The phrase "a small venture in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a minor or modest undertaking in a specific field or area.
Example: "After years of working in finance, she decided to embark on a small venture in sustainable agriculture."
Alternatives: "a minor project in" or "a modest undertaking in".
It formed a joint venture with the United States company ConocoPhillips, giving Conoco a small venture in the Russian Arctic and ceding it part of West Qurna 2. By the time Lukoil was eventually compelled to bid again for the field at the 2009 auction, sentiment in both the United States and Iraqi governments seemed to have shifted to favoring non-American companies in awarding the main contracts.
In January, 2012 we started the campaign with a small venture in West Philadelphia, the poor community adjacent to The Wharton School.
A grounded reality that most of us won't make millions by joining a small venture is a healthy truth in some ways.
As a part-time partner in a small venture capital firm, I have visited dozens of innovative startups that have developed new semiconductors, lasers, sensors and power-control systems under Department of Defense auspices and are now ready to begin moving their products into civilian markets.
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.
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.
In June, the S.B.A. reported that a record $65.5 billion, or 23.6percentt, went to small ventures in fiscal 2003, up from $53 billion in 2002.
The Company also holds small minority stakes in international Internet companies including Facebook, Zynga and Groupon as well as a number of small venture capital investments in various Internet companies in Russia and Ukraine.
The decision will leave S&N operating just three UK breweries - Federation in Dunston, Gateshead; John Smith's in Tadcaster, Yorkshire; and Royal in Manchester - as well as a small joint venture site in Edinburgh.
It's a metaphor for the many individuals and small venture funds investing in lots of seed-stage companies and — at the opposite end of the spectrum — the venture, growth, hedge and mutual funds that have enormous amounts of money to deploy and have driving up the valuations of maturing startups.
Hitachi reported damage to a small joint venture facility in the city.
