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Dare disturb the universe: A memoir of venture capital

Author: Charles W Newhall, III

Publisher: Koehlerbooks

Pages: 356

Price: Rs 1,466

If you are looking for insights into how a venture capitalist (VC) works and lives, you should read this autobiographical account. The author co-founded New Enterprise Associates (NEA), among the world’s largest venture capital firms.

At the outset, Charles W Newhall explains what VCs do by quoting a journalist named John Kay Barnes: “Find a man who can run a business and needs capital to start or expand. Furnish the capital and take shares in the business, leaving the man to run it, except when