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Venture Management Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Practical Guide to Stock, Finance and Contracts

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I have read a few books on how to do startups, but no other book came close to explaining the concepts in as precise a manner as this book does. While other books talk about concepts like equity sharing and common and preferred shares in a general sense, this book gives exact definitions and examples.

The best book for an entrepreneur who dreams of raising money and taking his enterprise to places!

The rest of us not being financiers, accountants or lawyers!

I opened the book expecting another of the usual business help books. The ones that spend half the book telling you why you should read it and the second half trying to sell the next in the series.

This book is different. Venture Management Handbook gets right to the point on every subject and is entirely written for the totally uninformed yet driven entrepreneur. I'm only a quarter through, and with skipping to subjects I need now, I may not ever actually finish. But, who ever finishes a reference book, and Venture Management Handbook will surely find its way to the reference shelf of your local library.

Thanks for taking the time to compile such a great resource. You've done a great job and I appreciate the honest, real world, advice. You cover all the things that I didn't learn in business school...and in a thoughtful, approachable style.

Without a doubt, the best book on software startups that I have ever encountered. Each chapter is immediately useful, practical, and concise.

Thanks for all of the help and for sharing your experience and thoughts. Super!

Peyton

Venture Management Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Practical Guide To Stock, Finance And Contracts by entrepreneur Cliff Conneighton's is a clearly written, nicely organized, experienced based, informative instructional guide to the often complex and confusing subject of financing business ventures. Conneighton's Venture Management Handbook is a very highly recommended, complete-in-one-volume, "user friendly" reference.

I must confess that when I started reading this book I was skeptical, after have I already have read more than 20 books on the subject including all the classics, I see reading another one as simple waste of time, I was wrong this book is simply fantastic it includes all the information you find in more than 20 books on startup's, is very well written by someone that walked the road and not by some academic that only studied it on the library..
This is simply the best unique resource of practical advice you can find about starting a corporation, so if you don't want to waste time and money reading a bunch of books about startup's read this, and you are done with 95% that you will ever need to know

The Venture Management Handbook is written by an author who is the real deal, and not by an ivory tower academic. Mr. Conneighton has formed or helped form many ventures-some of them were successful and some not. He shares many of the lessons he learned. The price of this book is dirt cheap, considering the value of its information. If you are an entrepreneur who has to raise capital, plan a start-up, see it grow, and know when and how to bail out, this is a must-have reference book. It is crammed full of interesting facts and suggestions. We rated it five ...

I use this book in my Business Creation course for undergrad college students- its the only book I have found that delivers the information business founders and leaders really need. It is clear, accurate, and without hype. It is also extensive, covering a great deal of ground without hot air.

If you are starting a business, or thinking about it, this is a reliable guide. My copy has gotten a lot of use- in the classroom, and most critically it has been at my side in the several business I have launched.

This book is fantastic. Compared to numerous other business school and do-it-yourself books I own, this book is hands-down the most relevant and referenced on my shelf.