Synopsis

America is the land of the entrepreneur. We lead the industrialized world in people who pursue their own businesses and build their own dreams. Yet for too many this dream becomes a nightmare, a never-ending cycle of scrambling for financial resources as customers and growth fly out the door to their competitors. How to Raise Capital provides a battle-tested, step-by-step plan you can follow to create the financial foundations necessary for long-term success. Drawing on the authors' unmatched experience in the start-up trenches, along with literally dozens of high-profile, real-life examples of entrepreneurial success and failure. Fewer than 40 percent of entrepreneurs seeking new business funding each year actually get that funding. Let How to Raise Capital tell you everything you need to know to finance your idea, then transform your idea into a successful business -- and a positive, long-lasting legacy.

Biography

Jeffry A. Timmons (Greenfield, NH) is the director of the Price-Babson College Fellows Program at Babson College.

Stephen Spinelli (Longmeadow, MA) is the founder of Jiffy Lube International and director of Babson's Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.

Andrew Zacharakis (Bedford, MA) is the Paul T. Babson Term Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson.