Sentence examples for built a venture from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

(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).

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).

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.

NEC of Japan built a $1.2 billion joint venture silicon wafer fabrication plant in Shanghai two years ago.

Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and Goldman Sachs managing director Scott Stanford have left their day jobs to build a new venture called Sherpa.