Tan The Way of the VC

Having Top Venture Capitalists on Your Board
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-57998-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Venture Capital funds are the fastest growing sector of thefinancial industry, and possibly the least understood. In thisbook, the author provides a primer on what some of the world's bestventure capitalists have in common. How do the world's top venturecapitalists consistently obtain supernormal returns? How do theyadd value to entrepreneurs they have backed? Why is a top venturecapitalist like a skilled chef?
* How did Lip Bu Tan, when he was Chairman of Walden, manage toinvest in Creative Technology, despite the CEO's aversion forVCs?
* How did Nam Ho, Founder and Managing Partner of Altos Venture,turn an introduction by a Stanford Business School professor into aventure capital firm managing a quarter billion dollars ofcapital?
* How does Bing Gordon, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers and author of the business plan that resulted in KPCB'sinvestment in Electronic Arts, time exits properly?
* Why did Soo Boon Koh, Managing Director of IGlobe Ventures,back a GPS company which was filing for Chapter 11, in the post9-11 market?
The Way of the VC: Having Top Venture Capitalists on YourBoard is essential reading for venture capital practitioners,including partners, principals, analysts, consultants and limitedpartners--both institutional and private. It is also useful tostudents of finance who want a better understanding of what goes onin the venture capital world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tan, Ying

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Foreword.
Introduction.
Chapter 1 The Call to Adventure.
Chapter 2 Finding the Right Partner at the Right Time: Focus onthe Forest, Not the Trees.
Chapter 3 Transitions in Partnership: A Bridge Over TroubledWaters.
Chapter 4 Growing Together.
Chapter 5 Smart Money: The Top VC on Your Board.
Chapter 6 If You Need to Woo a Turkey Buzzard.
Chapter 7 The Partnership Becomes Wildly Successful.
Chapter 8 Conclusion.
Appendix.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Yinglan Tan was the first director of 3i Venturelab China, ajoint-venture between private equity firm 3i (LSE:III) and INSEAD,one of the world's leading business schools. He has also served onthe boards of growth ventures in Asia and a U.S. private-equityfund of funds. Yinglan teaches modules on Entrepreneurial Financeand Entrepreneurial Management at Singapore Management University.Educated at Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, Yinglan nowworks with the Singapore Government to enhance the venture capitaland entrepreneurship landscape in Singapore.
Yinglan can be contacted at [e-mail].