Product Description: This text offers a geographic and regional study of venture capitalism. Although the importance of this type of capitalism in creating and nurturing small firms has long been recognized, it does not have a uniform global character...read more

"Whether your business is just a gleam in your eye, a newly launched operation, or a full-fledged firm that's humming right along, you'll never experience real growth without a substantial infusion of cash. Long gone are the days when venture capital groups seemed to pour millions into every "next big thing." Now it's clear that there is real competition for investors, and that only the most viable businesses -- and carefully executed fundraising -- will reap the capital necessary to drive continuous growth. Raising Capital is the definitive guide for entrepreneurs and growing companies that need to raise capital. The book covers every phase of the growth cycle, and provides tools for building business plans, preparing loan proposals, drafting offering materials, and much more. Now in its second edition, Raising Capital includes a wide variety of updates to reflect the realities of the post-dot-com bust, new trends in private equity markets, and the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a crucial piece of legislation that establishes new corporate governance requirements in the wake of high-profile accounting scandals. The book takes you through every stage of the capital process, and provides a bevy of alternatives to evaluate in determining your company's capital strategy. The four parts cover: * Getting Ready to Raise Capital: capital-formation strategies, plus recent trends; understanding legal and governance structures and how they affect your ability to raise and use capital; and the role your business plan plays in securing capital * Early-Stage Financing: start-up financing; "bootstrapping," or doing less with more at a stage in your business where "cash is king"; private placements versus commercial lending; leasing, factoring, and government programs * Growth Financing: strategies for obtaining venture capital; how venture capital transactions work; preparing for and executing an initial public offering (IPO) * Alternatives to Traditional Financing: franchising, joint ventures, co-branding, licensing, and other strategic alliances; mergers and acquisitions; plus the Capital Formation Business Growth Resources Directory Raising Capital provides a huge selection of checklists, charts, sample forms to expedite the capital formation process, and the author relates eye-opening "war stories" and perspectives from the investor's side of the table that will help you avoid pitfalls and guide your business confidently through every growth stage. Featuring comprehensive coverage of all recognized capital strategies, this timely book will help you navigate the murky (and often rough) waters of capital formation."

<p> Now, you can minimize your clients' tax liability and avoid legal pitfalls, as well as maximize returns on successful transactions and be prepared for all of the potential benefits, with <b><i>Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions, 2008 Edition</i></b>. </p> <p> Here at last is one-step-at-a-time, start-to-finish structural guidance for the following common business transactions: </p> <ul> <li> Venture capital financing </li> <li> New business start-ups </li> <li> Brains-and-money deals </li> <li> Growth-equity investments </li> <li> Leveraged and management buyouts </li> <li> Industry consolidations </li> <li> Troubled company workouts and reorganizations </li> <li> Going public </li> <li> Selling a business </li> <li> Forming a private equity fund </li> </ul> <p> Guided by <a href="http://www.kirkland.com/sitecontent.cfm?contentID=220&itemID=7928" target="_blank"> Jack S. Levin's</a> dynamic, transaction-by-transaction approach, you'll make the tax, legal, and economic structuring consequences of every deal benefit your client every time. In this extraordinary hands-on resource by the most sought-after authority in the field, you'll see exactly how to: </p> <ul> <li> Distribute the tax burden in your client's favor </li> <li> Maximize returns on successful transactions </li> <li> Control future rights to exit a profitable investment </li> <li> And turn every transaction into a winning venture! </li> </ul> <p> Click here to view <a href="http://www.aspenpublishers.com/PDF/9780735574687-highlights2008.pdf"> Highlights</a> of the new 2008 Edition. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Product Description: The Small Business Administration issued a policy directive in 2002, the effect of which has been to exclude innovative small firms in which venture capital firms have a controlling interest from the SBIR program. This book seeks to illuminate the consequences of the SBA ruling excluding majority-owned venture capital firms from participation in SBIR projects...read more

Product Description: This book traces the historical rise of private equity finance in the US and UK over the last 40 years. It shows how this new industry has grown as credit markets have grown. It is clearly explained for the non-expert how financial gearing works in a leveraged buyout.

Product Description: The stereotype of the "angel investor" is a retired wealthy entrepreneur who sees potential, asks tough questions, takes a large stake, and in a few years makes a massive return in an IPO. This outsider fills the gap between the venture capitalist and the professional investor, swooping in with cash and expertise to bring dreams to fruition...read more

Product Description: Strategies for Biotechnology Venture Capital 2008/2009 is an authoritative, insider's perspective securing venture capital and achieving growth in the biotech industry for VCs, entrepreneurs, and industry executives. Featuring managing partners at top VC firms and CEOs of funded biotech companies, these experts provide key strategies for all stages of an investment with a focus on raising capital, establishing valuations, determining exit strategies, and structuring deals...read more

Product Description: The process of raising capital can be daunting for even the most seasoned entrepreneurs. Raising Capital: When You Don't Have a Silicon Valley Address is a compilation of a dozen interviews with experts in the business of raising capital...read more

Product Description: In The Venture Capital Cycle, Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner correct widespread misperceptions about the nature and role of the venture capitalist and provide an accessible and comprehensive overview of the venture capital industry...read more

Product Description: This combination offer includes both the print and CD-ROM versions of Jack S. Levin's "Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions", 2006 Edition. This resource will help you minimize your clients' tax liability and avoid legal pitfalls, as well as maximize returns on successful transactions and be prepared for all of the potential benefits...read more

Product Description: Private Equity Laws is an authoritative, incisive collection of insider perspectives on the dynamic and innovative forefront of the laws that govern investments, negotiations, and funding within the fields of private equity and venture capital...read more

Managing directors and partners from ten of the nation's leading VC firms on spotting the best investments in life sciences.

Product Description: Inside the Minds: Biotechnology Deals is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the issues surrounding biotech deals, including mergers and acquisitions, collaborations, and the future of doing successful deals. Featuring lawyers, CEOs of funded biotech companies, and venture capitalists who invest in them, this book provides a broad, yet comprehensive overview of the art of doing successful deals from the experts themselves...read more

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An insider's business guide explains how entrepreneurs can find and make deals with angel investors who can provide financial backing for promising start-up companies. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Policy makers--Republican and Democrat, liberal and conservative--call for federal intervention to fund emerging high-growth industries, believing they are starved for capital. Congressional hearings, newspapers, industry newsletters, and government reports all assert that capital gaps exist for these firms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The woman who took Microsoft public introduces readers to the high-risk, high-stakes game of venture capitalism, showing how enterprising individuals can transform an idea into a profitable business. 60,000 first printing.

Offers advice on how to find alternative equity financing for businesses, such as venture capital, overseas financing, and public offerings (view table of contents)

Product Description: Resource-strapped entrepreneurs and small business owners scramble for funding and assistance from family and friends, venture capitalists, wealthy individuals, or government-guaranteed loans. But now there's another brand-new source of launch capital on the scene today: strategic alliances with large corporations...read more