The life of Count Harry Kessler might be read as a semi-autobiographical novel that Mann never ventured to write.
In 1977, Feldman ventured to write an hour-long opera entitled "Neither," which was destined never to make it to the Met.
He wrote saying he had heard what excellent work the WVS did, and how kind and helpful they were, so he ventured to write and ask if the WVS could introduce him to someone who would eventually become his wife and a mother to his two children.
For the most part "Love Letters" was flat — about as two-dimensional as a cartoon — making Ms. Perret's venture nothing to write home about.
Anything you can get a venture capitalist to write you a check for.
He will not miss getting his badge scanned everywhere he goes, and he will not miss the efforts of one flak in particular who called to tell him, "Dude, you got something TOTALLY wrong," when the Bagger ventured out to write a story for the daily newspaper about the scrum over credits.
Steve Hilton, the prime minister's chief policy guru, commissioned a venture capitalist, Adrian Beecroft, to write a report on areas in which employment laws could be loosened.
For the first time TechCrunch is bringing its CrunchMatch program to Europe where startup founders will be matched with venture capitalists ready to write checks and make investments.
Gleason and Alvarez started off looking for bridge financing, but Gleason says the American venture funds wanted to write bigger checks.
We were the first venture capital [firm to write a check, of $1.75 million] in September 2008, right after the fall of Lehman Brothers, and we were called foolish and stupid.
