Venture used in a sentence, 24 examples

Venture in a sentence as a noun

If the venture can pay you to keep at it, that's great.

So far, I'm 2/2 at selling my ventures.

Whether it is the best choice for a given venture turns on how the founders in that venture see the trade-offs.

* During all my passive income ventures, I've had a real job. I think passive income works best when supplementing your natural income.

Not everyone wants to build their startup through venture capital, or an accelerator.

The most recent rejection was supposedly because they thought it was unclear we could become a large venture backed company.

[1] Prior to working at the FCC, Wheeler worked as a venture capitalist and lobbyist for the cable and wireless industry."Wow.

The equity upside motivated the investment and the debt came to be seen as added insurance just in case the venture did not pan out as hoped.

Maybe they just need cash fast and the people they are dealing with it are ready to do it on oppressive terms that are easier swallowed than would be shuttering the venture.

Kevin Rose has a rolodex, which I'm sure has benefits to whatever his entrepreneurial venture is.

Or, on the positive side, maybe it means taking funds on less than ideal terms but from an investor who will add large value to the venture apart from the cash element.

As CIO he founded and led Mozilla Labs, and later was the CMO until leaving last year to work in venture capital and then start another company.

Venture in a sentence as a verb

Even the locals will not venture out in the evening unaccompanied by the opposite sex. Sexual violence and molestation is a daily affair.

It was a venture-funded company by then and we were committed to super-growth, not sustainability.

Sit by while people now start making invidious comparisons of their activities with, say, the increasingly notorious Groupon venture?

I don't disagree absolutely with what this post is saying, but as someone who has run multiple successful ventures that I'd consider "passive" income, I have to say its not a fantasy.

The 90-day tail for exercise upon termination of a service relationship applies only to ISOs and not to NQOs but, of course, ISOs have other advantages and they are what is typically offered in VC-backed ventures.

People can and ought to be able to unite to form great companies without having to compare notes on how they voted in the last election or some similar matter having nothing whatever to do with whether someone can add value to the venture.

There are all kinds of startup ventures that never manage to bring their development efforts to completion because of unforeseen technical issues, bad market conditions, lack of funds, and all sorts of other reasons having nothing to do with fraud or other actionable wrongdoing.

Why, when founders have the power to assert more control, should they voluntarily accede to a historic policy the keeps them in handcuffs and leaves them with basically an all-or-nothing proposition in whether they ever get anything significant out of the venture?

The convertible note supplanted an earlier form of convertible note used many years back by which individual investors would see startups as being much akin to small businesses and would loan the money to the venture with the primary aim of making a good interest return on their investment.

Much of the "distraction" that founders face in raising money exists precisely because a typical equity round can be a complex process and, apart from needing to sell the economic proposition behind their venture, founders must also make sure that any funds they do take in are taken on reasonable terms.

If this is true where a venture sells equity interests that are true securities subject to the protections of securities laws, it is doubly true where the only thing being offered is a small perk tied to a development effort that is not guaranteed to be brought to completion or at least that is not guaranteed to be brought to completion within any specified time period.

In that case, the debt vanishes and the noteholder becomes an equity holder and everybody wins in terms of optimal positioning of their respective stakes in the venture: founders have gotten their cheap stock that they can hold until a liquidity event, at which time they can sell typically for long-term capital gains and with no intervening taxes to pay; noteholders have gotten their equity stakes with all protections and with no-less-favorable pricing than that offered to the preferred stock investors who presumably have negotiated a good, arms-length deal for themselves; the company avoids a too-early high repricing of its stock so it can continue to offer good incentives to new team members as they join; and the company does not usually have to fool with 409A valuations or with other strings and formalities attending the bringing in of investors via equity rounds.

Venture definitions

noun

any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome

noun

an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits; "he knew the stock was a speculation when he bought it"

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Venture definitions