The venture cafe

the long version

"In this insider's look at start-up culture, author Teresa Esser, an active member of the MIT entrepreneurial community, uses the Muddy Charles Pub and the men and women who gather there as a living laboratory. Drawing on their stories, their successes and failures, The Venture Cafe explores the nature of the entrepreneurial spirit, the essence of a successful business idea, and the charged relationship between visionaries and venture capitalists in an age when the money spigot has been turned down to "low."". "The Venture Cafe draws on in-depth conversations with some amazing people whose experiences illuminate business not as an idea but as a living, breathing thing that changes people, even as people change it."--BOOK JACKET.