Business Capital

Fred M. Haney, an experienced venture capitalist, angel investor, and company founder, explains start-up strategies that will help you understand the thinking of investors, build a “virtual team”, create initial value in a product or prototype, and recruit management that will help you raise capital. The Fundable Startup contains eight personal interviews with executives and entrepreneurs that will change the way founders think about managing a start-up company.

Delve deep into the dynamic world of venture capital with this comprehensive audiobook bundle. "Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation" demystifies the complex relationship between venture capital and groundbreaking innovations. In "The Business of Venture Capital," gain expert insights into the fundamental principles and practical approaches that shape the venture capital industry. Together, these audiobooks provide a holistic view of venture capital, covering both the strategic and operational aspects of funding innovative businesses.

This book serves as a guide. It dives into the process of raising a venture capital fund, the how-tos, the unique language of the limited partner (LP) world, secrets of how LPs think about fund diligence and alignment, the best practices in fundraising, what works, and how you can best prepare for success.

Based on Bill Fisher's three-day seminars that regularly sell out all over the world, this audiobook offers the kind of capital-raising street smarts no entrepreneur can do without. As a banker in Silicon Valley in the '80s and a businessman who founded a number of successful companies beginning in the '90s, Fisher has seen firsthand the kind of rookie mistakes aspiring entrepreneurs make that end up stopping them before they have a chance to get started.

This audiobook is written for startup founders to prepare them for successful fund raising for their company. From working on the core components of the startup to preparation of right documents and pitching to the investors, this audiobook covers all key aspects of fund raising. Atal Malviya, the founder of Spark10 has built and exited VC funded companies and has also helped hundreds of startups in raising investment globally.

For the better part of a century, the left has been waging a slow, methodical battle for control of the institutions of Western civilization. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the problem and the players involved, both on the aggressive, hard-charging left and in the nascent conservative resistance. Soukup explains what the left is doing and how and why the right must be prepared and willing to fight back to save this critical aspect of American culture from becoming another, more economically powerful version of the “woke” college campus.

Based on over 10 years working with small businesses, Kassan says the landscape of investment capital is far larger and more diverse than many would have you believe. Venture capitalists looking for a tenfold return on their investment are a tiny minority, and many investors are just as mission-driven as entrepreneurs. Kassan takes listeners through a six-step process to create a customized capital-raising plan, one that inspires them, excites them, and is in complete agreement with their business, their values, and their lives.

In Return on Integrity: The New Definition of ROI and Why Leaders Need to Know It, author John G. Blumberg asks CEOs and top leadership to dig deep, to find the core values they live by, and in turn to engage an impactful set of core values for the organization they lead. These values are not just a guide; they should be the basis of every decision and action in the organization. The new ROI is the value built at the intersection of personal and organizational core values - creating a stronger organization built on a stronger base - while establishing the meaningful return CEOs and their leadership ambassadors experience by living and leading with integrity.

By learning from both the mistakes and achievements of those before us, we can better craft our own approach to success. Award-winning professor of entrepreneurship Dileep Rao presents listeners with a detailed guide to success through his interviews and analysis of billion-dollar entrepreneurs (those who built a venture from startup to more than one billion dollars in sales and valuation) and 100-million-dollar entrepreneurs (start-up to $100 million).

In two decades as a television reporter, T. J. Winick covered many scandals. The biggest mistake he saw brands make was to try to “make it go away” by refusing to apologize, declining to comment, or going on the attack—anything to deflect attention. Often that kind of response becomes a scandal of its own. In his book, Winick argues instead for transparency, honesty, authenticity, and empathy. Handled correctly, the way you address an egregious violation of your standards can increase your reputation capital.

This nine-in-one audiobook bundle includes: How to Become a YouTube Superstar, How to Make Money in Binary Options, How to Make Money in Sports Betting, How to Make Money on Instagram, How to Make Money Online, How to Make Your Own Video Game, How to Start Your Own Business Without Capital, How to Value a Business, and How to Write a "How-To" Book.

In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses instead on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it.

It’s not the iPhone, but VC, that is Silicon Valley’s greatest export—it’s the key ingredient of innovation and provides the toolkit for inventors and start-up founders around the world to become powerful, multibillion-dollar companies.

People all over the world have changed their lives and the lives of others through funding their ideas and creating life-changing products and services. The trouble for most people is that they often get stuck at the first hurdle because they don’t have the funds to bring their ideas into reality.

The early years of venture capital were a far cry from today’s very public dealings. Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of the venture arena, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the past 50 years of the industry. From buying stock in Apple when its market valuation was only $60 million to founding New York Magazine to investing in AOL, Audible, and more recently, Axios, his discerning approach to finding companies is almost peerless.

Oui, ceux celles qui réussissent sur internet n’ont rien de plus que vous ! Certains ont fait de longues études mais ce n’est pas la clé du succès pour réussir sur internet ! Loin de là ! En fait, il faut un système ! De même qu’une voiture est composée de pièces assemblées qui prennent vie quand on tourne la clé, ainsi en est-il du business en ligne !

In her acclaimed AOL.com, Kara Swisher chronicled the unlikely ascent of a group of underdog entrepreneurs and their influence on American net culture. This book picks up where the previous one left off, investigating AOL's merger with Time Warner and its aftermath. Journalists Swisher and Dickey have an ear for the comic and an appreciation for the larger-than-life personalities that propel the drama. After the merger, a troubled journey lies ahead both for AOL Time Warner and for its competitors.

Como un manual en contra de la infelicidad en las oficinas y en el trabajo, este libro le mostrará qué comportamientos evitar para no hacer de su día a día laboral una pesadilla. Con humor y un tono fresco para aquellos que pasan la mitad de su vida o incluso más tiempo trabajando, este libro busca dar consejos para encontrar el camino hacia la felicidad en el trabajo.

It's the 21st century, yet most companies maintain a 20th-century corporate culture. Despite instant communication and collaboration through wireless computers and smartphones, employers needlessly rent or own office space. Bryan Miles has a reality check for you: the future of business is virtual, and it's going to take more than technology upgrades for you to upgrade your workplace environment.

The untold fact is that relying on traditional VC/angel groups for startup funding doesn't work, but now, there's a better way. The Evergreen Startup presents a radical new approach that dramatically diversifies the sources of capital and types of investments available to an early-stage startup. It has been used in the real world by hundreds of founders to raise many millions of dollars.