PolyPlus has steered clear of venture capital investors up until now because VCs look to exit startups within a few years, which doesn't suit the energy storage business, Visco says.
It veers closer to "Lust for Life," Vincente Minnelli's bio-pic of van Gogh, than to "The Social Network," which was also scripted by Sorkin, but which steered us through the ventures of Mark Zuckerberg — no less labyrinthine than those of Jobs — with clarity and calm.
It veers closer to "Lust for Life," Vincente Minnelli's bio-pic of van Gogh, than to "The Social Network," which was also scripted by Sorkin, but which steered us through the ventures of Mark Zuckerberg no less labyrinthine than those of Jobs with clarity and calm.
Then an Austin venture capitalist steered him to his ideal customers: insurance companies.
The Manchester trumpeter, composer and all-round northern new-music enabler Matthew Halsall might be a man with the open ears and eclectic energy to run a broad-based contemporary record label - but he's also a disciple of the meditative 1960s music of John and Alice Coltrane, which significantly steers his own ventures.
While McSweeney's has already steered away from high-profit ventures and toward more edgy ones, potential status as a 501(c)(3) organization will allow it to accept donations for projects and expand its offerings to include less financially viable publications.
A collaboration between China and Singapore — initiated by the two governments, it is now steered by a 50-50 joint venture between Singapore and Chinese consortiums — the metropolis broke ground last autumn.
Purchase Pro, a system hotels use to buy everything from steaks to alarm clocks on-line, got started with the help of gambling magnate Stephen Wynn, who provided venture capital and steered his purchasing agents to the service.
But most media concerns and venture capitalists have steered clear.
His policies then steered the country toward high-technology ventures and production.
But advocates for some startups said that the government had not allotted enough money or steered support to the most promising ventures.
