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Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation
by Andrew Metrick
from Wiley
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
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A Mostly Academic Text 
Clearly, the Finance of Innovation was a major undertaking for professor Metrick. It is filled with useful facts that have some practicality and a great deal more academic thought. Yet, as he mentions early in the text, VCs use few of the methods outlined. Specifically, the heavy reliance on option theory is overly complicated and not useful for the practitioner. More importantly, however, is that it is somewhat misguided to focus on the randomness of liquidation events. Venture investments are very... more info
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Best Book in its Class
After reading through this book and the financial models, I have to say that this is the best book in its class.
Dr. Metrick did a fantastic job.
I recommend this book to anyone interested in the mechanics of the venture capital industry.
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An amazing book
The book is very comprehensive and covers a lot of venture capital finance. It clarifies a lot of concepts and applies them very creatively to Venture Capital. A good book to learn about the VC industry and in general finance (as VC finance uses the concepts very effectively)
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Must buy and extremely useful for anyone in VC, R&D and Strategy
That's a great book that gives a comprehensive overview of all finance aspects that are related to VC, R&D and innovation. It has a useful and effective framework of how to think of innovation in a methodical way. After working as a strategy consultant for a couple of years I thought that with the knowledge I gained from this book I will be far more effective: more effective in analysing alternatives and assesing them and more effective in communicating it to my clients. The balance between theory and... more info
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