Venture Capital Funding: A Practical Guide To Raising Finance - Softcover

Bloomfield, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749452307 ISBN 13: 9780749452308

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2008

Synopsis

The business of helping firms to become 'investment ready' has long been seen as vital to the long-term development of any economy, but the process of identifying and attracting the right kind of investor can be a difficult process for many small- and medium-sized businesses. Venture Capital Funding gives you a detailed, step-by-step guide to obtaining venture capital - from building a management team, through to the maze of due diligence procedures and necessary legal procedures.

The practicalities of competing for, and winning, additional capital are broken down into key areas, such as:

- the significance of the business plan;

- types of investor

- targeting and attracting a funder;

- negotiation and initial valuations;

- the due diligence process; and

- the available investment vehicles.

It also explores the many reasons why companies seek out additional funding, and discusses the points in the business life cycle when such injections are appropriate.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Bloomfield is Associate Dean of the Ashcroft International Business School. He has an extensive background in venture fund management, having been involved in the running of three venture capital funds, leading and participating in many deals and syndications.

He also has practical experience of company recovery work, and has been asked to act as a director of a number of businesses when they were experiencing periods of financial and organizational restructuring.

He is now actively involved in research into the way in which venture funding is conducted nationally and regionally, and has written other books on aspects of corporate distress and lectures on corporate governance.

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Chapters include: Developments in legal, regional and City matters; Why do you want funding?; The mechanics of doing the deal; Dealing with existing shareholders and stakeholders; Building the management team; Due diligence; The choice of investment vehicle; Post-investment considerations; Glossary of terms; Useful addresses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0749452307
• ISBN 13: 9780749452308
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256