"Freesourcing is the definitive guide to free business start up resources, showing you exactly where to go and who to talk to when you're starting a business on a shoestring. Freesourcers don't just think outside the box - they find out where they can get the box for free too"--Resource description page.

Entrepreneurs drive the future, and the last several decades have been a thrilling ride of astounding, far-reaching innovation. Behind this transformative progress are also the venture capitalists, who are at once the investors, coaches and allies of the entrepreneurs. William H. Draper III knows this story first-hand, because as a venture capitalist, he helped write it. For more than 40-years, Bill Draper has worked with top entrepreneurs in fabled...

Raise Capital on Your Own Terms. How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul. You're an entrepreneur-you want to be your own boss, life a live you love, and do something great. But businesses need money, so you max out your credit cards, take out a second mortgage, and maybe even drive for Uber at night. You do everything yourself and on the cheap. Why? Because you think the only alternative is to make a devil's bargain with some venture capitalist...

From Concept to Wall Street is the definitive guide to the new realities of venture capital. Two leading experts in venture-backed entrepreneurship offer start-to-finish coverage of the entire process: planning, teambuilding, protecting intellectual property, identifying and negotiating funding, and managing to - and through - IPOs or M+As. Drawing on immense personal experience - and the lessons of recent years - Dr. Oren Fuerst and Dr. Uri Geiger...

Based on Bill Fisher's three-day seminars that regularly sell out all over the world, this book offers the kind of capital-raising street smarts no entrepreneur can do without. As a banker in Silicon Valley in the '80s and a businessman who founded a number of successful companies beginning in the '90s, Fisher has seen firsthand the kind of rookie mistakes aspiring entrepreneurs make that end up stopping them before they have a chance to get started. Fisher...

"Gain an understanding of core venture capital concepts and standards; learn how to develop and hone an investor pitch; come away with a plan to hit the fundraising trail for your company; develop the confidence you need to negotiate key terms in a funding deal; understand best practices in fundraising, and learn how to avoid the top 10 fundraising mistakes"--Page 4 of cover.

Providing a wealth of information that will make your crowdfunding efforts more efficient and productive; this groundbreaking guide explains the ins and outs of raising investment capital by using social media technologies to draw small sums of money from an almost countless number of sources. --

Unabhängig von ihrem Geschäftsmodell werden Startups in den ersten Jahren mit vielen juristischen Fragestellungen konfrontiert. Für den Unternehmenserfolg ist deshalb extrem wichtig, dass Gründer juristische Stolpersteine kennen und Sachverhalte einordnen können. Jan Schnedler, Rechtsanwalt in Hamburg, berät seit vielen Jahren Startups in allen relevanten Fragestellungen. In diesem Praxisleitfaden fasst er seine Erfahrungen zusammen: ohne...

-- Crowdfunding story since its inception. Now, in -- Choosing between funding platforms? Figuring out disclosure documents -- bet, picking the right legal entity, selecting types of securities to offer, reaching the most promising investors, keeping crowds under control, and more. IPOs are expensive, and venture capital nearly impossible to attract. Crowdfunding is changing the game for private companies ... and this book will lead the way.

Help take your startup to the next step with the new and revised edition of the popular book on the VC deal process-from the co-founders of the Foundry Group How do venture capital deals come together? This is one of the most frequent questions asked by each generation of new entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, there is little reliable information on the subject. No one understands this better than Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. The founders and driving...