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VC: An American History

This book tells the story of how the venture capital industry arose from America’s longstanding identification with entrepreneurship and risk-taking -- starting with the whaling voyages that set sail from New Bedford in the earliest days of VC.

“In principle, venture capital is where the ordinarily conservative, cynical domain of big money touches dreamy, long-shot enterprise. In practice, it has become the distinguishing big-business engine of our time…[A] first-rate history.” —New Yorker

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vc, history, whaling