Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1 GETTING READY TO RAISE CAPITAL -- Capital- Formation Strategies and Trends -- Understanding Legal and Governance Structures -- The Role Your Business Plan Plays -- 2 EARLY- STAGE FINANCING -- Start- Up Financing -- The Art and Science of Bootstrapping -- Private Placements -- Commercial Lending -- Leasing, Factoring, and Government Programs -- 3 GROWTH FINANCING -- Venture Capital -- Anatomy of a Venture- Capital Transaction -- Preparing for an Initial Public Offering -- The Mechanics of an Initial Public Offering -- 4 ALTERNATIVES TO TRADITIONAL FINANCING -- Franchising, Joint Ventures, Co- Branding, and Licensing -- Mergers and Acquisitions -- Capital Formation Business Growth Resources Directory -- Appendix -- Index.
0
"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."
Raising capital.
0814408567
New business enterprises-- United States-- Finance.
Venture capital-- United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Investments & Securities-- General.