Another speaker, William H. Draper, Jr., former Under Secretary of the Army and now with the Palo Alto venture capital firm of Draper, Gaither & Anderson, urged the U.S. to `` throw down the gauntlet of battle to communism and tell Moscow bluntly we won't be pushed around any more ''.

* Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm

Each is meant to facilitate the contribution of specific resources-investment capital, knowledge, relationships, and so forth-towards a venture which will prove profitable to all contributors.

During development in 1983, Amiga had exhausted venture capital and was desperate for more financing.

Ben Rosen provided the venture capital financing for the fledging company and served as chairman of the board for 18 years from 1983 until September 28, 2000, when he retired and was succeeded by Michael Capellas who served as the last Chairman and CEO until its merger with HP.

Their first venture capital came from Benjamin M. Rosen and Sevin Rosen Funds.

A combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market confidence that the companies would turn future profits, individual speculation in stocks, and widely available venture capital created an environment in which many investors were willing to overlook traditional metrics such as P / E ratio in favor of confidence in technological advancements.

During the loss period the companies relied on venture capital and especially initial public offerings of stock to pay their expenses while having no source of income at all.

Its main operations are in the areas of venture capital and guaranteeing loans.

* Enterprise Capital Fund, a type of venture capital in the UK

It should be recognized that franchising is one of the only means available to access venture investment capital without the need to give up control of the operation of the chain and build a distribution system for servicing it.

In August 2008, IKEA also announced that it had created IKEA GreenTech, a € 50 million venture capital fund.

* 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

Lycos Inc. was formed with approximately US $ 2 million ($ million today ) in venture capital funding from CMGI.

The acquisition price represented a return of nearly 3000 times the company's initial venture capital investment and about 20 times its initial public offering valuation.

He devotes his time to seeking venture capital for the startup company.

The annual Mexico Investment Summit takes place in Mexico City covering the development and investment opportunities and challenges across Mexican private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate, agriculture, tourism, energy and natural resources evolving in the country's economy.

The exploration sector is typically made up of individuals and small mineral resource companies (" juniors ") dependent on venture capital.

* 20-Eugene Kleiner, 80, entrepreneur and co-founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers venture capital firm.

BlueIraq sought venture capital to transform itself into a large general consumer cellular telephone company.

Lackey founded a stealth computer security start-up with a small group of people well known in the computer security community and secured funding from Ron Conway and a well known venture capital fund.

Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for one-third ( 1 / 3 ) of all of the venture capital investment in the United States.

The Mayfield Fund venture capital group supplied the initial funding.

Unable to raise the required capital in Britain because of this, Edison was forced to enter into a joint venture with Swan ( known as Ediswan ).

In 1998, venture capital billionaire Tom Hicks bought the team for $ 250 million.

To accelerate the development of industrialization, Stalin pragmatically created joint venture contracts with major American private enterprises, such as Ford Motor Company, that under state supervision assisted in developing the basis of industry of the Soviet economy from the late 1920s to 1930s.

In August 2009 it was announced that a joint venture known as the Livermore Valley Open Campus ( LVOC ) would be created between Sandia National Laboratories / California campus and LLNL to promote collaboration between the scientists at these labs and their counterparts in industry and academia.

The latest venture, on Kentucky Route 92 in Pine Knot, is building a " spec " building as a means of attracting new industry to the county.

While Alexander Arthur's logging venture failed, industry continued to find its way to the town.

IBM planned to replace DOS with the vastly superior OS / 2 ( originally an IBM / Microsoft joint venture, and unlike the PS / 2 hardware, highly backward compatible ), but Microsoft preferred to push the industry in the direction of its own product, Windows.

Bluffton is also home to the international firm DTR, a cooperative venture between Duramax and Japan's Tokai Rubber, a manufacturer of rubber components for the auto industry.

In 1977, Nestlé made its second venture outside the food industry, by acquiring Alcon Laboratories Inc.

The first venture General Mills took into the toy industry was in 1965.

** Electricity Market Company ( now M-co ) established as a joint venture by New Zealand electricity industry players to act as a focal point for the design of a wholesale electricity market.

Masstock became one of the pioneers of the establishment of a modern dairy industry in Saudi Arabia as a result of its minority shareholding ( largely disposed of in 1991 ) in the Almarai Group, a joint venture with majority shareholder HH Prince Sultan Bin Mohamed Bin Saud Al Kabeer.

The seeds of the US private equity industry were planted in 1946 with the founding of two venture capital firms: American Research and Development Corporation ( ARDC ) and J. H.

I venture to express the opinion that will find among the projects and plans which he will be called upon to discuss none containing a more Socialistic principle than that which is embodied in his own scheme, which, whether it can properly be described as a scheme of protection or not, is certainly a scheme under which the State is to undertake to regulate the course of commerce and of industry, and tell us where we are to buy, where we are to sell, what commodities we are to manufacture at home, and what we may continue, if we think right, to import from other countries.

Anting is one of the centres of the Chinese automotive industry ; it is home to Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation and includes the German / Chinese joint venture: Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive.

One of the first steps toward a professionally-managed venture capital industry was the passage of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958.

The growth of the venture capital industry was fueled by the emergence of the independent investment firms on Sand Hill Road, beginning with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital in 1972.

The NVCA was to serve as the industry trade group for the venture capital industry.

It was not until 1978 that venture capital experienced its first major fundraising year, as the industry raised approximately $ 750 million.

The public successes of the venture capital industry in the 1970s and early 1980s ( e. g., Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple Inc., Genentech ) gave rise to a major proliferation of venture capital investment firms.

The growth of the industry was hampered by sharply declining returns, and certain venture firms began posting losses for the first time.

Growth in the venture capital industry remained limited throughout the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, increasing from $ 3 billion in 1983 to just over $ 4 billion more than a decade later in 1994.

Yale School of Management Professor Andrew Metrick refers to these first 15 years of the modern venture capital industry beginning in 1980 as the " pre-boom period " in anticipation of the boom that would begin in 1995 and last through the bursting of the Internet bubble in 2000.

The Nasdaq crash and technology slump that started in March 2000 shook virtually the entire venture capital industry as valuations for startup technology companies collapsed.

By mid-2003, the venture capital industry had shriveled to about half its 2001 capacity.