MGT 483 Venture Finance
Basic concepts of finance will be applied to theentrepreneurial venture, beginning with companystart-up and concluding with the "harvest."Entrepreneurial decisions and alternatives areanalyzed in terms of their effect of firm value.The central focus of the course is to gain anunderstanding of the financing of entrepreneurialventures, including ways investors identify andcommit the necessary resources to create andfinance ventures. Lectures, in-depth discussions,and cases are used to address specific conceptsand skills relevant to developming and financing anew venture. These concepts will include:evaluating the opportunity, financing the venture,valuing the emergining company, and harvesting theventure by selling it or going public.