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Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.
In many cases, women are being harassed by people who are on their board or who are associated with one of their venture capitalists.
Amazon deliberately provides cafeteria space for only a third of its employees, which encourages people to venture out of the office.
You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.
I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.
Some people might think they need to venture out on their own to create their own image. I do not have any of those kind of feelings.
For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.
If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.
I'm a perceptive person. I know what's good and I don't venture into what's not good. I've discovered my own khazana. Everybody should.
A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
Upload Radio is a new venture offering content creators and bedroom DJs the chance to get their own programmes on the air by buying time.
The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.
At Venture for ,we've worked with hundreds of aspiring young entrepreneurs who want to build businesses and change things for the better.
We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.
When I listen to scripts, I never ask who my co-star is - instead, I ask about the characters and the producers of the particular venture.
I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.
If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.
I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.
While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker.
I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.
I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.
My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.
When I started InMobi, I was on the road raising funds. I faced 20 rejections. But when I got the funds, they came from best venture capitalists.
My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.
We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.
The chance to interact with big shots is drawing scads of aspiring entrepreneurs to Quora, along with venture capitalists and other Valley players.
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.
In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both large and small.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
Romance doesn't have to be portrayed physically. I love being part of romantic films, but I wouldn't venture into something I'm not comfortable with.
Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.