A comprehensive overview of the financing options available to small and start-up businesses.
In this business book, Sutton (Start Your Own Corporation, 2013) and Detweiler (The Ultimate Credit Handbook, 2003) present the financing methods available to people looking to start a small business or to provide additional funding to an existing one. The book addresses simple funding sources, such as personal savings and bank loans, as well as more complex investment vehicles such as crowdfunding and venture capital. Both aspiring and veteran business owners will find the book useful, as it details the ways companies can raise finances and operating credit at different points in the business life cycle. Sutton and Detweiler display a deep knowledge of government regulations, including recent changes to credit card and securities law, as well as the industry norms that determine funders’ expectations. They also provide readers with details on standard information that bankers or angel investors are likely to want, along with recommendations for organizing and presenting it. Appendices provide templates for standard documents, such as the private placement memorandum, and a section of further resources guides readers to other useful tools. The book also addresses common scams and predatory lending practices and cautions readers about their risks. The prose is occasionally awkward (“While not specifically agreed to but arising solely out of the situation, Nora spoke very highly of Chad and Ruth as the successors of her late husband’s devotion to customer service”), but Sutton and Detweiler do an excellent job of using legal and technical terms clearly, with a minimum of jargon. Although the book does urge readers to consult Sutton’s earlier books too often, the information on the whole is solid, and readers can feel confident in discovering solid advice.
An energetic, informative handbook for business owners.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: -
Publisher: Success DNA, INC.
Review Posted Online: Nov. 4, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.
Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia). We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win. These laws boil down to being as ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful as possible. Each law, however, gets its own chapter: “Conceal Your Intentions,” “Always Say Less Than Necessary,” “Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy,” and so on. Each chapter is conveniently broken down into sections on what happened to those who transgressed or observed the particular law, the key elements in this law, and ways to defensively reverse this law when it’s used against you. Quotations in the margins amplify the lesson being taught. While compelling in the way an auto accident might be, the book is simply nonsense. Rules often contradict each other. We are told, for instance, to “be conspicuous at all cost,” then told to “behave like others.” More seriously, Greene never really defines “power,” and he merely asserts, rather than offers evidence for, the Hobbesian world of all against all in which he insists we live. The world may be like this at times, but often it isn’t. To ask why this is so would be a far more useful project.
If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire.Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1998
ISBN: 0-670-88146-5
Page Count: 430
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 1998
Categories: GENERAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION | PSYCHOLOGY | HISTORICAL & MILITARY
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Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
Categories: BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | HOLOCAUST | HISTORY | GENERAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | GENERAL HISTORY
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