@article{867207,
      author = {Nicholas, Tom},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/867207},
      title = {VC : an American history /},
      abstract = {VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital  industry arose from the United States' long-running  orientation toward entrepreneurship. From  nineteenth-century whaling to the multitude of firms  pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture capital has  been driven by the pull of low-probability but substantial  financial rewards. Appreciating the history of venture  capital, Tom Nicholas shows, is essential to understanding  the industry's future directions and possibilities, its  challenges and prospects for surmounting them, and its  place in America's exceptional style of capitalism.--},
      recid = {867207},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}