Last month, two of Mr. Mandela's daughters sued Mr. Bizos and two other associates of their father to force them off the boards of two companies set up to sell a series of paintings Mr. Mandela had made with his handprints, one of several commercial ventures devised to raise money for him and his heirs.
To sharpen our search, our partner, The Venture Alliance (TVA), devised a survey-and-rating system for young companies.
The first Thomas Sweet venture (the name was devised by Mr. Block's sister, since both partners were named Thomas) was a chocolate shop that Mr. Block and Mr. Grimm opened in December 1979 in a building they rented from Princeton.
5) Co-creating a hypothesis and plan for quantitative and qualitative data gathering Critical assumptions behind the new venture are listed and approaches devised for testing.
Both devised legally questionable ventures to disseminate their "secrets" to others in ways that conveniently benefitted themselves.
From the end of the 1980s he devised ever more headline-grabbing ventures: bidding for the bones of the Elephant Man, sleeping in an oxygen chamber, appearing in toyshops and galleries in garish wigs and moustaches.
Perricone, 56, a certified pilot, has invested some $100,000 in PerriQuest, a venture of three researchers at Texas A&M University who, within eight months, devised a method of shielding an aircraft's heat signature from on-the-ground rocket-launchers.
Under the venture, the companies will devise new products that integrate cable technology and wireless technology.
Since the 17th century, for instance, it has tended overwhelmingly to have been war – whether international war or civil war – or the experience of military defeat, or invasion and the fear of invasion, or revolution, or decolonisation, that has obliged states to devise and venture on new political constitutions.
However, in order to ensure future scaling, a plan was also devised for moving towards local manufacturing (possibly through a joint-venture).
