Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs: Venture Finance without Venture Capital

<b>Take Control of Your Startup&#8213;and Watch it Grow</b><br><p>"This book delivers clear thinking for entrepreneurs who want to control their own destiny and grow their business without the need for venture capital." &#8722;Joel Cannon, co-founder and president of Cannon Technologies<br></p><p><b>An analysis of success.</b> Award-winning professor of entrepreneurship Dileep Rao presents readers 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 $1 billion in sales and valuation) and 100 million-dollar entrepreneurs (startup to $100 million).</p><p><b>Build your business without venture capital (VC) funding.</b> Rao is here to show entrepreneurs that it is possible to start a business without outside help. He shares how more than 90 percent of America's billion-dollar entrepreneurs in the VC era (since 1946) avoided or delayed VC, and instead used finance-smart expertise&#8213;skills that combine business-smart, capital-smart, and leadership-smart strategies.</p><p><b>The right mix of internal and external financing.</b> It takes more than one person to grow a business from the bottom up. But that doesn't mean we have to sacrifice control of the venture in the process. Armed with 23 years of experience as a financer, Rao shows readers how to optimize internal financing so as to attract external financing. By keeping control of the venture, entrepreneurs keep more of the wealth, as well.</p><p>In <b>Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs</b> learn about:</p><li>Pre-financing, financing and post-financing skills and strategies of finance-smart entrepreneurs</li><li>The ins and outs of venture finance, applicable to anyone looking to start a business</li><li>Tips on increasing capital productivity and attaining financially sustainable entrepreneurship</li><p></p><p><b>If you've enjoyed entrepreneurship-focused titles like The Lean Startup, The $100 Startup, or Venture Deals, then Rao's Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs is the next book for you.</b></p>