Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur
By Dermot Berkery (Author)

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.

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
By Jessica Livingston (Author)

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company.

The Startup Company Bible For Entrepreneurs: The Complete Guide For Building Successful Companies And Raising Venture Capital
By Stathis (Primary Contributor)

There is often a fine line between entrepreneurs who are able to build a successful company versus those who try but do not succeed.

How to Get the Financing for Your New Small Business: Innovative Solutions from the Experts Who Do It Every Day
By Sharon Fullen

The book goes into traditional financing methods and assists the reader in setting up proper financial statements and a proper business plan. It details the differences between debt and equity financing and how and why to use each.

All I Need Is Money: How To Finance Your Invention
By Jack Lander, Richard Stim

Find the money you need to bring your invention to life! You have a great idea - but unless you find the right financing, your inventions may never get beyond the notebook. With All I Need Is Money, you'll find out how to secure the funding you need to make your invention a reality. Thousands of potential investors are looking for a great idea to get behind -- and All I Need Is Money helps you find them.

Investors in Your Backyard: How to Raise Business Capital from the People You Know
By Asheesh Advani

Investors in Your Backyard is a one-of-a-kind book that helps you raise the money you need from the people you trust. Your business is your future, whether you're starting up or expanding your operation. But everything depends on financing, and most lending institutions won't lend money to small, unproven ventures. The solution? Do what over 50 percent of U.S. businesses do -- obtain private loans from friends, family and private "angel" investors who want to get behind a great idea. With Investors in Your Backyard, you'll get the information, forms and calculators you need to get the job done.

The SBA Loan Book: Get A Small Business Loan--even With Poor Credit, Weak Collateral, And No Experience
By Charles H. Green

The SBA Loan Book, 2nd Edition provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to maneuver through the complex maze of eligibility, qualification, and approval needed to get SBA financing. This edition includes the most up-to-date information on policy changes including Revision E, the 504 program, the SBA Express program.

Raising Entrepreneurial Capital
By John B. Vinturella, Suzanne M. Erickson

This book focuses on classic capital raising. That is, it covers the debt vs. equity decision, the options available to smaller businesses, and the considerations that lead to rapid growth, including venture capital, IPOs, angels, incubators, and so forth. Raising Entreprenuerial Capital begins where entrepreneurship books leave off, assuming that the reader understands simple financial statements, has selected a specific business, and knows how to write a business plan. It provides a broad, high-level summary of the subjects that people typically research, such as "How should your company position itself to attract private equity investment?" and "What steps can you take to improve your company's marketability?" Unlike other books of the genre, Raising Entrepreneurial Capital includes several chapters on worldwide regional variations on forms and availability of pre-seed capital, incubators, and the business plans they create, with case-studies from Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific-Rim.

How To Start And Run Your Own Corporation: S-Corporations For Small Business Owners
By Peter I. Hupalo

How To Start And Run Your Own Corporation: S-Corporations For Small Business Owners begins where many incorporation books leave off. Peter Hupalo, author of Thinking Like An Entrepreneur, teaches you the basics of corporate business structure.

Financing Your New or Growing Business: How to Find and Get Capital for Your Venture
By Ralph Alterowitz, Jon Zonderman

Financing Your New or Growing Business teaches you how to get the gold, starting with how to create a capital acquisition strategy. Ralph Alterowitz and Jon Zonderman tell you which government agencies and organizations can help your efforts and will give you insight into the cash havens available for businesses and start-ups!

Venture Management Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Practical Guide to Stock, Finance and Contracts
By Cliff Conneighton

The brand new, highly-acclaimed Venture Management Handbook tells an entrepreneur or the management team of any company how to raise money, avoid trouble and manage to profitability -- even in the post-crash, post-Enron economy. And at the end of the day, make sure there is something left for themselves.

Venture Capital: The Definitive Guide for Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Practitioners
By Joel Cardis, Sam Kirschner, Stan Richelson, Jason Kirschner

How to attract the venture capital needed to grow any business Venture Capital teaches entrepreneurs and small business owners everything they need to know about finding the venture capital they need to grow their businesses. Based, in large part, upon in-depth interviews with major players in the venture capital arena--including money managers as well as entrepreneurs who have dealt with them successfully--it provides powerful pointers on how to make a business attractive to venture capitalists, how to protect yourself in negotiating an agreement, how to manage a relationship with venture capitalists once a deal is signed, and much more.

High-Tech Ventures : The Guide for Entrepreneurial Success
By C. Gordon Bell, John E. McNamara (Contributor), C. Gordon Beel

This book is written primarily for people who are creating the future high-tech world by designing, building, and marketing innovative products. More specifically, it is for all engineers, engineering managers, entrepreneurs and intapreneurs. The book provides insight into the problems entrepreneurs face and gives a model for successful startup companies in a formal checklist.

High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated : The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies
By John Nesheim (Author)

This revised and updated edition of Nesheim's underground Silicon Valley bestseller incorporates twenty-three case studies of successful start-ups, including tables of wealth showing how much money founders and investors realized from each venture. Acclaimed by entrepreneurs the world over, this practical handbook is filled with hard-to-find information and guidance covering every key phase of a start-up, from idea to IPO: how to create a winning business plan, how to value the firm, how venture capitalists work, how they make their money, where to find alternative sources of funding, how to select a good lawyer, and how to protect intellectual property.