Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
by Spencer E. Ante
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Author: Spencer E. AnteEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-08
ISBN: 1422101223
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
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Book Review: A Great Book for Business and Innovation
Summary: 5 Stars
Creative Capital is a great business book. It is a must read for anyone interested in stimulating innovation and motivating people. Spencer Ante's solid biography of General Doriot and the roots of the U.S. venture capital industry inspire. Ante takes the reader from the infancy of the automobile era and tells us an amazing life story about "the General." Georges Doriot, the father of the modern venture capital industry, should be discussed in every high school history book.
As president of the American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the world's first publicly owned venture capital firm, Georges Doriot demonstrated the value of seed capital to stimulate new businesse development. In this book, Spencer E. Ante describes well Doriot's remarkable discipline, energy, charisma, motivation, and bold vision.
In the right cinematographic hands, this book would make for an interesting movie or documentary. Georges Doriot was as an innovative financier who added value, and helped transform the U.S.'s industrial economy. Men and women like this are again needed in this new age of economic transformations.
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