Sentence examples for launching a venture from inspiring English sources

Four months after Kobe Bryant ended a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers by going 6 for 21 from the three-point line against the Utah Jazz, the retired basketball star revealed in the Wall Street Journal that he would be launching a venture capital fund with partner Jeff Stibel.

Plattner tasked Agassi with launching a venture called NetWeaver, an integrated technology platform.

The second attitudinal antecedents of intention is tied to the perceptions of what important people in the individual's social surroundings would think about the launching a venture.

SN: I wrongly believed that launching a venture firm would be similar to launching a startup.

Just as venture capital investments in robotics are beginning to take off, the granddaddy of consumer robotics companies, iRobot, is launching a venture capital firm.

There's confusion – way too much confusion – about my status at TechCrunch and TechCrunch's status at Aol after last week's announcement that I was launching a venture fund, partially backed by Aol.

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has launched a venture aiming to invest in food production worldwide.

There was also a rise in "greenfield projects", where a company launches a venture from scratch.

It has also launched a venture, known as Boat, that will try to loosen the exchanges' grip on the lucrative market-data business.

As part of a new campaign to promote York as a cultural centre, the city council has launched a venture called Culture Cabs.

The company launched a venture capital trust investing in solar energy in August 2010 at 100p per share, aiming to pay 5p of dividends a year after two years.