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A practical guide written by venture capital experts Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson that explains the term sheet, valuation, and negotiation strategies essential for entrepreneurs seeking investment.

Venture capitalists at work reveals how top VCs spot and grow billion‑dollar enterprises, offering practical insights for entrepreneurs, VCs, and business professionals.

Get the Funding You Need From Venture Capitalists and Turn Your New Business Proposal into RealityAuthoritative and comprehensive, Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur is an all-in-one sourcebook for entrepreneurs seeking venture capital from investors. This expert resource contains an unsurpassed analysis of the venture capital process, together with the guidance and strategies you need to make the best possible deal_and ensure the success of your business.Written by a leading international venture capitalist, this business-building resource explores the basics of the venture capital method, strategies for raising capital, methods of valuing the early-stage venture, and techniques for negotiating the deal.Filled with case studies, charts, and exercises, Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur explains:How to develop a financing mapHow to determine the amount of capital to raise and what to spend it onHow to create a winning business planHow to agree on a term sheet with a venture capitalistHow to split the rewardsHow to allocate control between founders/management and investors

Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what Raymond Craib calls “libertarian exit.” Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire consequences for local inhabitants. Based on research in archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary cap­italism, decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. Adventure Capitalism is a global history that intersects with an array of figures: Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists and Melanesian socialists, Honolulu-based real estate speculators and British Special Branch spies, soldiers of fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers and Tongan navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup leaders. This is not only a history of our time but, given the new iterations of privatized exit—seasteads, free private cities, and space colonization—it is also a history of our future.