ENT 620 Entrepreneurial Finance
Basic concepts of finance will be applied to the entrepreneurial venture, beginning with company start-up and concluding with the "harvest." Entrepreneurial decisions and alternatives are analyzed in terms of their effect of firm value. The central focus of the course is to gain an understanding of the financing of entrepreneurial ventures, including ways investors identify and commit the necessary resources to create and finance ventures. Lectures, in-depth discussions, and cases are used to address specific concepts and skills relevant to developing and financing anew venture. These concepts will include: evaluating the opportunity, financing the venture, valuing the emerging company, and harvesting the venture by selling it or going public. An integral part of the course pedagogy is participation in the Spring Board Venture Capital Fund