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"Entrepreneurial Finance for High-Tech Start-Ups"
The authors need to learn how to write a real introduction to their subject matter as the 3 1/2 pages in this book is inadequate. The title is also mis-leading in that the material that is really covered well deals with entreprenuerial finance. The rest of the material dealing with 1) innovative idea, 2) core team, 3) business plan, 4) employee recruitment, 5) entrepreneurial law and 6) intellectual property are summarized in five all too brief chapters in part I of this book. I suggest the authors re-title the book to "Entrepreneurial Finance for High-Tech Start-Ups" as that would accurately reflect the content of the book and that they retain the content of section I, but that they recognize that the material offered is but a short summary and that readers need to be directed to other sources to fill in the gaps. A resource bibliography needs to be built into each chapter in section I. My suggestions go as follows: 1) John Nesheim's soon to be released book "Unfair Advantage" for the chapter on innovative idea, 2) Nesheim's book on High Tech Start-ups for the chapter on the management team, 3) a number of resources are quite good for the business plan chapter: Rhonda Abrams's "Six-Week Start-Up" Rhonda Abrams's "The Successful Business Plan" Bovee, Thill & Mescon "Excellence in Business" Cunningham, Nikolai & Bazley "Accounting: Information for Decisions" Terrell & Terrell "Survey of Accounting: Making Sense of Business" 4) A good set of job descriptions on an industry by industry basis would really help most companies here. I suggest looking at "Labor Market Information: Industry Report Archives" at novaworks.org , 5) Bagley & Dauchy's "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law" and 6) for IP go to the real experts at Nolo Press. "Patents for Beginners", "Nondisclosure Agreements", and "Patent Searching Made Easy". "From Concept to Wall Street" is a good book when you get to the entrepreneurial finance stage of your start-up, but in the meantime you really need the help from the type of resources that I mentioned earlier. Otherwise you'll probably never make it to that stage. 4 stars for the entrepreneurial finance material (authors are much too condensed in their treatment), 1 star for misleading title and for the lack of pointers to the material you will need in section I. Overall rating of 3 stars.