{"product_id":"venture-capital-isbn-9780471398134","title":"Venture Capital","description":"How to attract the venture capital needed to grow any business\u003cbr\u003e Venture Capital teaches entrepreneurs and small business owners everything they need to know about finding the venture capital they need to grow their businesses. Based, in large part, upon in-depth interviews with major players in the venture capital arena--including money managers as well as entrepreneurs who have dealt with them successfully--it provides powerful pointers on how to make a business attractive to venture capitalists, how to protect yourself in negotiating an agreement, how to manage a relationship with venture capitalists once a deal is signed, and much more. Perhaps most importantly, the reader learns what makes venture capitalists tick and sees things through a venture capitalist's eyes.\u003cbr\u003e Joel Cardis, Esq. (Blue Bell, PA), consults both Fortune 500 companies and small businesses on an array of venture and start-up issues. Hildy Richelson, PhD (Scarsdale, NY), is President of the Scarsdale Investment Group, Ltd.\"Venture Capital\" - der praktische Leitfaden, der kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmern zeigt, wie sie den richtigen Wagniskapitalgeber finden, der ihrem Unternehmen zum Aufstieg verhilft. Das Buch basiert zum großen Teil auf ausführlichen Interviews mit den Hauptakteuren im Venture Capital Bereich sowie mit Geldmanagern und Unternehmern, die mit ihnen erfolgreich zusammengearbeitet haben. \"Venture Capital\" enthält nützliche Hinweise, wie Sie ihr Unternehmen für Wagniskapitalgeber attraktiv machen, wie Sie sich beim Aushandeln eines Vertrages schützen, wie Sie eine Beziehung mit Wagniskapitalgebern pflegen, wenn der Vertrag erst einmal unterschrieben ist, usw., usw. Darüber hinaus erklärt Autor Joel Cardis dem Leser, wie Wagniskapitalgeber denken und hilft ihm, die Dinge aus ihrer Perspektive zu betrachten. Joel Cardis ist ein erfahrener Experte auf diesem Gebiet; er berät Fortune 500 Unternehmen und mittelständische Unternehmen bei einer Vielzahl von Fragen zur Kapitalbeschaffung und Unternehmensgründung. Introduction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART I: DOING YOUR HOMEWORK: PREPARING FOR THE VENTURE CAPITALISTS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Venture Capital Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Venture Capital FAQ: Is the Game Right for You?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Market Risk.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The People Risk--Part I: Management Teams and Boards.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The People Risk--Part II: Strategic Alliances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Master of the Keiretsu: An Interview with Pete Musser.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Technology Risk.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Money Risk.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART II: GETTING FUNDED.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e How to Value Your Company.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Writing Effective Business Plans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Which Venture Capitalist Is Right For You?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Show Time: Presenting to the Venture Capitalists.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Negotiating the Term Sheet: The Art of the Deal.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Surviving the Due Diligence Process.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Life After the Deal.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Directory of Interviewees.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Sample Confidentiality Agreement.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: Sample Term Sheet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix D: TL Ventures Due Diligence Checklist.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix E: Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix F: Select Online Entrepreneurial Resources.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix G: VC Resources for Women and Minorities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index. JOEL CARDIS, Esq., is an attorney and consultant with more than two decades of experience working with Fortune 500 executives and small businesses. He is the founder and President of an investment club comprising entrepreneurs and businesspeople.He can be reached at jcardisesq@snip.net\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SAM KIRSCHNER, PhD, is an internationally recognized management consultant and psychologist who has served as a director on the boards of both publicly held and private companies. Contact him at skirsch@hotmail.com\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e STAN RICHELSON serves as a comprehensive financial planner, business advisor, and coach, integrating the fields of investments, law, tax, and accounting to provide solutions to complex problems. He can be reached at stanrichelson@aol.com\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e JASON KIRSCHNER (jason.kirschner@yale.edu) is a senior at Yale University.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e HILDY RICHELSON, PhD, is President of the Scarsdale Investment Group, Ltd. as well as a nationally recognized bond advisor and financial author. Contact her at richelson@aol.com You've got a blue-ribbon business idea that just can't fail-one that you believe in one hundred percent and to which you are ready to give your all. Maybe you've already used your own savings and money from friends and family members to develop your idea, but now you realize that the only way you'll ever really get your business off the ground is with the support of investors with lots of money to throw around. Don't despair. Each year, venture capitalists invest tens of billions of dollars in companies that they believe show promise of exceptional profits. If your idea is as good as you think it is, it shouldn't be nearly as difficult as you may think to get their attention-and their funding. And now this book shows you how.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Coauthored by an expert who has helped dozens of businesses of every size obtain funding, Venture Capital tells you everything you ever wanted to know about finding, wooing, and working with traditional VCs as well as angels, incubators, and other alternative funding sources.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You begin by learning how to see your business through a venture capitalist's eyes. Drawing upon their own experiences and from interviews with major players on both sides of the venture capital equation-both money managers and the entrepreneurs who have worked with them-the authors show you how to develop a strong business model and how to assess your management team, your competition, your market, your product or service, and your financial projections.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The authors then walk you through the entire VC experience. You'll learn how to write a winning business plan, determine which type of VC is the best fit for your company and goals, give a dynamite presentation, survive the due diligence process, and negotiate the best possible agreement with a VC. Finally, they teach you how to work with VCs to grow your business into the blockbuster company you always knew it could be.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In addition to sage advice and step-by-step guidance, Venture Capital also arms you with valuable forms and documents that have been used by some of the top VCs and attorneys nationwide. You get a confidentiality agreement, a checklist of the full array of due diligence documents, a term sheet, and a final deal agreement. You also get a gold mine of information on how to contact leading VCs, links to venture capital Web sites, and more.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Don't let your entrepreneurial dreams go up in smoke for lack of funding. Read Venture Capital and find out how to get your share of the billions in venture capital just waiting to be invested in your company. \"Entrepreneurship is the beachhead of corporate America. If you want to join the business marines, you must read this book.\"-Robert Keith, Managing General Partner T. L. Ventures\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An extremely readable and useful guide to tackling the venture capital world. This book gives the entrepreneur tremendous insight into what to do and, most importantly, what not to do.\"-Ash Lilani Senior Vice President, Silicon Valley Bank\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Finally! A practical, hands-on guide to raising venture capital. This step-by-step handbook gives an entrepreneur a clear, real-world roadmap to the world of the fundraising process. 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