Ann-Kristin Achleitner and Oliver Everling (Publisher): Start-up Rating: Rating of Young Companies (German Edition), Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1st edition August 2004, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, hardcover, 516 pages, ISBN 3-409-12572-8.

The classification of the future opportunities of a start-up project by rating – presentation of the business fields, products and services, the prognosis of the incomes and expenditures, the calculation of essential characteristic numbers and the evaluation of financing instruments up to the description of expected market developments – help the company founder to understand his chances and properly evaluate his enterprise. A good rating result provides support in negotiations with investors.

This practice-oriented book goes a long way from the consideration of the rating events, rating instruments to the concrete benefit of the rating for start-ups. It also offers recommendations for action to improve the rating result and includes reports from successful start-up founders.

Professor Dr. Ann-Kristin Achleitner is holder of the KfW Endowed Chair for Entrepreneurial Finance and Scientific Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial and Finance Studies at the Technical University of Munich, Honorary Professor at the European Business School and Privatdozentin for Finance and Accounting at the University of St. Gallen.

Dr. Oliver Everling is the founder and owner of Everling Advisory Services, Frankfurt am Main, a provider of consulting services, publications and rating events. He is the publisher and author of numerous books and specialist articles on rating.

Ann-Kristin Achleitner und Oliver Everling (Herausgeber): Existenzgründerrating: Rating junger Unternehmen (German Edition), Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1. Auflage August 2004, http://www.gabler-verlag.de, gebundene Ausgabe, 516 Seiten, ISBN 3-409-12572-8.