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There are 10,000 venture capitalists and only the top 1 percent are any good. Be smart about smart money and learn from the best.
The Way of the VC - Top Venture Capitalists on Your Board is essential reading for venture capital practitioners, including partners, principals, analysts, consultants and limited partners - both institutional and private. It could also prove to be useful to students of finance who want a better understanding of what goes on in the venture capital world.
Venture capital funds are the fastest growing sector of the financial industry, and possibly the least understood. In this book, author Tan Yinglan provides a primer on what some of the world's best venture capitalists have in common. How do the world's top venture capitalists consistently obtain supernormal returns? How do they add value to entrepreneurs they have backed? Why is a top venture capitalist like a skilled chef?
The Way of the VC shows you what premier VC firms such as Kleiner Perkins, Draper Fisher Jurvertson and Flagship Ventures look for in winning deals, how they offer assistance and how every entrepreneur can benefit from learning leading-edge techniques.
The Way of the VC offers help in several ways.
It enables entrepreneurial initiatives to improve performance, because A teams make initiatives successful and lesser teams don't. It provides a "silver bullet" technique in near-perfect communication with VCs. It supplies a guide to coaching start-ups effectively.
It boasts it is the ultimate entrepreneurial development manual. It furnishes insight and advice acquired by interviewing dozens of top-tier venture capitalists. It is also an easy read.
Translating what really goes on in a venture capitalist's mind into structured processes that readers can use to promote their own ideas, this book will be an illuminating read for those in the business or wanting to be a part of it. Visit the book's website, www.wayofthevc.com, for more tools, tips and tricks.
Book name: The Way of the VC - Top Venture Capitalists on Your Board
Author: Tan Yinglan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd
ISBN: 978-0-470-82499-3
Price: $34.95, Page: 288
