How to Finance a Growing Business: An Insider's Guide to Negotiating the Capital Markets, Executive Edition

The updated and expanded, hardback edition of this perennially strong-selling Silver Lake title shows business managers and owners how to * calculate their needs for working and growth capital * negotiate with lenders * obtain financing greater than a company's net worth, * leverage existing capital to finance acquisitions Diener draws on his three decades as an investment banker and corporate executive to show small businesses how to turn steady performance into growth -- and growth into sustained success. He demystifies the corporate finance and venture capital worlds, so hard-working managers can approach lenders and finance people with confidence.