The venture cafe
Subtitle: secrets, strategies, and stories from America's high-tech entrepreneurs
By: Teresa Esser
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780446527835
Subjects: High technology industries; Case studies; Management; Entrepreneurship
Description: "In this insider's look at start-up culture, author Teresa Esser, an active member of the MIT entrepreneurial community, uses the Muddy Charles Pub and the men and women who gather there as a living laboratory.

Drawing on their stories, their successes and failures, The Venture Cafe explores the nature of the entrepreneurial spirit, the essence of a successful business idea, and the charged relationship between visionaries and venture capitalists in an age when the money spigot has been turned down to "low."".

"The Venture Cafe draws on in-depth conversations with some amazing people whose experiences illuminate business not as an idea but as a living, breathing thing that changes people, even as people change it."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: The entrepreneurial mind -- -- ch. 2.; title: Making the decision to go for it -- -- ch. 3.; title: Setting up shop : establishing your company's image -- -- ch. 4.; title: Protecting your intellectual property -- -- ch. 5.; title: It's the people : how to attract dynamic individuals to your high-tech start up and keep them from burning out -- -- ch. 6.; title: What venture capitalists look for when they evaluate new proposals -- -- ch. 7.; title: Perseverance : the story of one core financial network -- -- ch. 8.; title: Entrepreneur of rock star -- -- ch. 9.; title: Paradise lost -- -- ch. 10.; title: Getting the people in place : executive headhunters and the right CEO -- -- ch. 11.; title: The dark corner -- -- ch. 12.; title: Entrepreneurs and the media -- -- ch. 13.; title: Success -- -- ch. 14.; title: Epilogue.