The Entrepreneur's Growth Startup Handbook: 7 Secrets to Venture Funding and Successful Growth -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Why This Book? -- Overview of the Book -- Therefore… -- Chapter 2: What Makes a Great Entrepreneur? -- The Big Dream -- Are Leaders Born or Made? -- Are You Driven Enough? -- Are You a Macromanager? -- Are You a Rational Optimist? -- Do You Have a Healthy Fear of Failure? -- Do You Have Little Fear of Risk? -- Can You Control without the Freak Part? -- Is Your Life Disciplined? -- Therefore… -- Chapter 3: Staying Focused While Working on New Ideas -- In Comes the New Idea -- The Complementary Business -- Following the King of All Media -- Not Just Reverse Mergers -- The New Idea Relieving Boredom -- The New Idea after Years of Grooming Top Deputies for Main Business -- The New Opportunity Following Financial Success -- The New Opportunity as a Hedge -- When the New Thing Is Bigger -- Sell That Sucker -- Therefore… -- Chapter 4: Getting a Life: How to Have a Business and a Life -- The Downside of Workaholism -- Tips for Working Smart -- Time Shift! -- Delegate! -- Work from Home…Sometimes -- Work Hard/Play Hard Can Be Dangerous -- More Vacation with Less Work…and More Howard -- ``Me ́́Time Strategies -- Finding Less Work on Business Trips -- Get off Your Butt! -- The Early Weekender -- Turn It off, or Mostly -- Therefore… -- Chapter 5: Employee Management 101 -- Is It Really That Important? -- Finding the Right People -- The Hire from the Big Company -- My Law Firm Experience -- Howard Stern Redux: Home Growing the Staff -- Looking Inward and Building a Family -- Issues Female Entrepreneurs Face in Hiring -- Retaining Great Employees in Entrepreneurial Companies -- To Get Loyalty, Give Loyalty -- Structuring Compensation Right -- Therefore….

Chapter 6: Finding the Right Business Partner for Your Venture -- Do You Want to Fly Solo? -- Founding Partners -- Best Friend Partners -- Couple Partners -- Family Partners -- Get an Attorney and Get It in Writing -- Investor Partners -- Investor Veto Powers -- Settling on Valuation -- Investor Involvement -- Rainmaking Partners -- Determining the Need for Equity -- Direct Stock Grants -- Stock Options -- Phantom Equity -- Worker Bee Partners -- Therefore… -- Chapter 7: Financing Your Company's Growth: The 6 Most Common Methods of Financing -- Financing Market Drivers -- The Economy and Stock Market -- Industry Trends -- Politics and the Regulatory Environment -- Basics of the Process -- Making the Contact -- Meeting with Investors -- The Six Methods -- Bootstrap -- Government Financing -- Bank Financing -- Friends and Family -- Angel, Venture Capital, and Private Equity -- Initial Public Offering (IPO) or Public Company (PIPE) Financing -- Therefore… -- Chapter 8: Too Pooped to Produce?: Common Causes of Exhaustion and How to Recover -- Causes of Burnout -- Spousal/Family Pressure -- Unexpected Business Pressures or Stagnation -- Surprising Success -- Burnout Prevention -- Adjust the Plan-Up or Down -- Take a Break -- Rely More on Others -- When Burnout Hits -- Sell the Business -- Shut Down -- Hand It Over -- Therefore… -- Chapter 9: Battling Boredom in a Growing Company -- Causes of Boredom -- Too Much Growth -- Too Much Delegation -- Wrong Business -- Preventing or Overcoming Boredom -- Sell, Leave, or Shut Down -- Check Your Personality -- Re-Engage -- Therefore… -- Chapter 10: The Greatest Challenges -- Insufficient Capital -- Bad Partner Choices -- Personality Traits Yielding Burnout or Loss of Focus -- Uncle Lenny -- Therefore… -- About the Author -- Index.