ENTERPRENEURSHIP AT THE CARUTH INSTITUTE
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CISB 6024-6025: Venture Financing
Course Objective:
The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the different financing approaches available to entrepreneurs from pre start-up creative financing to the formal and highly regulated Initial Public Offering.
Course Description:
This course takes a case approach to understanding the most important financing concepts for the entrepreneur. Throughout the entrepreneur's career start-up, expansion, leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and other opportunities present situations where proper venture financing can mean the difference between success and failure. It examines a company from the initial funding process through the growth stages to the Initial Public Offering and helps the student understand what is the appropriate financing and its detailed structure at each stage of development of the entrepreneurial firm. Specific topics will include Deal Structure, Venture Capital, Leveraged Buyouts, financing an acquisition, and turning around a troubled company.
