It marks his first space venture since the partnership with Rutan and his colleagues to build the prize-winning SpaceShipOne rocket plane, which became the first privately developed craft to reach outer space in 2004.
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Dyer tells me NASCAR has been extremely cooperative with the venture since he acquired the rights to use the NASCAR name and brand as a part of the car wash company for the next 20 years.
OWN's launch has been pushed back since the venture was announced in January 2008.
At first sight this seems strange, since the venture-capital industry in Britain is second only to America's in scale.
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Andreessen Horowitz has stormed the staid world of venture capital since Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen and his longtime partner Ben Horowitz founded the firm just two years ago.
The Isis payment system didn't disclose a reason for the delay, one of several since the venture was formed two years ago, only saying that it will provide an update next month.
The most popular open source database (with more than four million users) is made by a company called MySQL, which has been venture-backed since 2001.
Meanwhile, the benefits of NBCUniversal to Comcast may track improvements to the overall economy and more specific turnaround strategies implemented since the joint venture was first launched.
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It was built on a Mitsubishi platform--the result of a since-expired joint venture between the two companies, before Ford bought Volvo and DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ) took a controlling stake in Mitsubishi--and drivers complained it was underpowered and felt cheap.
But with so much money flooding the private equity and venture capital markets and relatively listless equity markets (the Dow only just closed above 11, 000 on Monday for the first time since 2001), venture capital investors seem more willing to take their exits in a merger when they can get them--even if that means winding up with less of a gain.
This is her first venture back onto the Street since the BofA episode.
Enough time has passed since the 2001 crater of venture capital funding for high tech that the truly great companies should begin to show themselves.
At the same time, the number of active U.S. venture firms continues to shrink since the dot-com boom in 2000 when there were 1, 312 such firms.
Another reason for optimism is that valuations ascribed to young companies have become more reasonable since the downturn, encouraging venture firms that weathered the storm to loosen their purse strings.
Importantly, we looked at the aggregate of individual investments themselves rather than funds since sector-specific and diversified venture funds exist.
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This partnership will not have a new venture fund dedicated to Glass, since the firms have enough capital to invest, Maris said.
After a revival or two, new venture partners, the concept, since 2005, has been an extremely successful two day summer festival in Grant Park in Chicago.
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While venture returns are at their lowest since 1998 and VCs are proceeding with extra caution, NEA is sticking to its early-stage focus despite the perception that more developed later-stage deals are less risky.
As many as 28 of the 50 top venture-backed firms in 2011 have since raised additional equity financing, according to Dow Jones VentureSource, which, like The Wall Street Journal, is owned by News Corp.
Since then he has set up his own venture capital firm, Kapor Enterprises, in Cambridge, Mass.
Since its 2008 founding the Toronto-based venture firm has backed 12 companies in areas like mobile ads, mobile payments and mobile video.
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It had a joint venture with Ericsson that had been slowly sinking since the iPhone launched in 2007 and reconfigured the concept of a smartphone.
Shanghai GM, as the joint venture has come to be known, has since gone on to become one of the leading passenger car companies in China.
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Venture capitalists have been using the carried interest concept since the modern VC industry arose in the 1960s.
The experimental venture gained her a faithful online following, and since then the channel has become a platform for entertaining, non-hostile debate.
Since it started up in 1989, Vos' venture has been blowing steam in the face of Spoornet's own luxury choo-choo, the Blue Train, whose pedigree is enviable.
By contrast, the British Venture Capital association (BVCA), which represents both venture capital firms and buyout firms, was first founded over 25 years ago and the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has been operating since 1983.
Monday a report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association showed that venture capital firms raised the smallest amount of funding since 2003 as the industry suffered along with the volatility of the broader market.
Initially, Fadel was frustrated by her limited resources, since she had to apply her own savings to the venture.
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