Financing Your New or Growing Business: How to Find and Get Capital for Your Venture [Paperback]

Ralph Alterowitz (Author), Jon Zonderman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Entrepreneur Mentor Series | Publication Date: June 15, 2002

Need Money? Business funding is not a simple quest; however, Financing Your New or Growing Business is the ultimate guide on finding and obtaining capital.

Financing Your New or Growing Business teaches you how to get the gold, starring with how to create a capital acquisition strategy. Ralph Alterowitz and Jon Zonderman tell you which government agencies and organizations can help your efforts and will give you insight into the cash havens available for business and start-ups!

The "dot-bomb" is fresh in everyone's mind and finding venture money is like finding diamonds in your own back yard. The book offers to help entrepreneurs get funding through alternative sources including "Angel" investors, family, purveyors, and many others.

This book is filled with many gems and nuggets of information, including:

• Venture Leasing
• How to Make a Plan in Order to Get Cash
• Licensing Your Technology, Product or Process
• Qualifying the Prospective Angel
• The 5 C's of Credit
• Incubators and Accelerators
• State and Local Funding Sources
• Six Questions to Ask a Potential Factor
• Business Financing Scams
• And Many More

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Financing Your New or Growing Business teaches you how to get the gold, starting with how to create a capital acquisition strategy. Ralph Alterowitz and Jon Zonderman tell you which government agencies and organizations can help your efforts and will give you insight into the cash havens available for businesses and start-ups!

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Financing Your New or Growing Business teaches you how to get the gold, starting with how to create a capital acquisition strategy. Ralph Alterowitz and Jon Zonderman tell you which government agencies and organizations can help your efforts and will give you insight into the cash havens available for businesses and start-ups!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press; 1 edition (June 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891984535
• ISBN-13: 978-1891984532
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,290,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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FINANCING YOUR NEW or GROWING BUSINESS - How To Raise Capital for Your Venture

Most entrepreneurs think their venture is going to make them rich. But the reality of entrepreneurship, including the often difficult tasks involved in accessing capital, often dampens their dreams.

In our new book, Financing Your New or Growing Business: How to
Find and Raise Capital for Your Venture, we explore myriad ways for entrepreneurs to find and capture the green, from borrowing from or selling stock to friends and family to creative use of credit cards, factoring accounts receivable, and use of federal and state loans, grants, and tax incentives. We also thought it was important for business people and entrepreneurs to know some basics of negotiating deals and some of the scams as well.

This book is about venture funding in the real world, the world
beyond the snazzy offices of Sand Hill Road, the world where mom and dad and the guy who sells supplies on credit are the venture capitalists, the world most entrepreneurs really inhabit.

"For anyone trying to start or grow a business, this book cuts
through the complexities of new venture financing and delivers pragmatic, useful advice." Rudolph P. Lamone, Professor and Chairman, Board of Advisors, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Maryland.

After the "dot bomb", the financial world for start-up and young businesses is different than the one entrepreneurs and business people have become accustomed to. Finding and getting the capital that businesses need is different as well. This book discusses 19 sources and provides a beghind-the scenes understanding of each, and tells the reader how to navigate through these financing approaches.