Sentence examples for bad venture from inspiring English sources

Governments make bad venture capitalists, as the book quotes Larry Summers, a key member of the president's original team, as saying.The truth is that no one really knows yet how well spent the longer-term parts of the immense Recovery and Reinvestment Act will turn out to have been.

For good or bad, venture funds are flowing like it's 1999 all over again.

Although his stake was eventually diluted, it was "not a bad venture," he says, laughing the business sold in 2005 in excess of $500 million.

Things look pretty bad for venture capital.

So it's hard to predict exactly where this Montreal thing is going to go, but it already has the earmarks of a bad tourism venture, with a bunch of administrative yahoos trying to manufacture a cultural identity and say "this is Montreal" instead of opening things up and actually finding out what the place is all about.

Like many risky ventures, it was born of a bad experience.

"They're not really so bad," she ventured.

Perhaps a year off would help producers to build a stockpile of truly bad business ventures.

He squandered the money he'd been awarded through bad business ventures and at the hands of devious friends and relatives.

In October 2004, The Detroit News, citing public records and interviews with family and business associates, reported that Cecil Fielder had squandered much of the approximately $47 million he had earned as a big-league player on gambling and bad business ventures.

In the article I read, one man who won $16 million, Will Bud Postst, blew it all on houses, vehicles and bad business ventures.