Banker's Guide to New Small Business Finance: Venture Deals, Crowdfunding, Private Equity, and Technology, + Website

Acknowledgments

A lot of collaboration is needed to develop any book project, but even after six earlier titles, this one was most challenging in that it combined the principal business of my career (banking) with the technology cloud we’ve all been forced to acknowledge.

I wish to thank many different people who contributed minutes or hours to provide crucial links that helped me put this book together, including: Rodney Schansman and Lara Stegman (FTrans.com), Joseph Barisonzi (CommunityLeader.com), Brock Blake and Ty Kiisel (Lendio.com), Bob Coleman (Coleman Report), Robert Gloer (IOUCentral.com), Sara Watkins and Natalie Waggett (nCINO), Scott Sanford (LendingClub.com), and Rebekah Nicodemus (Atomic PR).

Special thanks go to Alicia Butler-Pierre (Equilibria, Inc.), who created the illustrations to help communicate this information more vividly.

And importantly, recognition to my partner at home, Angela Edmond, whose counsel and encouragement were instrumental, from early discussions about the concept all the way to getting this undertaking completed.

Lastly, I want to offer a special tribute to my dad, Joseph Henry Green (1919–2005), who taught me how to count money and the value of entrepreneurship.