I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997–2007), less than 20 percent of companies were ve...
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
The venture community is largely male.
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge—it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.
Marriage is a partnership, not a corporate venture.
Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
After The Ventures I dug Johnny Smith quite a bit.
If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.
The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventure.
