Sentence examples for build a venture from inspiring English sources
He built a competitive site, flipped it to AOL for $30 million, used it as a platform to build a venture fund, slipped the bonds of his current job while persuading AOL to kick in half of his $20 million fund, and will now use the luster of a journalistic brand to enhance his new capital venture.
I get the practicality of using any level of wins to build a venture ecosystem, but aiming small is dangerous thinking.
Though it's hard to quantify the global market for risk analysis, Rosenberg puts its current value at roughly $8 billion — which includes crisis management services (not nearly enough to build a venture capital investable business around).
(For more on this subject, please see the well-written piece by Todd Hixon on how smaller funds can build a venture portfolio that can make money in a broad range of outcomes).
After sharing insights, Kopelman asked Snyder what kind of company he wanted build; "a venture backed company" or a "cash generation business?" Offering his two-cents on the venture world, Kopelman told Snyder "the more you are viewed as a platform, versus specific content I think improves your positioning".
This will be a year for growth in every way, and I hope you can be as excited for me as I am excited to learn even more and further build a venture that caters to my breed -- natural entrepreneurs.
Still, it's just really hard to build a venture-scale business in most markets absent a structural misalignment.
Her remarkable story is pretty well known by now — she "built a venture capital fund from the ground up, while homeless," to quote Backstage's site.
This woman has built a venture capital-funded business endeavor out of a lifestyle blog that recommends premium toilet tissue alternatives for Christmas.
Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and Goldman Sachs managing director Scott Stanford have left their day jobs to build a new venture called Sherpa.
Ssangyong's attempt to build a joint venture factory there faced red tape.
