William H. Draper III

For more than 40 years, venture capitalist Bill Draper has worked with top entrepreneurs in fabled Silicon Valley, where today’s vision is made into tomorrow’s reality. From the VC who saw the value in Skype, Zappos, and many other companies, comes firsthand stories of success. In these pages Draper explores: how to evaluate innovative ideas and the entrepreneurs behind those ideas (lessons from Yahoo, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Activision, Measurex, and more); and the value of political leadership in creating opportunity, including on-the-ground accounts of how Deng Xiaoping brought China roaring into the modern world.

Concerned with people around the world and how development can change and improve their lives, the Human Development Report 1990 addresses the meaning and measurement of human development and summarizes Third World nations' records in development over the past thirty years. Stressing the linkbetween economic and social concerns, this important study offers specific strategies for human development in the 1990s, focusing on the restructuring of budgetary expenditures, and on the need for an international economic and financial environment conducive to human development. The Report alsointroduces a new method of measuring development--the human development index (HDI)--that supplements the traditional ranking of countries by gross national product per capita, and uses the HDI to classify countries as having low, medium, and high levels of human development. An annex to the Reportdiscusses the effects of urbanization on human development, and the indicators for 1990 present data for 130 countries. Prepared under the overall guidance of Mahbub ul Haq and informed by a panel of consultants including such distinguished economists and development professionals as Gustav Ranis,Amartya K. Sen, Frances Stewart, Meghnad Desai, Paul Streeten, and Keith Griffin, this book is a definitive guide to human development in the 1990s. With its trenchant insights and a wealth of up-to-date information, the Human Development Report 1990 is an essential resource for developmentspecialists, economists, and political scientists.

Empreendedores conduzem o futuro, e as últimas décadas tem sido um emocionante trajeto de inovação e crescimento; Por trás desse progresso transformador estão os investidores de risco (Venture) treinadores e aliados dos empreendedores; William H Draper III conhece esta história em primeira mão porque como um investidor de risco ele ajudou a escrevê-la; O jogo das startups evidencia como a relação entre os investidores de risco e os empreendedores é fundamental para aumentar o sucesso de qualquer economia; Ele conseguiu enxergar o potencial do Skype, Hotmail, OpenTable, e muitas outras companhias;Neste livro, Draper explora como avaliar idéias inovadoras e os empreendedores por trás delas; O autor compartilha lições do Yahoo, Zappos, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Activision, Measurex e muito mais; Além disso, ele narra como Deng Siaoping trouxe a China para o mundo moderno e como Manmohan Singh destravou o gênio criativo dos empreendedores da Índia; Draper enfatiza o valor essencial de liderança política perspicaz na criação de oportunidades e apresenta seus esforços para trazer a experiência da sociedade entre empreendedores e investidores de risco para a área social;