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In prior blogs (4/30/12 and 4/17/12) I discussed some key considerations in structuring a joint venture or alliance (JV) and focused on some of the issues that inform the decision whether to structure the JV as a JV entity or as a contractual JV...
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TechCrunch  May 18  Comment 
Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers is announcing this evening that it has closed on a $525 million round for its fifteenth venture fund, dubbed 'KPCB 15.' The fund will be focused on making early-stage...




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Venture

A contractual agreement joining together two or more parties for the purpose of executing a risky or daring undertaking of chance or danger. The risking of something upon an event which cannot be foreseen with certainty.

A scheme for making a commercial speculation. All parties agree to share in the profits and losses of the enterprise.

A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse [2]

From 15c "to risk the loss" (of something), shortened form of aventure, itself a form of adventure. Enterprise of a business nature" is recorded from 1580s. Venture capital is attested from 1943. [1]

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