The startup game: inside the partnership between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs
Schmidt, Eric
The Startup Game. is the first up-close look at how the relationship between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs is critical to the future of business. For more than 40 years, venture capitalist Bill Draper has worked with top entrepreneurs in fabled Silicon Valley, where today's vision is made into tomorrow's reality. From the VC who saw the value in Skype, Zappos, and many other companies, comes firsthand stories of success. In these pages Draper explores: how to evaluate innovative ideas and the entrepreneurs behind those ideas (lessons from Yahoo, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Activision, Measurex, and more); and the value of political leadership in creating opportunity, including on-the-ground accounts of how Deng Xiaoping brought China roaring into the modern world. INDICE: Foreword By Eric Schmidt, CEO and Chairman of Google .Introduction: Breakfast at Buck's .Three Generations .How it Works .What it Takes .My'Missing' Decade .To India and Back .From International to Global .Findingthe Exit .The Business of Philanthropy .Fitting it All Together .Afterward by Tim Draper.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-33994-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 10/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido