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Book 0 Table of Contents

Below is the table of contents to book 0 of The Encyclopedia of Private Equity and Venture Capital. A star () denotes premium content available to encyclopedia subscribers only.

Introduction to Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance

• Introduction To This Book

• 0.1: Chapter 1 - What Is All The Talk About?
• 0.1.1: Introduction To Venture Capital
• 0.1.2: What Is Venture Capital?
• 0.1.3: How Venture Capitalists Talk
• 0.1.4: Should You Start Your Own Company?
• 0.1.5: You Can Make It...Will Someone Buy It?
• 0.2: Chapter 2 - Where Should I Look for Seed Capital?
• 0.2.1: Introduction to Raising Capital
• 0.2.2: Angels
• 0.2.3: Venture Capital Firms
• 0.2.4: State Aid
• 0.2.5: Federal Grants And Loans
• 0.2.6: Commercial Banks
• 0.2.7: Placement Agents
• 0.2.8: Venture-Capital Clubs
• 0.2.9: Concept IPO's
• 0.2.10: Multiple-Round Strategy
• 0.2.11: Case Study In Finding Money: A Reality Check
• 0.2.12: Three Basic Rules, Dilution, Dilution, Dilution
• 0.2.13: Who's Who of Angels
• 0.3: Chapter 3 - Valuing the Privately Held Business
• 0.3.1: Valuation And Pricing
• 0.3.2: Portfolio Management
• 0.3.3: Unconventional Comparables
• 0.3.4: When In Doubt on Pre-Money Valuation, Smart Guys Procrastinate
• 0.3.5: The Three Basic Letters ... IRR
• 0.4: Chapter 4 - What Legal Form Works Best For You?
• 0.4.1: Selecting The Form Of The Organization
• 0.4.2: S Corporations
• 0.4.3: Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)
• 0.4.4: Corporation Versus Limited Liability Company
• 0.5: Chapter 5 - What Will My Corporation Look Like?
• 0.5.1: Corporate Bylaws, Charters, And Other Legalities
• 0.5.2: Corporate Charter
• 0.5.3: Payment For Stock
• 0.5.4: Statement Of Purpose
• 0.5.5: Miscellaneous Charter Provisions
• 0.5.6: Restrictions On Transfer
• 0.5.7: Preferred Stock Provisions
• 0.5.8: Preemptive Rights
• 0.5.9: Indemnification
• 0.5.10: Bylaws
• 0.5.11: Other Organizational Documents
• 0.5.12: State Of Corporate Domicile: Delaware Or Somewhere Else?
• 0.6: Chapter 6 - Tax Discussion For The Non-Lawyer
• 0.6.1: Minimizing Taxes In The Early Stages
• 0.6.2: Cheap Stock To Employees And Promoters: The Eat-'Em-All-Up Preferred Stock Approach
• 0.6.3: Stock For Services: The Passage of Time Approach
• 0.6.4: Section 83 And Stock Subject To Vesting
• 0.7: Chapter 7 - Drafting the Business Plan and the Placement Memo
• 0.7.1: Drafting The Business Plan And Private Placement Memo
• 0.7.2: Risk Factors
• 0.7.3: Avoidance of Liabililty
• 0.7.4: Business Plan
• 0.7.4.a: What Not To Say in a Business Plan
• 0.7.5: The Marketing Section
• 0.7.6: Business Strategy And The Single-Product Problem
• 0.7.7: Management
• 0.7.8: Beefing Up The Board Of Directors
• 0.7.9: Other Issues
• 0.7.10: The Bull's-Eye Theory Of Forecasting: Shoot High
• 0.7.11: The Promissory Nature Of The Forecast: Shoot Low
• 0.7.12: Composite Table of Contents of Business Plan
• 0.7.12.a: Sample Business Plans
• 0.8: Chapter 8 - Investor's Terms
• 0.8.1: The Venture Capital Term Sheet
• 0.8.2: What Will VC's Want For A Security: Common Stock? Preferred Stock? Debt? Warrants?
• 0.8.3: Common Stock
• 0.8.4: Warrants
• 0.8.5: Preferred Stock
• 0.8.6: Participating Preferred with a Cap
• 0.8.7: Participating Preferred
• 0.8.8: Antidilution Protection For Investors
• 0.8.9: Who Controls: Me Or Them?
• 0.8.10: Registration Rights
• 0.8.11: Liquidation Preferences
• 0.9: Chapter 9 - I Have A Letter of Intent: What's In The Contract?
• 0.9.1: The Contract: Purchase Agreement, Shareholders Agreement, And Rights Of First Refusal
• 0.9.2: Stockholders Agreement
• 0.10: Chapter 10 - Selling Stock, Privately... And Legally
• 0.10.1: Private Placement Memorandum And Regulation D
• 0.10.2: If Regulation D Is Not Available?
• 0.11: Chapter 11 - Compensating Your Key Executives
• 0.11.1: The "Carrot" Approach: Equity Incentives
• 0.11.2: Stock Options
• 0.11.3: Incentive Stock Options (ISOs)
• 0.11.4: Nonqualified Stock Options (NSOs)
• 0.11.5: Grossing Up
• 0.11.6: Miscellaneous Items
• 0.11.7: The Carrot-And-Stick Approach: The Employment Agreement
• 0.11.8: Restrictions On Post-Employment Behavior: Noncompetition, Nondisclosure, And Work-For-Hire Clauses
• 0.12: Chapter 12 - How To Go To The Promised Land (i.e. Go Public)
• 0.12.1: The Initial Public Offering (IPO)
• 0.12.2: Whether Or Not To Go Public
• 0.12.3: Preparation For The Public Offering
• 0.12.4: Liability
• 0.12.5: Lock Ups And Other Obstacles To Liquidity
• 0.13: Chapter 13 - Financing with Strategic Investors: Joint Ventures
• 0.13.1: Negotiating Strategic Partnerships
• 0.13.2: Typical Business Contexts
• 0.13.3: Negotiation Points
• 0.13.4: The Duty Of Candor
• 0.13.5: Corporate Opportunity And Self-Dealing
• 0.14: Introduction to Finance
• 0.14.1: Sources of Capital and What to Expect
• 0.14.1.a: Sources of Capital: Bootstrapping Sources And Techniques
• 0.14.1.b: Sources of Capital: Individual Investors (Private Placements Not From Angels Or Institutions)
• 0.14.1.c: Sources of Capital: Angel Investors
• 0.14.1.d: Sources of Capital: Commercial Banks
• 0.14.1.e: Sources of Capital: Asset-based Lenders
• 0.14.1.f: Sources of Capital: Commercial Finance Companies
• 0.14.1.g: Sources of Capital: Leasing Companies
• 0.14.1.h: Sources of Capital: Private Equity
• 0.14.1.i: Sources of Capital: Venture Capital Funds
• 0.14.1.j: Sources of Capital: Mezzanine Funds
• 0.14.1.k: Sources of Capital: Buyout Funds
• 0.14.1.l: Sources of Capital: Strategic Or Industry Investors - Corporate Venture Capital
• 0.14.1.m: Sources of Capital: Merchant Banks
• 0.14.1.n: Sources of Capital: Community Development Initiatives And Government Agencies
• 0.14.1.o: Sources of Capital: Micro-cap Public Entities
• 0.14.1.p: Sources of Capital: Royalty Financing
• 0.14.2: The Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies and Capital Structure
• 0.14.2.a: The Handbook of Financing Growth: Equity Instruments
• 0.14.2.b: The Handbook of Financing Growth: Equity Investment Documentation
• 0.14.2.c: The Handbook of Financing Growth: Compliance With Securities Laws

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