The Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies and Capital Structure

By Kenneth H. Marks, Larry E. Robbins, John P. Funkhouser, et al.

An in-depth look at the strategies, capital structure, and fund raising techniques for emerging growth and middle-market companies. Here is a comprehensive and practical guide to understanding and applying the basics of corporate finance to emerging growth and middle-market companies. Using empirical data and actual company cases to illustrate capital structures and financing approaches, the book provides a detailed discussion of the many funding instruments, from traditional bank loans and asset-based financing to different types of private equity and other creative solutions; the types of funding sources and their expected rates of returns; and typical deal terms.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471429570
• ISBN13: 9780471429579
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good Value For Time Invested in reading

If you're a startup or an entrepreneur...you have very little time and/or few sources of quality information. This book gives you the big picture, it also gives you many details that are hard to get...it's the best investment you can make with your time.

Reads like a great novel for the Entrepreneur

If you are like me, you read a lot of books to help you become a better Entrepreneur, looking for those tasty morsels that give you ideas or methods to succeed in growing your business. This books is one of the few of its kind that I could not put down. Each section was interesting and most were relevant. I am sick of reading about pure high tech and software only plays. This book is not only very educational, it is a reference manual that never leaves my desk. The Database of funding sources is invaluable.

Excellence in Grwoing companeis

Whether you are a start-up, growing a business or just interested in business reading, Kenneth H.Marks provides a clear insight into topics and issues required by any business person. Thought I understood finance until I read this book and located gaping holes in my understanding. Would recommend this book for any business course- it fills in the knowledge gaps that business schools leave.

This handbook should be on every entrepreneur's bookshelf

This book is truly incredible! As the co-owner of a full service commercial finance intermediary firm, we are always looking for valuable and concise resources to draw upon for in-depth information regarding the very vast world of corporate finance. This book is it. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur, student, or financial professional, this book covers every aspect of corporate financing options. I have used the "Financing Source Directory" numerous times to locate finance companies based on area of expertise and required funding. Our job as financial intermediaries is to not only educate our clients based on the best source of financing according to their respective needs but to also have a vast database of finance professionals to call upon in order to successfully facilitate our clients funding requirements. The "Financing Source Directory" and the material in this book provide just that and more. The investment price for the book is worth the directory alone. If you're trying to locate funds for your company or if you would like to have a better understanding of how to finance a growing organization, go buy this book.

Financing Database Included

The book comes with access to its online funding sources database...with search features based on your criteria. The database includes over 400 firms that provide a variety of debt and equity financing for emerging growth and middle-market companies.