How a Venture Capital Fund Operates: Leading VCs on Investment Strategies, Fund Management, and Best Practices for Success (Inside the Minds) (Paperback) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2006 | ISBN-10: 1596222905 | ISBN-13: 978-1596222908

How a Venture Capital Fund Operates is an authoritative, insider's perspective on investment strategies, fund management, and best practices for success. Featuring partners at leading law firms, as well as CEOs and managing directors of top venture capital and investment firms, this book offers key strategies and legal considerations for all stages of investment. These experts discuss their strategies for working with entrepreneurs, identifying investment opportunities, evaluating potential return on investments, and finding the focus of a fund. These experienced authors guide the entrepreneur through the process of raising a venture capital fund, including creating an executive summary and identifying cornerstone investors. Advice from the legal perspective includes tips for sitting with a new venture capital client and discussing the laws typically applying to a venture capital operation. From drafting deals to shaping an exit strategy, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking the dual perspective of venture capitalists and lawyers on the intricacies of venture capital fund management. The different niches presented and the breadth of perspectives represented enable readers to get inside some of the leading minds of today, as these insiders offer up their thoughts around the keys to success within this ever-evolving industry. Chapters Include: 1) Charles Rothstein, Senior Managing Director, Co-Founder, Beringea: “Developing a New Fund: Part Art, Part Science”; 2) Jorge E. Alers, Partner, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP: “Emerging Market Venture Capital Funds”; 3) Andy J. Funk, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Funk Ventures: “Investing Today for a Better Tomorrow”; 4) Luis A. Aguilar, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP: A Primer on Venture Capital Operations.”

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Aspatore Books (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596222905
• ISBN-13: 978-1596222908
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,817,816 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I FEEL TAKEN, though if I had looked closer . . ., November 16, 2006

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William C. Ferry (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How a Venture Capital Fund Operates: Leading VCs on Investment Strategies, Fund Management, and Best Practices for Success (Inside the Minds) (Paperback) (Paperback)

This book was VERY expensive. It took a while to get to me. I really looked forward to it. Then it arrived. It is SMALL. Look at the published physical dimensions in the description. I read the book. It is THIN. Look how few pages are in this book. Then I noticed that an ENORMOUS chunk of this book is NOT articles by famous VC persons but rather just BOILERPLATE legal contract language. This leaves several TINY articles of GENERIC, NOT SPECIALIZED information about the venture capital market. If I had READ the description more closely to see how small this book was (physically and page length) I might have had some idea how disappointed I would be. But I would NOT have figured out just HOW LAME THIS BOOK IS without owning it and seeing how much of it is WASTED SPACE in my opinion. You could learn more (at the moment) by visiting Harvard Business School's Entrepreneurship program online and watching the videos of real venture capitalists and real businesspersons discussing IN-DEPTH the thinking behind their moves. DON'T LET YOURSELF FEEL TAKEN. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. This book is a terrible waste of money that could have gone to print business cards or take a train to a meeting or anything better to promote your entrepreneurial ambitions.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning - new type of rip-off, June 16, 2008

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Veritas "John" (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How a Venture Capital Fund Operates: Leading VCs on Investment Strategies, Fund Management, and Best Practices for Success (Inside the Minds) (Paperback) (Paperback)

This book is an example of a new type of rip-off sometimes found on Amazon.com.
- An impressive book title indicates a specialist book on a niche subject
- A detailed book description with all the rigt words
- A high price tag signals quality

And then, when the book arrives, the reader discover that the text is very short and very basic, and could have written by a school boy. But he cannot complain, because the book is about the stated subject.

The perfect rip-off!