It is perched uneasily between the Old World values it reveres--invest early, stay late--and the New World frenzy of venture capital that the firm would once have abhorred.
He added that AirAsia would manage the airline and that Tata would not have any operating role in the proposed venture.
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.
Were regulators to interpret the rule in any other way, it would have far-reaching consequences for, say, the venture-capital industry, in which funds with multiple investors routinely take stakes in private firms.
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I'd venture to guess even the winning media buyer would have preferred her free cocktail.
He believes that if Starnet had taken the venture financing in 2000, it probably would not have survived the dot-com bust.
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"The government could have offloaded assets when the market was at its peak which would have helped the fiscal deficit, " said Jerry Rao, venture advisor at New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm.
To better understand the relative attractiveness of the IPO market, and how their venture backers have done so far, I thought it would be illustrative to look at the biotech IPOs that have made it public since early July in greater depth: Durata, Hyperion, Regulus, Kythera, and Intercept.
You might expect that the U.S. would have far more females represented, given that the U.S. venture market is nearly three times larger than that of China or India.
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He was afraid they would have the power to stifle any online venture that offered serious competition.
Rainbow would have been spun off into a public venture under the original buyout plan.
By the way, if it were the job of the President to be such a venture-capitalist-in-chief, would you have chosen Barack Obama for this position?
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With my background in venture capital and investment banking, the Tides board chose a CEO from way outside what would have been its comfort zone 35 years ago and signaled its readiness to start a more entrepreneurial phase and adapt to new times.
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Today, when you read about trends in venture capital investment, it would seem that you should have a funeral dirge playing in the background: investments are down 21% in software, 32% in biotech and 27% in medical devices.
If nominated, Genachowski would be "the first FCC nominee ever to have previously hit the trifecta of being a venture capitalist, a tech executive and an entrepreneur, " Hundt says.
As a venture capitalist, I would not have invested in cellulosic without corn ethanol's partial alleviation of the risks of creating a market, creating distribution terminals, E85 pumps and starting our flex-fuel fleet.
Had he taken Southwestern public or brought in venture capitalists at the time of his LBO of the firm, Hays feels that the presence of outside owners would have changed the nature of the companys relationship with its employees.
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