His money has helped underwrite ventures such as the Musk Mars Desert Observatory telescope located within a simulated Mars environment in southern Utah, where Martian acolytes try out waste-incinerating toilets and homemade space helmets reportedly fashioned out of trash can lids.
Louise sent her friends, however, and the doyennes of Chicago society loyally helped to underwrite the ventures of her prodigy.
But it would land a big burden on the taxpayers of Manchester, as the council is underwriting the venture.
The idea took root and soon developed into a financial instrument that other businesses adopted to underwrite their ventures.
That cash is not being used to expand operations, train new workers, underwrite new ventures, or spark innovation".
Four seasons later he has doubled his acreage with cuttings, produces 25,000 bottles of fruit and grape wines, and makes enough money to underwrite other ventures, including the conversion of one the 12 old farmhouses on his land into an upscale restaurant -- where he intends to be the chief chef.
Its founding editor, a revered left-wing journalist named Joseph Samaha, found a London-based investment banker to underwrite the venture in 2006 while promising not to interfere with editorial content.
Not only did he start Innovative Biosensors by licensing the technology from MIT, but he was also able to efficiently underwrite the venture by taking advantage of government grants and an incubator in Maryland.
That means research and development costs previously underwritten by venture capitalists are now showing up on Cisco's balance sheet.
In the years since, the company has underwritten more significant ventures and has long lived under one of the best-known logos in American business -- the umbrella it created in its advertising in 1870, only six years after the company had been established, to symbolize protection.
It is being produced in partnership with the Central Park Conservancy, and Mr. Shapiro's company, Dayglo Ventures, is underwriting the production costs.
