02339cam a2200385 i 4500 115179 115179 BJBSDDR 20230411090719.0 ta 180814s2019 maua b 001 0 eng c 9780674988002 0674988000 MH/DLC eng MH eng pcc n-us--- HG 4751 N599v 2019 332/.041540973 Nicholas, Tom VC : an American history / Tom Nicholas. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. vi, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-356) and index. Introduction: The significance of history -- Whaling ventures -- The early development of risk capital -- The rise of private capital entities -- The market versus the government -- The limited partnership structure -- Silicon Valley and the emergence of investment styles -- High-tech, an evolving ecosystems and during the 1980s -- The big bubble -- Epilogue: From the past to the present and the future. VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital industry arose from the United States' long-running orientation toward entrepreneurship. From nineteenth-century whaling to the multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture capital has been driven by the pull of low-probability but substantial financial rewards. Appreciating the history of venture capital, Tom Nicholas shows, is essential to understanding the industry's future directions and possibilities, its challenges and prospects for surmounting them, and its place in America's exceptional style of capitalism.-- Provided by publisher Venture capital United States History. Capital de riesgo Estados Unidos Historia 378 Entrepreneurship United States History. Emprendimiento Estados Unidos Historia 381 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2021-04-22 0 HG 4751 N599v 2019 00000149969 2021-04-22 00:00:00 1 2021-04-22 BK