If you're doing early-stage venture investing you're backing entrepreneurs and ideas and they're operating out of their garage.

如果你做的是早期创业投资,你是在支持创业者及其创意,而他们可能正在不起眼的地方白手起家

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The Blackstone investment alone is roughly equal to all the venture capital early-stage funding last quarter, across 52 deals, in all of India.

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Many of the basics of the now common warehouse model were determined with this early venture.

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Yet even if some institutional investors felt let down, Facebook's early venture-capital investors were jazzed.

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