Sentence examples for a modest venture from inspiring English sources

What started out as a modest venture, overnight became the hottest act to hit New York.

In 1982 he founded - initially as a modest venture - the company Newman's Own, producing products such as pasta sauces based on his own home recipes.

Today, even a modest venture requires investment partners, marketing plans and an intense competitive drive, to say nothing of higher prices on the menu.

When David Thomson, in "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film," describes "Inferno," a Robert Ryan picture of 1953, as "a modest venture, handicapped by 3D," is he revealing an unjust prejudice, or a bitter truth of the time?

Amid claims that founder Mike Rothenberg seems to be living more like a billionaire than the manager of a modest venture fund, sources say that the firm is under investigation by the SEC and one employee is suing.

Either way, a much thornier issue for Rothenberg Ventures, say numerous former employees, is founder Rothenberg himself, who has sometimes seemed to live more like a billionaire than the manager of a modest venture fund — spending lavishly to attract moneyed individuals as investors and, over time, growing increasingly focused on becoming as famous as some of them.

At the most, he has given us the best survey we have of Italian opera around 1900. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz's "Puccini" is a more modest venture, a straightforward life of the composer without detailed treatment of his music.

In April they sold their joint fixed-line telephone business, retaining a modest mobile venture.