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From Concept to Wall Street: A Complete Guide to Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

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The authors need to learn how to write a real introduction to their subject matter as the 3 1/2 pages in this book is inadequate. The title is also mis-leading in that the material that is really covered well deals with entreprenuerial finance. The rest of the material dealing with 1) innovative idea, 2) core team, 3) business plan, 4) employee recruitment, 5) entrepreneurial law and 6) intellectual property are summarized in five all too brief chapters in part I of this book.

I suggest the authors re-title the book to "Entrepreneurial Finance for High-Tech Start-Ups" as that would accurately reflect the content of the book and that they retain the content of section I, but that they recognize that the material offered is but a short summary and that readers need to be directed to other sources to fill in the gaps.

A resource bibliography needs to be built into each chapter in section I. My suggestions go as follows: 1) John Nesheim's soon to be released book "Unfair Advantage" for the chapter on innovative idea, 2) Nesheim's book on High Tech Start-ups for the chapter on the management team, 3) a number of resources are quite good for the business plan chapter:

Rhonda Abrams's "Six-Week Start-Up"
Rhonda Abrams's "The Successful Business Plan"
Bovee, Thill & Mescon "Excellence in Business"
Cunningham, Nikolai & Bazley "Accounting: Information for Decisions"
Terrell & Terrell "Survey of Accounting: Making Sense of Business"

4) A good set of job descriptions on an industry by industry basis would really help most companies here. I suggest looking at "Labor Market Information: Industry Report Archives" at novaworks.org , 5) Bagley & Dauchy's "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law" and 6) for IP go to the real experts at Nolo Press. "Patents for Beginners", "Nondisclosure Agreements", and "Patent Searching Made Easy".

"From Concept to Wall Street" is a good book when you get to the entrepreneurial finance stage of your start-up, but in the meantime you really need the help from the type of resources that I mentioned earlier. Otherwise you'll probably never make it to that stage.

4 stars for the entrepreneurial finance material (authors are much too condensed in their treatment), 1 star for misleading title and for the lack of pointers to the material you will need in section I. Overall rating of 3 stars.

I was going to give this book to my cousin who will be entering Brandeis University in the fall as a business major. However, after reading the book and doing more research on the author, I learned that he is the inventor of Prepex, which is a device invented to circumcise males in Africa.

There are many harmful side effects with the device, such as post-surgery de-gloving of the remaining penile skin.

And, the harmful effects are nowhere to be found online, while the device is advertised by his wife as though it is a godsend!!

Shame on this man !! No major medical organization recommends routine circumcision and here he is capitalizing on questionable studies.

One only needs to do a video search for "Dr. Dean Edell Circumcision Fallacy " to see that Dr. Oren Fuerst knows nothing about ethics.

Don't buy this book unless, of course you want to invent and sell faulty medical products to people in impoverished countries.

as an entrepreneur and VC investor tfor more than 20 years, i higly recoomend the book. extremely useful insights for both roles, which indicate how experienced these authors and their advisors are. the book covers all important aspects of the business, along with useful tips and watch outs known only the most experienced people in this business. By far the best book in its category.

by far the most comprehensive and concise book on entrepreneurship and venture capital investment. The book takes a rather unique approach of introducing fairly complicated issues in a straighforward fashion. The authors are looking at all aspects of VC investments and businedd development with a 'value investing" approach, something I liked a lot. warning of fads and bubbles and legal pitfalls, they provide excellent insights that only experienced investros and entrepreneurs know
how important they are. As an entrepreneur and VC investor for more than 20 years,I highly recommend the book.