Expanding rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s with debt-financed plants, Stronach started to dabble in outside ventures.
The firm began investing in outside ventures such as TradeWeb and Bond.
In real world terms, the value of the New York Yankees brand is on display with successful business ventures outside of baseball, such as the stadium management company Legends and IMG College, which offers sports-marketing services to universities.
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Q3 statistics from Gust, which powers a majority of the organized early stage financing world, show a continued expansion of new, high-growth ventures outside the traditional startup centers, along with an increasing number of entrepreneurs seeking their first round of equity financing with products that are fully developed and ready to take to market.
Though never keen on taking outside capital to fund his ventures, the opportunity presented by Facebook is large enough to instill a sense of urgency.
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Pincus was ultimately forced to look beyond Sand Hill Road for cash at Boulder-based Foundry Group, New York-based Union Square Ventures and Avalon Ventures, a firm not well-known outside of biotech circles or its San Diego headquarters.
Valar Ventures, backed by Thiel, invests exclusively in companies outside the U.S. The firm has invested in five other companies, including a furniture company in Brazil.
Not only that, but new ventures can also run into another problem if they are trying to raise outside capital.
Wilpon also pledges that the money from the new outside investor will go directly into the Mets, rather than be shared with other Sterling ventures.
They will avoid like the plague transferring funds between ventures, staffing subsidiaries with incompetent family members, conducting dealings that are not transparent to the outside, and other old tricks.
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