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Venture capital and buyouts from the investor's perspectiveStart-to-finish advice on identifying winning business opportunitiesEvaluating management, finance, products/services, growth opportunities, and exit strategiesEssential reading for every VC, leveraged buyout (LBO) funds professional, angel, and private investor High risk, spectacular return...that's the idea behind VC investing. But smart investors reduce unnecessary risks and maximize return at every step. You will discover realistic guidance for identifying hidden opportunities...assessing products and markets...evaluating entrepreneurs and managers...negotiating and closing deals...and much more. "Venture Capital Investing also includes insider's tools for expert investing: everything from sample due diligence questions to psychological assessments of entrepreneurs. Whatever your role in investing in new companies, this book can help you reduce your misfires--and supercharge your profits. "Venture Capital Investing shows VC investors and angels exactly how to weed through scores of business proposals and find the gem that will deliver outstanding returns. You'll learn how to assess entrepreneurs and their management teams, and systematically evaluate every facet of the opportunity they may or may not present. The authors walk you through assessing financial statements, market niches, and competitive environments; appraising the real value of new product and service innovations; and investigating businesses that are already operating. They also offer expert guidance on improving your odds by building effective partnerships with your portfolio companies. The authors' best-seller "Venture Capital Handbook isthe top book for entrepreneurs seeking funding. Now, in "Venture Capital Investing, they've created a classic for everyone who invests in small- and medium-sized businesses.

Savvy investors know that an investment portfolio's most exciting and lucrative opportunities are to be found globally and extend outside the borders of the United States. To exploit the globally important markets requires access to the sophisticated information on world capital markets that top investment professionals use. Global Investing, written by two of America's most knowledgeable and experienced investment professionals, provides a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute resource that's based on award-winning research. Global Investing provides institutional facts and tracks performance data for stock markets in more than 40 countries. Beyond that, it provides both worldwide return performance on all major asset classes - data unlikely to be found in any other single resource. In addition, Ibbotson and Brinson analyze the relationship of these returns to risk, marketability, taxation, and information costs. With Global Investing you'll learn how to improve your investment decision making by having timely information on population, production, inflation, wealth measures, and capital market structure in both developed and emerging economies; using empirically tested investment analysis to build and maintain a diversified portfolio using tools that gain insights from historical performance data; knowing how to look for the best opportunities in stocks, bonds, real estate, gold, silver, art, commodities, and venture capital; applying techniques and strategies of asset allocation across countries and economic sectors; and having a resource that provides an in-depth analysis of currencies, exchange rates, asset pricing ... and much more! Global investing's dozens of charts and graphs makeboth current market data and that of past decades unusually clear and accessible. The result is a book that provides all the tools you'll need to benefit from the international investment opportunities of the '90s and beyond.