All Money Is Not Created Equal: How Entrepreneurs Can Crack the Code to Getting the Right Funding for Their Startup

by David A Spreng, Patricia M O'Connell

Finance your company's growth without losing your stake in it Too often, thanks to multiple rounds of equity investment, company founders wind up with only a small fraction of the businesses they start. But this situation isn't inevitable. The intelligent use of a variety of financing options―including debt financing―can help to maintain, or even grow, a founder's stake. In All Money Is Not Created The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finding the Right Funding for Your Business , renowned Silicon Valley veteran David Spreng delivers an expert guide for entrepreneurs and founders seeking to maintain as much ownership stake as possible in the companies they create as they move through the various stages of the financing process. The book draws on the author's decades of experience as a venture capitalist, venture debt lender, and CEO of a publicly traded company in Silicon Valley, as well as interviews with entrepreneurs, board members, investors, and bankers. Readers will also An essential handbook for startup founders, entrepreneurs, and managers, All Money Is Not Created Equal also deserves a place in the hands of company board members, venture capitalists, investors, and investment bankers interested in the company financing process.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published July 20, 2023

Reviews

[Literatures Movies · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was basically a start-up how to. Very interesting and I learned a lot. The only downside was that the book was a bit technical and dry at some parts and repetitive in others. Not a bad thing, but you know.

The author having background in Investment Banking turned Venture Capitalist turned growth debt lender is arguably the person to unravel the opaque step by step how-to-start-up.

I think people who are thinking about starting their own company and are thinking about pitching to VCs can definitely benefit a lot from this book as Spreng wrote based on his own decades of experiences.


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[Savanna . · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, I would've never picked this book up if it wasn't for the fact that I had to read it for school. It wasn't bad at all though! This is going to sound wild, but the only reason I rated it four stars instead of five is because it's written in first person, which throws me off about it because I was reading about someone's one experience with money and finances rather than actual facts about it...even though it did have factual information as well. Also, this book just had a lot of math in it, and math is NOT my strong suit AT ALL...buuut that's what I get for wanting to be a business major...guess I better learn to like math and be good at it too!