Quoted in Fortune, John Doerr, the prominent venture capitalist, called Lerach a "cunning economic terrorist".
In the street stands a handsome mansion, built in the 1930s by a capitalist called Lin Guisheng, who named it Ximeng Lu, meaning "Hope for an Heir".
The paper points out that Holmes's new enemy is a foreign newspaper baron, and unashamed capitalist, called Charles Augustus Magnussen, who uncovers secrets about the great and the good which he uses to blackmail them.
One young venture capitalist calls the post-Vabakos Norwest "a bunch of sleeping old dogs".
While President Susilio Bambang Yudhoyono is credited with stabilizing the economy after the Asian financial crisis, he has been, as one venture capitalist calls him, "a ditherer," who is helpless against Suharto-era cronies who still dominate key sectors of the economy.
SOME venture capitalists call it "geo-arbitrage"; others know it as "tropicalisation".
Venture capitalists call their strategy "spray and pray," sinking money into lots of different startups in the hope that at least one will be the next Facebook.
None of Synergy's other portfolio companies have experienced what venture capitalists call a "liquidation event".
Tom Perkins, a prominent venture-capitalist, called the task-force a death panel, admittedly catchier than its real name.
In Silicon Valley, Mr. Mahaney also became known for regular meetings of money managers and venture capitalists called "the Rally in the Valley" at a restaurant in Redwood City.
