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Author Nicholas, Tom (Associate professor), author.

Title VC : an American history / Tom Nicholas
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 382 pages)
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
Summary 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-probability but substantial financial rewards. Appreciating the history of venture capital, Tom Nicholas shows, is essential to understanding the industry's future directions and possibilities, its challenges and prospects for surmounting them, and its place in America's exceptional style of capitalism.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed November 2, 2020)
Subject Venture capital -- United States -- History
Entrepreneurship -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Entrepreneurship
Venture capital
Entrepreneurship
Risikokapital
Risikoverhalten
Capital-risque -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Entrepreneuriat -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674240100
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