Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories
March 3, 2010 by VC-List.com · 6 Comments
- ISBN13: 9780875849386
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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.
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“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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Creando Empresas Fabulosas: Como Crear, Reinventar Y Financiar Empresas De Alto Impacto
March 3, 2010 by VC-List.com · 3 Comments
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Debt? equity? sweat? any other options? At least a clear, down to earth, practical, easy to follow and fool proof explanation of what is the best option to fund your idea.
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Business Angels : securing start up finance
March 3, 2010 by VC-List.com · 2 Comments
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Business Angels securing start up finance Patrick Coveney • Karl Moore Finding adequate start-up funding is vital to the success of any new business. Such businesses are frequently too small to attract the interest of venture capital firms and are considered to be high risk ventures both by banks and venture capitalists. Business angels, private investors with high net worth, can help small firms to bridge the equity gap between private funding and the more formal funding of the stock market and venture capital organisations. Based on an Oxford University study of a large number of ventures financed through the informal venture capital market, Business Angels categorises the different types of private investor and offers clear practical advice on: locating and identifying the right angel for your business, creating a convincing business plan, managing risk, the valuation process and problems faced by angels in making their investments. Business/Finance
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Business Angels: How to be One, How to Find One, How to Use One
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The original business angels were the private investors who flew in as if from nowhere to provide financial support for New York’s Broadway productions. Now the term refers to anyone who invests in a small business with either their capital or their expertise. A semi-retired accountant may invest $50,000 in a retail outlet and act as its financial director. A 30-something marketing guru invests $30,000 in each of three direct mail companies. The trend is towards people taking an early retirement, with a sizable nest-egg and a great store of expertise. On the other side are the 700,000 small businesses who need both capital and expertise, but who find it difficult to find and afford them. This text explains the concept and practice of this type of direct investment: why angels are needed, how businesses and angels meet, their courtship and negotiation, how they should co-exist and how to part amicably.
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Raising Capital for Entrepreneurs: Industry Insiders on Angel Funding, Venture Capital, & Growth Money from Private Investors
March 2, 2010 by VC-List.com · Leave a Comment
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Inside the Minds: Raising Capital for Entrepreneurs is an indispensable guide for entrepreneurs in any industry looking to finance their latest venture. Featuring Managing Directors, Senior Partners, and the like, representing some of the world’s top angel, venture capital, and investment firms, this book provides a broad, yet comprehensive overview of the ins and outs of finding and securing the right type of funding. From examining the best ways to raise growth capital, taking into consideration the stage and size of the company, to the processes involved in obtaining approval for the funds and negotiating the terms of the deal, these authors walk through the advantages and disadvantages of both common and unique financing options including venture capital, angel funding, bank loans, government subsidiaries, and more. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great strategic minds of tod! ay’s investment world, as experts explore in detail what it takes for an entrepreneur to successfully fund any organization. About Inside the Minds: Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world’s most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.
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