Sentence examples for making a venture from inspiring English sources

It looks like Yahoo is making a venture with its recently launched take on microblogging, Yahoo Meme, by launching a version of the platform in Chinese.

Bain made a "venture capital" investment — of just $650,000 initially.

"When you make a venture capital investment, no one values it day to day," said Tammer Kamel, a hedge fund adviser whose clients include former Clarium investors.

It is not something that would make a venture capitalist jump with joy". He says Glaxo is thinking of a price "way below" what people might expect for once-in-a-lifetime therapy and "nowhere near" that of Glybera.

"We spent a whole year asking, How do we make a venture capital firm that we actually like?" Nosek says.

I've invested significant time in learning about the finance side of business to gain a complete picture of what makes a venture successful.

If you talk about what makes a venture fund and partner valuable, it's the ability to damper some of that volatility by being available.

Carlyle struggled in its first several years, making an unsuccessful venture into airline food, with Caterair, and losing a bid for the restaurant chain Chi-Chi's.

In hiring him, Gelb has made a refreshing venture beyond posh theatre circles.

It was when he made a rare venture on to personal terrain that Altman came really unstuck.

Companies like Boeing and SpaceX that are interested in bidding for the work do not yet know whether they can make a profitable venture of it.