"For certain species, the city is as good as or better than a natural area, " Mr. Ascher said.

WSJ: New Sweat Bee Generates Buzz

As it turns out, Mr. Ascher and his colleagues are discovering New York City is a hive of activity.

WSJ: New Sweat Bee Generates Buzz

"We routinely see bees 30 stories up in window gardens, " Mr. Ascher said.

WSJ: New Sweat Bee Generates Buzz

As the story winds down, Ascher allows the high-wire act of the absurd and the sacred to descend to earth.

NEWYORKER: White Noise

Brian Ascher originally passed on mobile communications company Vocera, but the company later shifted to the hospital market and he invested.

FORBES: Brian Ascher

"The social contract between companies and workers was broken with the recession of the early 1990s, " says Susan Ascher, a Roseland, N.

FORBES: Magazine Article

For Ascher, the documentary's director, delving into the theories left him with some concerns about how he might feel when watching The Shining again.

BBC: The Shining theories explored in spooky new documentary

Ascher joined Venrock as a Kauffman Fellow in 1998.

FORBES: Brian Ascher

By Brian Ascher, a partner at Venrock.

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During the conference call Wednesday, Thomas Ascher , ISE's chief strategy officer, said the company intended to "grow organically, by acquisitions and by affiliation, " a comment that leaves open the possibility of a big deal in the future.

FORBES: Magazine Article

With a lot of patient craft, the co-directors of this frisky yet semi-tragic 1995 documentary, Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, record the final months that Russel and Mary Jane Jordan spent on the Iowa farm that by 1990 had been in the family for almost a hundred and twenty-five years.

NEWYORKER: Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern