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Summary
Summary
This volume provides a meaningful framework for understanding the relationship between venture capital and entrepreneurial success. It helps readers spot the real limitations of and challenges facing venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and individuals or institutions who want to play either role in the venture game. The authors give the background to why venture capital has exploded as an industry by explaining how venture capitalism drives - and has always driven - innovation, economic growth and job creation beyond high technology and industrialized countries.
Author Notes
Paul A. Gompers is a Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School
Josh Lerner is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| 1 The Venture Capital Difference | p. 1 |
| Part I The Entrepreneur's Challenge | p. 19 |
| 2 The Problem: Financing Entrepreneurial Firms | p. 21 |
| 3 The Financing Solution: Venture Capital | p. 41 |
| 4 The Venture Capital Economy | p. 61 |
| Part II The Venture Capitalist's Challenge | p. 85 |
| 5 How Do Venture Organizations Work? | p. 87 |
| 6 Boom and Bust in the Venture Industry | p. 117 |
| Part III The Emulator's Challenge | p. 143 |
| 7 The Corporate Venturing Experience | p. 145 |
| 8 Designing a Successful Public Venturing Effort | p. 169 |
| 9 Engineering International Venture Capital Success | p. 191 |
| 10 Succeeding in the Next Venture Capital Revolution | p. 225 |
| Glossary | p. 249 |
| Notes | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 271 |
| About the Authors | p. 281 |
