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A must-have guide for entrepreneurs and
emerging companies seeking capital for growth and expansion.
Raising Capital covers
every phase of the growth cycle, and provides tools
for building business plans, preparing loan proposals,
drafting offering materials, and much more. Now in
its second edition, Raising Capital includes
a wide variety of updates to reflect the realities
of the post-dot-com bust, new trends in private equity
markets, and the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,
a crucial piece of legislation that establishes new
corporate governance requirements in the wake of high-profile
accounting scandals.
The book takes you through every stage of the capital
process, and provides a bevy of alternatives to evaluate
in determining your company’s capital strategy.
The four parts cover:
* Getting Ready to Raise Capital: capital-formation
strategies, plus recent trends; understanding legal
and governance structures and how they affect your
ability to raise and use capital; and the role your
business plan plays in securing capital
* Early-Stage Financing: start-up financing; "bootstrapping," or
doing less with more at a stage in your business where "cash
is king"; private placements versus commercial
lending; leasing, factoring, and government programs
* Growth Financing: strategies for obtaining venture
capital; how venture capital transactions work; preparing
for and executing an initial public offering (IPO)
* Alternatives to Traditional Financing: franchising,
joint ventures, co-branding, licensing, and other strategic
alliances; mergers and acquisitions; plus the Capital
Formation Business Growth Resources Directory
Raising Capital provides
a huge selection of checklists, charts, sample forms
to expedite the capital formation process, and the
author relates eye-opening "war stories" and
perspectives from the investor’s side of the
table that will help you avoid pitfalls and guide your
business confidently through every growth stage. Featuring
comprehensive coverage of all recognized capital strategies,
this timely book will help you navigate the murky (and
often rough) waters of capital formation.
About the Author:
Andrew J. Sherman is a
senior partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin and Oshinsky
LLP, and internationally recognized as an authority
on the legal and strategic issues of growing companies.
He is an Adjunct professor in the MBA programs at
Georgetown and U. Maryland.
Reviews
"Combating the often
elusive nature of understanding private investing and
venture capital, Andrew Sherman has prepared in one
reference source a primer that demystifies in simple,
layman’s terms how this process actually works.
A must-have for any first-time entrepreneur in search
of capitalizing a start-up enterprise."
—Julia Spicer, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic
Venture Association
"Kudos to Andrew Sherman
and his editors. Rarely does a second edition of
a best-selling primer widely improve on its original.
But Sherman’s new Raising Capital does that
grandly. For anyone embarking on raising money—for
the first time or the tenth time—this is a
must-have tool. It’s the next best thing to
having Andrew Sherman himself at your elbow."
—Burt Alimansky, Chairman, The Capital
Roundtable, and Managing Director, Alimansky Capital
Group Inc.
"Capital is the lifeblood
of an organization, and Raising Capital is the definitive
guide to making it pump. Andrew Sherman has pulled
all the tips and tricks together into one comprehensive
guide. Raising money is hard enough; finding out
how to do it shouldn’t be."
—Verne Harnish, "Growth Guy" syndicated
columnist, Founder, Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization
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