They work in deep secrecy: Inventors who sell to Intellectual Ventures often sign nondisclosure agreements.
They are all controlled by a venture capital firm called Intellectual Ventures, based in Bellevue, Wash.
He eventually signed after tracking down the true owner of the patents: Intellectual Ventures.
Business was lousy and the financial markets had slammed the door on Internet ventures.
He called Charles River Ventures partner Jonathan Guerster, a former colleague at Open Market.
Would entrepreneurial ventures never get loans, because investors in merchant banks were such fuddy-duddies?
The fund will be called Third Rock Ventures (because Earth is the third rock from the sun).
ThinkFire managers did not confront him after learning that Intellectual Ventures was bidding at the same patent auction.
Ann came to Maples Investments after a successful two year stint with Charles River Ventures.
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He spent hundreds of millions more on product development, joint ventures and computer systems.
Also participating were existing investors August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
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Simon Andrews is an investment manager at London-based Octopus Ventures, specializing in technology stocks.
Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE participated in the round.
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And both of those ventures had distribution, the sine qua non of success in cable.
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In 2002 Stock cofounded venture capital firm NetService Ventures Group, which invested in Zvents.
Bell plans to let Penthouse magazine, its Web outlets and other ventures market one another.
U3 Ventures' Blaik believes that focusing on anchor institutions forces a discipline that prevents wishful thinking.
About three-and-a-half years ago, Kinnier joined Khosla Ventures, first as an entrepreneur-in-residence, then becoming a partner.
Investors in the company include Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital, Atlas Ventures, Balderton Capital and DFJ Esprit.
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Most cross-border ventures so far have been disasters, reflecting the parochial nature of beer firms.
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Other investors in the Series B round include Cenovus Energy and Braemar Energy Ventures.
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Myhrvold started Intellectual Ventures with his friend Edward Jung right after they left Microsoft.
The 3G telephony ventures have been mostly in western Europe, where income levels drive early adaptation.
What that "stuff" is isn't clear since Intellectual Ventures hasn't yet been awarded any new patents.
At 65, he's just retired, but will remain active in joint civic-Randstad job creation ventures.
Uncorked Ventures Specializing in California, Washington and Oregon wines, primarily hard-to-find smaller wineries with limited distribution.
Rowe Price and Institutional Venture Partners and existing investors Lightspeed Ventures Partners and Amazon.com.
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Publicly funded projects to create new technologies are usually ineffective compared with market-driven ventures.
The pop-ups could eventually lead to "ventures across the country, " said co-owner Marco Maccioni.
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