Some of them may even be venture capitalists in their day jobs!

But history shows that political entrepreneurs and liberalizing Catholic intellectuals were crucial to the creation of Christian Democracy.

Venture capitalists try to pick winners and help them philanthropists try to help more people become winners.

The first Africans to arrive to The Bahamas were freed slaves from Bermuda they arrived with the Eleutheran Adventurers looking for new lives.

Venture capitalists who fancy themselves global thinkers should likewise think long term about the health of the world around them.

Surely, we should be giving the money to entrepreneurs, to civil society, for people able to create the new, not to the big, well connected companies, big, clunky government programs.

Bosnia and Herzegovina remains one of the last undiscovered natural regions of the southern area of the Alps, with vast tracts of wild and untouched nature attracting adventurers and nature lovers.

Last week, on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the disaster, a group of Polish adventurers decided to turn the lights back on in Pripyat, a radioactive ghost town located three miles from the Chernobyl reactor.

The Internet is transforming the way maps are made, enabling ordinary people dubbed citizen cartographers to work alongside intrepid adventurers and professional geographers.

No one expects venture capitalists to divert their resources to village schools, but perhaps they could focus a little more on training new employees rather than poaching them from the competition at inflated salaries.

But history shows that political entrepreneurs and liberalizing Catholic intellectuals were crucial to the creation of Christian Democracy. This suggests that Muslim reformers, given the right circumstances, might be similarly capable of bringing about Muslim democracy.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak sent top combatants into a seafaring crowd of aggressive protesters and thought that they would win.

Our little group made up of philanthropists, a few entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors concentrated on start up companies, the source of so much commercial energy and of so many jobs.

The practical management of high risk (adventure) tourism and its potential impact on national programmes and tour operators in terms of search and rescue operations for unsupported adventure tourists is a growing concern.

Other VCs focus almost exclusively on Stanford and Harvard graduates, not because they believe that only people from those elite campuses can succeed, but because they already have too many opportunities and want to limit their search costs.