The Lifecycle of a Technology Company: Financing Options - The Best Ways to Secure Funding for an IT Venture

At every stage of a technology company's growth cycle it faces different challenges, opportunities and legal issues. The Lifecycle of a Technology Company series addresses such issues in separate, distinct volumes to give readers critical information tools, specific to their particular needs. These books discuss the principle business, legal and tax issues at each phase of growth, offering bottom-line affecting, growth-driving and objective-specific tactics and other critical insights. Written and arranged by business lawyers with many years of experience in this legal discipline, each volume contains a general discussion of the issues representative of each growth phase, as well as in-depth articles and sample legal forms on selected topics. Different volumes for different stages with different sets of objectives - must-read books for anyone building, funding or exiting a technology company. The Lifecycle of a Technology Company: Financing Options exposes readers to the wealth of options available to entrepreneurs in search of funding an IT company, from venture capital to debt financing and everything in between. Complete with an introduction to the general structure and operation of venture capital - the terms, the deal and the aftermath - as well as an overview of buyout funds, this title covers the basics of securing funding and how to do so prudently.