The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law (Paperback)

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Product Description

This text can be used as either a supplement for those courses that include a segment on entrepreneurs and the law or as a core text. It emphasizes the major issues confronting entrepreneurs and those in small businesses. Its purpose is twofold: 1) to provide guidance regarding the legal considerations of which entrepreneurs should be aware when launching a new enterprise, and 2) to serve as a source and reference book to hose who either aspire or are currently active in the entrepreneurial world. In the process, it provides a practical guide that first identifies the legal challenges inherent in entrepreneurial activities and then suggests strategies for meeting those challenges while achieving the core business objectives. Consequently, it is a text that your students will most likely want to keep for future reference.

About the Author

Constance E. Bagley is Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the HBS faculty in 2000, she taught for more than ten years at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where she received Honorable Mention (first runner-up) for the Distinguished Teaching Award and was GSB Trust Faculty Fellow for 1997-1998. Before teaching at Stanford, she was a corporate securities partner at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, a 250-lawyer firm based in San Francisco. Professor Bagley is the author of Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st Century (West, 2002). She is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Internet Law, a staff editor of the American Business Law Journal, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Bureau of National Affairs Corporate Practice Series. Professor Bagley received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Harvard law School and was invited to join the Harvard Law Review. She received her A.B., with Honors and Distinction, from Stanford University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. She is a member of the State Bar of California and the State bar of New York. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: West Publishing Company; 11th edition (May 29, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0314223169
• ISBN-13: 978-0314223166
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #185,502 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for entrepreneurs -- much more than law, June 15, 2000

By	Eric Antonow (Palo Alto, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Any person beginning a new start-up should pick this up before they get much further than an idea. Though geared towards the major legal issues involved in starting a company, this book covers many of the essentials of beginning and structuring a business far better than most of the other books on financing or building start-ups. I've at least looked through a dozen books on the subject and none has had better, more explicit guidance on dividing founder's equity, options, funding relationship and so much more. I cannot recommend this book highly enough; you'll be at a disadvantage without it. You can view other reviews of entrepreneur books via my reviewer profile.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read For Entrepreneurs, September 28, 1999

By	Craig Bradley ([e-mail]) (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This book is such a fabulous resource that I use it as my primary textbook for the M.B.A. course I teach at Kellogg entitled "Business Law for Entrepreneurs." All my new client entrepreneurs receive a hearty recommendation, and if that doesn't work, a plea, to read this insightful and practical guide.

Craig C. Bradley, Senior Partner/Co-Leader, Technology Group, Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, Illinois, Adjunct Assistant Professor, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business, Northwestern University

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Passed the acid test of negotiating venture capital, March 31, 1999

By A Customer

I'm a Silicon Valley executive and entrepreneur. I had to negotiate a term sheet to raise a venture capital round for my company, having never done so. The clear, concise, "human readable" advice in the book gave me all the juice I needed to swing a great deal. What's the ROI on that? And it was a hell of a lot easier and cheaper than iterating with my lawyers.

If you're starting or running a small company, BUY THIS BOOK. It's a must-have!