The holiday is the perfect occasion for this sort of venture.
Now she travels around Kenya, Pakistan and India for the Acumen Fund, a sort of venture capital fund that invests in socially productive enterprises, like affordable housing and ambulance services.
Ms. Horowitz and some other professionals in the fragrance business are skeptical of this sort of venture, however, since body chemistry plays such an important part in determining a scent.
But for six years, she has also lavished her entrepreneurial skills on a different sort of venture — a nonprofit organization whose guiding purpose is to help her 9-year-old son, Cade, and other children deal with autism.
"All these platforms are called marketplaces because they bring populations together, whether it be males and females on Match.com or banks and borrowers on Lending Tree," said Judd Hollas, the founder of EquityNet, which allows direct investment in start-up companies as a sort of venture capital platform for the masses.
You have to be the resourceful type to make this sort of venture work.
The level of investment in this sort of venture is low, a fact that Grishin chalks up to VC nervousness.
Now millionaires, Buss and Mariani turned to another sort of venture.
Especially since we learned what a basically non-commercial sort of venture it was.
We sort of ventured forth to see if this would actually lead somewhere and it did very much lead somewhere.
