It's a risky venture, but it may yet pan out for CEO Stephen Green .
The bottom line: Investing in speculative stocks (usually smaller stocks with higher betas) is always a risky venture.
On Monday, though, he announced a new and markedly more risky venture.
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Looking for advice on the Internet is always a risky venture.
It seems like a bit of a risky venture when the company is already appearing a bit unstable to investors, but perhaps if numbers like these are correct, Zynga could use the extra cash flow that would accompany such an endeavor.
In 1999 Ford dipped a toe in the water with a small assembly plant near St Petersburg, and in the same year GM went for a seemingly risky joint venture with AvtoVAZ (at the time a byword for corruption and gangsterism) to produce an improved version of the Niva, a cheap SUV.
The Sawirises have been ambitious and quick off the mark, but other Egyptian entrepreneurs too are expanding overseas, using skills honed by dealing with Egypt's often tangled bureaucracy to venture into risky but promising markets.
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Most venture firms have left that risky enterprise to angel investors.
One reason why entrepreneurs work so hard, and why venture capitalists place so many risky bets, is because they hope to make a fortune by going public.
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Japan's immature venture-capital industry shuns risky start-ups.
Mr. Cabiedes said that paradoxically venture, often seen as a highly risky asset class, has become a relatively more attractive investment.
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