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Improve your odds of raising venture capital on good terms with the latest edition of an ever-evolving VC classic that has trained entrepreneurs and venture investors for over 30 years!
Are you starting a business or growing one? Is fundraising in your future? Do you want to optimize your chances of raising money on reasonable terms?
If you answered yes, you are in the right place. Venture Smarts answers the questions most frequently asked by owners and operators as they search for funding, negotiate financing terms, and address critical issues. It tells you what you need to know about venture investors and their complex funding proposals, including how to estimate your company's market value.
And Venture Smarts gets you what you need quickly: 1) Venture Basics reviews the venture process and how things work, 2) Venture Smarts gives you street smarts to prep yourself to attract and negotiate with venture investors, 3) Venture Lexicon adds a strategy filled encyclopedia of key concepts you should know as you grow your venture-worthy business and interact with investors, and 4) Annotated Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement gives you a fully explained funding agreement of the sort used in venture capital financings.
With this book, you get the experience of an attorney who has advised entrepreneurs and venture capital investors for more than 40 years for less than the cost of a five-minute consultation. And you get a resource that venture capital firms, business schools, and business incubators have used for decades to train their associates, students, and companies.
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Open your copy and explore "The Seven Sins of Fundraising," how to "Think Like a VC," and how to "Clear the Stack," just a few of the many helpful entries in Venture Smarts.
