Adventure Capitalist Mugs

'I would like to see a little less adventure in this business venture.'

'Quick...follow that rainbow.'

'We need to target the rich and stupid.'

'Ocean sounds will not be heard. Instead, here's an ad for investment opportunities in offshore drilling.'

Investments: thrill-seekers welcome.

The Life Cycle of a Startup

Nomadic Businessmen

Neat, a start-up.

You can't rent my forehead as a billboard. But this is digital-era thinking. House of Java.net Cybercafe. We create more profits with advertising. Besides, I'll give you a cut of the action. Buy Pepsi. Ads by Google. You can have, let's say, 40% of the sponsorship money. I'm getting a minority share of my own head?! Fine, 50%, but we go 40/60 on face paint.

S.S.dot.com

'That's Renfrew -- he's in charge of high-risk portfolios.'

Starboard-folio.

'Stocks rose today on news that 'nothing ventured, nothing gained'.'

Business man with places he's visited on his suitcase and places he's worked for on his chair.

Licence to Lose Your Shirt. . .

Open for Business!

Profit

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

'Looks like your cash cow just got diverted to the slaughterhouse.'

'You're close, Spencer, but usually a business plan is a little more involved!'

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

Computer Hitching a Ride to Silicon Valley

'Based on your travels, what would you say is the greatest potential downside, if any, to investing in the Upper Amazon?'

"With this company, it's like 'Adventure Capital."

"The Internet startup had only enough cash for one more day. But, miraculously, the money lasted for eight days, until more venture capital could be raised."

'I begin to question whether this startup ever had venture capital.'

Bio, Inc. Should we continue to invest in this promising new cloning technique? Yeah, let's double down on it.

Big Bang For Your Buck Investments...Specializing in space technology.

"Money is life's report card."

Cafe investors: I'd like your support in acquiring the lemonade stand down the street. By cutting redundant labor, marketing and technology. I place our annual savings at $17 billion. The phone company investors bought it. Can monkey lick your head?

"Three wishes? Dream on. That was in the heady days before venture capital and advertising revenue disappeared."

Businessman feeding the vultures

"Can you go through all the old pitch decks and replace the word 'crypto' with 'AI'?"

And so, Rudy unwittingly became an investor in The Infant Restaurant Critic. At first, he was furious having lost his weekly paycheck. But then it dawned on him: He was back in the dot-com game – for the first time in 20 years. He was practically a venture capitalist! I'm a social media investor. It's a multi-platform play with, obviously, huge mobile capability, global reach, soaring audience share. Revenue model? What? Huh? Beat it.

'All my venture capital is tied up in Miss Umpley, there.'