Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories
March 3, 2010 by VC-List.com
- ISBN13: 9780875849386
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
FLAPCOPY The Inside Story of the Venture Capital World as Told by the Industry’s Elite Players
Arguably today’s hottest industry, venture capital is a dynamic engine of wealth creation that has contributed both to America’s soaring economy and to its undisputed technological dominance. Yet, in spite of the significant media attention the venture capital world has attracted, an air of mystery still surrounds the industry and its kingmakers.
In Done Deals, journalist Udayan Gupta provides a revealing history of this phenomenal industry as told through first-person accounts of its most influential players. Organized into five parts, the book chronicles the industry’s humble beginnings and extraordinary present, highlights the key differences between West Coast and East Coast firms, and presents a vision of the future as told by industry veterans.
Throughout, the voices of more than thirty leading venture capitalists—from early pioneers such as Eugene Kleiner and Arthur Rock to current top players like Geoff Yang and John Doerr—reveal insights gleaned from their personal experiences in successful deal making. From how today’s hottest deals—like Yahoo! and Amazon.com—got done, to what VCs look for in a business proposal, to how they set up partnerships and hand select top management teams, the collective wisdom of this elite group becomes an invaluable primer on exactly what it takes to succeed in this high-stakes world.
Amazon.com Review
“Until a few years ago,” notes journalist-consultant Udayan Gupta, “venture capitalists were hardly on anyone’s radar screen.” That’s not the case these days, as financiers who used to work behind the scenes now regularly set markets afire with their public support of high-profile technology and Internet stocks. In Done Deals, Gupta allows 35 of the brightest stars in what has become a $30-billion-a-year business to tell their own stories in their own words. We get to see exactly what they were thinking when they backed such endeavors as Intel, eBay, Excite, Genentech, and 3Com. Gupta’s intention is to demonstrate how the industry has changed over the past half-century and how it differs today among its various forms. He achieves this beautifully by dividing the first-person accounts into thematically attuned sections that focus on dealmakers of the future (such as Mitch Kapor of Accel Partners), early pioneers (including the late Benno Schmidt of J.H. Whitney & Co.), West Coast veterans (such as Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital), past and present East Coast practitioners (like Charles Waite of Greylock Management), and visionaries (including John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Some of the stories are more detailed than others, but taken together, they provide a well-rounded view that will interest anyone who must deal with this often intertwined yet still individual world. –Howard Rothman
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As the Dot Coms become Dot Gones…its hilariously obvious that the modern VC is the equivalent of the Junk Bond Trader of the 80′s. Reading about their exploits as “Masters of the Universe” in investing huge sums of someone else’s money in money losing ventures and vapid startups with no business plans makes one wonder what all the fuss was about in the first place – true entrepreneurs have build companies by hard work, vision and determination. The short term, get rich quick results, fad driven, something for nothing mindset of the VC is the embarassing legacy of the .Com Disaster.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is the most comprehensive description of Venture Capital as it is practised today!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is the most comprehensive description of Venture Capital as it is practised today.
Rating: 5 / 5
Want to make obscene amounts of money without having to run the company yourself? Become a venture capitalist! This book assembles the stories of some of the brightest names in the business and shows how they made their mark on the industry, usually with a smashing success but occasionally by changing the way venture capital works. An inspiring and useful read.
Rating: 5 / 5
you can find the information found in this book via the internet… the only thing i found this book good for is to convince the obvious: venture capital business is big business.
also get to know who the big-wigs are in the business… which can be discovered on the internet… check out redherring.com and subscribe to the VC p.s. newsletter.
Rating: 3 / 5
Russian venture business funding.
My name is Kasimov Iskander. I’ m a representative of “Alterism Venture Capital” company from Russia.
We have some venture projects in the sphere of energy-saving, safety plane landing when all the jets fail to operate, new type of propeller, which allows to fly at the high-speed , etc.
All the innovations suggested are carried on patent in many countries of the world.
We offer you to make investments in a united team of professionals in the sphere of innovations.
Why don’t we look for investors in Russia?
Russia is just accepting the way of innovational development. Now the raw material economy prevails. Moreover, most of our team are muslins.
We want you to be the representatives of the civilized business, the businessmen searching innovation sources of profit.
The representatives of our team will visit the UAE from 20 till 27 of August, Ras Al Hime. We can meet face to face and discuss the presentation and all the questions.
If the proposal is interesting to you, please, write kasimov_iskander@mail.ru
Ask your questions, I’ll answer with great pleasure.