Sentences with phrase «venture backing fail»

Among so - called growth companies, the failure rate is even higher, according to a 2012 Harvard Business School study: About three - quarters of startups with venture backing fail.

Not exact matches

The National Venture Capital Association estimates that only 20 percent (or less) of venture - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the resVenture Capital Association estimates that only 20 percent (or less) of venture - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the resventure - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the rest fail.

It may take a while to reach that milestone, as most venture - backed startups fail (of the 33 startups that presented at the 2016 Xoogler demo day, fewer than two - thirds still have an active web presence).

«Entrepreneurs need to recognize that even 75 percent of venture - backed firms fail completely,» she says.

The fact that you are more likely to fail is a fact of life for venture - backed companies, it is not an expectation for the VCs making the investment.

SpoonRocket, a venture - backed delivery startup in Berkeley, Calif., closed last month after getting squeezed out by competitors and failing to raise additional funding.

Rhode Island is on the hook for $ 113 mln of debt incurred by a failed videogame venture it backed.

If my test - market venture failed and I sold just twenty copies, for instance, I would, however, be out the time, effort, and money I put into backing my own publishing business experiment.

Some venture capital backed firms will fail (here and here).

It should be noted that, aside from all the usual suspects from these failed ventures, and who are now involved in Star Citizen, John Schimmel who used to be «President of production» at Ascendant, is also part of the Star Citizen project; along with Ortwin Freyemuth, the Roberts brothers, the Elms brothers — and all their cohorts (some of them, such as Tony Zurovek and Eric Peterson, from back in the day) enrolled in their friends and families program.

Vinod Khosla & Khosla Ventures, and Al Gore & Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are venture capitalists responsible for a lot of failed ventures, laid off workers and untold sums of government money taken and never paid back - but pay no mind... Mitt Romney is the evil vulture capitalist that likes firing people!

In other words, venture capitalists, who flourish or fail on their capacity to succeed with a decent (though usually small) proportion of projects they back would not support it.