"Getting in the Game: Guiding Your Startup Through the World of Venture Capital and Angel Investors" is written by Matt Crowley, a venture lawyer, and published by Venture Capital Press.

This book breaks down the lessons a startup business needs to learn with respect to getting funding and making a successful exit.

Each chapter is geared to explaining in simple terms what an entrepreneur needs to know about finding and meeting venture capital firms and angel investors and giving them winning presentations. The book guides the reader through challenging concepts like dilution and capitalization tables in an easy-to-understand format.

The author shares life lessons from other startups to help the reader avoid pitfalls that other first-time founders can easily avoid with a little forewarning. The book contains examples of term sheets, PowerPoint presentations and other useful tools for startup entrepreneurs.

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