1.   But the new players in the venture business say they are after more than just money.

2.   Consultants have increasingly been jumping into the venture business on their own.

3.   Corporations have a history of jumping into the venture business when the market is booming.

4.   Critics, however, question excessive university involvement in venture businesses.

5.   Foreign companies now cannot become majority shareholders of local companies unless they set up new companies or invest in venture businesses.

6.   Gabrieli got out of the venture business right on time, two years ago, before things got ugly.

7.   Simply put, corporate America is jumping into the venture business in a big way.

8.   Steve Lisson, an analyst who tracks the venture business through his InsiderVC.com site, suggests Battery cut it close by hanging its hat on the Qtera deal.

9.   Such side funds are common in the venture business, but they are losing their luster in the technology recession.

10.   The bets in the venture business have become this slim.