Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Spencer E. Ante, BusinessWeek

Audio Podcast: A History of Venture Capital

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Spencer E. Ante, BusinessWeek editor and author, quotes excerpts from his book, Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital, and offers a historical portal into the start and evolution of venture capital. He draws an investment timeline starting with the post-WWII economy, delves into the dominance of Silicon Valley, and discusses current recessionary activity.

Spencer E. Ante Biography

Spencer E. Ante is the computers department editor for BusinessWeek. Before joining the magazine in February, 2000, he was a staff reporter for TheStreet.com. Prior to that, he was a contributing writer at Wired News, a columnist for Business 2.0, a producer for the Netscape NetCenter, and associate editor of The Web Magazine.

For "Meet the Hackers", a 2006 investigative story about the world's most dangerous cybercriminals, he was the recipient of a 2007 Deadline Club Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. A year earlier, he won a 2006 award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for "A Hole in Bush's Exit Strategy", a story about the problematic American training of Iraqi security forces.

Ante received a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and a master's from the University of California at Berkeley.

His book, Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital will be publish...

BusinessWeek

Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture

2009-02-04

56min 45sec

ID: 2109

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