Venture

Venture may refer to:

  • VENTURE NOTC, the Canadian Naval Officer Training Centre based in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia

In automobiles:

  • Chevrolet Venture, a General Motors Corporation minivan.
  • VentureOne, a concept car by Venture Vehicles

In business:

  • Joint venture, a strategic alliance between two or more parties to undertake economic activity together
  • Venture (department store), a defunct discount department store operating across Australia
  • Venture capital, general term for financing startup, early stage, and "turn around" type businesses
  • Venture Management, an emerging business management discipline
  • Venture philanthropy, an emerging approach that attempts to make philanthropy more effective
  • Venture Stores, a former chain of retail stores headquartered out of O'Fallon, Missouri
  • Venture Magazine a management magazine
  • VentureSoft, a consulting corporation

In entertainment:

  • Venture, a video game
  • Venture (TV series), a Canadian business television show on the CBC network
  • Venture Science Fiction Magazine, a US science fiction magazine published in 1957-1958 and revived in 1969-1970
  • The Venture Bros., a US animated television series airing as part of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network
  • "A Venture", a song by the U.K progressive rock group Yes and featured on their 1971 album The Yes Album
  • Errant Venture, an Imperial Star Destroyer in the Star Wars universe
  • USS Venture, a Galaxy class starship in the Star Trek universe
  • SS Venture, a ship registered in Surabaya, chartered by film director Carl Denham to travel to Skull Island in King Kong (1933 film) and its 2005 remake
  • SS Venture, an InGen owned ship featured in Jurassic Park: The Lost World
  • Venture, a strategic card game by Sid Sackson

In Scouting:

  • Venture Scout, a section of the Scout Movement, mostly in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations
  • Venture Scouts (Scouting Ireland), a program for youth aged between 15 and a half to 21 years of age
  • Venturer Scouts (Australia), the fourth section of Scouts Australia
  • Venturing (Boy Scouts of America), a membership division of the Boy Scouts of America
  • Australian Venture, a Jamboree style event held for Venturers in Australia every 3 years
  • Venture patrol, a program in Boy Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)

In Motorcycles:

  • Yamaha Venture, links to two touring motorcycles manufactured by Yamaha.
  • Yamaha Venture Royale, a touring motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha from 1983 to 1993
  • Yamaha Royal Star Venture, a touring motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha from 1999 to the present

Famous quotes containing the word venture:

    I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
    John Dewey (1859–1952)

    I am being given, if I may venture the expression, birth into death, such is my impression. The feet are clear already, of the great cunt of existence.
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
    Victoria (1819–1901)