The Private Equity Edge: How Private Equity Players and the World's Top Companies Build Value and Wealth
By Arthur Laffer (Author), William Hass (Author), IV,Shepherd G. Pryor (Author)

The world is changing and has never been more challenging to private equity players, public companies, and investors. With record market volatility and a global economic crisis, decision makers of all types can learn from successful private equity players and other top value builders. Private equity is growing at a rapid rate, with $2.7 trillion in transactions since 2001 and buyouts occurring in every type of market, including declining ones. And now, with the end of investment banks as we know them, the door is open to more opportunities than ever. In The Private Equity Edge, economics giant Arthur B. Laffer, along with value-building experts William J. Hass and Shepherd G. Pryor IV, combines the concepts of intrinsic value, macroeconomics, and incentives into a single strategy used by today’s top value builders.

Maxims, Morals, and Metaphors: A Primer on Venture Capital
By Scott Chou (Author)

As an experienced entrepreneur, technologist, and venture capitalist, Scott Chou brings you on the inside of today s startup world. Maxims, Morals, and Metaphors is a humorous and profound compilation of business metaphors assembled to teach the art of venture capital as outlined in popular textbooks. However, in contrast to the daunting encyclopedic approach taken by many conventional textbooks, this book seeks to provide longer term retention for the average reader through wit and wisdom. Students of venture capital and experienced venture capitalists in search of teaching tools are the target audience for this book. For all practitioners of venture capital, this book is not so much about learning something new as much as it is about bringing best practices to the subconscious level where they can be instantly relied upon for the innumerable snap judgments that are typical of the industry.

Active Private Equity Real Estate Strategy
By David J. Lynn (Author)

Active Private Equity Real Estate Strategy is a collection of abridged market analyses, forecasts, and strategy papers from the ING Clarion Partners' Research & Investment Strategy (RIS) group. Divided into two comprehensive parts, this practical guide provides you with an informative overview of real estate markets, forecasts, and recent trends in part one, and presents specific active strategies in private equity real estate investing in part two.

Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations
By Harry Cendrowski (Author), James P. Martin (Author), Louis W. Petro (Author), Adam A. Wadecki (Author)

"Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations is an invaluable guide to understanding the world of private equity investing. Harry Cendrowski and his colleagues have drawn on their extensive experience and expertise to produce a book that is remarkably comprehensive and authoritative." -Robert Larson, Chairman, Lazard Real Estate Partners LLC and Larson Realty Group Managing Director, Lazard Alternative Investments

The Issuer's Guide to PIPEs: New Markets, Deal Structures, and Global Opportunities for Private Investment in Public Equity
By Steven Dresner (Author)

Private investments in public equity (PIPEs) are a growing sector of the investment world as small- to-mid cap companies increasingly seek to raise capital using alternative finance structures. The global investment community must know how to invest in foreign PIPEs as Asian and European exchanges experience burgeoning interest in private placements. At the same time, companies must consider innovative financing techniques in international markets as investors deploy capital in the global economy. In The Issuer's Guide to PIPEs, Steven Dresner and his contributors focus on the technical aspects of deal structure and law. Dresner brings together international experts in the business of PIPEs to discuss the complexities of these investment vehicles. This is the most in-depth book available on the subject and is an essential guide for issuers, investors, valuation specialists, dealmakers, investment bankers, and corporate executives.

Venture Capital Investing: The Complete Handbook for Investing in Private Businesses for Outstanding Profits
By David Gladstone (Author), Laura Gladstone (Author)

In his classic bestseller Venture Capital Handbook, leading venture capitalist David Gladstone showed thousands of companies how to get funding and work with early stage investors. Now, in his revision of the classic, Venture Capital Investing, he looks at venture capital through the eyes of the investor. Gladstone shows all of you VC investors and angels exactly how to weed through scores of business proposals and find the gem that will deliver outstanding returns, especially in these soft economic times. You will learn what to look for in a business proposition; how to assess entrepreneurs and their management teams; how to evaluate financial statements, market niches, competitive environments, and product innovations; how to investigate a business that's already operating; and how to build effective partnerships with existing portfolio companies.

Inside Private Equity: The Professional Investor's Handbook
By James M. Kocis (Author), James C. Bachman IV (Author), Austin M. Long III (Author), Craig J. Nickels (Author)

Private equity, the business of investing in private companies, has quickly grown from a cottage industry to a mature asset class. For those that supply the money—the endowments, foundations, pension funds, family offices, and others—learning the business of private equity can be one of its principle challenges. Inside Private Equity was written for this audience to help provide a general understanding of how to invest in, monitor, and measure the performance and risk of private equity.

Winning Angels: The 7 fundamentals of early stage investing
By David Amis (Author), Howard Stevenson (Contributor)

Winning Angels provides easily accessible information and contains an invigorating tapestry of advice, examples and in-depth profiles, as well as angel contact information and a simple guide to using the book to your best advantage. This book will open the doors to those with limited experience and augment the experience seasoned investors. It is also essential reading for entrepreneurs who will gain access to the mindest of winning angels and how best to win them over to your venture.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Capital
By David Nour (Author)

A successful entrepreneur shows how to raise the right amount of money from the right source for each phase in a new company's growth cycle.

Venture Capital Due Diligence: A Guide to Making Smart Investment Choices and Increasing Your Portfolio Returns
By Justin J. Camp (Author)

Venture Capital Due Diligence provides a clear and complete explanation of the venture capital (VC) due diligence process and shows you how to use it to assess investment opportunities, make smart investment decisions, and increase the return on your overall venture capital portfolio. This comprehensive guide offers a full explanation of the VC due diligence process, from using screening mechanisms that sort out potential opportunities, to assessing the management qualities, business models, legal issues, and even intangibles of target companies. Structured around a number of carefully crafted questions that venture capitalists often ask when performing due diligence, this book puts you–the reader–in the position of a VC conducting due diligence on a particular company.

PIPEs: A Guide to Private Investments in Public Equity: Revised and Updated Edition
By Steven Dresner (Editor)

PIPEs, or Private Investments in Public Equity, are attracting tremendous interest on Wall Street. In recent years, these privately negotiated transactions have become an attractive financing alternative for companies seeking capital and investors seeking high returns. In PIPE transactions, public companies issue stock and bonds directly (and often discreetly) to large institutional investors, rather than trying to raise capital in the stock and bond markets.

Deal Terms - The Finer Points of Venture Capital Deal Structures, Valuations, Term Sheets, Stock Options and Getting VC Deals Done
By Alex Wilmerding (Author), Aspatore Books Staff (Author), Aspatore.com (Author)

Deal Terms is the first ever in-depth look at valuations, preferred stock, stock options and other variables that affect deal structure, written by Alex Wilmerding (a venture capitalist at Boston Capital Ventures and best selling author of Term Sheets & Valuations). Written from a venture capital perspective, however applicable for all types of financings, Deal Terms includes actual term sheets, valuation methodology and analysis, assessment of stock option programs and their impact on valuations and capital structures and other real world documents used by leading venture capitalists and lawyers analyzed from multiple perspectives. A must have book for any executive, entrepreneur, or financial professional, this timeless classic is an unprecedented resource that will help you avoid costly mistakes, understand various structures and terms, and understand wording and language from other deal sheets to help you get deals done.

Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations
By Alex Wilmerding (Author), Aspatore Books Staff (Author), Aspatore.com (Author)

Term Sheets & Valuations is the first ever in-depth look at the nuts and buts of terms sheets and valuations. The book, written by leading venture capitalist Alexander Wilmerding of Boston Capital Ventures, covers topics such What is a Term Sheet, How to Examine a Term Sheet, A Section-by-Section View of a Term Sheet, Valuations, What Every Entrepreneur & Executive Needs to Know About Term Sheets, Valuation Parameters, and East Coast Versus West Coast Rules. In addition, the book includes an actual term sheet from a leading law firm with line by line descriptions of each clause, what can/should be negotiated, and the important points to pay attention to. A must have book for any executive, entrepreneur, or financial professional.

The One Page Business Plan for the Creative Entrepreneur
By Jim Horan (Author), Tom Peters (Author)

The Fastest, Easiest Way to Write a Business Plan

Initial Public Offerings: A Practical Guide to Going Public
By David A. Westenberg (Author)

PLI s Initial Public Offerings: A Practical Guide to Going Public provides you with a thorough understanding of the planning, procedures, players, opportunities, and pitfalls involved in taking an enterprise public. Initial Public Offerings fully covers the planning stage from financing the journey and selecting strong senior managers, to conducting due diligence and crafting corporate policies, to assembling a potent IPO team. Stocked with case studies, checklists, best practices, and sample documents, Initial Public Offerings shows you how to craft a Form S-1 that attracts investors, meets SEC rules, and minimizes liability; manage typical problems when selling stockholders are involved in the IPO; ensure a smooth initial filing, including advance planning for electronic submissions; minimize the pain of SEC review, by working effectively with agency staff; and sell the deal through strong marketing, including live and electronic road shows. Included is vital discussion of important post-IPO compliance challenges, public communications issues, and lucrative liquidity and fundraising opportunities.

Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions
By Joshua Rosenbaum (Author), Joshua Pearl (Author), Joseph R. Perella (Foreword)

Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions is a highly accessible and authoritative book that focuses on the primary valuation methodologies currently used on Wall Street—comparable companies, precedent transactions, DCF, and LBO analysis. These methodologies are used to determine valuation for public and private companies within the context of M&A transactions, LBOs, IPOs, restructurings, and investment decisions. Using a step-by-step how-to approach for each methodology, the authors build a chronological knowledge base and define key terms, financial concepts, and processes throughout the book. They also provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of LBOs and an organized M&A sale process.

Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs: Early-Stage Funding for Long-Term Success
By Susan L. Preston (Author)

Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs will give you the information you need to understand how angel investors think, as well as how to identify investor expectations, understand the investment analysis process, and prepare for post-investment requirements. Written by Susan Preston, an experienced angel investor, worldwide speaker and consultant on angel financing, and former Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneur-in-Residence, this hands-on resource, explains the factors that determine how private equity investors spend their money and what they expect from entrepreneurs.

Corporate Venturing: Creating New Businesses within the Firm
By Zenas Block (Contributor), Ian C. MacMillan (Author)

The authors offer a blueprint that will help managers in any company design and manage corporate ventures. Executives will learn how to foster entrepreneurship, identify venture opportunities and locate them within the firm, select venture managers, set up planning and control mechanisms, and understand the political interplay between the venture and the firm.

Getting a Job in Private Equity: Behind the Scenes Insight into How Private Equity Funds Hire
By Brian Korb (Author), Aaron Finkel (Author)

A career in today's private equity (PE) arena—which also includes venture capital as well as PE fund of funds, hybrid funds, and secondary funds—can be extremely rewarding. But with the popularity of this profession on the rise and the number of candidates far outweighing the positions available, landing a job in this field can be a difficult endeavor. Gaining a better understanding of the PE career path and how the hiring process works is a distinct advantage for those seeking to break into the business. And Getting a Job in Private Equity has the targeted advice you'll need to achieve this goal. Here, you'll discover what it takes to make it in PE from different "entry points"—out of undergrad, as a pre-MBA, from business school, and even once you've been out of school for several years—what sort of experience is needed to set yourself up for a position, and what can be done to improve your chances of landing one of these limited opportunities.

Private Equity as an Asset Class
By Guy Fraser-Sampson (Author)

Guy Fraser-Sampson draws upon twenty years' private equity experience to provide a practical guide to mastering the intricacies of this highly specialist asset class. Aimed equally at investors, professionals and business school students, it starts with such fundamental questions as "what is private equity?" and progresses to detailed analysis of venture and buyout returns. It also unveils a totally new concept which looks set to revolutionise thinking in the industry: Total Return investing.

The Private Equity Edge: How Private Equity Players and the World's Top Companies Build Value and Wealth
By Arthur Laffer (Author), William Hass (Author), IV,Shepherd G. Pryor (Author)

In The Private Equity Edge, economics giant Arthur B. Laffer, along with value-building experts William J. Hass and Shepherd G. Pryor IV, combines the concepts of intrinsic value, macroeconomics, and incentives into a single strategy used by today’s top value builders. You’ll learn how to create value while reducing risk by: Thoroughly exploring relevant data to quantify ranges of value and risk Anticipating reactions of those whom you seek to influence Exploring possibilities and options before making major decisions Employing incentive systems that work in both up and down markets

Enterprise and Venture Capital: A Business Builder's and Investor's Handbook
By Christopher Golis (Author), Patrick Mooney (Author), Tom Richardson (Author)

Enterprise and Venture Capital sets out in a straightforward and practical way how to put venture capital to work. It discusses the fundamentals of business building, the sources of venture capital available and the steps involved in obtaining the appropriate financing, including the preparation of a business plan, the choice of a venture capitalist and negotiations with investors. This book includes advice to investors on how to invest venture capital wisely and concludes with three case studies involving venture capital investment and the lessons learned by both investors and entrepreneurs.

A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital and Private Equity
By Peter A. Brooke (Author), Daniel Penrice (Contributor)

A Vision for Venture Capital chronicles a distinguished career on the frontiers of international finance during the past half-century. Peter Brooke has been called "the Johnny Appleseed of venture capital" for his role in the industry's spectacular growth-- from a small base in the Northeastern United States in the 1960s, to today's highly visible role in economies all over the world. The key to Brooke's success--and his lasting legacy--is his vision for the industry as an essential element of economic growth and development. At a time when some believe that venture capital's best days are behind it, and private equity has come under harsh criticism in the United States and elsewhere, A Vision for Venture Capital offers a fresh look at why the industry exists and how it can fulfill its potential in the twenty-first century.

The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital
By Robert Finkel (Author), David Greising (Author)

In The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, the pioneers of the industry share the investing and management wisdom they have gained by investing in and transforming their portfolio companies. Based on original interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories on the subjects that most matter to the high-level investor, such as selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private equity principles to non-profits, and much more.

Venture Capital Fund Management: A Comprehensive Approach to Investment Practices & the Entire Operations of a VC Firm
By Lin Hong Wong (Author)

Written by a seasoned practitioner, Venture Capital Fund Management arguably provides the most comprehensive coverage of the entire professional practice of a venture capital firm. Offering in-depth explanations of concepts, practical advice on methodologies, and suggestions of best practices, this book covers topics such as venture capital fund-raising, deal sourcing and screening, due diligence, valuation, deal structuring, deal negotiation, and legal documentation, as well as the post-investment processes of monitoring, adding value, and divestment. This book also provides readers with crucial information surrounding issues that commonly affect venture capital firms, such as corporate governance, public disclosure, corporate structure, corporate qualities, fund performance measures, investor relations, tax, legal, and staffing issues. Furthermore, by applying total quality management concepts to the due diligence process, the author has created a systematic approach to effective due diligence.

How Venture Capital Works [DOWNLOAD: PDF]
By Bob Zider

In this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis of present-day venture capitalists and shows why its practitioners have a lot more in common with investment bankers than you might think. The popular mythology surrounding the U.S. venture-capital industry derives from a previous era.

Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook
By Josh Lerner (Author), Felda Hardymon (Author), Ann Leamon (Author)

The private equity and venture capital industry has become a leading pillar of modern investment, growing from $5 billion in 1980 to more than $530 billion in 2006. Yet many of its features remain puzzling even to advanced business students. Whether you are an MBA student, a private equity investor grappling with the industry's changes, or an investor interested in private equity as a potential investment, Venture Capital & Private Equity: A Casebook, Fourth Edition will shed light on the history and workings of this complex area and prepare you for a career in the prestigious and profitable world of venture capital and private equity.

Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation
By Andrew Metrick

This useful guide walks venture capitalists through the principles of finance and the financial models that underlie venture capital decisions. It presents a new unified treatment of investment decision making and mark-to-market valuation. The discussions of risk-return and cost-of-capital calculations have been updated with the latest information. The most current industry data is included to demonstrate large changes in venture capital investments since 1999. The coverage of the real-options methodology has also been streamlined and includes new connections to venture capital valuation. In addition, venture capitalists will find revised information on the reality-check valuation model to allow for greater flexibility in growth assumptions.

Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur
By Dermot Berkery

Written by Dermot Berkery, an internationally known venture capitalist with Delta Partners, this complete toolbook thoroughly details how venture capitalists arrange the financing for a company; what they look for in a business plan; how they value a business; and how they structure the terms of an agreement. Within its pages, you'll find everything you need to successfully raise new business capital with the most attractive terms possible.