Individual exercise: Download the transcript of a biographic interview with a Bay Area venture capitalist from the website of the Venture Capitalists Oral History Project at the Bancroft Library:

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/vc/transcripts.html.

Browse through the document and identify the section in the beginning in which the interviewee’s background, upbringing, schooling andearly work experience are described. Read this section carefully and think about a research question that could require the analysis of this section. Write down the research question and analyse the section as if it were the first document to be examined for this study. Think carefully about how you want to frame your data, what model of analysis would be appropriate, and the elements you will need to emphasize. You may wish to collect additional information on the context of the biography on the Internet. Apply at least two of the following methods in your analysis: coding; creation of a timeline or diagram; reorganization/

rewriting of the story in chronological order.