Best practice venture capital : principles, tools and approaches for investment, strategy and policy

EnglishLennart Ohlsson has now published his 330 pp. study useful for investors, venture founders and management, university students and policy-makers. It is based on his thorough research, his own practical experiences as well as many interviews and discussions with specialists in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a study of best practices in a field where venture investors and founders interface and interact.The study has three parts. Part I presents pre-emptive methods to handle extreme upside potentials and downside risks in any kind of venture. Introducing some tools for analysis and decision-making, it shows how investors may control downside uncertainties and risks as well as upside opportunities and chances.Part II focuses on first mover ventures. It shows with a number of innovative concepts and tools how first mover advantages can be more systematically analysed for start-ups differing in technology and market characteristics. Furthermore, it looks at how optimisation of