Armed with this new cash, Ryan, Maybank, Wilson, and the team set out to hire and venture into new verticals.
Hauser himself never set out to be a venture capitalist.
Sarah Guo didn't necessarily set out to become a venture capitalist.
Surveys are a great way to get data to prove that the problem you've set out to solve with your venture actually exists.
Forty years ago, Eugene Kleiner and Tom Perkins set out to disrupt the then nascent venture capital industry.
"From the start we set out to build a genuinely differentiated venture capital firm that would be sustainable across multiple generations.
Which is exactly what Meganne Wecker, a third-generation furniture maker following her father and grandfather at Skyline Furniture, and Christiane Lemieux, founder of DwellStudio, set out to do with a new venture Cloth & Company.
When Silicon Valley venture firms set out to conquer China five-to-seven years ago, most of them picked one of three strategies.
In a new post, Sacca explains that he achieved what he set out to do when he created his venture firm, Lowercase Capital, in 2009, an outfit that was helped along by early checks from Industry Ventures, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Sacca's former Google boss, Eric Schmidt.
Anita and Sheldon Drobny, a couple of Chicago venture capitalists, have set out to do something about this.
The difficulty, according to Carr, is to "get the right feedback and the right data, and, of the many, many data points that I can collect from customers, which ones can tell you, 'This is the one'?" Like the publishing venture, Amazon Studios set out to make the old "gatekeepers" — in this case, Hollywood agents and executives — obsolete.
