Don't waste your time and money on buying this book. It's too easy, too simple and nothing is there that you have not known. Completely waste of money.

The Jossey-Bass series has a good reputation, as does Kent Dove. But this book is a huge disappointment. It is billed as an indispensable aid for practitioners and a textbook for students, but it serves neither set of readers well. Practitioners looking for solid advice and good examples to illustrate principles in action find nothing of the sort. And pity the poor student who has to slog through this to pass a course. This is an uninspiring, tendentious, tedious exercise in making the elegantly simple art of fundraising appear to be some arcane mystery that only the likes of a long-time practitioner like Kent Dove can master.

Most people are intimidated enough about asking for money, they don't need to be scared/shamed out of the field by reading this kind of mumbo jumbo that makes them feel stupid or inadequate.

The book has a few good tables and nuggets of useful information, but not enough to justify a [money] price tag. I'm glad I borrowed this from the library to preview it before buying -- it saved me the effort of returning it.

Don't waste your time on this one if this is all your child will use for penmanship. Your child will have to use a crayon to color in the large letters (about 8 of them per letter), then there's one line of letters to trace with a pencil, one line to practice on their own & the next page gives a few suggestions for words & they're on their own. I have bought & tried several D'Nealian handwriting books with my son and the one I'm most impressed with is put out by Scott-Foresman! The SF one doesn't just have letters to trace & practice like the other books, it also works on other skills. It starts off by showing pictures of children sitting correctly in their seats, how to hold your paper & pencil, etc. The book provides various exercises to work on good penmanship, including circling letters in a paragraph that are formed incorrectly. Later, they edit their own writing. Since trying this one, I've bought the 2nd grade level book for next year (which introduces cursive gradually) and the K book for my daughter...I wanted to be sure to have them on hand! Check those out instead!

The book is basically a waste of money--I do not like it at all. It does not divulge into the aspects of the whys or even into the economics, but it just skims the surfaces. There are a ton of formulas, and a lot of it is inconsistent. Its missing a lot of much needed substance and this is all from just reading chapters one and two. I have seen the rest and they all look the same. It also looks really technical--not surprising because its written by a professor that works here (I have had my fair share with professors at my own school writing textbooks and the books have far been too technical to grasp--also they never explain enough).

The book costs about [$$$]. 400 something pages, which looks like someone photocopied it and slapped it together with a glossy cover (mainly--cutting corners with cost). Its custom published by Pearson.

If this book is required, I would recommend getting your hands on anything else you can find--probably Schaum's Outline of Engineering Economics, ISBN: 0070238340

Despite the nice title of the book, it is not worth a $105.00. The decision making models are overviews and are very brief. This book lacks numeracy. The case studies in my opinion are underdeveloped. The author spends time talking about strategic partnerships and the need for venture portfolio companies, to develop them, but he doesn't provide any examples of those that worked. There is some information to be gleaned from this book, but if you can get it for under $30, then buy it. Otherwise at $105, you will be very disappointed. This book is totally overpriced. If I could photocopy it and return it, I would have.

Nothing special about this book. Very simplistic in it's approach and not helpful in understanding how the venture capital business works

After reading the book, I do not believe that Mr. Montague has a basic grasp of philosophy--several arguments in the book clearly contradict one another. There were numerous grammar errors I found in the book as well, and the examples used by Montague are not exciting. I was bored and uninspired through the whole thing. Not recommended.

This book is not what I expected. The total authors contribution runs to only 13 pages (Chapter 1 to end). The remainder is reprints of other companies proposals to raise money. This would certainly not be my first choice of book to recommend to anyone.

If you believe that Human Rights are going to get better in Hong Kong now that the "Colonial oppressors" are gone and the "Motherland" is back in control, then maybe this is the book for you. (though I would suggest a book that takes an honest look at China's recent history be chosen instead). If you are looking for a more serious and accurate one then you need to keep looking. If you can read Chinese, then it would be better to find a book just like Brahm's for much less money published within the PRC.

Having used the book in the course taught by Merino, I have noticed that the examples given at the end of each chapter are erroneous in nature. Many a time, I have found that the book lacks the basic elements of engineering economics. This book is definitely not for undergraduates.