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DoneDeals

Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories

The Inside Story of the Venture Capital World as Told by the Industry's Elite Players

Aregulably Today's hottest industry,venture capital is a dynamic engine of wealth creation that has contributed both to America's soaring economy and to its undisputed technological dominance. Over the past fifty years, venture capital has helped finance the formation of almost every major technology company in the United States, while mushrooming from a small group of companies managing millions of dollars to a booming industry managing close to $100 billion. The growth of the Internet has triggered an exponential explosion of returns on investments, with expectations pushing ever higher. Yet, in spite of the significant media attention the venture capital world has attracted, an air of mystery still surrounds the industry and its kingmakers.

In Done Deals, journalist Udayan Gupta provides a revealing history of this phenomenal industry as told through first-person accounts of its most influential players. Organized into five parts, the book chronicles the industry's humble beginnings and extraordinary present, highlights the key differences between West Coast and East Coast firms, and presents a vision of the future as told by industry veterans.

Throughout, the voices of thirty-five leading venture capitalists from early pioneers such as Eugene Kleiner and Arthur Rock to current top players like Geoff Yang and John Doerr reveal insights gleaned from their personal experiences in successful deal making. From how today's hottest dealslike Yahoo! and Amazon.corn got done, to what VCs look for in a business proposal, to how they set up partnerships and hand select top management teams, the collective wisdom of this elite group becomes an invaluable primer on exactly what it takes to succeed in this high-stakes world. An engaging profile of a powerful industry and an insider's handbook for how to transform entrepreneurial visions into profitable realities, this important book will help hopeful venture capitalists and entrepreneurs alike as they put together their own Done Deals.

Udayan Gupta is the founder of biztrail.com, a multimedia news and information publisher. A small-business development and strategy consultant and a freelance business journalist, he is a Walter F. Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. He served as a Senior Special Writer for the Wall Street Journal for over a decade.

408 pages

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