The tech entrepreneur's survival guide
Subtitle: how to bootstrap your startup, lead through tough times, and cash in for success
By: Bernd Schoner
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780071823975
Subjects: New business enterprises; High technology industries; Technological innovations; Management; Entrepreneurship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: The entrepreneurial dream; title: Part I. Bootstrapping : venture creation out of thin air; title: Should I or should I not venture into entrepreneurship? Timing ; Career planning ; Money, uncertainty, and what really matters ; When is enough, enough? ; Don't lose sight of the big picture : it's your life!; title: Startup assets. Ideas ; Early customers ; Patents and offensive IP strategies ; Defensive IP strategies ; Copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how ; What to pack in your bag; title: Cofounders. Attitudes ; Skills and roles ; Immigrant founders ; Together we will prevail; title: Early funding. Revenue, the best source of funding there is ; Incubators and accelerators ; Angels ; Free money, courtesy of your government ; Banks and loans ; Crowdfunding ; Creative money; title: Administration. Legal representation ; Corporate form ; Corporate compliances ; Bookkeeping and taxes ; Payroll and mandatory benefits ; Insurance ; Office space ; Housekeeping; title: Compensation. Equity : a startup's most important currency, but what is the exchange rate? ; Vesting, cliff vesting, and accelerated vesting ; Cash and benefits ; Deferred compensation ; Compensation packages ; Let there be justice, if you can afford it; title: Part II. Equity funding : a double-edged sword; title: Venture deals. Understanding private equity and venture capital ; Which firms to seek out ; Term sheets ; Liquidation preferences : the biggest nuisance of them all ; Due diligence and closing ; Taking a bite from the apple; title: Raising a down-round. Going back to the well ; B, C, D, E, F ... rounds ; Strategic investors ; When things get really desperate; title: Right-sizing. Firing for nonperformance ; Reduction in force ; Showing the executives the door ; It's not your fault; title: Part III. Exit : Selling your baby; title: Startup dynamics in crisis. Tired founders ; Impatient investors ; When to sell? ; Never, ever give up!; title: Exit strategies. Hiring an investment banker ; Poor (unprofitable), but pretty! ; Financial valuation ; Protecting the team ; All's well that ends well; title: Corporate life. Acquisition philosophies ; Living up to one's own promises ; Before you start all over again.