Venture Capital Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Venture Capital, Revised and Updated Edition [Paperback]

David Gladstone (Author), Laura Gladstone (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130654930 | ISBN-13: 978-0130654939 | Publication Date: November 1, 2001 | Edition: 1

In Venture Capital Handbook: Revised and Updated Edition, leading venture capitalist David Gladstone and Laura Gladstone walk you step-by-step through the entire VC funding process, showing exactly how to get funded fast -- without the trauma. This end-to-end update of the classic VC guide covers the latest techniques, tax rules -- and, above all, marketplace realities.

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From the Back Cover

The Classic Handbook To Raising Money for Your New Venture.

The complete insider's guide to venture capital funding!

Looking for venture capital funding? The money's is out there. But you'll need to work harder to secure financing today—and work a whole lot smarter, too. That's where Venture Capital Handbook: Revised and Updated Edition comes in. In this book, leading venture capitalist David Gladstone and Laura Gladstone take you step-by-step through the entire VC funding process—explaining exactly what you must know to get funded.

• The practical, "nuts and bolts" guide to today's venture capital marketplace
• How VCs really work—and how to make your company stand out as an investment opportunity
• How to accelerate the investment process—and eliminate dead-ends with the wrong funds
• Building an effective long-term relationship with your VC partners
• Reflects massive changes in the Internet and technology funding environments
• Covers key changes in the tax law that impact both investors and companies

Venture Capital Handbook: Revised and Updated Edition is an end-to-end update of the classic insider's guide that has helped thousands of companies get funded successfully. If you're working to transform your dream into reality, this is the one book you simply must read.

About the Author

DAVID GLADSTONE, one of America's leading venture capital executives, serves as Chairman of Gladstone Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GLAD). He has more than 25 years of experience making investments in small and medium size businesses. Until 2001 he was Chariman of American Capital Strategies, a billion-dollar LBO fund. Before that, Gladstone was Chairman and CEO of Allied Capital a large venture capital fund, joining that fund when it had only $9 million in capital, and grew it to over $750 million in assets. He is author of Venture Capital Handbook and Venture Capital Investing (both Prentice Hall PTR). Gladstone holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

LAURA GLADSTONE, a principal with Gladstone Capital Corporation, has more than 10 years' experience investing and lending to businesses. Prior to joining Gladstone Capital, she was with HSBC as a loan officer and with ING Barings as a analyst. She was also with Allied Capital Corporation.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130654930
• ISBN-13: 978-0130654939
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #463,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Venture Capital Handbook for 4th Graders, November 12, 2010

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This review is from: Venture Capital Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Venture Capital, Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback)

This book is waste of time. It's like a Highlights Magazine summary of venture lending and investment. It literally has a section called "What do Venture Capitalists look like" and then goes on to explain that sometimes they are have beards and sometimes they don't. I'm not kidding. I was shocked. I flipped through some other pages and found other passages and chapters that were almost that stupid. Curses...foiled again. This book is for fools. Don't waste your money.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VC Basics, July 13, 2004

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EquesNiger (Prague, Czech Republic) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Venture Capital Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Venture Capital, Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback)

Much updated from previous editions, David Gladstone's useful text provides a very cursory survey of deal and investment techniques, albeit for slightly later than "sexy" stage deals. However, as this book is designed for the novice, and as Lipper's text has fallen out of print, this sadly remains the only general text on VC investing for the inexperienced, and is useful in context of the level which it is designed to educate. While the many checklists may be somewhat annoying to seasoned VCs, they are probably indispensable to the novice investor, since they provide a summary framework when working through deal and business terms. And while the book is designed more for later stage (through certainly not LATE stage, as some have alluded to) deals, the book is, again, designed to educate the novice venture investor, who really shouldn't be doing high tech start-ups anyway. Irrespective of that, anyone who presumes to write a text on investing in high tech start ups would likely find his text applicable only for the next few months after printing. Ours is an industry that evolves very quickly, and changes rapidly in accordance to the latest trends. No one can teach you how to pick the winners in the trend that hasn't happened yet. Getting the basics from a text like Gladstone's, however, can give you the fundamentals on which to build that "knack".

5.0 out of 5 stars Authors' experience very evident., August 2, 2009

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This review is from: Venture Capital Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Venture Capital, Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback)

This book is obviously been written by people who have seen hundreds of proposals. I found it to be an invaluable guide and full of excellent information. While many things did not pertain to our project, we gained excellent insights and saved ourselves from some embarrassing, amateurish missteps. You may not choose to follow all of the guidelines, but for most VC funding projects, EVERYTHING you need to know is well covered.

This was my first foray into private financing, after two decades in nonprofits. This VC handbook made me look and feel like a pro. Worth the investment many times over. I wouldn't dream of writing a funding proposal without it.