Henry Kressel is a partner of Warburg Pincus, LLC where he has been responsible for investments in technology companies. He began his career at RCA Laboratories where he pioneered the first practical semiconductor lasers. He was the founding president of the IEEE Photonics Society and co-founded the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE, was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and is the holder of thirty-one issued US patents for electronic and optoelectronic devices. He is the co-author of two previous books, Semiconductor Lasers and Heterojunction LEDs with J. K. Butler (1977) and Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World with Thomas V. Lento (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Thomas V. Lento is founder and President of Intercomm, Inc., a corporate communications consultancy specializing in technology companies. He has been a university professor, an ad agency executive, and director of communications for Sarnoff Corporation. In addition to collaborating with Henry Kressel on Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World, he was editor of Inventing the Future: 60 Years of Innovation at Sarnoff, and co-authored the forthcoming By Any Means Necessary: An Entrepreneur's Journey Into Space.

'Henry Kressel leads us through the pain and pleasure of investing in rapidly developing markets, using his insights from nearly a quarter of a century of investment experience, following a brilliant career in industrial research. This gives the reader an invaluable and essential insight into the art and science of venture investing from the rarely combined vantage points of the entrepreneur and investor; it should be required reading for either group.' Peter Scovell, President, Newlyn Technologies Ltd

• List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Hot markets, investment waves, bubbles, and charlatans; 2. Financing high-risk businesses; 3. Venture investing: an uncertain science; 4. Investing in a transformed market: telecommunications; 5. Investing in transformed markets: semiconductors; 6. Investing in early-stage technology: the internet in the 1990s; 7. Software products and services; 8. Venture capital: past and future; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Henry Kressel is a partner of Warburg Pincus, LLC where he has been responsible for investments in technology companies. He began his career at RCA Laboratories where he pioneered the first practical semiconductor lasers. He was the founding president of the IEEE Photonics Society and co-founded the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE, was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and is the holder of thirty-one issued US patents for electronic and optoelectronic devices. He is the co-author of two previous books, Semiconductor Lasers and Heterojunction LEDs with J. K. Butler (1977) and Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World with Thomas V. Lento (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Thomas V. Lento is founder and President of Intercomm, Inc., a corporate communications consultancy specializing in technology companies. He has been a university professor, an ad agency executive, and director of communications for Sarnoff Corporation. In addition to collaborating with Henry Kressel on Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World, he was editor of Inventing the Future: 60 Years of Innovation at Sarnoff, and co-authored the forthcoming By Any Means Necessary: An Entrepreneur's Journey Into Space.

'Henry Kressel leads us through the pain and pleasure of investing in rapidly developing markets, using his insights from nearly a quarter of a century of investment experience, following a brilliant career in industrial research. This gives the reader an invaluable and essential insight into the art and science of venture investing from the rarely combined vantage points of the entrepreneur and investor; it should be required reading for either group.' Peter Scovell, President, Newlyn Technologies Ltd

• List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Hot markets, investment waves, bubbles, and charlatans; 2. Financing high-risk businesses; 3. Venture investing: an uncertain science; 4. Investing in a transformed market: telecommunications; 5. Investing in transformed markets: semiconductors; 6. Investing in early-stage technology: the internet in the 1990s; 7. Software products and services; 8. Venture capital: past and future; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Henry Kressel is a partner of Warburg Pincus, LLC where he has been responsible for investments in technology companies. He began his career at RCA Laboratories where he pioneered the first practical semiconductor lasers. He was the founding president of the IEEE Photonics Society and co-founded the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE, was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and is the holder of thirty-one issued US patents for electronic and optoelectronic devices. He is the co-author of two previous books, Semiconductor Lasers and Heterojunction LEDs with J. K. Butler (1977) and Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World with Thomas V. Lento (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Thomas V. Lento is founder and President of Intercomm, Inc., a corporate communications consultancy specializing in technology companies. He has been a university professor, an ad agency executive, and director of communications for Sarnoff Corporation. In addition to collaborating with Henry Kressel on Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World, he was editor of Inventing the Future: 60 Years of Innovation at Sarnoff, and co-authored the forthcoming By Any Means Necessary: An Entrepreneur's Journey Into Space.

'Henry Kressel leads us through the pain and pleasure of investing in rapidly developing markets, using his insights from nearly a quarter of a century of investment experience, following a brilliant career in industrial research. This gives the reader an invaluable and essential insight into the art and science of venture investing from the rarely combined vantage points of the entrepreneur and investor; it should be required reading for either group.' Peter Scovell, President, Newlyn Technologies Ltd

• List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Hot markets, investment waves, bubbles, and charlatans; 2. Financing high-risk businesses; 3. Venture investing: an uncertain science; 4. Investing in a transformed market: telecommunications; 5. Investing in transformed markets: semiconductors; 6. Investing in early-stage technology: the internet in the 1990s; 7. Software products and services; 8. Venture capital: past and future; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.