Private Offerings (Silicon Valley) - Softcover

.".".a timely fictional page-turner...she can tell a story...""San Jose Mercury News
" Ann Bridges Private Offerings is a joy ride through the twists and turns of Silicon Valley inventor efforts to sell its technology. The story is both suspenseful in regard to Chinese interests and ambitious ploys, and romantic with character secrets slowly revealed. Short chapters have the reader advancing easily through the story to its conclusion. "
Michael Fallon, San Jose State University Lecturer
" Ann Bridges Private Offerings is a joy ride through the twists and turns of Silicon Valley both suspenseful in regard to Chinese interests and ambitious ploys, and romantic with character secrets slowly revealed. Short chapters have the reader advancing easily through the story to its conclusion. " Michael Fallon, San Jose State University Lecturer
" This is a high-tech tale of international intrigue, populated with promiscuous characters of dubious integrity with plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader s attention to the very end. This new author demystifies Silicon Valley with a story of love, greed and financial shenanigans. " George Koo, New America Media, Former US-China Business Consultant
" Ann Bridges develops her multi-dimensional characters with both nuance and depth. She dances them through the perfectly captured intensity of the Silicon Valley business world. Private Offerings is a compelling read: hard to put down and a pleasure to get back into. " Pat Waite, Retired Silicon Valley Corporate Executive, San Jose Political Figure
" An artfully crafted and immensely enjoyable novel that s hard to put down. Ann Bridges draws on her personal experience and insider s view of the world of Silicon Valley and IPOs to bring you intriguing, suspenseful fiction. Plus, she includes a ring of truth about the emerging influence of China on the high-tech, high-finance worlds. " Dinah Lin, MBA, Public Speaker, Author
" This is a good read! If you have ever walked the corridors of Silicon Valley, you will have met the characters in this book in conference rooms, at business and technical forums, coffee shops and airports from San Jose to San Francisco. It appears Bridges has captured many closely guarded conversations. " Stephen Tritto, Retired Silicon Valley Executive and Award-Winning Author
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Featured: The 10 Best Business Books of 2015, by WealthManagement Magazine
"Initial public offerings have rarely been so fraught. Public relations consultant Lynn Baker is at the center of an up-and-coming technology firm just a few weeks away from an IPO. But the IPO is torpedoed by a coordinated campaign of misinformation from mysterious outsiders. If that s not bad enough, company insiders all have secrets that complicate board meetings. The author has done her research about the mechanics of IPOs, the lure of the promise (rarely realized) of incredible wealth, and how easily dreams turn into dross. This novel captures the intensity of the Silicon Valley business world and its arcane financial practices with appealing characters, unrelenting action and depictions of high finance and corporate boardroom dynamics that ring true." John Kador, WealthManagement Magazine
.".".a timely fictional page-turner...she can tell a story...""San Jose Mercury News
" Ann Bridges Private Offerings is a joy ride through the twists and turns of Silicon Valley inventor efforts to sell its technology. The story is both suspenseful in regard to Chinese interests and ambitious ploys, and romantic with character secrets slowly revealed. Short chapters have the reader advancing easily through the story to its conclusion. "
Michael Fallon, San Jose State University Lecturer
" Ann Bridges Private Offerings is a joy ride through the twists and turns of Silicon Valley both suspenseful in regard to Chinese interests and ambitious ploys, and romantic with character secrets slowly revealed. Short chapters have the reader advancing easily through the story to its conclusion. " Michael Fallon, San Jose State University Lecturer
" This is a high-tech tale of international intrigue, populated with promiscuous characters of dubious integrity with plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader s attention to the very end. This new author demystifies Silicon Valley with a story of love, greed and financial shenanigans. " George Koo, New America Media, Former US-China Business Consultant
" Ann Bridges develops her multi-dimensional characters with both nuance and depth. She dances them through the perfectly captured intensity of the Silicon Valley business world. Private Offerings is a compelling read: hard to put down and a pleasure to get back into. " Pat Waite, Retired Silicon Valley Corporate Executive, San Jose Political Figure
" An artfully crafted and immensely enjoyable novel that s hard to put down. Ann Bridges draws on her personal experience and insider s view of the world of Silicon Valley and IPOs to bring you intriguing, suspenseful fiction. Plus, she includes a ring of truth about the emerging influence of China on the high-tech, high-finance worlds. " Dinah Lin, MBA, Public Speaker, Author
" This is a good read! If you have ever walked the corridors of Silicon Valley, you will have met the characters in this book in conference rooms, at business and technical forums, coffee shops and airports from San Jose to San Francisco. It appears Bridges has captured many closely guarded conversations. " Stephen Tritto, Retired Silicon Valley Executive and Award-Winning Author
"

Featured: The 10 Best Business Books of 2015, by WealthManagement Magazine
Initial public offerings have rarely been so fraught. Public relations consultant Lynn Baker is at the center of an up-and-coming technology firm just a few weeks away from an IPO. But the IPO is torpedoed by a coordinated campaign of misinformation from mysterious outsiders. If that's not bad enough, company insiders all have secrets that complicate board meetings. The author has done her research about the mechanics of IPOs, the lure of the promise (rarely realized) of incredible wealth, and how easily dreams turn into dross. This novel captures the intensity of the Silicon Valley business world and its arcane financial practices with appealing characters, unrelenting action and depictions of high finance and corporate boardroom dynamics that ring true. John Kador, WealthManagement Magazine
..".a timely fictional page-turner...she can tell a story..."San Jose Mercury News
"Ann Bridges' 'Private Offerings' is a joy ride through the twists and turns of Silicon Valley inventor efforts to sell its technology. The story is both suspenseful in regard to Chinese interests and ambitious ploys, and romantic with character secrets slowly revealed. Short chapters have the reader advancing easily through the story to its conclusion."
Michael Fallon, San Jose State University Lecturer
"Ann Bridges' 'Private Offerings' is a joy ride through the twists and turns of Silicon Valley...both suspenseful in regard to Chinese interests and ambitious ploys, and romantic with character secrets slowly revealed. Short chapters have the reader advancing easily through the story to its conclusion." Michael Fallon, San Jose State University Lecturer
"This is a high-tech tale of international intrigue, populated with promiscuous characters of dubious integrity with plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader's attention to the very end. This new author demystifies Silicon Valley with a story of love, greed and financial shenanigans." George Koo, New America Media, Former US-China Business Consultant
..".Ann Bridges develops her multi-dimensional characters with both nuance and depth. She dances them through the perfectly captured intensity of the Silicon Valley business world. 'Private Offerings' is a compelling read: hard to put down and a pleasure to get back into." Pat Waite, Retired Silicon Valley Corporate Executive, San Jose Political Figure
"An artfully crafted and immensely enjoyable novel that's hard to put down. Ann Bridges draws on her personal experience and insider's view of the world of Silicon Valley and IPOs to bring you intriguing, suspenseful fiction. Plus, she includes a ring of truth about the emerging influence of China on the high-tech, high-finance worlds." Dinah Lin, MBA, Public Speaker, Author
"This is a good read! If you have ever walked the corridors of Silicon Valley, you will have met the characters in this book in conference rooms, at business and technical forums, coffee shops and airports from San Jose to San Francisco. It appears Bridges has captured many closely guarded conversations." Stephen Tritto, Retired Silicon Valley Executive and Award-Winning Author

THE MODERN DAY GOLD RUSH IS ON The breadth of Silicon Valley's reach is global, penetrating all aspects of civilian life, as well as defining the new Cold War: how governments monitor worldwide financial transactions to maintain an edge on political posturing and defense technology. Ann Bridges presents Silicon Valley drama within this global context, from an insider's perspective that is rich with authenticity and nails current-day issues. Tech guru, Eric Coleman, is about to embark on an IPO road show for SDS, the company he founded with funding and support from the U.S. Defense Department. The uses for his proprietary, top-secret technology is coveted by the Chinese government, represented by a variety of nefarious parties who have plans of their own: delay the IPO with false rumors and force a private offering, allowing them to step in as the white knight, offering a rich payback for the founder while also buying the technology and placing China firmly at the head of global dominance. Lynn Baker is the struggling public relations consultant hired by Coleman to grease the wheels of the IPO syndicate, derailed immediately with allegations of a bug in SDS software. A flurry of suspicion ensues, the root of which goes so deep into the heart of the code, it points to insider corruption. As Baker and Coleman fight to maintain an offensive, the international intrigue hastens and clashes with the greed of the Wall Street handlers, in step with the heightening attraction between Lynn and Eric. Past entanglements come to the fore, setting a firm backdrop for a myriad of clues and motives for both power plays and love triangles. As the sultry heat builds between Coleman and Baker, internal and external forces wreak havoc on their mutual trust, and the potential for a future together. When the stakes are this high, how far will governments go to secure a Holy Grail in forensic technology? And will their desperate power plays overshadow the possibility that the guru behind it has already anticipated the feeding frenzy with a power play of his own?