Sentence examples for greatest venture from inspiring English sources

In May 1860 Garibaldi set out on the greatest venture of his life, the conquest of Sicily and Naples.

Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), for instance, argues that "the next eight to 10 years are going to be the greatest venture capital years in the history of the world". But he believes that the drivers of future innovation aren't in traditional locations: in addition to Silicon Valley, DFJ is investing in China, India, and Vietnam.

Benchmark's first fund quoted Voltaire: "God is not on the side of the big arsenals, but on the side of those who shoot best". Its great dot-com hit was eBay, which was considered at the time the greatest venture capital success ever.

Roger Evans, one of the greatest venture capitalists ever, whose firm Greylock backed Facebook and LinkedIn, told me over waffles one morning, "Shaun, focus on building CMR's core competencies and brand first.

We were investors in deals in Silicon Valley and Boston and I got to sit and participate at the board table with some of the greatest venture capitalists of our time!

It's not a great venture unless you really hit it big".

Opera 'LA CLEMENZA DI Tomorrowomorrow and Wednesday) Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production of Mozart's great venture into opera seria gets star treatment from James Levine, Heidi Grant Murphy and Anne Sofie von Otter.

She also contributed articles to children's magazines and cookbooks and wrote a novel for young adults, "The Great Venture" (1963).

A tiny group of top-performing firms do generate great "venture rates of return": at least twice the capital invested, net of fees.

No matter how lean and agile you're running, it's the personal, passion-igniting elements that differentiate a great venture from a merely good one.

His draft attempts a brief summary of the common history and values that form the basis of the "great venture which makes of it [Europe] a special area of human hope".