This is the book that we hope will create a 1000 ventures in Australia! Australian entrepreneurs don't have a lot of time yet they urgently need sources of funding to get their growing businesses off the ground. That's why we've written this book: Time and money. We make sure that it doesn't take much time for an entrepreneur to become fully familiar with the funding environment in Australia. This book is packed with information condensed to a form that a business person can consume easily about how to secure financial backing. It is fully updated more than 300 phone numbers, 150 email addresses, and 160 Web sites for dozens of programmes and venture capitalists in Australia who have money for start-up and expanding enterprises. "If it's what you need, you'll not find a better book (any book)".