Attracting Equity Investors: Positioning, Preparing, and Presenting the Business PlanThis book is designed to help entrepreneurs understand how to obtain funding from an investor for the creation or development of a new business venture. It discusses how to evaluate a business concept from an investor's perspective before moving onto an examination of the practical issues involved, such as writing a compelling business plan and making a convincing presentation. |
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Contents
Sources of EarlyStage Financing | 1 |
Roles and Equity Shares in the New Venture | 18 |
Notes | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Attracting Equity Investors: Positioning, Preparing, and Presenting the Business Plan Entrepeneurship and the Management of Growing Enterprises |
| Authors | Dean A. Shepherd, Evan J. Douglas |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Sage Publications, 1999 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | Jun 2, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0761914765, 9780761914761 |
| Length | 174 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Small Business Business & Economics / Strategic Planning |
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