Angels, dragons & vultures: how to tame your investors-- and not lose your company
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Main Author: Acland, Simon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Nicholas Brealey Pub. 2011
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Venture capital : do you really want it? Can you trust doctors who don't take their own medicine? -- Understanding venture capital beasts. Don't use a long spoon to sup with the devil. Do get close to him and watch how he eats -- Raising money successfully. So you plan to take the plunge : how do you avoid a belly flop? -- Valuations and tricks of the trade. All the fun of the fair? -- Your deal breakers. Where do you draw your line in the sand? -- Managing your new partner-- not having a new managing partner -- Board meetings. How not to be bored -- Managing expectations. Setting expectations low makes them easier to beat -- Remuneration. It's only money-- -- People. Management, management, management -- Round two, and three, and four. Seconds out -- Exits. The end of the long winding road? -- The next one. Will you do it again?
Are you an entrepreneur who's looking for funding, but daunted by the intricacies of venture capital? In this provocative new book, discover how venture capitalists run their own businesses and the ways they can best help you run yours, as well as the alternatives to venture capital and how to make a successful exit without losing your shirt. Who are the different members of the venture capital industry? An Angel invests his or her own money as venture capital in a business. A Vulture hopes to earn enough out of making venture capital investments with other people's money to become as rich
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 263 p.)
ISBN:9781857884630
1857884639
9781857885514
1857885511

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