Venture Capital Handbook

An Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Venture Capital

David Gladstone, Laura Gladstone

424 pages, parution le 23/11/2001

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Résumé

The Classic Handbook To Raising Money for Your New Venture.

The complete insider's guide to venture capital funding!

Looking for venture capital funding? The money's is out there. But you'll need to work harder to secure financing today—and work a whole lot smarter, too. That's where Venture Capital Handbook: Revised and Updated Edition comes in. In this book, leading venture capitalist David Gladstone and Laura Gladstone take you step-by-step through the entire VC funding process—explaining exactly what you must know to get funded.

The practical, "nuts and bolts" guide to today's venture capital marketplace How VCs really work—and how to make your company stand out as an investment opportunity How to accelerate the investment process—and eliminate dead-ends with the wrong funds Building an effective long-term relationship with your VC partners Reflects massive changes in the Internet and technology funding environments Covers key changes in the tax law that impact both investors and companies Venture Capital Handbook: Revised and Updated Edition is an end-to-end update of the classic insider's guide that has helped thousands of companies get funded successfully. If you're working to transform your dream into reality, this is the one book you simply must read.

Contents

Introduction.

Acknowledgments.

Anyone Can Raise Ventura Capital.
Summary Presentation.
The Proposal.
A Thousand Questions.
Meetings and Negotiations
The Commitment Letter
Due Diligence.
The Closing.
Working Together
The Exit.
Using Brokers.

Advice From Us to You.

Glossary.

Actual Documents.

Index.

L'auteur - David Gladstone

DAVID GLADSTONE, one of America's leading venture capital executives, serves as Chairman of Gladstone Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GLAD). He has more than 25 years of experience making investments in small and medium size businesses. Until 2001 he was Chariman of American Capital Strategies, a billion-dollar LBO fund. Before that, Gladstone was Chairman and CEO of Allied Capital a large venture capital fund, joining that fund when it had only $9 million in capital, and grew it to over $750 million in assets. He is author of Venture Capital Handbook and Venture Capital Investing (both Prentice Hall PTR). Gladstone holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

L'auteur - Laura Gladstone

LAURA GLADSTONE, a principal with Gladstone Capital Corporation, has more than 10 years' experience investing and lending to businesses. Prior to joining Gladstone Capital, she was with HSBC as a loan officer and with ING Barings as a analyst. She was also with Allied Capital Corporation.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	David Gladstone, Laura Gladstone
Parution	23/11/2001
Nb. de pages	424
Format	16,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	893g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780130654939