Sentence examples for serious ventures from inspiring English sources

Of the 8 he accepted, 4 had blossomed into serious ventures by the end of the summer: Loopt, a social-mapping ser vice, now with 4 million users; Reddit, a user-aggregated news site acquired by Condé Nast in 2006; TextPayMe, a mobile payment service bought by Amazon in 2006; and Kiko, thwarted by Google.

Jaspan isn't going to get rich from this trust-owned, eminently serious venture.

Its one serious venture in peace diplomacy, last spring, was quickly abandoned.

His first, serious venture was Uni-Pac, a company that made corrugated cardboard boxes to hold fruit from his native Cyprus.

That is where he ran into Mr. Nissirios, 53, co-owner of a string of diners in Essex and Bergen Counties, who was looking for a chef for this more serious venture.

Similarly, Spark's one serious venture into autobiography, Curriculum Vitae, covering the 39 years to the publication of The Comforters, her first novel, is as bald a summary of her life as its title makes it sound.

The sweet, engrossing, middlebrow braid of The Hours would have dismayed Virginia Woolf, its ostensible linchpin, as a serious venture in fiction, and Joyce would have begrudged By Nightfall the rationed reading time (failing eyes) he gave so willingly to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

That serious venture capitalists and corporations are essentially throwing money at a force they can't quantify may indicate Facebook's power.

The virtual broadcasts–using a combination of cutting-edge animation and Internet technologies are offered by Virtual Spectator Ltd., a consortium of high tech companies in New Zealand backed by some serious venture capital.

While it was a less serious venture than VanityTrove, which is now in seven countries, his experience working on the web-hosting company meant he had "exposure to successes and failures" early on, the 30-year-old said.

While education tech has drawn serious venture funding in recent years, much of the investment has gone towards companies that provide corporate or employee training, or education tools and content to the college or K-12 market.