Raising Capital For Dummies Book

	Introduction	1
	About This Book	1
	Follish Assumptions	3
	How This Book Is Organized	3
	Icons Used in This Book	5
	Where to Go from Here	5
Part I	First-Stage Financing: Seed Capital and Start-up	7
Chapter 1	It Takes Money to Make Money	9
	Got Cash? Figuring Out How Much Money You Need	10
	Getting Your Financial Ducks in a Row	13
	Debt or Equity Financing: That Is the Question	14
	Different flavors of debt financing	15
	Different flavors of equity financing	15
	Looking for financing in all the right places	16
	Bootstrapping	18
	Choosing a path	20
Chapter 2	Tapping into Your Personal Resources	23
	Taking a Dip (into Your Savings)	24
	Credit Cards: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore	25
	Turning Your Home into an ATM	26
	Understanding how home equity loans work	26
	Financing your business with a home equity loan	27
	There's Gold in That Retirement Fund	27
	Withdrawing cash from your 401(k)	28
	Using your 401(k) to get a loan	28
Chapter 3	The Rolodex Round: Family and Friends	31
	Pounding That Rolodex	31
	Family	31
	Friends	32
	Teammates	33
	Fellow members of organizations	33
	School ties	33
	Fellow business travelers	34
	Professional contacts	34
	Understanding What Goes into the Exchange	35
	Making Your Pitch	35
	Being candid: It's refreshing	36
	Going to the end of the line	36
	Finding strength in numbers	37
	Keeping It Fair and Legal	37
	Valuing your business fairly	38
	Managing expectations	38
	Giving special consideration to family and friends	40
	Sample Buy-Sell Agreement	41
Chapter 4	Angel Investors	47
	Angels: Getting to Know You	48
	Understanding where angels come from	49
	Does your angel measure up?	50
	A Who's Who of Angels	50
	The Outer Limits of Angel Deals	53
	What You Can Expect from Your Friendly, Local Angel	55
	Angels can get you the capital you need	55
	Angels can introduce you to other angels	55
	Angels make great advisors	55
	The 411 on Angels: Where to Find Them	56
	Networking	56
	Lists	57
	Venture capital clubs	57
	The Internet	58
Chapter 5	Customers and Vendors	59
	The Ins and Outs of Trade Credit	59
	Getting your foot in the door	61
	Do you know your credit score?	61
	Vendor/lenders: The Joys of Financial Incentives	63
	Getting Your Customers to Finance Your Company	65
	Barter: Who Needs Money?	66
	The good news about bartering	67
	Bartering dos and don'ts	68
	Is barter for you?	69
Chapter 6	Matching Services	71
	Understanding How Matching Services Work	71
	The Tried and True: Offline Matchmaking Services	72
	Getting to know you	72
	Face time	74
	The Internet to the Rescue?	74
	What online matching services can do for you	75
	The good news (and bad) about online matching	76
	Looking into the Future	78
Part II	Second-Stage Financing: Expansion	81
Chapter 7	Commercial Lenders	83
	A Loan for Every Occasion	83
	Attention: important lending terms ahead!	84
	Different kinds of loans	86
	Doctor Livingstone, I Presume? Exploring Sources of Loans	87
	Commercial banks	88
	Savings institutions	88
	Credit unions	88
	Finance companies	89
	Small Business Administration (SBA)	89
	Qualifying for a Loan	90
	Eight Steps to Getting the Loan You Want	92
Chapter 8	Placement Agents	95
	A Who's Who of Placement Agents	96
	The first tier: The creme de la creme	96
	The second tier: Early stage experts	98
	The third tier: Regional investment banks	98
	The fourth tier: Boutiques	99
	The fifth tier: Boiler rooms and bucket shops	101
	The new tier: Incubators	101
	Understanding the Role of Placement Agents	103
	What placement agents do	103
	What placement agents don't do	104
	Decisions, Decisions: Do You Need a Placement Agent?	105
	Fees: Coughing Up the Cash	107
	The retainer	108
	The success fee	108
	Due Diligence: Avoiding Rip-Offs and Failures	111
	Qualifying a placement agent	111
	Being realistic about valuation	112
	Sample Agency Agreement	113
Chapter 9	The Small Business Administration	119
	Choose One from Column A and One from Column B: Exploring SBA Loan Programs	120
	Section 7(a) loan programs	121
	Section 504 program	123
	Microloan program	124
	Maybe Yes, Maybe No: Understanding SBA Requirements	125
	Be Prepared: Applying for an SBA Loan	127
	And Don't Forget Small Business Investment Corporations (SBICs)	128
	Figuring out how SBICs can help you	128
	SBIC investments: Cutting through the red tape	129
Chapter 10	Private Equity Offerings	133
	Exploring the Regulation D Exemption	134
	Rules, rules, and more rules	135
	Complying with the ban on "general solicitation"	137
	Avoiding nonaccredited investors	140
	Wait, There's More! Important Regulation D Considerations	140
	Presenting tips for Regulation D transactions	141
	The Big Blue Sky: State Regulation	143
	Creating a Winning Private-placement Memorandum	143
	Why prepare a private-placement memorandum?	144
	Preparing the contents of the PPM	145
Chapter 11	Venture Capital	157
	Back to the Basics: Venture Capital	157
	Understanding VC Lingo	159
	Looking at the term venture capital	159
	Your venture capital decoder ring	160
	Taking a Closer Look at How VCs Work	162
	How individual VCs make their money	163
	How often VCs really turn $100 million into $300 million	167
	On the hunt: How VCs find venture opportunities	167
	Landing a VC	167
	Understanding how VCs get their deals	168
	Gaining access to VCs	169
	Figuring out what VCs want from you	170
	Remembering some tried-and-true rules	170
Chapter 12	Valuation	173
	Talkin' the Valuation Talk (and Walkin' the Valuation Walk)	174
	Market capitalization	175
	Capitalization rate	175
	Expressing values before and after getting the money	176
	Putting Different Valuation Methods to Work	177
	Comparables: The (ostensibly) simpler method	178
	The venture capital method: A bit more esoteric	180
	Discounted Cash Flow--The Basics	182
	Forecasting Five Years Out: Experienced Hockey Players Are Wary of High Sticks	186
	Nonnumerical factors of forecasting for non-math majors	187
	Using cash flows as the basis of valuation	187
	Other indicators of value	189
Chapter 13	Lease Financing	193
	Introducing the Basics of Lease Financing	193
	You've got to speak the language: Common terms and conditions	194
	The two most common types of leases	195
	Does your equipment qualify?	196
	Some Good Things about Lease Financing	197
	Some Not-So-Good Things about Lease Financing	198
	Making the Lease-Buy Decision	199
	Lease Financing--Where to Look	202
	Captive leasing companies	202
	Banking institutions	202
	Independent leasing companies	203
Part III	Third-Stage Financing: Acquisition	205
Chapter 14	Investment Banks	207
	What Investment Bankers Do to Earn Those Big Bucks	208
	Underwriting, yes; overwriting, no	209
	Serving as placement agents	211
	Trading on their own accounts	212
	Playing an advisory role	212
	Functioning as a retail brokerage	213
	Managing buyout and venture capital funds	214
	Your Money Is Safe--Probably	215
	Gaining Access to an Investment Bank	216
	Being a customer	216
	Get bankers to call on you	216
	Work your connections	217
Chapter 15	Initial Public Offering (IPO)	219
	The ABCs of IPOs	220
	Deciding Whether an IPO Is Right for You	221
	The good news about IPOs	222
	And the bad news about IPOs	223
	Preparing for an IPO: A Step-by-Step Guide	226
Step 1	Assembling your team	226
Step 2	Completing registration forms	228
Step 3	Selecting accounting principles	230
Step 4	Preparing the prospectus	231
Step 5	Presenting soft information	234
Step 6	Embarking on your road show	234
Step 7	Pricing and closing	236
	The Road Show Never Ends	236
Chapter 16	Mergers	239
	Defining What a Merger Is	239
	Taxable versus tax-postponed: Selling out and paying taxes later	241
	Acquisitions not involving mergers: Asset versus stock purchase	242
	The tax-postponed merger	245
	Exercising Appraisal Rights in Forced Merger	246
	Selling Less than All the Assets: Do Shareholders Have a Vote?	247
	Equitable Constraints in Corporate Reorganizations: Mergers	248
	Business judgment rule: The entire fairness standard and enhanced scrutiny	249
	The Revlon Rule: Duty to auction	249
	Fairness opinions	250
	Protecting directors with the disinterested directors committee	250
	Majority of the minority	252
	Closing the Deal	252
	Disclosing the deal to your staff and the public	256
Part IV	The Part of Tens	259
Chapter 17	Ten Best Sources of Fast Cash	261
	Borrowing from Family and Friends	261
	Utilizing Credit Cards	262
	Taking Out a Home-equity Loan	263
	Considering an Uncollateralized Personal Loan	264
	Refinancing a First Mortgage	265
	Selling Some Assets	265
	Borrowing Against a Life Insurance Policy	266
	Factoring Your Receivables	266
	Borrowing Against 401(k)	267
	Playing the Lottery	268
Chapter 18	Ten Creative Ways to Raise Capital	271
	Getting Advance Payment from Customers	271
	Extending Your Payables	272
	Swapping Stock for Payables	272
	Seeking Assistance from State, Regional, and Federal Programs	273
	Establishing Strategic Alliances	273
	Exploring Investment Partnerships	274
	Setting Your Sights Offshore	274
	Finding the Right Placement Agent	274
	Networking at Industry Conferences	275
	Hooking Up with Angel Investors	275
Chapter 19	Ten Steps to Improve Your Cash Flow--Now!	277
	Requiring Payment Immediately (If Not Sooner!)	278
	Don't Pay Bills Any Sooner than You Have To	278
	Invoicing Frequently	279
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