Raise and Rise.
RAISE & RISE
FUNDING SOURCES FOR YOUR STARTUP IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & BLOCKCHAIN
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What readers are saying
I loved it! Informal, humorous, honest, in-depth, great anecdotes, solid references, excellent advice. The best map you can have in a complex world of startup financing.
Dan Mapes
Founder of Verses.io and The Spatial Web Foundation
This insightful read captures the spirit, humor and focused energy I’ve come to expect and enjoy from the author over the years. Entrepreneurship can be bloody and brutal. But not when you navigate the terrain with sage advice like this!
Colin Mangham
Founder of Biomimicry LA and Daily Brands
Highly entertaining and simply remarkable. Get ready for an intellectual morass of private equity.
David Josephson
Vice President at GBC International Bank
What readers are saying
The book is timely, well researched and well presented.
Arthur Lipper
World-renowned financier, Author, Inventor
“Raise and Rise” is JUST WONDERFUL! So brilliant and well researched and so well written! I love the conversational tone and the humor. I learned so much, and I say “more poetry in business books!”
Elizabeth Parella
Global Content & Communications Manager, AFEX
A must read for everyone interested in learning how to make a positive impact with their entrepreneurial skills and aspirations, how modern finance works, and how to effectively deal with the world of venture financing.
Vlad Vaiman, PhD
Associate Dean, Professor, California Lutheran University, School of Management
What readers are saying
There’s a lot of personality – which is terrific and rare in a business book. What’s more, it offers insight and great advice. Great job!
Charlie Crumpley
Former editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal, publisher of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal
What a terrific, important book! There is a great amount of advice and thorough research with numerous footnotes, digital links and personal anecdotes. A must-read for anyone interested in funding and successfully developing their favorite project.
Donald Haber
Retired Executive Director & COO of British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles
There’s a lot of personality – which is terrific and rare in a business book. What’s more, it offers insight and great advice. Great job!
Charlie Crumpley
Former editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal, publisher of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal
About the Author
Victoria Silchenko
Victoria Silchenko, Ph.D. is one of the leading alternative funding experts in the United States, an economist turned entrepreneur and adviser, known for being at the forefront of next-generation impact-driven venture financing models in the new digital era. She has authored numerous articles for the Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Business Journal, and CrowdfundInsider, among other industry media, and been invited to the White House as a “crowdfunding champion.” As a prominent international speaker, Dr. Silchenko’s lecture tours have taken her to countries such as Brazil, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan, and India as well as to her homeland of Russia where she grew up in the first-generation there embracing capitalism as a new economic dogma. She is the founder of the consulting boutique Metropole Capital Group and the World Funding Summit, both based in Los Angeles, and serves as a visiting professor at the California Lutheran University (CLU) School of Management where she teaches Entrepreneurial Finance for MBA students. Dr. Silchenko has served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) and is currently on the Advisory Board of The California Stock Exchange. Before heading down the entrepreneurial path, she worked with Dr. Arthur Laffer (the “father” of supply-side economics) and at the Milken Institute, a non-profit led by Michael Milken (the inventor of high-yield bonds).
RAISE and RISE: FUNDING SOURCES FOR YOUR STARTUP IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & BLOCKCHAIN PDF Victoria Silchenko
- 326 pages
Content
Numerous questions tackled
Rise above
Life is a pitch
Funding sources for all
It’s getting digital here
This is how we do it
For digital population – digital currency
A network effect is the most valuable property
All change Startups are prone to copycats
Consumerism is now global Always be raising
Warming up
A recap for the curious entrepreneur
A harbinger of the 2020 financial crisis
How it all began
Risk-takers or…takers
The art of startup valuations in the intangible world
An unpopular history of Silicon Valley’s rise
Who ARE you people?
Venture capital is not bad, but it is dangerous
Who backs venture capital funds?
What VCs really want
Troubled asset class
Gigantic VCs – are they good?
What is in it for you
The secret life of corporate venture capital (CVC)
Sex and venture capital
Women entrepreneurs, unite!
The Curious Case of Softbank Vision Fund
The curious case of Uber
The curious case of ShoeDazzle
The Basics
Rewards-based crowdfunding
Should I choose Kickstarter or Indiegogo?
Are there any other rewards-based crowdfunding platforms to consider, besides
Kickstarter and Indiegogo?
How to make it through the noise
Delivering on time, on price, and on quality Intellectual property traps in crowdfunding
Debt-based crowdfunding
Royalty-based crowdfunding
Equity-based crowdfunding
Early exits and the secondary market for startups
The curious case of Elio Motors
The curious case of Spotify
An overlooked option
What do angel investors say?
Royalty-based financiers
How about royalty financing for startups?
Cases to get inspired by
What on Earth are Initial Coin Offerings?
What are the most ICO-friendly jurisdictions?
A love–hate relationship What to be concerned about with ICO Top ICO stories
If it is so good in practice, how is it in theory?
Understanding the blockchain-based crowdfunding
An existential dilemma: security or utility
Utility tokens ICOs, platform economy, and network effects VCs are dead. Long live VCs.
The SEC and its role in the ICO markets ICOs are here to stay in some shape or form
The magic of banking institutions
What is money?
Currency acting like money
The risky business of risky capital
The new old finance
The age of perfect capitalism or how to become a billionaire
Capital moves to where the returns are the highest
Fundraising is not your business strategy
All that you are seeking is also seeking you
Public-Private partnerships for Elon Musk and you
How to be a startup investor without an accredited status
Living with a Purpose
The Show Must Go On Life, interrupted.
Spread love, not hate
Are you an entrepreneur looking for funds in the digital economy? Raise and Rise offers a goldmine of in-depth knowledge about capital sources and tools for a modern startup featuring venture capital, crowdfunding (including blockchain-based), royalty financing, family offices and angel investors.
Knitting together a vivid conversation with solid data, anecdotes, links, fun analysis and curious cases (Uber, Elio Motors, Spotify, and more), Dr. Victoria Silchenko goes beyond conventional narratives and unapologetically reveals the facts that might change your perspective on the best sources of startup financing. Her book takes you on a deep dive into the murky world of funding tools including those built on blockchain technology while providing a fundamental perspective about the digital economy along with a clear explanation of how modern finance works and how money is created.
In an era when finding funding is the most important skill of all, this book asks and then answers big questions like these:Why is obtaining funds for a startup so difficult when there is an abundance of finance available?Why has Silicon Valley become the world’s most powerful startup hub? How venture capitalists make investment choices, and do I stand a chance? What type of crowdfunding would make the most sense for my venture? How do I raise funds if I don’t want to give up my equity? Can I get funds via issuing my own cryptocurrency? Why do you need to build a platform to make it big? How do I make the most sizable impact with my venture?
If you are puzzled about any of the above questions, you are in good hands. Based in Los Angeles, Dr. Silchenko is an economist-turned entrepreneur-turned educator who knows the entrepreneurial start-up struggle first-hand. The field of entrepreneurial venture financing in particular has been her research focus for almost two decades.
Besides providing raw insights and solid advice about which capital sources might work best based on your particular story, the author makes a compelling case about why raising funding has turned out to be key and why obtaining funding for a startup keeps being remarkably difficult despite an abundance of finance available in the marketplace. The book is as helpful as it is unsettling, making you pause and reflect about the current financial system, who we like to worship, and the importance of building socially-impactful ventures, stressing that acquiring capital is not the purpose of a startup, just as breathing oxygen is not the purpose of human life.
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