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10 Δεκ 2020 · But, starting in the mid-twentieth century in the United States, the VC firm, a wholly new type of investment management enterprise, began to seek and use capital from outside investors, as well as by the firm’s owners, to fund and nurture new business ventures.
In 1973, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) came to life in the United States in support of venture capital in Washington. Even today, they're still speaking up for venture capital firms, the companies they invest in, and the whole system of entrepreneurship.
Venture capital, as an industry, originated in the United States, and American firms have traditionally been the largest participants in venture deals with the bulk of venture capital being deployed in American companies.
VC tells the riveting story of how the industry arose from the United States’ long-running orientation toward entrepreneurship. Venture capital has been driven from the start by the pull of outsized returns through a skewed distribution of payoffs―a faith in low-probability but substantial financial rewards that rarely materialize.
Venture capital emerged in the 1970s as an asset class with a growing number of firms on both the East and West Coasts, public policy changes that saw more capital flowing to VC, and an industry transforming into a more institutional structure.
An exploration of venture financing in America, from its origins in the whaling industry to the rise of Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital (VC) created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation.
Venture capital (VC) is a relatively recent addition to the US national system of innovation (NSI). Tracing the history of the VC industry in the US provides an interesting example of how NSIs can add new institutions, and in the process be transformed.