High Tech Start Up: The Complete Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies
by John L. Nesheim

This book is for anyone thinking about starting a high-tech business and is hoping to finance it. The author does a great job exposing all the complexities of finding the money and closing the financing. This book shows the problems to be watched for at every step of the way. But notice one thing - this book was written that time of common VC and high-tech lunacy. Now when first-to-market-wins rules of the game are no longer applicable. I wonder how the author would change the tone of the book if it was written in 2002.

Regardless of the times, this book shows just how hard it is to get the money and why the financing should be done only if absolutely necessary.

While this book does a great job covering all-things-money, it is not a complete handbook of creating companies. This book does not cover all of the other aspects CEOs need to worry about. If you're looking for a comprehensive handbook, check out book by Gordon Bell.