Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrep

Take Control of Your Startup?and Watch it Grow“This book delivers clear thinking for entrepreneurs who want to control their own destiny and grow their business without the need for venture capital.” ?Joel Cannon co-founder and president of Cannon TechnologiesAn analysis of success.  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).Build your business without venture capital (VC) funding.  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?skills that combine business-smart capital-smart and leadership-smart strategies.The right mix of internal and external financing. 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.In Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs learn about:Pre-financing financing and post-financing skills and strategies of finance-smart entrepreneursThe ins and outs of venture finance applicable to anyone looking to start a businessTips on increasing capital productivity and attaining financially sustainable entrepreneurshipIf 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.