eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

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		eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

In eBOYS, Randall Stross takes us behind the scenes and inside the heads of the gutsy entrepreneurs who are financing the hottest businesses on the Web. The six tall men who started Benchmark, Silicon Valley's most exciting venture capital firm, put themselves at the cutting edge of the new economy by backing billion dollar start-ups like eBay and Webvan. The risks were enormous--but the rewards have proven to be staggering. Within two years, eBay's net worth grew from $20 million to more than $21 billion, while each Benchmark founding partner saw his own personal net worth soar by hundreds of millions of dollars.

For two roller-coaster years, Stross had total access not only to Benchmark's executives but to the companies they financed. He was a fly on the wall as fortunes were made in an instant, snap decisions got locked in, and new ventures took off--and sometimes crashed. Here are the testosterone-pumped conversations, round-the-clock meetings, and gutsy deals that launched the eBoys and their clients into the stratosphere of mega-wealth. Written like a novel but absolutely true, eBOYS brings to vivid life the glory days of the greatest business adventure of our time.

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I use the word "venture guy" here as the author mentions the partners at Benchmark never referred to themselves as venture capitalists.

If you want to try to experience the life of a VC without having actually had the job, eBoys is a great place to start. Granted, the story take place in the 90s when venture capital and entrepreneurs were making mind boggling returns and exits. I imagine the story of a VC would be very different today.

The one contention I had with eBoys is that it's story kind of wound around a bunch of stories. Sometimes it was a narrative of the Benchmark partners from an outsider perspective, and other times, it revolved the entrepreneurs. This is fine, but it would make leaps from one narrative to the next sometimes. This is generally just a problem faced by any book with multiple narratives. I think the author could have done a better job, but it is still applaudable.

The comments from many others reviewers that the author is biased are definitely true. There is a clear bias towards Benchmark and against KPCB. As long as the reader goes in understanding this, however, this book is a must read. Few, if any, books on venture capital have the access that Stross had, especially to a firm like Benchmark. Gives a really good sense of the experience of a venture capital firm. More importantly, anyone who follows current venture capital firms will be amazed the many differences in the industry even 10 years ago.

I doubt "eBoys" was intended to read as a period piece, but it certainly does in the post-technology bubble world. There are a couple things that come across loud and clear: first, these venture capitalists were not blind to the bubble that was forming; second, if they wanted to stay alive and relevant in their field, they needed to keep financing new companies and unwillingly participate in furthering the bubble.

The story is well-told and gives you an insider's view of how at least one venture capital firm makes the decision of who gets funding and who doesn't. It also serves as a cautionary tale about how even the most sophisticated investors get sucked into bubble mentality.

A valuable read for investors, entreprenuers, and aspiring venture capitalists.

If you have ever been involved with Venture Guys (as I have), or contemplated that you might want to start you own company and go get funding from them, then this book will provide considerable insight into their overall mindset and the way that they do business. Stross does an admirable job of keeping technical lingo to a minimum and carefully examining the "how" and "why" behind the Benchmark investments. With such successes as eBay, Scient, and Webvan in their portfolio, the team at Benchmark provides a great model for the venture community as a whole. Likewise, the book does not paint everything in happy colors and shows some of the notable failures that have occurred over the past few years. This is a fine book for anyone who wants to understand more of the money side of the companies driving the New Economy as well as for anyone that wants to see how deals really get done. The character development is a little weak, but that is fairly standard in business books.

I really enjoyed (and you will too), this documentary of the inside workings of a well known Silicon Valley venture capital company. Like many others, I had always associated funding as the sole value a VC firm brings to a startup. However, this book enlightend me as to the other core values brought to the table (staffing, business structure, management, etc.).
The book is written in strong and very engaging narrative, I spent a few days of my vacation at a sunny resort...under a shade umbrella reading this book (the water slide had to wait !). The eBay story alone was facinating, as was the previous histories of each of the founders...and there was more ! I recommend this book to anyone who understands the silicon valley "environment", also to those having a sincere wish to do so.

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