- Taschenbuch: 352 Seiten
- Verlag: Ballantine Books (29. Mai 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0345428897
- ISBN-13: 978-0345428899
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21 x 14,1 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (26 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 786.083 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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If you want to understand the 1990s, you have to understand venture capitalists. These are the people who listen to business pitches by the score, the financial-world equivalent of miners turning over tons of earth in search of precious metal. They're looking for the next Amazon.com, the next Yahoo!, the next eBay. Randall E. Stross, who teaches business history at San José State University, just happened to be there when a firm called Benchmark Capital discovered eBay. eBoys tells the story of how a group of not-quite-middle-aged men came to make an investment that returned a Silicon Valley record of 100,000 percent.
Stross is a gifted storyteller who weaves the personal histories of the Benchmark partners with stories of how the firm came to back such companies as Priceline.com and Webvan. We meet guys who weren't born to privilege, men who took unconventional routes into the venture capital business. Probably the most intriguing is Dave Beirne, a hyperaggressive executive recruiter who went into the business after realizing venture capitalists are the ones who really call the shots at high-tech start-ups. We also see the problems Silicon Valley guys have when they try to dot-com the bricks-and-mortar world. The short tale of an aborted partnership between Benchmark and Toys 'R' Us illustrates why the old economy is so mystified by the new.
Anyone interested in how business works should find something of interest in eBoys. From the organizational structure and corporate culture of Benchmark to the histories and personalities of its partners to its adventures in the world of Internet start-ups, it's a digital snapshot that reveals how successful businesses look, think, and mine gold in today's economy. --Lou Schuler -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"THE BEST GUIDE WE HAVE TO THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF VENTURE CAPITALISM."
--The Washington Post Book World
"A RING-SIDE SEAT AT A SINGULAR MOMENT IN BUSINESS HISTORY."
--The Wall Street Journal
--The Washington Post Book World
"A RING-SIDE SEAT AT A SINGULAR MOMENT IN BUSINESS HISTORY."
--The Wall Street Journal
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work (Gebundene Ausgabe)
As someone between semesters in a top MBA program, spending my summer in a VC, I was completely captivated by this story from beginning to end. A story such as this makes me wish I had taken a different path directly after undergrad and gone straight to Silicon Valley rather than laboring for years in a "resume builder".Fortunately for Mr. Stross, he happened to be at the right firm at the right time. No one could have possibly imagined the deals he was witness to. This true-to-life account is an accurate depiction of what really goes on at top VC's and is as informative as it is entertaining. For those who did not like the book, I would suggest they were perhaps in search of more technicals and have turned their backs on what amounts to a fine history lesson. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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Insightful Dot-commentary of Leading VC firm,
Von Prof David T Wright (Vancouver, BC) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work (Gebundene Ausgabe)
'eBoys' chronologically documents 'warts'n'all' several years of leading venture capitalist company Benchmark's decision-making and operations.Benchmark annually sifts through the 1000s of business plans to fund a handful of dot.com startups to IPO, as described in the entertaining well-referenced chapters covering billion-dollar startups like eBay and Webvan, as well as others like: Tristata, Toys-R-Us, Red Hat, Scient, Priceline, ePhysician, newwatch.com, art.com etc... Possible improvements include: portrayal of global context; more statistical evidence/facts about VCs/startups/etc..; significant objective analysis & reflection of events; and formatting to include summaries/lists etc.. (like 'Confessions of a Venture Capitalist' by Quindlen). These would help the reader use the information rather than just be entertained by the storyline. Overall an intelligently, well-written, 'fly-on-the-wall' tale gamely capturing much of the passion, technology and business acumen/judgment exhibited by a likeable & lucky, hard-working company with integrity. Probably more entertaining than useful to business readers- hence the only average rating. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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Jamis MacNiven Owner of Buck's of Woodside,
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What eboys reveals is that investing in the new marketplace takes pluck, luck and brains. These guys scour the countryside for the very best talent and combine it with the best bet as to what the pubic will want in an uncharted future.Some have say its ego driven, money driven and it is. Great! Whatever gets the job done is fine with me. The essential fact is that the enterprise of venture capital investing quickly moves beyond money and gamesmanship into a realm almost surreal in its effect on all our lives. What the book conveyed to me was how aware they are at Benchmark as to how big an effect they are having and are, in fact, a bit humbled by it. Many of the firms established by Benchmark and the other venture firms will be the bedrock of the new millenium. Almost as much fun as the book are the critical comments by the readers. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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