Sentence examples for a start-up venture from inspiring English sources

"It was like funding a start-up venture".

Mr. Kinnucan, the government has contended, invested in a start-up venture of Mr. Barnetson.

The Hukkster stake is the second investment by Winklevoss Capital, a start-up venture firm that is putting money into early stage technology companies.

I asked my husband, who was working on a start-up venture, to drive me every day down the steep, icy road from our Park City home to the office in Heber City.

Yucaipa has invested millions in Cilion Inc. — a start-up venture also backed by Mr. Branson, the British entrepreneur, and Mr. Khosla, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist — that is building seven ethanol plants around the country.

A start-up venture in its own right, the school has 15 students enrolled for fall, selected from a pool of 50 applications, who will not receive any formal credit, but will pay about $5,000 to spend 10 weeks tinkering, building and tweaking projects of their own design.

If you love thrill-seeking activities like bungee-jumping or would leave a stable job for a risky start-up venture, there's a good chance that you're a young adult.

The system has revamped its major teaching awards, started a service providing online courses and created a $10 million start-up venture fund.

He also supported Book Marketing, a successful start-up venture producing surveys of the book market for publishers, and the Bell Educational Trust.

But Mr. Chan said he had confidence in the technical team, and began to scout around for a new start-up venture.

Gary Hoffman, the highly regarded chief executive of Northern Rock, is preparing his exit from the nationalised lender to join a new start-up venture that intends to buy up businesses being sold off by other banks.