Real Venture Capital

Building International Businesses

R. Thompson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780230202221
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230594067
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Accounting
• Index: Business

A principal theme of the book is a plea for ' real venture capital', with the venture capitalist adding substantial value to companies and their founders through a wide knowledge of business, in contrast to the purely financial skills required in other sectors of the private equity field, such as leveraged buy-outs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Real Venture Capital
• Contents
• About the Author
• Preface
• One Introduction and Rationale
• Two Background and History of Venture Capital
• Three Other Forms of Private Equity
• Four Venture Capital Definitions and Approaches
• Five Growth Markets and International Expansion
• Six The Commercial Application of Technology Products
• Seven Entrepreneurs, Managers and Directors
• Eight The Management of Resources
• Nine Financial Philosophy and Control
• Ten Financing and Its Structures
• Eleven Start-Ups
• Twelve Second-Stage Financings
• Thirteen Third-Stage Financings
• Fourteen Turnrounds
• Fifteen Strategic and Other Alliances
• Sixteen Flotations
• Seventeen Acquisitions and Mergers
• Eighteen Trade Sales
• Nineteen Case Studies
• Twenty International Niche Businesses
• Twenty-One International Development
• Twenty-Two International Financing
• Twenty-Three Fund Structures and Management
• Twenty-Four Investment Processes
• Twenty-Five Investment Examples
• Twenty-Six Future Developments
• Twenty-Seven The Role of the Venture Capitalist
• Twenty-Eight The Role of the Investor
• Twenty-Nine The Impact on the Economy
• Thirthy Conclusions and Lessons
• Appendix I – An Early Paper on Venture Capital
• Appendix II – The Healthcare and Technology Markets
• Appendix III – Company Boards: Their Role and Structure
• Appendix IV – Investment Memorandum Formats
• Appendix V – Examples of Investment Memoranda
• Glossary of Terms
• Index