But the last time this many rookies piled into the venture capital business it did not end entirely well.
This is Greenspan's first venture into talking with a business contact about Fed policy since he stepped down from the board in January 2006.
But gyrating panel prices and a maturing market have led both companies, along with other competitors, to venture ever further into the business of integrating panels into systems and developing and owning big, utility-scale solar farms.
But barely two years in, they realized they needed even more money to grow their venture into the kind of business they envisioned: a maker of women's apparel that would let consumers choose from an array of patterns and colors to create their own designs, or select items from the company's collection.
Silicon Valley's venture capitalists are piling into the business, convinced that they can design revolutionary technologies, bring down prices and turf out incumbents in the energy business just as they did in the software business.
Very quickly what had begun as a business venture was transformed into a popular patriotic cause.
In the 1830s, Tocqueville noted that Americans were "restless in the midst of abundance, " always moving, always working and perpetually hurling themselves into one new business venture after another.
Morgan Stanley in particular has been scaling up its wealth management operations, expanding its business significantly and entered into a joint venture with Citi?s Smith Barney, which should help growth this business further.
The LEGO Group is the latest video game publisher to venture into this free-to-play business with its LEGO Universe massively multiplayer online (MMO) game.
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The venture business is now 12 years into a slump in returns that has discouraged even the most enthusiastic investors and limited partners in the space.
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By 1999, when Meritor transferred its transmissions business into the joint venture ZF Meritor, it had approximately 17 % of the market for HD as a whole, which was 30% of that for linehaul truck transmissions.
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"But that fits into the way he does business, " Pearlman said, noting Bezos' other venture into space flight, Blue Origins, which aims to make human space flight cheaper and easier.
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Then they went to work injecting the razzle-dazzle they had picked up in the retail business into their tea-packing venture.
When the market stabilized, what remained of 3Com wriggled back into big business networking through a joint venture called h3c with Chinese telecom supplier Huawei.
The bond insurers current distress did not arise from losses in their municipal bond insurance business, but rather from their venture into insuring CDOs and the like.
But newer companies that venture investors are pouring capital into will do this with fresh business models geared directly toward digital platforms that use less overhead.
The result is that individuals who borrow money and run into financial problems primarily because of a business venture have been lumped in with those who loaded up on debt for consumer goodies.
Although many of the traditional marketing opportunities have either completely disappeared or changed dramatically, there are still opportunities available for those business owners who do not want to venture into an entirely new and unfamiliar world of Internet marketing.
They needed CDMAphones but the GSM guys had no interest in helping the new design catch on--so Qualcomm got into the handset business itself, striking a joint venture with Sony.
McCaw is straying into a business that has destroyed billions of dollars of venture capital.
As an example, he cited his business venture trying to import Ferraris and other sports cars into the U.S. in the 1960s.
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Partnership employees such as Shelia Martin, the head of the new bank venture, must go through a locked door into the new office space to work on bank business.
At its peak, one billion dollars a week was flowing into Silicon Valley and its venture capital firms were desperately searching for dot.com investments with viable business plans.
In 1995 a venture-capitalist friend had just invested in a new web-search technology and needed someone to turn it into a business.
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