Venture Capital and Private Equity : A Casebook

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Summary: Get This Book!
Review: A must for anyone wanting to know how VC firms work, structure themselves, and considerations for funding. This is an excellent case study that ought to be in a graduate program! It's as close as you'll get without working for a VC firm. I would suggest reading "The Venture Capital Cycle" first to get a general feel for VC and how it works. Then read the case study!

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Summary: Large investment in time for little payback in information
Review: If you are interested in quickly learning about how to raise a VC fund, save your time and money. This book does not offer many clues.

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Summary: Good But Nothing more
Review: The book is quite good,but suffers from the case approach pitfalls- too much details for specific cases, and less generally applicable information. Thsi might be useful in the context of an MBA case study class, but certainly not as a useful reading book on the industry. The actual notes are very short and lack suficient details to be useful.