Sentence examples for a proper venture from inspiring English sources

We've got our crack team of research interns looking into exactly who holds the record as the youngest entrepreneur to have raised a proper venture round.

But this belies the more basic challenge of creating a proper venture-capital industry.

I was one of the judges for the energy and environment category, and these kids came in with a full market analysis, go-to market strategy and in some cases a source and use of funds comparable to any proper venture pitch.

But until recently, we hadn't found any proper venture to feature our collections to the media.

I think, in the early '80s, it was the ideal combination of publishers and labels being generous and decent about the deals, after the excesses of the '60s and '70s, (and of course there was plenty of money sloshing around) and managers seeing the Music Business as a proper business venture over the long term, not just an opportunity to grab some cash and run.

This is Reitman's first proper venture away from comedy, as well outside a present-day setting.

This is proper venture capital.

Now that Google has come out of the closet with its proper venture capital fund, dubbed Google Ventures, I'm curious as to how many people will be going to googleventures.com today, only to find that the domain name is neither owned or operated by the company.

That loan will convert if/when the company raises a proper angel or venture capital round at the same valuation that's set in that round.

On paper, the joint venture had a proper board of directors.

In 1989 he bought a Macintosh computer for his friend Doug Smith, so that Mr. Smith could produce a proper business plan for his new venture, Omnipoint, a wireless telephone network that was eventually acquired by VoiceStream for $2 billion.