Rowland said she's grateful she got distracted while shopping and didn't venture farther into the mall.
Overall, the venture community's record is pretty good: Prices of its public offerings this year have risen an average 121% from first-day close through October, far outstripping the 33% of companies that aren't venture-backed.
Lief was sold but figured he couldn't get venture capital to fund this unproved theory.
I'm just saying that an entrepreneur doesn't need venture capital to do it.
Wong patented the concept but couldn't get venture capitalists interested.
That isn't stopping venture investors.
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Some start-up entrepreneurs say super angels have thrown them lifelines they couldn't secure from venture capitalists.
These devices aren't the first venture into concentrated photovoltaics, but they are likely among the most visually impressive.
Now, though, at least one of Winget's creditors is suing, alleging that he didn't fully reveal Venture's precarious condition.
If you don't want to venture far from the capital, there is a lot to do right in Accra.
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Moreover, many an entrepreneur has filed for a Chapter 7 "fresh start" personal bankruptcy after personally guaranteeing loans for a can't-miss venture that did.
In Feckenham, the community shop said it had seen a rise in the number of local customers, because they didn't want to venture far in the bad weather.
"You can't have a venture economy with only one VC firm in town, " says Gregory Johnson, a general partner at Gateway Associates, which invests nearly half of its funds in high-tech companies in and near St.
This isn't the first time venture capitalists have had to jump in.
He said he didn't know why the venture-capital fund in which he had invested was based in the Cayman Islands or whether its location had resulted in any tax benefits.
"The faculty don't necessarily understand how venture capital works, and the venture capitalists say, 'We're not ATM machines, '" says Holly, 43, an MIT-trained engineer who helped build two technology companies in the 1990s before returning to academia as a champion of commercialization.
" But he says his venture firm, Andreessen Horowitz, doesn't pay much attention to entrepreneurs' ages because venture is "so much an exception game.
But hedge funds don't create much, whereas venture capital creates jobs, products and innovation.
Mr. Barnett said the venture hasn't yet decided whether Extell or another developer will build the other parcels.
In case you didn't have the chance to venture over to our in-depth review of the global Samsung Galaxy Note II, it's definitely worth a look -- but we'll be happy to go over some of the smartphone's hardware here regardless.
Unfortunately for the Dolan family that runs the company, the satellite venture can't be sold until it's up and running: Cablevision does not have the option to simply resell the spectrum that it bought and move on, according to analysts who follow the company.
Venture capitalists aren't going to chase every deal that comes their way, though.
Since 2005, Christie's has licensed its name to a domestic Chinese auction firm but doesn't own a stake in the venture.
When Draper graduated from Harvard Business School at age 26 in 1984, he couldn't land a job with a venture capital firm.
Venture capitalists wouldn't touch a company that didn't own fiber.
This means venture capitalists don't receive carried income that frequently.
The prospect of having to pony up nearly half a billion dollars for a joint venture that doesn't seem to be getting any traction doesn't seem like a good idea.
Now despite the thoroughness of my mother's planning, which begins in August, someone receives a gift they didn't want, someone refuses to venture out into the subzero cold to hear a sermon and someone infects the entire family with a cold virus.
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