The topic of entrepreneurial finance involves many issues including but not limited to the risks and returns to being an entrepreneur, financial contracting, business planning, capital gaps and the availability of capital, and market booms and busts. This handbook provides a comprehensive...

This book offers a primer on the valuation of startups. Innovative startups are characterized by high growth potential that usually absorbs liquidity. This is unattractive for traditional banks, replaced by other specialized intermediaries such as venture capital or private equity funds, which...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART 1: VALUATION -- Chapter 2: From business models to business planning -- Chapter 3: Profitability, Intangible Value creation, and scalability patterns -- Chapter 4: Boosting sustainable growth with innovative intangibles -- Chapter 5: Cherry Picking Intermediaries:...

How to valuate accurately a new venture is a critical and under-researched question in entrepreneurial financing. Leveraging established theories in strategic management, this research study develops an integrative theoretical framework to examine whether venture capitalists' valuation of a new...