Finance Secrets of
Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs
by Dileep Rao
WEBINAR REGISTRATION COMING SOON!
Skill-Based Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs and Crowdfunders
Is it possible for entrepreneurs to succeed without venture capital?
Dileep Rao says YES!
Nothing Ventured, Everything Gained shatters the dominant myth that entrepreneurs need early-stage venture-capital to build giant businesses. In fact, by avoiding or even delaying VC, billion-dollar entrepreneurs can control their companies and the wealth created by them—and retain more of that wealth.
Books
“Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs
In Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs, former venture financier and award-winning professor of entrepreneurship Dileep Rao presents readers with a detailed guide to success through his interviews and analysis of billion-dollar entrepreneurs (those who built a venture from startup to more than $1 billion in sales and valuation) and 100 million-dollar entrepreneurs (startup to $100 million). While starting a business without venture capital seems difficult, Rao is here to show entrepreneurs that not only is it possible, but it could very well lead to a more successful business. Rao shares how more than 90 percent of America’s billion-dollar entrepreneurs avoided or delayed VC, and instead used finance-smart expertise to take off without venture capital.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Is it possible for entrepreneurs to succeed at growing ventures if they don’t have early-stage venture capital? Based on the fact that more than 9 out of 10 of America’s billion-dollar entrepreneurs did take off without early-stage VC, Dileep Rao says YES!
In Nothing Ventured, Everything Gained, Dileep Rao shatters the dominant myth that entrepreneurs need early-stage venture capital to build giant businesses. In fact, says Rao, by avoiding or even delaying VC, billion-dollar entrepreneurs can control their companies and the wealth created by them—and retain more of that wealth. The book is based on 30 of Rao’s interviews with billion-dollar entrepreneurs (BDEs) and hundred-million-dollar entrepreneurs (HMDEs) and the analysis of the strategies of 85 BDEs. The author introduces the finance-smart skills, opportunity secrets, and the strategy secrets of BDEs who took off without VC, and proves his point via stories of successful giants like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs.
Every entrepreneur will do well to read and benefit from Rao’s invaluable insights and expertise.
Other Books by Dileep Rao
Handbook of Business Finance: Find Equity, Dept, & Low-Cost Financing Intelligently
Finance Any Business Intelligently: How Entrepreneurs can get the Right Financing from Smart Financiers
Bootstap to Billions: Proven Rules from Entrepreneurs who Build Great Companies from Scratch
Business Plans Intelligently®: Develop to Make Money. Write to Raise Money
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Webinars
Dileep offers various introductory and one-day webinars based on the concepts in Nothing Ventured, Everything Gained. Attendees will learn how to position their venture for advantage, evaluate alternative financing options, and grow with control.
SKILL-BASED CROWDFUNDING FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND CROWDFUNDERS
How Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs Build Unicorns and Bill-Dollar VCs Fund Them
Are you an entrepreneur seeking to take of with control or a crowdfunder seeking returns? Learn how unicorn entrepreneurs build giant ventures and how billion-dollar VCs fund them.
Attend this workshop to learn:
- The Reality of VC: Why 99.99% of ventures should avoid VC and the rest should delay
- Skill-Based Unicorn Development: How billion-dollar entrepreneurs build home runs
- 3 stage of growth
- 4 types of aha for credibility and resources
- 5 strategies to teach aha without VC
- 6 skills to take-off without VC
- 7 ways to leverage crowdfunding to take-off with control
- Financing Unicorns: How America’s VCs fund home runs
- Finding Winners: Location, industry, stage
- Structuring the deal: Valuation, financials instruments, exiting
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Speaking
With over 33 years of experience working with entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, Dileep Rao is an acclaimed teacher and speaker offering practical knowledge with lasting results.
Dr. Rao’s talks are based on his multi-faceted, achievement filled career and his study of some of the world’s great entrepreneurs. He teaches audiences how to build businesses by focusing on what truly matters and is sustainable in the long-term.
Dr. Rao speaks regularly on:
- How to Grow a Great You: Remove Your Business Shackles
- Proven Rules to Create Wealth and Keep It: How to Succeed with Limited Resources
- Using Finance as a Competitive Weapon: Why Value + Numbers BEATS Value
- How Financiers, Area Development Officials, and Professionals Can Help their customers, clients, and area firms
Interested in having Dr. Rao speak at your event? Contact us.
Media
Dr. Rao is a regular contributor to Forbes and the London School of Economics.
Recent media also includes:
- Which MBA Programs are Best for VC or PE Jobs?
- Investing in Legal Weed, Banking for Millennials (podcast)
- How to Control and Prosper Without a VC
- It’s All About the Benjamins (radio)
- 5 Things I Need to See Before Making a VC Investment, with Dileep Rao
- Bootstrapping with Dileep Rao (radio)
- Entrepreneurial Success Without Venture Capital (podcast)
- DisruptTV
- The Game Changer Network (radio)