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Indeed, so competent is Olam that when Wilmar, a Southeast Asian firm run by overseas Chinese and a force in its own right in China and across Asia, sought to expand in Africa, it sought out Olam in a joint venture.
The Olam and Wilmar joint venture is, in a sense, symptomatic of the combination of assets from across Asia that can catalyze productive change in Africa.
So though I welcome the advent of venture capital for internet investments outside America, I worry.
Three guys – and I won’t say who they are because I am not impressed with them – decide to start a venture fund to invest in high tech in Europe and off they go; they raise a $100 million easily.
I got a fax from one, Boris Jordan, telling me he was starting a European high-tech venture fund and would I care to work with him.
So, from a time when there was a shortage of venture capital, a shortage of interest, we are moving quickly to a point where there is too much.
My first investment was with a guy I knew from Hungary who was going to create a joint venture to bring CompuServe into Hungary.
One key partner for Starbucks in this new venture is Intercontinental Exchange (commonly known as ICE; not to be confused with the controversial US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency).
Even within Europe, there is powerful evidence that countries where mutual trust is higher achieve higher levels of investment, particularly through venture capital investment, and are prepared to use more flexible contracts, which are also beneficial for growth and investment.
But, until this shift occurs, we will ask individual philanthropists, corporations and charities – as well as new and old aid donors – to come together to catalyze the venture.
In 2012, the venture capitalist William Janeway argued that economic development is a three-player game involving the state, private entrepreneurial innovation, and financial capitalism, with inevitable cyclical overshoots that create the conditions for the next wave of invention and output growth.
There were also clear indications that the military was not inclined to venture into politics once again, as it has done many times in the past.
Historians and others who venture to break the silence are lambasted as traitors to the black cause.
The pope should stick to morality, they say, and not venture into science.
So Clinton has set the stage for exploring a possible joint venture with China on meeting the challenge of climate change.
It is no accident that France and the Netherlands have taken the lead in this sordid venture.
But this time the soldiers have remained in their barracks, for the simple reason that an awakened populace, an active civil society, and a free and vibrant media would not tolerate another venture into politics by the army.
One reason why Sarkozy could succeed where previous governments have never dreamt to venture, aside from his popular mandate for reform, is a “win-win” strategy, whereby victory for reform implies substantial compensation.
Similarly, for some of the most innovative American companies, financing from the SBIR has proved to be more important than private venture capital.
Private venture capitalists cover their losses from failed investments with their profits from those that succeed; but government programs are rarely set up to generate significant returns.
The bedrock of this system are civil liberties, property rights, secure contracts, courts empowered to uphold the rule of law, local banks linked with local entrepreneurs, financial firms that supply venture capital, ease of market entry by new companies, and so forth.
The European venture is immense.
But they will mostly be in the back seat of a venture driven by entrepreneurs, external friends of regional peace, and – most important – the individual Palestinians and Israelis who make the sweat-equity commitment to become a new kind of pioneer for peace.
A precautionary firm would look like a miniature version of today’s regulatory state, whereas a proactionary state would operate like a venture capitalist writ large.
Forbes magazine’s “100 Most Powerful Women” last year listed its traditional collection of government officials, activists, and business leaders, but it also included a new cadre of women in technology: venture capitalists, start-up managers, and engineers leading technological innovation.
Hedge funds, venture capital firms that actually venture into new things, and recreated merchant banks are relatively well suited to make financial decisions that require judgment, the ability to engage the unknown, and to do so over a horizon not dictated by quarterly earnings.
Similarly, large financial institutions like Deutsche Bank, as they free up the huge pots of money now tied up in industrial holdings, are thinking of little else but participating in a US-style scene of venture capital, start-up financing and IPOs.
Scientists everywhere need help navigating bureaucracy when turning an idea into a commercial venture, and this process is particularly challenging in a region where R&D pipelines are in their infancy.
Aside from its implications for different national systems, the future shape of banking is critical to the broader financial system, including venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds.
To some extent, Xtify is an echo of Weinreich’s other venture, MeetMoi, a real-time dating site that uses mobile-phone location technology and interest profiles to help users find like-minded strangers.
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