Unicorn-Entrepreneurship:
VC helps ~1 out of 5,000 ventures… After Aha! (proof of potential)
Unicorn-Entrepreneurship Helps Ventures From Idea To Aha!
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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, Everything 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
Handbook of Business Finance: Find Equity, Dept, & Low-Cost Financing Intelligently
“Like the U.S. Cavalry, (Rao’s) Handbook enters the scene just in time.” -- Inc. Magazine.
This books gives you the details about how America's financial sources operate and how to use the right financial instruments so that you can make the final selections and are well informed when you seek money.
Finance Any Business Intelligently: How Entrepreneurs can get the Right Financing from Smart Financiers
Finance Any Business Intelligently: How Entrepreneurs can get the Right Financing from Smart Financiers
This book describes in layman's language how to structure the right financing for your business and how to select the right financiers for your specific needs.
Bootstap to Billions: Proven Rules from Entrepreneurs who Build Great Companies from Scratch
Bootstap to Billions: Proven Rules from Entrepreneurs who Build Great Companies from Scratch
This book shows you how billion-dollar entrepreneurs and hundred-million-dollar entrepreneurs started and built their companies—mostly without venture capital.
Business Plans Intelligently®: Develop to Make Money. Write to Raise Money
Business Plans Intelligently®: Develop to Make Money. Write to Raise Money
This books help you develop your business plan to make money and write your plan to raise money.
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Webinars
Dr. Rao offers webinars based on the concepts in Nothing Ventured, Everything Gained and Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs. Attendees will learn how to position their venture for advantage, evaluate alternative financing options, and grow with control.
WORKSHOPS AND WEBINARS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
- INTRODUCTION: Why Unicorn-Entrepreneurs Launched Unicorns Without VC
- UNICORN STRATEGIES: Innovation Strategies to Find Your Unicorn
- UNICORN STRATEGIES: Competitive Strategies to Position Your Unicorn
- UNICORN STRATEGIES: Finance Strategies to Fund Your Unicorn
- UNICORN STRATEGIES: Launching Strategies to Take-Off
- UNICORN SKILLS: Venture Financing without Venture Capital
- UNICORN SKILLS: Finance Skills for Non-Financial Entrepreneurs
- UNICORN SKILLS: Finance-Smart Business Plans
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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
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)
