Forget big-name venture capitalists, who now shun the limelight and tend to their wounded portfolios.
Venture capitalists take big risks on the startups that could become the dominant companies of tomorrow.
The trick to getting this center going will be to get a few good startups hatched fast, so that venture capitalists and Big Pharma will start to see it as a go-to place for new compounds.
To make the really big bucks, young venture capitalists once had to wait years to make general partner.
Likewise, India itself is too big a prize for foreign capitalists to ignore.
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Venture capitalists rarely think as big as Lucas did, betting hundreds of millions on untested technologies.
Venture capitalists are looking for big payoffs -- startups with potentially explosive growth rates, far greater than Access Direct can promise.
Instead of spreading his bets and taking profits early like most venture capitalists, Kirk bets big on a few small companies and stays the course until a product gets to market.
The emerging field of Big Data is also attracting tons of interest from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across Silicon Valley.
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Almost every day, I see big companies, little companies, entrepreneurs, wannabe entrepreneurs and even venture capitalists join in the hunt.
Tied closely to venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, the renewable capitalist have been losing big time in the marketplace, the victims of foreign, largely Chinese competition, and the burgeoning natural gas industry.
The halls are packed with venture capitalists looking for deals, entrepreneurs explaining their business plans and representatives from big companies trying to make sense of it all.
If the perception becomes that there are fewer buyers willing to pay big bucks to acquire a company and fewer opportunities for massive IPOs, then venture capitalists will be willing to pay lower prices (valuations) so that they can make the large multiples on their investments that they look for.
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While most of Silicon Valley's surviving entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are now doing 12-step programs to break their addiction to Next Big Things, Jurvetson, at the ripe old age of 36, is loudly championing the latest N.
Several big companies, including Bank of America, seem keen to expand into this area, and venture capitalists are moving in, too.
All because so many venture capitalists are trying to ride the next wave of technology IPOs and make a quick, big buck before the wave runs its course.
Venture capitalists are hedging their bets by grouping together and investing in deals that seemed destined to be big winners.
Big solar power companies, just like the cutting-edge ethanol and biofuel companies also popular with venture capitalists these days, usually need to tap the debt markets and borrow money to build large production plants.
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