Each year, entrepreneurs with ideas for the "next big thing" flood venture capitalists with business plans.

VOA: special.2009.06.26

Professor Kirsch tells us that venture capitalists instead talk to people who know the entrepreneur.

VOA: special.2009.06.26

The high point of President Medvedev's stay in the United States will be his visit to Silicon Valley - an area in northern California known for its high-tech companies, venture capitalists and forward-looking entrepreneurs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18