Book Reviews

To draw funding from VCs, you must learn to think like a VC. “Venture Capital: The Definitive Guide for Entrepreneurs, Investors and Practioners,” can give you that insight.

By Joel Cardis, Sam Kirschner, Stanley Richelson, Jason Kirschner and Hildy Richelson 
Published by John Wiley & Sons
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“Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea”
By Mark A. Ratner & Daniel Ratner
Published by Prentice Hall

"Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea” explains why this scientific breakthrough could be fertile grounds for investors....(read entire review)

You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth About Starting and Growing Your Business                                                                     
By Barry Moltz

Launching a startup takes a solid business plan, funding and a dab of craziness. Barry Moltz explains how to tap your craziness to become a successful entrepreneur in “You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth About Starting and Growing Your Business....(read entire review)

When Venture Capitalists Say No – Creative Financing Strategies & Resources
By Ron Peterson

When VCs say no to a deal, startups need to get creative. Author Ron Peterson shows how to develop creative financing strategies in his new book When Venture Capitalists Say No – Creative Financing Strategies & Resources.....(read entire review)

Venture Capital Due Diligence
By Justin Camp

Doing due diligence involves being a financial private eye. Find the clues that can predict success for an investment opportunity....(read entire review)

Venture Capital Investing: The Complete Handbook for Investing in Small Private Businesses for Outstanding Profits
By David Gladstone

Investing in small companies can reap big profits, if you know how to pick the winners. David Gladstone's "Venture Capital Investing: The Complete Handbook for Investing in Small Private Businesses for Outstanding Profits," explains that the organization of a company is often a predictor of success....(read entire review)

Not Just a Living

By Mark Henrick

Mark Henrick’s book, “Not Just a Living,” examines how being an entrepreneur demands not only a great business idea, commitment and finding funding but also a lifestyle decision. Learn how to balance it all in this entertaining book...(read entire review)  

Angel Financing: How to Find and Invest Private Equity
By Gerald A. Benjamin, Joel Margulis

The search for angel investors is always a challenge. "Angel Financing: How to Find and Invest Private Equity" offers entrepreneurs a strategy to make the search more efficient and successful.....(read entire review)

Judo Strategy Can Give Businesses of All Sizes a Fighting Chance
By David Yoffie and Mary Kwak  

Regardless of the size of your business, read “Judo Strategy” by Harvard Professor David Yoffie and Mary Kwak to learn how to throw the competition....(read entire review)

Building The Awesome Organization

By Katherine Catlin and Jana Matthews

Building the awesome organization is not a dream, but can be definite reality. Read how in the intriguing book, "Building the Awesome Organization." Learn the basic steps to achieve this goal. This timely book makes for great summer reading....(read entire review)

The Biotech Investor's Bible

By George Wolff

Get the closest thing to the gospel truth from the Biotech Investor's Bible. It's a must read for every investor who should be aware of the financial opportunities in the biotechnology markets...(read entire review)

Finding Money: The Small Business Guide to Financing
By Kate Lister and Tom Harnish

Lenders want to lend and investors want to invest. Entrepreneurs need to find the right investors and how to pitch them for money. Finding Money: The Small Business Guide to Financing gives entrepreneurs an insiders look into how investors evaluate business opportunities...(read entire review)

The Phoenix Effect:
9 Revitalizing Strategies No Business Can Do Without
By Carter Pate and Harlan Platt

Every business can use a dash of revitalizing - whether a struggling one or a healthy business. Discover the nine revitalizing strategies that make companies hum...(read entire review)

Starting Up and Advising an Emerging Massachusetts Business

Edited by Lawrence H. Gennari

Don’t let the title, “Starting Up and Advising an Emerging Massachusetts Business,” fool you, the book edited by Lawrence H. Gennari offers sound  advice on launching a business anywhere...(read entire review)

The Angel Investor’s Handbook: How to Profit from Early-Stage Investing

By Gerald A. Benjamin, Joel Margulis

If you’ve considered getting into the exciting, but risky world of angel investing, check out the Angel Investor’s Handbook: How to Profit from Early-State Investing by Gerald A. Benjamin and Joel Margulis. This detailed work can help potential investors identify winning businesses and avoid losers. ...(read entire review)

Good to Great: 

A Fresh Look at Management Practices

By Jim Collins

Good to Great is a fresh look at management strategy and practice; and many of the findings shake up our accepted techniques. An iconoclastic work, it offers several  key concepts that fly in the face of modern business culture and have upset previously unquestioned management assumptions...(read entire review)

Unleashing the Ideavirus
By Seth Godin
Published by Do You Zoom, Inc.

What's an Ideavirus? Godin says an Ideavirus is a fashionable idea that spreads through a section of the population, teaching, changing and influencing everyone it comes in touch with...  (read entire review)

Going Solo, The Best Resources for Entrepreneurs & Freelancers
Stanley I. Mason Jr. - Editor
Published by Resource Pathways Guidebook

Stanley  Mason Jr., the editor of Going Solo, was pilot during WWII and used to fly over towns and think about how many people operated their own small businesses. Even the large companies started out as small ones. That epiphany drove Mason to become an entrepreneur for the last 30 years...(read entire review)

     
Financing & Building an E-Commerce Venture

By Marc Kramer

Many books deal with how to write a business plan or build a successful management team or how to raise venture capital. But Financing & Building an E-Commerce Venture takes the reader through the entire gamut of launching an e-business...(read entire review)

Angel Investing - Hatching Start-up Funds with Start-up Companies
by Mark Van Osnabrugge and Robert J. Robinson

Angel Investing offers an authoritative guide for the entrepreneur seeking capital and the private investor looking for a better return on investments of $100,000 or more. It is a comprehensive guide on the emerging form of financing, complete with stories of investors and companies that have led the way in angel investing... 
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DONE DEALS - Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories
Edited By Udayan Gupta, Harvard Business School Press

In Done Deals, journalist Udayan Gupta explores the history of Venture Capital as told through the eyes of some of the industry's most influential players... 
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