It took him less than a half hour to explain his business plan, and it took the high profile venture capital outfit less than 30 minutes to decide to infuse $3.5 million into the company.
From what we hear on the street, some very high profile venture capitalists are willing to bet some serious money that he's wrong.
WeedMaps has gone on a funding tour of Silicon Valley, engaging with high profile venture capital firms like Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson, Oak Investments, True Venture, top tier legal firms and several white-shoe accounting firms.
"Software is eating the world," says Internet pioneer and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, now Silicon Valley's most high profile venture capitalist.
While Howard was involved in real estate and other high-profile ventures, Seymour's son, Philip, the chief executive of Emigrant Savings Bank, was more low-key.
Her high-profile ventures included World Without Oil, a six-week simulation where players had to survive an imaginary oil shortage, and EVOKE, a futuristic game designed for the World Bank in which players support global efforts to ease poverty.
Building new stadiums in New York would prove to be as complex and difficult as developing other megaprojects, partly because of the scrutiny on high-profile ventures with public investment.
INDEX has contributed to this, although humanitarian design has also benefited from the emergence of wealthy supporters, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, and the success of high-profile ventures, like the volunteer networks of Architecture for Humanity and Project H Design.
There are high-profile ventures like Nest Labs, founded by Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive, which has hired more than 100 engineers from Apple, Google, Microsoft and other high-tech companies, and it is backed by a pack of venture capital firms.
"There were actually lots of companies trying to do this years ago, and the vast majority of those efforts failed," Mr. Florance explained, pointing to high-profile ventures like Teleres, partly owned by Dow Jones & Company, and Zethus, backed by Goldman Sachs.
