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Attracting Investors

A Marketing Approach to Finding Funds for Your Business

by Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya and S. David Young

		Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Pub. Date: 2004 ISBN: 9780471646563 No. pages: 246 Category: Finance

In this summary you will learn

How to fund entrepreneurial ventures
How to appeal to "angels" and venture capitalists
Which marketing concepts will help you find investors

Why you should read Attracting Investors

This book is a little like a football play that looks great on the blackboard in the locker room but doesn’t quite deliver once the players take the field. The concept is excellent: adapting marketing theory and techniques to the business of acquiring investment capital for your firm. Unfortunately, authors Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya and S. David Young spend a lot of time reviewing basics, such as potential sources of capital, and not enough on the marketing techniques themselves - which they don’t begin discussing until about two-thirds of the way into the book. This shortcoming (and the lack of case histories) is balanced, however, by the authors’ keen, market-oriented analysis of the characteristics that appeal most strongly to the various types of investors. This book outlines a smart, methodical approach to finding investors. getAbstract.com recommends this book despite wanting more information on methodology, believing that even an incomplete marketing approach to financing is better than chaos in the huddle.

About the Authors

Philip Kotler has written 35 books, including Marketing Management. He is a professor of international marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Hermawan Kartajaya, co-author of Repositioning Asia and Rethinking Marketing, is the founder and president of a strategy consulting firm in Southeast Asia. He is a former president of the World Marketing Association. S. David Young is professor of accounting and control at INSEAD international business school. He is the co-author of Profits You Can Trust.

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