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).
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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
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