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  • Finance speak for a highly speculative investment:

    "Venture capitalists will want to invest more in the companies that look like they're going to be successful and be a little less willing to take fliers on things that are hard to really handicap."

    - Fred Wilson, quoted in Portfolio.com

    February 1, 2008