Mr. Breyer is a partner at a venture capital firm and also serves as a director at Dell Inc.
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"Working at a venture firm, I am getting real strategic advice, and that's not something I could get playing in my own sandbox, " says Ms. Ramamurthy of Battery Ventures.
Chemist Gregory Verdine was a Harvard professor with a position at a venture fund, but neither job was helping get his new project--building a vast database of natural chemicals that might work as drugs--the money it needed to take off.
Zona caught the eye of the 33-year-old venture capitalist at a similar venture fair in Virginia last September.
In a like manner, a mentor or an investor may look at a new venture and suggest that a few edges need to be cleaned and straightened and they recommend a few modest adjustments to a terrific business plan.
Vehicles made at a joint venture in Canada haven't sold particularly well, but GM has made a lot of money selling rebadged Suzukis in South America.
Jules Maltz is a Principal at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a late-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park.
Warren Weiss, a partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Foundation Capital, followed the company for nearly a year after hearing about it at an investment forum in 2004.
She worked as a lawyer at Wall Street firm Skadden, Arps and then as a venture capitalist at GE Equity in Hong Kong, leaving in 1999 to run a small responsible-investment private equity fund, Maven International, in the city.
The other week I expressed my concern to a former Bain colleague, who now works at LucidChart, a venture-backed startup in Utah.
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The latest group of enterprise-tech start-ups have "compelling and repeatable" business models, said Matt McIlwain, a venture capitalist at Madrona Venture Group.
In yet another sign of the growing influence of the secondary markets, Alex Ferrara, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, is leaving the top-tier venture capital firm to join Millennium Technology Value Partners, a firm that buys private shares from employees and venture investors in companies like Facebook, Twitter, and eHarmony.
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Davis, now a partner at venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners, calls the arrangement a good one for Microsoft.
Katherine Barr is a Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in digital media, mobile and e-commerce startups.
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Magic bullets for understanding metastasis "have been proposed again and again, and nothing has ever held up, " says Richard Klausner, former head of the National Cancer Institute and now a principal at the Column Group, a venture capital firm.
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"Almost all of our companies are looking for Android and iPhone developers, " said Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital, a Boston venture capital firm, whose portfolio includes Twitter Inc.
"The government could have offloaded assets when the market was at its peak which would have helped the fiscal deficit, " said Jerry Rao, venture advisor at New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm.
Jacob Mullins, a senior associate at venture-capital firm Shasta Ventures, shot rifles as a Boy Scout and picked it up again some four years ago.
And so, for the foreseeable future at least, a highly successful venture in taking England to the masses is at an end.
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Over 20 years Ken Bates transformed Chelsea from a club on the brink of going bust into a large public company at the centre of a major corporate venture.
Last year, David Teten, a partner at at ff Venture Capital and founder of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, delivered a presentation to HBS alumni about the many ways that operating executives can work with venture capital and private equity firms.
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Mr. Kemp was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield, a leading venture capital firm.
Or at least, a few venture capitalists seem to think so: Redwood, Calif.
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Rachleff is a former venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital and has extensive experience as a board member of institutional investment funds.
"As a result, the market for solar in Germany is exploding, " says Philippe Cases, a partner at venture capital firm Partech International in San Francisco.
So, why would Apple buy the failed venture at a premium?
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Saad Khan is a partner at venture capital firm CMEA Capital where he leads CMEA's Web, digital media, and twinkle-stage investments in Pixazza, Blekko and Jobvite.
"We are just about to take a piece of rock and, maybe, etch it into the first wheel, " Patrick Chung, a partner at venture-capital firm New Enterprise Associates.
"As a result, the market for solar in Germany is exploding, " says Philippe Cases , a partner at venture capital firm Partech International who invests in clean tech companies.
John O'Farrell, a partner at venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, which confirmed buying Facebook shares last month, said people now "will almost literally buy at any price" into companies like Facebook.
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