venture capital
Noun
Meaning
venture capital (uncountable)
(business) Money invested in an innovative enterprise in which both the potential for profit and the risk of loss are considerable.
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When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.
In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U. S. and got rejected. So we've come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.