In 1847, with further patented improvements, he opened a factory in the then small, swampy, lakeside town of Chicago in partnership with the mayor, William Ogden, who capitalized the venture with $50,000 of his own money.
Moreover, most of the now-shuttered companies were not heavily capitalized by venture standards.
On October 21, 2009, N. R. Narayana Murthy sold Rs. 174 core worth of Infosys shares to capitalize Catamaran, his venture capital fund.
This course will focus on the key strategies for building and leveraging a network of champions to capitalize a social venture at early-stage, and for sustaining and growing that network as the venture grows.
I decided instead to found and capitalize PreFund Associates, my own venture investment activity.
The two companies said the venture would capitalize on the industrial and organizational strengths of both groups.
IBM has spent more than $13 million to capitalize a PC joint venture in Korea last November, in addition to $560 million to build a new hard-disk drive plant near Bangkok, with manufacturing due to start in the first quarter of next year.
These are the rights that let venture capitalists capitalize on their wins while combating dilution and limiting exposure to bad investments.
Two species of plasmodia infecting humans hedge the probability that biting anophelines will be present to capitalize the relatively risky venture into blood.
Finding the right people to lead ventures that capitalize on emerging business opportunities is difficult.
Nonprofit universities like N.Y.U. have increasingly turned to profit-making ventures to capitalize on their professors' research.
