In his new book, journalist Sebastian Mallaby breaks down the structures and processes of modern venture capital. But the book fails to mention the danger of funneling capital into a sector that ...

Insider spoke with Black female founders to learn which books helped them navigate the murky waters of raising venture capital. Business Insider My Markets Watchlist ...

That means that if current trends continue through the second half of the year, 2025 will wrap up with more acquisitions as ...

Start with the characters who populate Mallaby’s book. In a bit of a contrarian spin, he traces the founding of venture capital to 1957, when a group of eight engineers wanted to break free of a ...

This extreme ratio of success and failure is the “power law” that drives venture capital, all of Silicon Valley, and thus the global economy, explains Sebastian Mallaby in his new book, The ...

The earliest forms of venture capital existed long before the 19th-century railroad (U.S.) and railway (U.K.) era, or the 19th-century whaling industry, as most popular literature portrays.

Venture capital firms are without a doubt the muscle behind innovation as they support the company they may invest in, from the early stages, all the way to IPO — especially those with larger ...

Despite its “miniature” size, Louis C. Gerken’s The Little Book of Venture Capital Investing: Empowering Economic Growth and Investment Portfolios (Wiley, 2014) covers a lot of ground ...

To date, her three-year-old company has raised $3 million in venture capital. Dufu credited this book with helping her stay ahead of the curve as a leader.