Author: Udayan Gupta
Publisher: Gondolier
Keywords: capital, business, organization, leadership, doriot, venture, capitalist, georges, first
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-10-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1896209939
ISBN-13: 9781896209937

General Doriot created the first institutional venture capital fund in 1946 and set a standard for VC forever.

Author: Spencer E. Ante
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: capital, venture, birth, georges, creative, doriot
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-04-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1422101223
ISBN-13: 9781422101223

Venture capitalists are the handmaidens of innovation. Operating in the background, they provide the fuel needed to get fledgling companies off the ground--and the advice and guidance that helps growing companies survive their adolescence.In Creative Capital, Spencer Ante tells the compelling story of the enigmatic and quirky man--Georges Doriot--who created the venture capital industry. The author traces the pivotal events in Doriot’s life, including his experience as a decorated brigadier general during World War II; as a maverick professor at Harvard Business School; and as the archit