Fortunately for NEXT, a new venture segment seems to be emerging with real estate heavyweights and the building materials industry investing directly, or as fund LPs, in emerging technologies in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) space.
The company announced that it will open up a joint venture segment in its own shop, taking as much as 20to50percentent of equity in certain projects.
The Others segment ventures in providing non-telecom services, including educational training programs and technology transfer services.
The Others segment ventures in the following businesses: hotel, restaurant, travel, golf, advertising, railway maintenance, motor service station and car dealership, finance and bookkeeping, landscaping and gardening, building management and maintenance, insurance agency, and nursing and child care.
Not until 1994 years after its initial success did the company venture into the landscaping segment, where it targeted administrators of large public projects (such as the Olympic Games and major urban parks) with a new line of precision drippers.
For those who do venture out, the hottest segment right now is known as Flex Casual, Fine Casual, or Fast Fine.
In the fickle world of startups and venture capital, no market segment has been hotter than FinTech.
The company already sells medical supplies and equipment in the U.S. and is now hiring executives more broadly to venture into the pharmacy segment.
Consumer lending can be used as a basis to venture into the "riskier" segment of extending microcredit to microentrepreneurs who are either launching or growing a business, and can be used to offset possible initial losses.
Among other investors drawn to the food segment are: S2G Ventures, Obvious Ventures, CAVU Ventures, New Crop Capital and CircleUp.
Real estate technology (or proptech) has been one of the hottest segments in venture capital.
