PART 1 Evaluating Opportunity and Developing the Business Concept
1. A Perspective on Entrepreneurship
2. The Start-up Process
3. Analyzing New Ventures
4. Valuation Techniques
5. The Business Plan
PART 2 Assessing and Acquiring Necessary Resources
6. Attracting Stakeholders
7. Alternative Sources of Financing
8. Deal Structure
9. Securities Law and Private Financing
10. Intellectual Property
PART 3 Acquiring an Existing Business
11. Purchasing a Business : The Search Process
12. The Legal Forms of Organization
PART 4 Managing the Enterprise and Harvesting Value
13. Managing Growth
14. Bankruptcy : A Debtor's Perspective
15. Securities Law and Public Offerings
Case Index
Subject Index