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- Title : The Kingmakers: Venture Capital and the Money Behind the Net
- Author : Karen Southwick
- Rating : 4.97 (623 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-6-5
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 240 Pages
- Asin : 047139520X
- Language : English
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This is the first time a journalist has been given total access to this highly guarded business for a book-length work. She is the author of Silicon Gold Rush (0-471-24646-8) and High Noon. A noted journalist and author gets close to the key players in a hush-hush fieldThe Kingmakers reveals the world of high-powered venture capitalists, following them as they interview hopeful entrepreneurs, select boards for funded companies, shepherd companies toward an IPO, and decide which industries and what companies to invest in. Author has access to the key players in high technology and some of the venture capitalists profiled include Ann Winblad, Roger McNamee, Dick Kramlich, and Andy Rappaport.
Karen Southwick (San Francisco, CA) is a professional journalist and Managing Editor of Forbes ASAP, a bimonthly magazine with a circulation of 850,000. It offers insight into what companies and industries will hold the key to our economic future, as well as the inner workings of the venture capitalists and investment bankers


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