High Tech Start-up: The Complete How-to Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies - Hardcover

Nesheim, John L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0914405713 ISBN 13: 9780914405719

Publisher: Login Publishers Consortium, 1993

Synopsis

Make no mistake, even with all their potential for meteoric success, high tech ventures are synonymous with high risk. Fewer than one out of every fifty thousand Internet business plans submitted make it to the final stage. Many fail because the entrepreneurs did not have access to the invaluable lesson that comes from studying the real-world venture experiences of successful companies. Now they do. The book that has been called "a must read for all high tech entrepreneurs" by C-Cube Microsystems President Bill O'Meara, has all the hard-to-find information that start-ups need to rise to the top. HIGH TECH START UP presents a classic, step-by-step strategy for making a solid plan and securing comprehensive financing. Author John Nesheim provides more than twenty-three case studies that reveal how readers can modify their strategies to fit their particular objectives.

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Review

You've got a hot idea for a new dot.com. You're itching to join the folks who regularly show up on CNBC and at the Lexus dealerships in Silicon Valley but you also know your odds of big-time success are about as long as Bill Gates' position in MSFT. What do you do? John Nesheim, an adjunct professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, who has personally structured over $300 million in new-venture deals, lays out the step-by-step process in High Tech Start Up. Incorporating some two dozen case studies spanning the technology spectrum, he presents information specific to this industry that will help you get from concept to IPO. It begins with a 14-phase schedule itemising time requirements, necessary assistance, typical participants, major costs, main risks and desired results for each step. It then details all the critical stages (i.e., forming the company, preparing the business plan, assembling the team, dealing with venture capitalists and other funding sources). Nesheim focuses on practical strategies that should certainly improve your chances, but don't start prepping for that on-air interview just yet: Only six out of 1 million high-tech ideas, he notes, ever become successful companies that go public. --Howard Rothman, Amazon.com

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Chih-Chao Lam founder, Acknowledge and ShoppingList.com This is the book I wish I'd taken to heart in my first start-up. ShoppingList.com is all the more well-grounded for my having read High Tech Start UP.

Ken Tidwell Vice President, Engineering, Clip2.com Next best thing after the founders to have at the kitchen table.

Thomas M. Uhlman President, New Ventures Group, Lucent Technologies Required reading for the next generation of corporate venture capitalists.

Donald T. Valentine General Partner, Sequoia Capital A must-read for all Internet era entrepreneurs.

Mario Rosati Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Great book for high-tech entrepreneurs.

George Gilder Gilder Group, author of Telecosm Super book by the start-up guru of Silicon Valley.

John C. Dean Chairman and CEO, Silicon Valley Bank From idea to IPO, Nesheim provides a virtual road map to start-up success.

David Ben Daniel Professor of Entrepreneurship, Cornell University An invaluable, practical guide for high-tech entrepreneurs.

Chong Huai Seng Publisher, Asian Entrepreneur A must-read for entrepreneurs, angels, and venture firms seeking the best practices.

Edition details

• Publisher: Login Publishers Consortium
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0914405713
• ISBN 13: 9780914405719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 322