Unlike Softbank, Hikari focuses more on companies that have some sort of synergy with its ongoing ventures than on the overall Web.
Therefore portfolio entrepreneurs have access to more and more diverse resources since their ongoing ventures allowed them to build stronger social capital; serial entrepreneurs need to develop more actively social capital after having shown interest in new opportunities.
My TechCrunch colleague Natasha Lomas recently argued – quite convincingly – that startups should stop trying to make proximity-based social networking "happen" — that most attempts had failed, and even ongoing ventures like Foursquare have had to tone down the idea.
This is intended to complement other ongoing ventures, such as the monitoring and evaluation toolkit which was recently developed to support more rigorous impact evaluations [ 8].
Once the pair graduate, the initiative will pass to the next class, creating an ongoing international venture.
From Harry Truman to Bill Clinton, nearly every U.S. president has learned that members of Congress, and members of the opposition party in particular, are fully capable of interjecting their opinions about proposed and ongoing military ventures.
"We will continue our strategic relationship through our ongoing joint ventures with Ford".
Several factors ensured a profitable and productive economic system: less reliance on defense contracts; continued success in exports of high-technology equipment, minicomputers, and semiconductors; ongoing investments by venture capitalists; and the availability of a highly educated workforce.
More than forty years after it nonplussed nearly everyone, "Self Portrait" has returned to us, of a fashion, as "Another Self Portrait," the tenth volume of the ongoing vault-clearing venture known as the Bootleg Series.
