Course Details

Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital

This class will provide students with an introduction to raising funds for a new venture. Topics to be covered include debt verses equity, secured lending, demand for risk capital, the entrepreneur and the search for investment capital, the venture capital investor, the basic terms of an early stage venture capital deal, the more complex later stage financing deal, venture capital financing documentation (including purchase agreements, stock terms, stockholders' agreements, registration rights agreements, management stock and employment agreements, etc.), and deal process and closings. Relevant legal considerations will be examined, but the emphasis will be on the practical and market considerations involved in these deals. Pre-req: Business Formation and Structure. Recommended: Entrepreneurship Law

Catalog Number: BUSCOM 915-0

Additional Course Information: MSL students only


Course History

Spring 2024
Title: Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
Faculty: Green, Darren (courses | profile)
Barron, Esther S. (courses | profile)
Section: 1ON     Credits: 1.0
Capacity: 50     Actual: 24

Spring 2023
Title: Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
Faculty: Green, Darren (courses | profile)
Barron, Esther S. (courses | profile)
Section: 1ON     Credits: 1.0
Capacity: 50     Actual: 31

Spring 2022
Title: Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
Faculty: Green, Darren (courses | profile)
Barron, Esther S. (courses | profile)
Section: 1ON     Credits: 1.0
Capacity: 50     Actual: 26