venture capitalin a sentence
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Much of the computer and Internet boom was funded by venture capital out of Silicon Valley.
venture capital = start-up money for a company
- I worked as a junior partner in a venture capital fund specializing in social media, and affording the condo was a stretch on my salary, but at the same time I didn't feel like I could afford anything less.† (source)
- That was the date of a now famous meeting, in which Robert Swanson, a venture capitalist, approached Herbert Boyer, a biochemist at the University of California.† (source)
- Though stolen artworks are often used as negotiable instruments to supply venture capital for drug trafficking and arms deals, the DEA has defended itself against criticism in what the art-crimes division of the FBI has called a "bungled" and "amateurish" handling of the matter, issuing a public statement apologizing for the accidental death of Mrs. Huidobro while also explaining that their agents are not trained to identify or recover stolen artwork.† (source)
- He figured that with a little venture capital, this neurolinguistic hacking could be developed as a new technol. ogy that would enable Rife to maintain possession of information that had passed into the brains of his programmers.† (source)
- In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists regard failure as just a first step toward success.† (source)
- I see waste traders and venture capitalists, piroshki and skewered lamb.† (source)
- A few groups have operated as venture capital providers to support small-scale programs abroad, and in fact that is precisely what Ashoka does with its support of Ashoka Fellows.† (source)
- But the plot, he thought, wasn't quite exciting enough, so he'd tried to jazz it up using every idea he'd ever had, including a nuclear warhead hidden in San Francisco, a crooked cop who was witness to the JFK assassination, an Irish terrorist, the Mafia, a boy and his dog, an evil venture capitalist, and a time-traveling scientist who'd escaped the persecution of the Holy Roman Empire.† (source)
- Suavely suited venture capitalists and fund managers crowded the bar, elbow to elbow with mountaineers, fidgeting in uncharacteristic jackets and ties.† (source)
- "Venture capital in the international markets!" cried the attorney.† (source)
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- One venture capital guy had actually laughed, a big and genuine laugh, on the phone — laughed a good long time.† (source)
- Between September of 1983 and November of 1985, John Alfred Hammond and his "Pachyderm Portfolio" raised $870 million in venture capital to finance his proposed corporation, International Genetic Technologies, Inc. And they could have raised more, except Hammond insisted on absolute secrecy, and he offered no return on capital for at least five years.† (source)
- Alan had never checked or known his credit score but was told, by every bank and even a few venture capital firms, that his score made him untouchable.† (source)
- In the 1980s, he founded his own venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California, and began buying up pieces of other companies that had grown too large and unwieldy.† (source)
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