The startup game: inside the partnership between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs

The Startup Game by venture capitalist Bill Draper is the first up-close lookat how the relationship between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs is critical to the future of business. For more than 40 years, Bill Draper has workedwith top entrepreneurs in fabled Silicon Valley, where today's vision is madeinto tomorrow's reality. WILLIAM H. DRAPER III is one of the West Coast's most successful venture capitalists and is the founder of Sutter Hill Ventures in Palo Alto, California. Currently, he is general partner of Draper Richards L.P., Draper Investment Company, and Draper International, and he is chairman of the board of The Draper Richards Foundation. He previously served as the president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States and as the head of the United Nations Development Programme. In 2005 he received the Vision Award from SD Forum and was inducted into the Dow Jones Venture Capital Hall of Fame. In 2006, he received the Silicon Valley Fast 50 Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2009 hereceived the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Business Forum. He lives in Atherton, CA. INDICE: Foreword; By 'E.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 - Afterwardby Tim Draper

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10486-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido