The Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies, Capital Structure, and M&A Transactions, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

In addition to those listed here who supported the original version of the Handbook of Financing Growth, we appreciate the most recent assistance and input from Mike Saber and John (Buddy) Howard. Many thanks to those who contributed to the recent case study additions and updates: Donald Rudnik, Rick Larson, Lisa Beattie, Mark Matheson, Rik Vandevenne, Brian Hand, and Michael Becker.

From the first edition, which established the foundation for this iteration, we gratefully acknowledge and thank the many contributors and supporters of this work. In particular we would like to mention Aswath Damodaran, Verne Harnish, Peter Pflasterer, Donald Rudnik, Andy Burch, Tom Holder, Buddy Howard, Chris Mercer, Mark Larson, Ian Cookson, Don Tyson, Dana Callow, Roy Simerly, Ira Edelson, Robert Winter, Matt Emerson, Frank Buckless, David Buttolph, Bruce Kasson, Bob Calcaterra, Linda Knopp, Campbell R. Harvey, and Neil Churchill.

We are most appreciative of the support provided by the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and the works and content by Professors Michael Horvath, Colin Blaydon, Fred Wainwright and Andrew Waldeck, Jonathan Olsen, and Salvatore Gagliano; Ross Barrett of VC Experts, Inc.; and Patrick O’Rourke of BizStats.com. Many thanks to the hundreds of industry firms that contributed information to the Financing Source Directory in Part Three.

We are grateful to our case study contributors: David MacNaughtan, ...