The Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies and Capital Structure (Wiley Finance)
America's emerging and middle-market companies—firms with revenues ranging from zero to $500 million—have access to capital and resources that is unprecedented in history. The Handbook of Financing Growth provides an in-depth exploration of how to prepare a company to approach these resources for funding as well as details on understanding and working with different types, from angel investors and commercial banks to venture capital, government agencies, and a dozen others.Written by a team of authors with extensive experience, this invaluable process-based handbook provides a detailed description of what companies must know and provide to investors to effectively finance growth and expansion. The handbook discusses:Business plan and strategic initiatives—including type of business and industry, sources of operating profit, management plans and goals on a one-to five-year horizon, and moreValuation and capital structure—approaches for determining current company value, along with types of debt and equity used to fund the operations of the companySources of capital and what to expect—in-depth discussion of the motivations and business models of key funding sourcesDocumentation and regulatory compliance—principle drivers behind the negotiation and structuring of debt and equity instruments, along with an overview of pertinent securities regulationsCase studies—examples of actual investment and loan transactions featuring a variety of firms and resourcesFinancing source directory—an invaluable resource of actual firms involved in providing capital for emerging growth and middle-market companiesThe Handbook of Financing Growth provides the basics of corporate finance, discusses strategies by which to fund all  types of viable operations at the various stages of a company's life, and details both a variety of funding sources and the actual resources themselves. From cover to cover, it is today's most comprehensive and invaluable examination of the financing of company growth—how to do it, why to do it, and where to get it done.