The entrepreneur's growth startup handbook : 7 secrets to venture funding and successful growth

Content: The Entrepreneur\'s Growth Startup Handbook: 7 Secrets to Venture Funding and Successful Growth
 Copyright
 Contents
 Acknowledgments
 Chapter 1: Introduction
 Why This Book?
 Overview of the Book
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 Chapter 2: What Makes a Great Entrepreneur?
 The Big Dream
 Are Leaders Born or Made?
 Are You Driven Enough?
 Are You a Macromanager?
 Are You a Rational Optimist?
 Do You Have a Healthy Fear of Failure?
 Do You Have Little Fear of Risk?
 Can You Control without the Freak Part?
 Is Your Life Disciplined?
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 Chapter 3: Staying Focused While Working on New Ideas. In Comes the New IdeaThe Complementary Business
 Following the King of All Media
 Not Just Reverse Mergers
 The New Idea Relieving Boredom
 The New Idea after Years of Grooming Top Deputies for Main Business
 The New Opportunity Following Financial Success
 The New Opportunity as a Hedge
 When the New Thing Is Bigger
 Sell That Sucker
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 Chapter 4: Getting a Life: How to Have a Business and a Life
 The Downside of Workaholism
 Tips for Working Smart
 Time Shift!
 Delegate!
 Work from Home ... Sometimes
 Work Hard/Play Hard Can Be Dangerous
 More Vacation with Less Work ... and More Howard. ``Me ́ ́ Time StrategiesFinding Less Work on Business Trips
 Get off Your Butt!
 The Early Weekender
 Turn It off, or Mostly
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 Chapter 5: Employee Management 101
 Is It Really That Important?
 Finding the Right People
 The Hire from the Big Company
 My Law Firm Experience
 Howard Stern Redux: Home Growing the Staff
 Looking Inward and Building a Family
 Issues Female Entrepreneurs Face in Hiring
 Retaining Great Employees in Entrepreneurial Companies
 To Get Loyalty, Give Loyalty
 Structuring Compensation Right
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 Founding Partners
 Best Friend Partners
 Couple Partners
 Family Partners
 Get an Attorney and Get It in Writing
 Investor Partners
 Investor Veto Powers
 Settling on Valuation
 Investor Involvement
 Rainmaking Partners
 Determining the Need for Equity
 Direct Stock Grants
 Stock Options
 Phantom Equity
 Worker Bee Partners
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 Chapter 7: Financing Your Company\'s Growth: The 6 Most Common Methods of Financing
 Financing Market Drivers
 The Economy and Stock Market
 Industry Trends. Politics and the Regulatory EnvironmentBasics of the Process
 Making the Contact
 Meeting with Investors
 The Six Methods
 Bootstrap
 Government Financing
 Bank Financing
 Friends and Family
 Angel, Venture Capital, and Private Equity
 Initial Public Offering (IPO) or Public Company (PIPE) Financing
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 Chapter 8: Too Pooped to Produce?: Common Causes of Exhaustion and How to Recover
 Causes of Burnout
 Spousal/Family Pressure
 Unexpected Business Pressures or Stagnation
 Surprising Success
 Burnout Prevention
 Adjust the Plan-Up or Down
 Take a Break
 Rely More on Others.