Venture capitalists have played a pivotal role in hatching the technologies that are redefining our work and life. Alongside the brilliant innovators who dream up the ideas, VC's contribute the business acumen and development capital that feeds Silicon Valley. And it is through this process of high-stakes investing that unimaginable fortunes are made. The VC Way is the first book to take readers into this private world of extreme investing, showing how seasoned, successful VC's prosper in down markets as well as during high times. For those who want to invest like the best, it reveals their...

"I Am Bill Gates' Dog" is rollicking fiction that entertains and amuses whileit stabs at cunning ambition. Concise and kinetic, the book swivels with plottwists and sudden revelations as it dashes to a boisterous climax.

A presidential conspiracy is foiled by small people brave enough to battle the big powers. Gab Darby is filled with nobility in a future age when nobility has no value. That national deficiency doesn't matter while Darby reigns as a superstar in the Disneyfied America that exists some 35 years from today. But he tumbles after the president lies and accuses him of treason.

As a school psychologist, Daniel Hectorman has lost all faith and confidence that meddling therapists like himself really help anyone at all. That's too bad, because Hectorman could use some counseling of his own. His marriage is starved. His job is imperiled. His parents are deep in decline, with his mom shrunk by Alzheimer's and his father enraged and suicidal. Even Hectorman's doting secretary, Mrs. Tweed, has gone batty. Then there's this kid. Trevor Winkle is a fourteen-year-old sharpie foisted on Hectorman by a vampy old flame who insists that the boy is his son. Hectorman knows he is...