High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies

cover of High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech CompaniesHigh Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech

author: John L. Nesheim
asin: 068487170X
binding: Hardcover
list price: $50.00 USD
amazon price: $31.50 USD


John Nesheim, an adjunct professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, who has personally structured over $300 million in new-venture deals, lays out the step-by-step skinny in High Tech Startup. Incorporating some two dozen case studies spanning the technology spectrum, he presents info specific to this industry that will help you get from concept to IPO. It begins with a 14-phase schedule itemizing time requirements, necessary assistance, typical participants, major costs, main risks, and desired results for each step. It then details all the critical stages (i.e., forming the company, preparing the business plan, assembling the team, dealing with venture capitalists and other funding sources). Nesheim focuses on practical strategies that should certainly improve your chances, but don't start prepping for that on-air interview with Mark Haines just yet: Only six out of 1 million high-tech ideas, he notes, ever become successful companies that go public. --Howard Rothman