VC : an American history /

VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital industry arose from the United States' long-running orientation toward entrepreneurship. From nineteenth-century whaling to the multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture capital has been driven by the pull of low-pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nicholas, Tom (Associate professor) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Venture capital > United States > History.
Entrepreneurship > United States > History.
Capital à risques > États-Unis > Histoire.
Entrepreneuriat > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Entrepreneurship
Venture capital
Risikokapital
Risikoverhalten
Capital-risque > États-Unis > Histoire.
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The significance of history
  • Whaling ventures
  • The early development of risk capital
  • The rise of private capital entities
  • The market versus the government
  • The limited partnership structure
  • Silicon Valley and the emergence of investment styles
  • Venture capital during the 1980s
  • The big bubble
  • Epilogue: From the past to the present and the future.

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