He also found that in the 1970s firms trying to commercialise personal computing and network technologies were held back for years by the venture-capital drought then prevailing.

同时他发现在20世纪70年那些试图把个人计算和网络技术商业化的公司都被风险资金的缺乏阻滞了好些年。

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He also has a strong network of venture capital connections on both sides of the Pacific.

此外，在太平洋两岸的创业投资界，吕先生也拥有强大的人脉关系。

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In the last 20 months alone, IBM tapped a network of over 100 venture capital firms to recruit some 950 independent software vendors (ISVs) into the group.

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We are now well on our way to achieving our goals, and have a whole network of people helping us thanks to our venture capital partners.

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Whether the costs of building the new network can be met from the venture's capital budget of Dollars1 billion a year over the next five years is more doubtful.

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