Small Biz

Venture Capital Handbook

By David Gladstone and Laura Gladstone

(FT Press, 2001)

Recommended by Glenn Friendt, director, Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Friendt says the Venture Capital Handbook offers classic advice from writing business plans to pitching to VCs. "This was done by a venture capitalist who had seen thousands of venture plans," he says. Friendt has used the advice to raise millions in venture funding for his own enterprises.