Entrepreneurial Finance

2 credits · Owen Graduate School of Management

This course introduces students to the opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls of financing new enterprises. We will explore entrepreneurial financing decisions from a life cycle perspective. The cycle begins with identifying opportunities, moves to marshaling resources to take advantage of these opportunities and executing the business plan, and ends with harvesting the venture's success. We will discuss the various sources of capital for entrepreneurs, including angels, customers, venture capital, and strategic alliances, and analyze how different contracts affect the incentives of financiers and entrepreneurs. We will emphasize the non-financial inputs that sources of financial capital can bring to entrepreneurial ventures. Prerequisite: MGT 6331. This course is not open to first year MBA students. [2]