The phrase "a small venture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor business or project that involves some level of risk or investment.
Example: "After much consideration, I decided to invest in a small venture that focuses on sustainable products."
Alternatives: "a minor enterprise" or "a little project".
At loose ends, he launched a small venture fund, Hydrazine Capital.
He also runs a small venture firm with other PayPal alumni.
Because Arrington is the founder of CrunchFund, a small venture capital fund set up late last year.
As well as the Saga deal, the Phone Co-op recently took over a small venture, Transcend Communications.
It has also invested in MkII Ventures, a small venture capital firm run by Ron Palmeri, an early investor in the technology behind Google Voice.
More than a quarter of students have started, or plan to start, a small venture while studying, according to research by Santander.
I actually have experience in different types of private companies, as well, because I also worked in Silicon Valley at a small, venture-funded startup at one point.
"In the Studio" closes out the summer months by hosting a repeat entrepreneur who started his first two companies right after college, both of which grew to modest sizes before imploding, and after moving to the Valley about five years ago to work as a product manager at a small venture-backed company, had an insight about the e-commerce potential of Facebook that led to his current company.
The tribunal decided however that studies on its environmental impact had been based on a smaller venture and were thus invalid.
Similar to ipValue, albeit a smaller venture, is the General Patent Corporation, which is based in Suffern, N.Y., and run by Alexander Poltorak, a Jewish Russian dissident who fled the Soviet Union with his young family in 1982.
Another good friend of mine who works in the finance sector decided she wanted to leave the large investment-banking firm she was with for a smaller venture capital firm.
