The phrase "apart ventures" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, and without context, it is difficult to determine its intended use.
Example: "The company has several apart ventures that focus on different markets."
Alternatives: "separate ventures" or "distinct ventures".
Indeed, a meatball logo offers few options for promotions apart from joint ventures with Chef Boyardee.
What sets Groupon's success apart from other ventures, executives say, are the local forces that came together -- academic, governmental (including $28 million in tax increment financing to refurbish the Montgomery Ward space for technology start-ups) and entrepreneurial -- to give Groupon and its forerunner, The Point, room to experiment, fail and eventually find a successful model.
But the oral-history project sets the Byrne venture apart from more traditional collections of personal correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs.
What sets their venture apart is a $5 million initial grant from F. Warren Hellman, and the expertise and labor to be supplied by KQED-FM, which has a 28-person news staff, and the 120 students of the University of California, Berkeley's graduate school of journalism.
It's Incite's different funds that set them apart in the venture world.
In fact, Hanse Ventures says that what sets them apart from "classic venture capitalists" is that they rarely finance existing start-ups.
Dudley for example has pledged to keep running the company from abroad, and before departing warned that if the shareholder dispute were not resolved it threatened to tear the venture apart.
The dispute between BP and its Russian billionaire partners in TNK-BP has grown so bad that even its chief executive, Robert Dudley, acknowledges it could "tear apart" the joint venture.
Since then, he and BP have publicly stepped up the rhetoric, with Dudley warning that BP's dispute with TNK-BP's other billionaire shareholders could tear the 50-50 joint venture apart.
Here's the gist of it: It's the future and the world is falling apart, so a spaceship ventures off into uncharted space in hopes of finding some outer-space friends who can help.
