The insider's guide to Venture Capital by Scott Kupor, managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz - the iconic Silicon Valley investment firm
SCOTT KUPOR is managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He has overseen the firm's rapid growth to one hundred fifty employees and more than $7 billion in assets under management. He is also a cofounder and codirector of the Stanford Venture Capital Director's College and teaches venture capital and corporate governance courses at Stanford Law School and the Haas School of Business and Boalt School of Law at UC Berkeley. He is vice-chair of the investment committee for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and was previously the chairman of the board of the National Venture Capital Association.
Worth far more than its cover price ... I wish I’d had it available
to me when I was first looking for startup funding
*ERIC RIES, bestselling author of tHE LEAN STARTUP and THE STARTUP
WAY, from the foreword*
As someone who helped a small company become a huge, valuable
company, I know firsthand the power of the startup ecosystem and
entrepreneurship. This is the definitive book on navigating VC as
part of that
*ERIC SCHMIDT, former executive chairman and CEO, Google; technical
advisor, Alphabet Inc*
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it
takes to create something important and to achieve outlier success.
Kupor’s book takes founders who want to do both through everything
from how VCs raise money and evaluate deals, to how to think about
term sheets and set up boards. It’s a valuable resource for any
founder who wants to work with VCs
*SAM ALTMAN, partner and president, Y Combinator; cofounder,
OpenAI*
Secrets of Sand Hill Road is the definitive guide to how to engage
the VC community, including governance and other best practices, in
a startup’s journey to a successful public company
*ADENA FRIEDMAN, president and CEO, Nasdaq; former managing
director and CFO, The Carlyle Group*
From acquiring startups, to leading a company, to working to select
the next leader of an iconic company, I’ve seen it all. It’s become
clear to me that startups drive the kind of innovation that big
companies can’t easily do. Secrets of Sand Hill Road provides a
useful overview for the next generation of leaders seeking to start
such companies
*JOHN W. THOMPSON, chairman, Microsoft; former CEO, Symantec*
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