Venture Capital at the Crossroads

William D. Bygrave, Jeffry A. Timmons

In Venture Capital at the Crossroads,William Bygrave and Jeffry Timmons examine in depth the venture capital industry and its role in the creation of new businesses. They provide original research on the dimensions of the industry and how risk-taking and the time perspectives of its practitioners are changing,and they reveal how true venture capitalists practice "the art and science of the exceptional" and bring more than money to their deals.