Expert Advice for Your Growing Business

Grow your business with this expanded and updated 5th edition of  a resource that has been hailed by company executives, investors, business school professors and others in the know as "a masterpiece,"  "the best corporate finance guide on the market" and an " incredibly comprehensive resource."

Own the resource that entrepreneurs and private company investors praise for its accessible, in-depth counsel on key issues companies face as they seek funding, finance growth and deal with the challenges of expansion. 
 
Learn to attract capital, negotiate terms, evaluate and price funding proposals, and get better fundraising terms. Discover techniques to retain key employees and protect important company secrets. Get help structuring public offerings, private placements and joint ventures. 

Hear from a "veteran legal practitioner" who ”knows his stuff" without paying the hourly rate. Tap into the experience of someone who has advised entrepreneurs and venture capital firms, sat on venture-backed boards, and made angel investments. 

The rest is up to you. Just like it was for the author's grandfather, pictured on the cover with his management team in 1923 as they opened the world's largest coal mine.  Pulled out of school in the third grade to work in the mines, he used grit, determination, integrity and street-smarts to succeed.
Get your street-smarts here to finance your company.
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"Levels the playing field for the entrepreneur at the critical stage of raising capital.
Required reading for an entrepreneur prior to accepting venture capital." Venture Fund Manager

"Explain[s] just about every term and concept that should be known to you, the entrepreneur.”
EntreWorld.org, Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Used by venture firms to train associates and by college professors to teach venture finance.
The classic text on venture deal terms.  ~  Continuously in print since 1987!  ~  Updated for today's market.