Where to Go When the Bank Says No: Alternatives for Financing Your Business

by Robert N. Gordon, David R. Evanson, Jan M. Rosen

Offers advice on how to find alternative equity financing for businesses, such as venture capital, overseas financing, and public offerings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576600173
• ISBN13: 9781576600177
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Bloomberg Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Touched by an angel

Comprehensive, direct, resourceful. Two thumbs up for anyone looking to start or grow their business.

Best on the topic, and I have read many.

I have read a lot of business books and this one gave the best insite into the topic. Very easy to skim and get what you need. If I would have stated with this one I could have saved myself a lot of time.

Comprehensive and well-written

As a "student" of venture capital and entrepreneurship, I was delighted to discover this book. It was the book's title that first caught my attention. And, I was not disappointed. The author covers the subject of alternate financing in detail; IPOs, angel investors, venture capital, overseas financing and incubators. Often, banks are unwilling and/or incapable of understanding the unique requirements of a budding entrpreneur's financial needs; for example, in the software industry, most entrepreneurs can only offer intellectual property as collateral; this does not fit well with a bank's traditional mode of collateral ("If I cannot see it or touch it, it does not exist"). In this regard, the author offers well-defined chapters on helping borrowers prepare well for the reality (chapters 7, 8 and 9 - Valuing Your Business, Presenting Financials and Preparing Business Plans, respectively). One note of discord - while it is impossible to research and include every single source of information, the author should have included some of the well-established and well-known sources, in the appendices. Glaring omissions in Appendix A include The IndUS Entrepreneurs, a leading VC Club in Silicon Valley; Appendix B should have included the well- established entrepreneurship programs at Stanford University and University of Washington. Finally, I am glad that the book's retail price is below $25 (and often available at a disount); this tremendously benefits entrepreneurs and those individuals researhcing alternate sources of funding, for their business ventures.