Sentence examples for diminishing venture from inspiring English sources

In response to diminishing venture capital returns, investors have been advocating small funds of only a few hundred million dollars and staying away from high-cost, high-risk alternative energy companies.

The results indicate that in countries with higher level of income (higher degrees of gender parity), the tendency towards starting an entrepreneurial venture diminishes due to the inverse relationship between early-stage entrepreneurial activity and gender development equality.

While returns are diminishing, investments continue to rise after a year when venture funding was in the doldrums.

Olsen is a convincing actress but she is trapped in a venture that falls victim to the law of diminishing returns.

The NASA venture — since diminished by administrative changes and financing cutbacks — was welcomed by those who advocate a search for extraterrestrial intelligence, known as SETI, and call the science "exobiology".

Diminishing forests and biodiversity are more pressing issues than global warming; few ventured to predict what would become of these issues in Rio.

These would be built and managed by Forest Holidays, a company largely owned by venture capitalists, Lloyds Development Capital, in which the FC (ie you and me) has a small and diminishing holding.

Yet it is a shell of its former self because Lucent has placed diminishing emphasis on basic research, and many scientists have left to work at technology start-ups and other ventures.

Their obvious concern: that good times can't last forever, especially for venture-backed companies that aren't IPO candidates and whose chances of getting acquired may be diminishing by the quarter.

Venture investors, for their part, should be careful they don't take on too much equity in a firm, diminishing the founders' incentive to succeed.

Whose "hopes are diminishing".