In the years since, the company has underwritten more significant ventures and has long lived under one of the best-known logos in American business -- the umbrella it created in its advertising in 1870, only six years after the company had been established, to symbolize protection.
Among the more significant ventures were the reopening of the School of Nursing, the founding of the for-profit Dome Corporation, the establishment of a joint graduate center with Nanjing University in Nanjing, China, the establishment of the professional WJHU-FM radio station, and the opening of the School for Continuing Studies Downtown Center.
Venture ecosystems in Southeast Asia, Brazil and elsewhere have also been in growth mode, and thus accounting for a more significant share of global early-stage investment.
A more significant problem is saturation.
Equally, if they are looking for a series C (a startup's third and more significant round of venture funding), it will be prohibitive for the size of our fund.
Previous research indicates that entrepreneurs are somewhat more inclined to take risks than managers; this difference is stressed even more when the entrepreneur has the goal of a significant venture growth.
A more uncertain venture would be to adapt and apply our method to social media content.
The device, which exists as a prototype and will eventually be sold as a branded item to consumers, is the company's most significant venture into hardware.Read more ».
Perhaps more significant, many limited partners now say venture capital firms are sitting on far more capital than they can invest profitably.
Jessica Reif Cohen, the media analyst at Merrill Lynch, said the new venture could provide "more significant reach than advertisers have previously been able to obtain online" for video.
The ACA estimates that some 25percentt of its more than 12,000 members would lose accredited investor status and that this loss would be even more significant in areas outside of New York, Boston and California, where venture capital is already much harder to come by.
