Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation

by Andrew Metrick

The Financial Principles Every Venture Capitalist Needs To Master In Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation, future and current venture capitalists will find a useful guide to the principles of finance and the financial models that underlie venture capital decisions. Assuming no knowledge beyond concepts covered in first-year MBA course, the text serves as an innovative model for the valuation of start ups, and will familiarise you with the relationship between risk and return in venture capital, historical statistics on the performance of venture capital investments, total and partial valuation--and more.

Genres: Finance, Business, Economics, Nonfiction, Textbooks

576 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 22, 2006

Reviews

[Nicholas]

I wasn't really expecting to be reading about the CAPM model in this book, but the "banana tree" scenario is about as simple an explanation of the ideas underpinning the model as I believe possible.

[Sean · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought an extremely useful book and good course.