VENTURE capital

VENTURE capital

 
Money Makers Snider, David | Howard, Chris Palgrave MacMillan , 2010 Economics & Finance

In Money Makers, David Snider and Chris Howard explore six key fields that impacted the 2007–2008 financial crisis: investment banking, venture capital and entrepreneurship, private equity, hedge funds...

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Innovation Nation Kao, John The Free Press , 2007 Business Strategy, Human Resources, Innovation

Global competition is fiercer than ever as countries race each other to be the innovation leader. The United States has long held this role, but other countries are encroaching on its status. In Innovation...

 
 
Raising Money Merrill, Ronald E. | Nichols, Gaylord E. AMACOM , 1990 Economics & Finance

Investors demand solid, specific, quantitative facts in order to evaluate you as well as your venture. So, your first step in the money-raising process is to do your homework, which consists of answering Five Key...

 
 
Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good Lacy, Sarah Gotham Books , 2008 Business Biographies, Innovation, Technology

The economic scale of the 1990s Internet bubble, as well as the sweeping cultural changes it brought, was unprecedented. The fact that many companies and people in the United States were caught up in this “tech craze”...

 
 
The Art of the Start Kawasaki, Guy Portfolio , 2005 Entrepreneurship, Innovation

For entrepreneurs, or anyone inspired to start something -- be it a new business, new product, new service, or a new organizational division – it’s easy to get bogged down in theory and unnecessary details which hinder...

 
 
Thinking Inside the Box Cheyfitz, Kirk Free Press , 2003 Management

No business advice has been more frequently, or freely, dispensed over the last dozen or so years than that of “thinking outside the box” as the key to success in a rapidly changing, increasingly high-tech environment...

 
 
Venture Catalyst Laurie, Donald L. Perseus Books , 2001 Entrepreneurship, Management

An overwhelming majority of corporations that reach the Fortune 50 succumb to a declining growth rate from which they are unable to recover. The primary reason for this "Fortune 50 stall" is a decrease in the kind of...