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Based on Bill Fisher's three-day seminars that regularly sell out all over the world, this book offers the kind of capital-raising street smarts no entrepreneur can do without. As a banker in Silicon Valley in the '80s and a businessman who founded a number of successful companies beginning in the '90s, Fisher has seen firsthand the kind of rookie mistakes aspiring entrepreneurs make that end up stopping them before they have a chance to get started. Fisher looks at six traditional steps in the capital-raising process and digs beneath the surface to expose subtle but critical aspects of each--knowledge that, until now, could come only with experience. For example, entrepreneurs believe that great business ideas get funded. Not true--just look at the failure rates of venture-backed companies. Great business stories get funded, and all great business stories have a similar construction and shape. And of course the entrepreneur needs an investor, but each investor comes with his or her own personality issues. You need the right match for long-term success, not just whoever is waving the biggest check--a temptation that is easy for cash-strapped entrepreneurs to succumb to. Having this
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- Author
- Bill Fisher
- Publisher
- Berrett-koehler Publishers, Incorporated
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781626562394
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Finance, Management
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (16 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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