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Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs shows how one can finance ventures from concept to take off without venture capital, allowing entrepreneurs to keep control of their venture and keep more of the wealth.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I - Pre-Finance: Link Business & Finance
Chapter 1: Select the Right Growth-Track
Chapter 2: Link with the Right Steps
Chapter 3: Develop Capital-Smart Skills
Part II - Finance: Financing Growth
Chapter 4: Prove Bottom-Up Assumptions
Chapter 5: Focus on Cash Flow till Aha
Chapter 6: Finance to the Stage
Chapter 7: Channel Your Equity
Chapter 8: Use Alt-VC First
Chapter 9: Seek Scalable Debt
Chapter 10: Choose Smarter Instruments
Chapter 11: Use VC Intelligently
Chapter 12: Develop the Right Capital Structure
Part III - Post-Finance: Control to Take Off
Chapter 13: Focus to Dominate with Less
Chapter 14: Sell Direct and Owning the Market
Chapter 15: Pace to Lead the Industry
Chapter 16: Adjust to Take Off with Limited Cash
Conclusion
About the author
Dileep Rao, PhD, has been a financier for 23 years and has financed hundreds of businesses and real estate projects. In that time he has also founded four ventures and managed five turnarounds. He has consulted on new business development with Fortune 1000 corporations, including Medtronic and General Mills. An award-winning Professor of Entrepreneurship at Florida International University has also taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, INCAE (Costa Rica), and the University of Minnesota. Rao is the author of nationally acclaimed books that include: Business Financing: 25 Keys to Raising Money (NY Times Pocket MBA Series), Finance Any Business Intelligently, Handbook of Business Finance & Capital Sources (Co-Publisher: American Management Assn, NY), Bootstrap to Billions, Nothing Ventured, Everything Gained: How Entrepreneurs Create, Control & Retain Wealth Without Venture Capital. He is entrepreneurial Finance Columnist for Forbes.com and has two engineering degrees and a doctorate in business administration from the University of Minnesota. Dileep Rao currently resides in Miami, Florida.
Summary
Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs shows how one can finance ventures from concept to take off without venture capital, allowing entrepreneurs to keep control of their venture and keep more of the wealth.
