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Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company
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Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company

by Robert Hisrich, Claudine Kearney
September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 35m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company

Overview of the Venture Capital Industry

Venture capital is not a very well understood area.1 Overall, venture capital is best viewed as a professionally managed pool of equity capital. Frequently, the equity pool is formed from the resources of limited partners. Other principal investors in venture capital limited partnerships are pension funds, endowment funds, and other institutions, including foreign investors. The pool is managed by a general partner—that is, the venture capital firm—in exchange for a percentage of the gain realized on the investment and a fee. The investments are in early-stage deals as well as second- and third-stage deals and leveraged buyouts. In fact, venture capital can best be characterized as a long-term investment ...

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