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Venture Deals provides entrepreneurs and start-up owners with a definitive reference for understanding venture capital funding. More than an overview of the process, this book delves into the details of the term sheet, the players, the negotiations, the legalities, and more, including what not to do. This new third edition has been updated to reflect the new realities of today's intricate start-up environment.

Based on Bill Fisher's three-day seminars that regularly sell out all over the world, this audiobook offers the kind of capital-raising street smarts no entrepreneur can do without. As a banker in Silicon Valley in the '80s and a businessman who founded a number of successful companies beginning in the '90s, Fisher has seen firsthand the kind of rookie mistakes aspiring entrepreneurs make that end up stopping them before they have a chance to get started.

As venture capitalist Alexandre Lazarow shows in this insightful and instructive book, this Silicon Valley "gospel" is due for a refresh - and it comes from what he calls the "frontier", the growing constellation of startup ecosystems, outside of the Valley and other major economic centers, that now stretches across the globe. The frontier is a truly different world where startups often must cope with political or economic instability and lack of infrastructure, and where there might be little or no access to angel investors, venture capitalists, or experienced employee pools.

Small businesses are the backbone of the US economy. They are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital they need to operate and succeed. In the Great Recession, access to capital for small businesses froze and in the aftermath, many community banks shuttered their doors and other lenders that had weathered the storm turned to more profitable avenues. For years after the financial crisis, the outlook for many small businesses was bleak. But then a new dawn of financial technology, or 'fintech', emerged.

Many introductory Corporate Finance textbooks tout their engaging, real-world examples, but they often fail to hold students' interest. A Novel Introduction to Corporate Finance offers a unique, innovative, and refreshing contrast. Structured as a work of literary fiction, the book successfully uses a compelling narrative to tell the “story” of corporate finance.

Man vs. Markets by Paddy Hirsch of NPR's "Marketplace" is economics explained, pure and simple, for the layperson who wouldn't know a "bond" from an "option," and who believes that a "future" is when we'll all have flying cars. Here is an illuminating, insightful, and wonderfully witty journey of discovery through the often confusing financial markets, offering clear, relatable explanations and definitions of the system's various instruments, yet less simplistically than the popular ...for Dummies series.

Vous avez besoin de financer la croissance de votre entreprise ? Ce guide pratique vous permettra de préparer votre levée de fonds et d'anticiper les différentes étapes de la négociation avec les investisseurs. Qui sont vos interlocuteurs, qu'attendent-ils de vous ? Quels sont les différents types de financement ? Quels seront les documents à fournir ? Comment valoriser votre entreprise ? Comment négocier ? Quels sont les risques ? Comment gérer la vie post-levée ? Autant de questions auxquelles Xavier Milin, directeur financier, conseil en financement et stratégie de développement auprès de start-up apporte des réponses claires, avec de nombreux exemples chiffrés.

"Quello che una volta era l'Occidente sviluppato si sta attorcigliando su un autolesionistico modello economico, nel quale la ricchezza smodata di pochissimi si fonda sulla durezza della vita imposta alle moltitudini. Come stupirsi se tantissimi cittadini non ci stanno più?" Per la maggior parte delle persone, il mondo misterioso delle grandi aziende di capitali è inavvicinabile per le sue logiche troppo complicate.