Operating profits at the chain fell to £429,000, down from more than £500,000, but rising administration costs and ill-fated business ventures drove the company's figures deeper into the red.
These digital ventures drive up the salaries of designers in Africa and show the value of design thinking for the continent.
Art Ludlow, above, has been making cheese in Bridgehampton, N.Y., for only about a year and a half, a venture driven by both passion and profit.
In other words – and like it or not, just as in much of east London's model of gentrification – Belgrade's revival has ultimately been a grassroots venture, driven by actual people and their aspirations.
Believing that "New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason", Hooley starts his own fantastically ramshackle record label, a venture driven entirely by love, not money, which in turn gives John Peel (not to mention the world in general) "the greatest three minutes of my life".
Healthcare identity startup CrossChx announced this morning that they raised a $15 million Series C financing round from Khosla Ventures, Drive Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, NCT Ventures and Moonshots Capital.
Their ventures were driven by vanity, political dogma, vested interests, lust for power and, most shocking, perhaps, honest assessments of the welfare of the nation and the world.
On Such a Full Sea (the title comes from Julius Caesar: "On such a full sea are we now afloat; / And we must take the current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures") is driven by the adventures of Fan, aged 16, who leaves B-Mor to take her chances in the unpoliced "counties" outside the industrial sector.
The story of the first insurtech wave is similar to many stories across the tech landscape: New ventures were driven by entrepreneurs from outside the industry looking to disrupt what they knew (auto insurance, renters/homeowners insurance or distribution).
There has been a belief among a certain group of venture capitalists that it is worth getting into a startup "at any price," since the returns in venture are driven by a handful of winners every year, and of course, the internet has no limits to growth.
