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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

I remember the first time I met Mark Gerson, the founder of expert network company Gerson Lehrman Group (where I previously worked), as he described how Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) first started. Investors (mainly hedge funds at the time), needed a way to quickly understand an industry they were going to invest in. 1) Industry reports.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Funding for the companies spinning out of Stanford’s engineering department in the 1950’s benefited from the tight integration and web of relationships between Fred Terman, Stanford, the U.S. Reply Innovation Ecosystems Network » The Next Silicon Valley , on August 17, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said: [.] There was none.