Enterprise & Venture Capital: A Business Builder's and Investor's Handbook

Enterprise and Venture Capital is the best-selling guide for people looking to build new businesses around bright ideas, and investors awake to the opportunities offered by new business building. This is the revised and updated fifth edition of the book that is widely regarded as the handbook of the Australian venture capital industry. Setting out in a straightforward and practical way how to put venture capital to work, it discusses the fundamentals of business building, the sources of venture capital available, and the steps involved in obtaining the appropriate financing—including the preparation of a business plan, the choice of a venture capitalist, and negotiations with investors. This book includes advice to investors on how to invest venture capital wisely and concludes with three case studies involving venture capital investment and the lessons learned by both investors and entrepreneurs.