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eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

Stross takes readers behind the scenes and inside the heads of the gutsy entrepreneurs who are financing the hottest businesses on the Web. The six tall men who started Benchmark, Silicon Valley's most exciting venture capital firm, put themselves at the cutting edge of the new economy by backing billion dollar start-ups like eBay and Webvan.

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adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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