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To begin with, several people involved in this ill-advised and little-seen venture – a fusion of Gothic horror and rock music – have connections with other films featuring some of the monsters who appear in it: Freddie Francis helmed the likes of THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN (1964), Dracula HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE (1968) and LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF (1975); Suzanna Leigh had been the heroine of LUST FOR A VAMPIRE (1970); Freddie Jones had appeared impressively as the creature in FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED!
If you are a customer buying a product that should work, you want the nine out of ten; if you are a venture capitalist who thinks she can add value, you want the eight out of 20.
Another compelling explanation comes from a venture capitalist who credits Chinese society with copious reserves of entrepreneurial energy that derives, he believes, from the fact that Chinese culture attaches very little shame to failing in a business enterprise.
LearnUp, a San Francisco startup that has attracted funding from some of the biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, establishes partnerships with employers to offer online training modules that connect job seekers to specific jobs, primarily entry-level positions that do not require college degrees.
To explain this difference in perspective, perhaps one should venture further into the past than the Iraq War and consider the divergence that already existed traditionally between the United Kingdom’s pragmatic approach to its imperial role and the French Empire’s missionary zeal.
And capital-starved entrepreneurs have few other options; despite a growing number of accelerators and seed funds in the region, the venture capital market remains undeveloped.
To create a healthier business climate for innovative small firms and venture startups, the chaebols’ dominance must end.
I myself would not venture such a prediction.
In recent years, private-sector funding options – such as venture capital, targeted-investment funds, and new asset classes – have opened up countless new opportunities for education-sector social entrepreneurs.
The venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who recently joined the debate, falls into the latter camp, asserting that robots will save us from a future of high prices and low wages.
While about 8,000 of the 20,000 US troops in Afghanistan operate independently, the rest have joined the most ambitious military venture in NATO’s history, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
In fact, I would venture to predict that the northern powerhouse project, which has already attracted the attention of local and foreign investors, will be one of the UK’s most important structural economic policies for many years to come.
Becoming a committed European player, fostering foreign direct investment, including venture businesses, promoting financial services and IT resulted in a formidable brain drain reversal for Ireland.
Of course, Europe will also have to encourage entrepreneurship, which requires fostering a culture of risk-taking, facilitating access to venture capital, and investing in strong educational institutions.
Are such businesses – flush with venture capital – running their operations at a loss in order to capture market share?
This category will be particularly helpful for financial analysts, or even for venture capitalists, given that specific advances could earn a future market-entry reward or have vast commercial potential.
Moreover, Shell also operates a joint venture partnership between the NNPC, the French oil company Elf, and Agip of Italy.
The Joint Operating Agreement guiding the venture, in which the Nigerian government has 55% equity, stipulates that while all parties share in the cost of operations, Shell prepares the annual work programs and budget.
Once a new technology is established, private entrepreneurs, with the help of venture capital, adapt it to global market demand, build temporary or long-term monopoly positions, and thereby capture large profits.
Rodrik proposes the creation of public venture capital firms – sovereign wealth funds – that take equity positions in exchange for the intellectual advances created through public financing.
Belgium, though, was the one member state that supported the Dutch in this brave venture.
After several months of job hunting, I joined my brother in a business venture buying and selling apples, honey, and other goods in neighboring Tajikistan.
Assuming that risk is the job of venture capitalists and others in finance, not public officials.
By creating a joint venture “free from profit-making incentives and constraints,” the initiative aims to do something remarkable: put patients first.
Moreover, if the new venture brings big-data analysis and artificial intelligence applications to the clerical side of health care, total spending will naturally decline, and lower prices can be passed on to patients and payers.
The demise of Libya’s nuclear venture offers a template for dealing with Iran.
It suggests that seriously challenging the nuclear venture will come not from more timid sanctions now, but from measures that encourage the pragmatists who populate the fractious Iranian government to promote normalization.
Greece has no lack of would-be entrepreneurs and innovators, but it lacks a system of angel and venture capital.
At the moment, venture capital-backed startups are the standard mechanism for moving from “R” to “D.”
And, given the stellar valuations of some startups, it’s easy to assume that a healthy ecosystem of savvy companies and venture capital funding is all that is needed to ensure innovation.
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