Sentence examples for consumer ventures from inspiring English sources

In the past handful of years Moritz has put an estimated $100 million of Sequoia's money into ten consumer ventures, including GameFly (online videogame rentals), Plaxo (online address books), RedEnvelope and Zappos (e-tailing), plus a Web site for planning trips like rafting down the Colorado River (Kayak.com) and a way to play fantasy football on your cell phone (Digital Chocolate).

They're investing in Gojimo through their consumer venture fund, JamJar Investments.

When the fever for those business-to-consumer ventures died down, the brokerage stocks started moving in rhythm with the new hot segment -- business-to-business Internet companies, she said.

The corporate world has as much interest in P2P as consumers, venture capitalists argue, and is much more willing to pay for it.Companies could indeed benefit from using P2P applications, as the case of Intel shows.

Also, the software must be downloaded from the site, which could be a time-consuming venture for consumers on dial-up connections.

Editor's note:  This guest post is written by Aileen Lee, Partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where she focuses on investing in consumer internet ventures.

Editor's note: Aileen Lee is a partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where she focuses on investing in consumer internet ventures.

Former Google and Square Executive Joins Digital Team to Focus on Consumer Internet Ventures.

Aileen focuses on investing in early stage consumer internet ventures and previously  worked at Gap, Odwalla, The Northface and Morgan Stanley.

The Omidyar Network's past investments have included consumer internet ventures (Linden Lab, ViKi, Wikia, Common Sense Media among them); as well as organizations focused on entrepreneurship, government transparency and financial inclusion.

Walmsley has overseen the creation of the consumer joint venture with Novartis.