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Entrepreneurial Finance

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It had good information, but some of the concepts weren't thoroughly explained. The terminology used isn't consistent with accounting terminology, so it makes it difficult to keep things straight (considering both finance and accounting cover a lot of the same ground for similar reasons). It's definitely more appropriate for more advanced levels of finance, but not so much for a finance introduction.

I used this book for an MBA class and it was very well written but the assignments were very difficult in some chapters. In early chapters, the book gives great details on how to calculate problems. However, in some of the more difficult chapters, there aren't enough detailed examples given in order to complete the homework assignments at the end of the chapter.

I thought the text could be better if it showed you how to use excel to set up some of these problems. It only did this in one chapter. Excel is becoming very prevalent in finance and accounting, so these new edition textbooks need to give more examples by utilizing this tool.

Overall, I think the book gives a good foundation on how to fund a new business venture. If you're reading for pleasure, I think the book can be a good source. However, if your class uses this textbook, then you should be prepared to spend a lot of time on the assignments from the chapters that don't show you how to set up the problems. Otherwise, you're going to need your instructor's assistance or the help from the folks at Google.

If you are involved in a high-tech startup or you want to run the financial side of such an operation then this easy-to-read textbook makes that job much easier. It is not a regular finance textbook which is designed for firms in which intellectual property is not the prime ingredient. It is for people who need to deal with venture capitalists or screen high-tech startups for financing.

The participants on both sides of high-tech finance, those who start companies and those who would like to fund them need to know how financial projections and valuations should be done and how they should be evaluated. For those who would like to learn how Silicon Valley's real main industry of starting companies happens this is an extremely valuable book to have.

This text still needs to have a bibliography to point readers to some of the specialized texts needed to deal with writing the business plan, intellectual property law and general legal issues. A lot of very usefull ideas are held by people who don't know how to start companies to bring those ideas to market.

Good book I needed it for my class and it proved useful for quick references. WOrding is not always the clearest as its an advanced book but great reference when working on a project with this type of stuff.

If your class uses this book, think seriously about taking another class. I learn best from textbooks ... and I couldn't learn from this one. It is extremely poorly written, does not follow any logical pattern, and the help resources are non-existent. I have never been more frustrated attempting to do assignments for a class than I have been using this textbook. Unfortunately I can't rate it a zero.

I think this text book is awesome,I love learning about Financing because that's really the route of running/owning a business, for instance you could become a Absentee Ownership, such as you could own more than 10 Sizzlers or whatever restuarant or any business, which means you would hire managers and employees and then you make sure all your stores are profitable, so in a way this text book is excellent, very well written I don't think it is poorly written Sorry! I just like how they put the math, I was having a hard time understanding math and numbers, but after seeing a few times in my other text book I just could not seem to understand it until this text book so I am very happy!

Used this book for Entrepreneurial Finance at Keller School of Grad Management. This book is the worst. It has the potential to be a great book, but the concepts were POORLY explained. The explanation of calculations are written in paragraph form, making it difficult to really see how to work a problem. There has to be better books on the market. Do not buy this book if you really want to learn entrepreneurial finance.

This book is very informative, and there are not many books in the entrepreneurial finance. This one is really outstanding1

I had to buy this book for the "Entrepreneurial Finance" class that I took at my university, and I really wished my professor didn't use this book. It does a terrible job of explaining concepts. The questions/problems at the ends of the chapters were often impossible even if you read every word of the chapter. I blame this terrible textbook for the miserable experience that was my semester of Entrepreneurial Finance class. This book was so obviously flawed that I swear that on the last day of class for my entrepreneurial finance class, our professor asked what our honest thoughts about this textbook were and so many students admitted they thought this book was terrible, then our professor admitted that he didn't think it was any good either and that he only used it because this was his first semester teaching that class and the guy that used to teach it used this book. Our professor said to the entire class that he is definately going to find a different textbook to use for entrepreneurial finance class in the future.

I'm amazed that this book is for MBA level students! I am currently an undergraduate student and have the opportunity to use this textbook for a finance class and find this book very vague on termology and not very helpful when it comes to difficult concepts. Anyone with basic knowledge of business can understand the book so that's why it amazes me that this book is used for MBA's!