To make this venture a success, Huizenga may need to start getting his hands a little dirty again.
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Corporations have the resources and potential to make venture a long-term strategic asset.
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If they did move forward with it, I think they would be wise to make it a purely online venture.
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While there is no official record of dinghy journeys around the island, the winds and high waves on its south side make it a highly unusual venture in such a small boat.
When I first came to China almost 20 years ago, a Chinese partner could not be expected to make its equity contribution in a joint venture in cash.
Germany's Daimler-Benz and Japan's Nissan Diesel are creating a joint venture to make light commercial vehicles in Japan for developing markets.
Start-ups still make up a small minority of German venture-capital deals.
On the way up, salaries inflate, entrepreneurs make millions and venture capitals scramble for a piece of the action.
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Lockheed also dreams of a joint venture with Airbus to make the military transporter plane that Europe desperately needs.
Wealthy suburbanites hardly ever venture into Detroit, save to make a rare trip to a concert or the museum.
Sarasvathy met personally with all of her subjects, presenting each with a case study about a hypothetical start-up and 10 decisions that the founder of such a company would have to make in building the venture.
Venture capital is known for being a make dominated industry and any opportunity that comes up for women is worthy of writing about.
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In 1999 former Micron executive Tyler Lowry formed a joint venture with ECD called Ovonyx to make memory that, like flash, doesn't lose data when it loses power.
That is going to make it hard for a start-up CEO to persuade a venture capitalist that he is going to get in on the next big thing.
Teach him to make gadgets, and he can feed himself--and a few venture capitalists--for life.
If you long to launch a multi-million-dollar entrepreneurial venture, then make that your goal and do everything in your power to achieve it.
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Azcarraga may lose market share in the multi-billion dollar broadcast TV advertising market, but he can make back losses if his telecom venture Axtel is able to gain a strong foothold in the much larger telephone sector.
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Even if you never show a profit, you can claim your losses if you can show you had good reason to believe you might make money--a chance for a substantial profit in a speculative venture is enough--and adjusted your strategy or quit the business when it didn't pan out.
Israel has attracted considerable venture capital during the last decade, helping to make it a high-tech success story.
Venture capitalists are beginning to make investments again, there is a sense that the economy is going to grow in the near term, and an increasing interest in private jet transportation.
The two were not on speaking terms until a senior Ballarpur emissary brought the young graduate in to work in a joint venture with DuPont (later sold off) to make nylon tire cord.
New investment regulations put in place by the recently passed Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) act coupled with a shake-up in the traditional venture capitalist model could make it easier for social entrepreneurs to attract initial funding.
This blurring of the distinction between private and public equity markets might make sense if a publicly quoted firm proved to be the best vehicle for providing venture capital.
Many foreigners who were parachuted into the company at its launch by Groupon (most of whom were from Germany) are no longer with the company after a lot of friction with the JV partners from Tencent about how to make the venture work in China.
One reason why entrepreneurs work so hard, and why venture capitalists place so many risky bets, is because they hope to make a fortune by going public.
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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.
The hedge fund manager thinks the market is not giving the U.K. telecom full credit for its stake in Verizon Wireless, a stake that could ultimately make it an attractive takeover target for its partner in the venture, Verizon.
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"I think that fact alone will make the Amazon model hard to clone, " says Bill Gurley, a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
The good data caught the attention of Berlin-based Schering AG, the leader in the MRI contrast drug market, which signed up to make MS-325 and combine its own MRI research operations with those of Epix in a joint venture.
That will make investors uncomfortable, given BolsWessanen's patchy record, and the news in January that a joint venture was underway with Golden Poultry International in Bangkok.
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