| Title : | How to raise capital : techniques and strategies for financing and valuing your small business | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Jeffrey A. Timmons, Author ; Stephen Spinelli, Author | | Publisher: | New York : McGraw-Hill | | Publication Date: | 2005 | | Pagination: | viii, 245 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 23 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-07-141288-9 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references and index | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Finance
New business enterprises - Finance
Small business
Venture capital
| | Class number: | 658.15 | | Abstract: | America is the land of the entrepreneur. We lead the industrialized world in people who pursue their own businesses, and build their own dreams. Yet for too many this dream becomes a nightmare, a never-ending cycle of scrambling for financial resources as customers and growth fly out the door to their competitors.
How to Raise Capital provides a battle-tested, step-by-step plan you can follow to create the financial foundations necessary for long-term success. Drawing on the authors' unmatched experience in the start-up trenches, along with literally dozens of high-profile, real-life examples of entrepreneurial success and failure, this straight-talking book will show you how to:
Locate and negotiate with the funding resources that are right for you, from SBA lenders to angel investors
Anticipate and overcome the four key mistakes that stifle small business growth
THINK BIG--Because if you're going to be exhausted anyway, you may as well be exhausted and wealthy!
Less than 40 percent of entrepreneurs seeking new business funding each year actually get that funding. Let How to Raise Capital tell you everything you need to know to finance your idea, then transform your idea into a successful business--and a positive, long-lasting legacy.
Fewer than 40 percent of entrepreneurs seeking new business funding each year actually get that funding. How to Raise Capital improves those odds, providing prospective as well as current business owners with the knowledge they need to prepare an effective loan proposal, locate a suitable investor, negotiate and close the deal, and more. The all-star team of entrepreneurial experts behind How to Raise Capital gives readers top-level educational theory with hands-on, real-world knowledge. | | Contents note: | The Opportunity : Have You Crafted a Business that Will create Wealth?; Assessing Your Company's Potential; Team Building; Venture and Growth Financing; The Entrepreneur's Achilles Heel; Obtaining Venture and Growth Capital; The Deal: Valuation, Structure and Negotiation; Obtaining Debt Capital; Managing Rapid Growth;The Harvest and Beyond; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13508 |
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How to raise capital / Jeffrey A. Timmons
