Did it fall short, by a fraction, of the brisk, outgoing zeal of the previous ventures?
Many are battle-hardened through previous ventures that flopped, from dairy farms to bowling alleys.
Previous ventures have included businesses developing everything from smart ticketing to fraud protection systems.
The main director of Tullett Brown was Bradley Ferry, whose previous ventures, Tower Road Finance and Talent Division, were dissolved.
This season the savvy chef-owner has consolidated his assets into a single restaurant that combines the best of his previous ventures.
One day, he described his old feedback idea to Ville Levaniemi, who'd been a colleague in both of his previous ventures.
An hourlong show with a political theme, with a score commissioned from the jazz composer Rob Reddy, it's both less successful than dre.dance previous ventures and more intriguing.
Mr. Silverman said that two weeks ago he began serious talks about a new role with Mr. Diller, who had been his partner in two previous ventures.
His previous ventures have been limited in scope — like cutting interest rates or buying bonds, with a clear goal in sight.
The arrival on the nitinol scene of Mr. McGregor -- whose previous ventures were in the software industry -- has stirred both admiration and misgivings among some longtime participants in the field, who are familiar with nitinol's long history of unfulfilled dreams.
While Mr. Morris's role as a pension-fund middleman may have been his most brazen and lucrative, it built on previous ventures that included several corporate directorships, the annual-report designer Curran & Connors, and his political consulting firm, Morris & Carrick.
