Venture may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
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The Ventures
The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in Tacoma, Washington, in 1958, by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle. The band, which was a quartet for most of its existence, helped to popularize the electric guitar across the world during the ...
, an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958
*"A Venture", 1971 song by the band
Yes
Yes or YES may refer to:
* An affirmative particle in the English language; see yes and no
Education
* YES Prep Public Schools, Houston, Texas, US
* YES (Your Extraordinary Saturday), a learning program from the Minnesota Institute for Talente ...
*''Venture'', a 2010 EP by
AJR
AJR may refer to:
* AJR (motorcycle), Scotland
* AJR (band), a pop band from New York City, United States
*Abdominojugular test, to measure venous pressure
* Academy for Jewish Religion (New York)
* ''American Journal of Roentgenology''
* ''Americ ...
Games
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''Venture'' (video game), a 1981 arcade game
*''Venture'', a strategic card game by
Sid Sackson
Sid Sackson (February 4, 1920 in Chicago – November 6, 2002) was an American board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''.
Career
Sackson's most popular creation is probably the business game ''Ac ...
Film
* SS ''Venture'', a ship in
''King Kong'' and its 2005 remake
* SS ''Venture'', an InGen-owned ship featured in ''
The Lost World: Jurassic Park''
Other uses
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''Venture'' (TV series), a Canadian business television show
Magazines
* ''
Venture Science Fiction
''Venture Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, first published from 1957 to 1958, and revived for a brief run in 1969 and 1970. Ten issues were published of the 1950s version, with another six in the second ru ...
'', defunct US science fiction magazine
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''Venture'' (magazine), a management magazine
Business
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Business venture
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...
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Venture (department store)
Venture was a chain of discount department stores that operated in Australia between 1970 and 1994.
Unrelated to the defunct North American chain of the same name (see Venture Stores), Venture is best remembered as a retailer of medium quality ...
, a defunct discount department store operating across Australia
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Venture Corporation
Venture may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
*The Ventures, an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958
*"A Venture", 1971 song by the band Yes
*''Venture'', a 2010 EP by AJR
Games
* ''Venture'' (video game), a 1981 arcade ga ...
, a Singapore firm
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Venture Stores
Venture Stores, Inc. was a chain of retail stores aimed at the discount department-store market. John Geisse, formerly of Target Stores, and May Department Stores' executive vice president, Dave Babcock, founded the chain in 1968. Venture Store ...
, a former retail chain
Transportation
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Chevrolet Venture
The Chevrolet Venture is a minivan produced by General Motors for the 1997 to 2005 model years. The Chevrolet Venture, along with most of its General Motors minivan siblings, was built at GM's Doraville, Georgia, assembly plant.
Use of name
Th ...
, a General Motors minivan
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Yamaha Venture The Yamaha Venture is a premier touring motorcycle manufactured in two forms by Yamaha from 1983 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2009.
In 1983 Yamaha created a V4 power package that began the Yamaha Venture motorcycle series.
The first in the series was ...
, Yamaha touring motorcycles
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Siemens Venture
Siemens Venture (also branded as Amtrak Airo) is a type of locomotive-hauled passenger railroad car built by Siemens Mobility for the North American market. The cars are derived from the Siemens Viaggio Comfort cars used in Europe, with adaptat ...
, family of railroad passenger cars
Other uses
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Venture Scout
Venturer or Venture Scouts are programs in some Scouting organisations for young people of various age ranges in the 14–20 age range. A participant in the program is called a Venturer.
Australia
The Venturer Scout program in Scouts Australia, ...
, a section of the Scout Movement, mostly in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations
* VENTURE NOTC, the Canadian Naval Officer Training Centre based in
CFB Esquimalt
Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt (CFB Esquimalt) is Canada's Pacific Coast naval base and home port to Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Headquarters. , 4,411 military personnel and 2,762 civilians work at CFB Esquima ...
, British Columbia
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