high because of the extreme risks existing at the earliest stages before it is even determined that a company is truly "fundable.