This course will introduce the methodologies used in
entrepreneurial finance and employ the case
method to study VC deals. Venture capital is a great
lab to study important topics in finance such as
start-up financing, innovation, corporate governance,
valuation, capital structure, and organizational
restructuring. Throughout the course, new venture
deals will be discussed from the perspective of
different agents including entrepreneurs, angel investors,
and VC fund managers. The course is going to start with
the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities and
early stage investments by angel investors. Then, we
will investigate early stage investments by VC funds.
The objective in that section will be to analyze a VC
investment opportunity from a qualitative and quantitative
perspective. We will also study exits by VCs. Later, we will
discuss leveraged buyout investments in large companies.
We will discuss how buyout funds choose and value their
investments. In the last part of the course, we will
study investments in VC funds and issues
related to structuring VC funds.
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