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Secure venture capital? Easy. Getting a business up and running or pushing a brilliant product to the marketplace requires capital. For many entrepreneurs, a lack of start-up capital can be the single biggest roadblock to their dreams of success and fortune. Venture Capital For Dummies takes entrepreneurs step by step through the process of finding and securing venture capital for their own projects.
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- Höfundar: Gravagna, Nicole, Adams, Peter K.
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 09/2013
- Blaðsíður: 360
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9781118784730
- Print ISBN: 9781118642238
- ISBN 10: 1118784731
Efnisyfirlit
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in this Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go From Here
- Part I: Getting Started with Venture Capital
- Chapter 1: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Venture Capital Basics
- Understanding Venture Capital and Venture Capitalists
- Choosing the Venture Capital Pathway
- From Zero to Venture Capital: Knowing What to Do to Secure Venture Capital
- Chapter 2: The Venture Capitalist Mindset
- Performing a High-Risk Job: The VC’s Role
- Understanding How a Venture Capital Fund Works
- Taking a Closer Look VC Investments
- Looking into Other Kinds of Funds and Venture Companies
- Chapter 3: Is Working with a VC Right for You?
- Identifying a VC Investible Company
- Making the VC Decision
- Chapter 4: Alternatives to Venture Capital Funding
- Taking on Debt
- Raising Money through People You Know
- Dancing on the Head of a Pin: Angel Capital
- Attracting a Mob: Crowdfunding
- Accessing Grants to Fund Your Company
- Growing Organically: Bootstrapping
- Knowing When Enough Is Enough
- Chapter 5: Connecting with Investors Online and Face to Face
- Creating an Online Persona for Your Company
- Launching a Community Campaign
- Online Tools for Real-Life Funding: Investing Sites
- Making Contact with Investors
- Mum’s the Word: Pursuing Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Chapter 1: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Venture Capital Basics
- Chapter 6: Positioning Your Company for Funding
- Viewing Your Company as a Whole Package
- Looking at Business Plan Basics
- Highlighting Your Product as a Company Keystone
- Paying Attention to Your Promotion Strategy
- Devising a Marketing Strategy
- Predicting Future Revenue with a Pro Forma
- Chapter 7: Cultivating Relationships
- Setting the Company’s Course: Founders and Those Who Make the Company
- Connecting with Outside Firms and People
- Building Relationships with Customers
- Creating Relationships with VCs through Networking
- Building a Relationship with Your Acquirer
- Chapter 8: Providing an Exit Strategy
- Understanding the Value of a Good Exit
- Checking Out Your Exit Options
- Designing Your Exit Strategy
- Understanding the Role of Advisors in Your Exit
- Creating an Exit Story
- Avoiding Mistakes That Can Blow an Exit
- Chapter 9: Structuring Pre-VC Deals
- Recognizing the Red Flags
- Tallying Your Investors in a Cap Table
- Fundamentals of the Funding Lifecycle
- Putting Together the Term Sheet
- Comparing Equity and Convertible Debt
- Restructuring as You Move from Early Rounds to VC Rounds
- Overcoming Pitfalls of Early Deal Structure
- Chapter 10: Leading the Risk Conversation
- Getting into the Mindset of Venture Investors: Horses and Wolves
- Understanding Risk
- Tying Risk to Valuation
- Exposing Risk: Strategies That Keep You in the Game
- Connecting Cash Raises to Risk and Company Success
- Chapter 11: Telling Your Valuation Story
- Valuing Early-Stage Companies
- Using Multiple Valuation Methods
- Creating Your Valuation Story
- Chapter 12: Negotiating Your Terms
- Scoping Out the Negotiation Landscape: The Fundamentals
- From Initial Interest to Negotiating Table: Identifying the People Involved
- Handling the Valuation Question during Negotiation
- Most-Often Negotiated Term Sheet Terms
- Chapter 13: Due Diligence: Preparation and Fundamentals
- Peaking under Rocks and behind Trees: An Overview of Due Diligence
- Going Step by Step: The Phases of Due Diligence
- As Time Goes By: Knowing the Due Diligence Time Frame
- Preparing Documents for Due Diligence
- Chapter 14: Planning Your Pitch
- Communicating a Lot in a Little Time
- Creating a Pitch from Scratch
- Knowing When to Pitch
- Measuring the Success of a Pitch
- Staying Positive through the Process
- Chapter 15: Visualizing the Deal: Creating Your Pitch Deck
- Designing Pitch Decks That Work
- Covering the Important Pitch Topics
- Chapter 16: Show Time! Making Your Presentation
- Choosing the Lead Presenter
- Wowing Your Audience
- Mastering the Technology
- Chapter 17: If at First You Don’t Succeed — and Even If You Do — Try, Try Again
- Understanding Why Investors Say “No”
- Communicating after the Pitch
- Assessing and Fixing What Went Wrong
- Following Up on the Different Outcomes
- Overcoming Common Obstacles
- Treating Fundraising as a Process
- Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Lose a Deal
- Being Uncoachable
- Having a Critic
- Quoting an Inflated Valuation
- Pitching an Idea
- Being Invisible or Forgotten
- Confusing People
- Pitching to Only One Investor
- Having Connections in Only One Town
- Failing to Study Up on Your Investors
- Pitching Your Product Instead of Your Deal
- Chapter 19: Ten Places and People That Can Lead You to a VC
- Service Providers
- Angel Investors
- Other Venture Capitalists
- Online Search
- Networking Events
- Pitch Events
- Mentors
- Broker-Dealers
- Incubator Staff
- Funding Websites
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