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Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate if they see something that's purported to be green. That's not a reason to invest for many people.

But journalists rarely venture into impoverished neighborhoods these days, except for quick-hit features,

Both partners are already known for their strengths and skills in marketing, and the formation of this joint venture offers us an outstanding opportunity to grow our business in the world's largest ice cream market.

We've been looking for venture capital to come into the state to develop our resources. Now we've finally found some and the politicians are backing off.

Turmoil in the Nasdaq has had just a minor ripple effect in the venture capital market.

The reason that opportunity exists is because the ownership groups buying teams are very different than in the past. The franchise is their primary asset, and they come from backgrounds with an analytical focus such as venture capital, private equity, and management consulting. In the past, sports franchises were secondary assets in the portfolio of individuals who made their money in industrial-based businesses.

This venture deepens our investment in expanding our flat-rolled products capabilities globally and increases our manufacturing flexibility and productivity.

This will be humankind's first planned venture outside the solar system.

What our overriding concern is that this is a market that is shrinking and this has impact on all levels of our business. This venture is a way for us to maximize the available revenues that are in the marketplace for baseball.

Today most open-source-related companies, whether they seek venture capital or not, need to define their market and objectives in the context of technical maturity, commercial support and partnerships with system vendors and independent software vendors, licensing, and the vibrancy of their respective open-source communities,

Waterfall Beverages and Hat Trick Beverage agreed to a joint venture in November and this is what we hope will be the first of many opportunities for both companies.

We've raised a lot of money, and learned how different it is raising money for a profit venture versus a non-profit one.

When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had.

We are turning away money at this point. We will raise about $25 billion this year. In talking with many venture capital firms, I think we could have raised $100 billion if we wanted that money.

We're very excited about launching our third annual edition. It's amazing how much the Venture Capital landscape changes each year-- new firms have been created, new funds have been raised, and new partners have been added. We make it our mission to stay up to date with all the developments.

This new venture creates an opportunity for both Paramount and Universal to launch new operations throughout the world from the foundations built by our successful UIP partnership,

This new joint venture will provide people throughout the health care sector and beyond the opportunity to hear from the nation's leading thought leaders who are in the trenches shaping the health care system for America's future.

There have been pretty solid economic numbers. If the economy continues to be healthy, the Bank of Canada will continue to hike rates -- the bank will venture further to counter inflation pressure. You will see the trend of a stronger Canadian dollar continues.

Virgin is progressing on a deal to launch a mobile venture in the United States.

We went into this venture taking into consideration the establishment of a brand new franchise. Our intention is to make two and three. We are trying to be epic with this experience.

British Biotech sharpened people up in the venture capital community.

Even though many see popular music as a for-profit venture, it remains a nonprofit venture for us,

Could this have a potential impact on the supply of venture capital to the next generation of companies five and 10 years down the road?

Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they're still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in the game. If not, they just slowly wind down.

There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.

I started going by myself; I was a single girl, and all my friends were married. It was a great way to meet new single friends. Most of my friends are now from Venture Outdoors.

Things were very quiet. The market was (pushed) up by the joint venture between Fuji Bank and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank. That was all it needed.

I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.

These results reinforce the need to step up our efforts to eliminate waste and lower costs, ... The industry continues to venture into new territory -- near-record demand mixed with unprecedented price pressures and intensely strong competition on all fronts.

These results are a great achievement for Call-a-Car, and indicate that the consumer is becoming more technologically advanced and is starting to rather venture online than physically go to various vehicle dealerships.

The stock market may be uncertain about the economy, but venture capitalists aren't. They're betting on the future.

The three partners in this ambitious venture share a determination to see that international guests are pleasantly overwhelmed by their experience at Baha Mar.

The thing that first drew our attention to it was that we noticed the chairman is a partner at the leading venture capital firm in health care,

Technology has looked like it's quite immune to the machinations of the Fed but I think people have gotten complacent. The Internet companies are very dependent on a constant flow of venture capital.

Ten years ago it was a venture to really think deeply about how you merge traditional media with new media. It made sense at the time.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Presenting at the Vegas Venture Forum resulted in an invitation to present at the top private equity conference in my industry. This dramatically increased our visibility and helped us to raise the funds we were seeking.

Pragmatically, going through a transitional phase of a joint venture with Russia...I think it is a good starting point.

Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags.

pro-active in approaching the government to talk about converting our operating agreement to a joint venture because we felt it was the right thing to do.

Adelbert deserves this much. This venture is by the people of St Philip but it is also on behalf of the people of Barbados.

A free trade agreement will complement both the economies. While their strength is the vibrant venture capital and marketing skills, the Indian IT industry is known globally for its vast and skilled manpower base.

After 9/11, it was very difficult to raise venture capital. We couldn't get people's attention.

After John received his degree, he joined DSV, a venture capital firm in Princeton, and when I had my third child, I stopped working, ... We loved Philadelphia and had a great old house in Center City, but we decided to give Princeton a try. At first, I was a bit confused after the move. I wasn't sure what to do. The girls were now five, three, and six months, and they really grew up here. Now, I love Princeton. It's a great place to raise children, and John has his own venture capital firm, Cardinal Partners, on Nassau Street.

DBS is one of the most promising areas of OCD research because early studies show that it may help many within the approximately 20 percent of OCD patients for whom neither psychological nor drug therapy works. Some patients have been able to venture out to work and school for the first time with DBS.

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

A propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism.

As big as branded entertainment is, I will still venture to say that 90% of the brands you see in shows are there for free. A lot of brands get in for free not because they're cool but because they happen to be there.

As an investor, I'm concerned with the later phase. There's a higher level of commitment from the venture capital firm by then.

As a venture investor, the sentiment now is that we can finally begin to make money again.

As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

The bottom line, this is a venture that benefits many constituencies: from local stations to local communities, minority audiences to children, from Madison Avenue to Wall Street, and to the shareholders of the new CBS Corporation, Time Warner and the Tribune Co.. This is a great business and creative move for all three companies.

A venture capitalist would rather work with three large institutional investors who give him $50 million rather than 10 individuals who give him $5 million each.

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product.

You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.

You say: "If you sign an NDA, I'll tell you my idea." Investor thinks: "You are clueless. How can you not know that venture capitalists don't sign NDAs?

This is a new venture for the board and the city, so I urge you to make the policy adaptable as events come to us in the future,

This is the fourth start-up venture in which I've been involved and it definitely has been one of my most rewarding experiences, ... It's been an honor to lead the group of talented professionals we've assembled at Sprint PCS, and to work with the experienced and knowledgeable team at Sprint.

This is the best venture I've ever gone into, when it comes to actually getting something out of a program and seeing the kids grow and watching it's eighth year now. It's amazing and great to see.

The Web-presence frenzy that drove many of the global 2000 projects during the past year has subsided, ... Venture capital firms have become much more selective in their funding practices. Large companies are now taking a more deliberate approach to implementing Web strategies." ()

This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design.

They say time heals a broken heart. What heals the trust to venture love again?

Amazon would serve itself well by having an open platform because that typically gets you to the sweet spot of the market: the masses. It is also probably a profitable venture to go into a subscription model, which gives customers more peace of mind to download without looking at how many music titles they are downloading.

They may come to a company with an offer for a $15 million investment with the current management team, and they may offer $20 million if the company takes on the CFO the venture firm wants,

They often venture out, go farther than the closest available food resources. But it's a concern that the closest food source won't be available to them this year. They have energy budgets that they don't want to overuse, and if the closest source is in bad shape, they'll have to travel farther to find food.

They finally have bitten the bullet and decided to sell, ... They are cloaking the effort by saying they are going to maximize shareholder value by going through the motions of looking for a joint venture partner, a minority investor or possibly even spinning the business out to the public. But they are really shopping the studio.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.

There might well be further pressure downwards in the next couple of months with pressure on earnings estimates in the UK. But there is a lot of cash out there in the hands of venture capitalists looking for acquisitions and that will support the market. Look at the Hilton talks announced today, and the likes of E.ON looking at ScottishPower.

This makes me wonder about the prognosis for Alpha. At Compaq there has been major management shakeups, and this could be something that's fallen by the wayside. It's a very expensive venture and maybe hasn't generated the kind of return Compaq would like to see on it.

This is the ideal relationship for us to disseminate reliable health care information to the largest number of medical professionals, hospitals and consumers. This venture initiates our long-term commitment to introduce world-class healthcare products and services to China.

There's a stench of burnt toast coming out of all these news reports. It's very, very thought contagious. And if it spreads across the techs and venture capital companies in Silicon Valley, it will make Enron look like small change.

There's a stench of burnt toast coming out of all these news reports, ... It's very, very thought contagious. And if it spreads across the techs and venture capital companies in Silicon Valley, it will make Enron look like small change.

There seems to be an American trend away from trying to understand the world at large. We comprise 5% of the world, and although we venture out into it occasionally, we are often unable to open ourselves to the broader experience of being not American citizens, but citizens of the world.

There's an excess of capital in the venture industry, and the only way to produce superior returns is to do stuff that nobody else has the appetite or capability to do.

At a fundamental level, political will is the most critical challenge facing those who wish to venture into space in this century. It is even more significant than the technological issues that also present serious challenges to returning to the Moon,

All of us in the venture capital area are going through a triage, where we have to decide which portfolio companies are so wounded we will never save them, ... As horrible as it is to go through that process, it's a cleansing process. To have some branches grow and bear fruit, you have to trim others.

All Patrick employees who went to Pacific National when the joint venture was formed in 2002 were required to resign from Patrick and did not receive further options from Patrick,

It was a very risky venture because at first, nobody really was comfortable with it. The publicists were very wary of putting their stars on the show.

It's a great deal. A joint venture doesn't cost (AT&T) as much as a merger would and it gets them into homes and businesses. Michael Armstrong is trying to win the battle from a different angle.

It's not like a venture capitalist is going to see a payback immediately or even in the next couple years.

It's not known how the male got out there, but it's likely that the tide was lower at that time. It happens a few times a year where people venture out, and then of course the tide comes up quite quickly and we have fairly high tides right now.

It's not just technology alone that makes us strong. It is technology plus all the infrastructure that makes us unique, i.e. venture capitalists, lawyers, bankers.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

It's the most successful venture the city and private industry has ever done together.

David is uniquely qualified to head our new business, ... He has experience in launching successful start-ups, and in running multi-billion dollar businesses, just what we need to head a global venture that, on day one, will be a $10 billion company.

The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.

It's never really too early to start contacting the venture capitalists once a business plan has been thought out and once you know when you are going to need the money, ... Don't wait until the week before you need it.

It's moving more toward normalcy ? the whole industry. It's a much more disciplined investment environment with respect to institutional investors, fund managers and venture capitalists.

That got my attention. They were asking, 'What are the values we have between us and how can we take all that and put it into a venture that reflects our values?' That is the right way to think about being an entrepreneur.

Super funds and venture capital funds are in the business of picking winners all the time,

It's certainly not the way we wanted our first venture into the NCAA tournament to turn out, but it is what it is. My hat's off to Boston University, I thought they did an excellent job in every phase of the game.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.

The venture industry is notorious for chasing the flavor of the day. There's currently not a huge appetite for paying big bucks for emerging tech companies.

The venture capital business is a batting game. If you hit one out of four, you're a solid player. But in the equity buyout business, since we're putting larger chunks of money into each deal, we can't afford to swing and miss.

The Vegas Venture Forum is a perfect opportunity for an affluent individual looking to provide capital for business start-ups.