The Founder Bookshelf

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5 books on Fundraising & VC for timeless

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    Spencer E. Ante

    The biography of the man who invented venture capital.

    Spencer Ante tells the life story of Georges Doriot, the French immigrant, Harvard Business School professor, and World War II general who founded American Research...

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    Udayan Gupta

    Venture capital's founding figures recount how it all began.

    Udayan Gupta gathers first-person accounts from more than thirty leading venture capitalists, from early pioneers like Eugene Kleiner and Arthur Rock to later top...

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    Mahendra Ramsinghani

    A practitioner's manual for the inner workings of a VC fund.

    Mahendra Ramsinghani offers a comprehensive look at venture capital from the investor's operational side, covering how funds are raised, deals are structured, value is...

  4. The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital cover

    Robert Finkel with David Greising

    Lessons in private investing straight from the field's pioneers.

    The book collects interviews and case studies with leading private equity and venture capital investors, drawing out the management lessons behind their biggest deals....

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    Tom Nicholas

    How risk-taking with other people's money built modern venture capital.

    Tom Nicholas traces the origins of American venture capital from nineteenth century whaling voyages and cotton mills through the rise of firms like Kleiner Perkins and...

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