Entrepreneurial Finance

There is a need to make decisions on what financial resources are needed, when they are needed, and how to acquire them as well as how to manage the resources acquired in the new venture.

The overall objective of the course is to enhance students’ theoretical and practical knowledge about resource management and finance of new ventures. The students will get to know and use basic frameworks and techniques for analysing and utilising critical resources and capabilities in emerging ventures. There will be emphasis on issues like, the assessment of financial requirements in new ventures. In addition, the course will enhance the students’ knowledge about the financial markets for new ventures (e.g. bootstrapping strategies, business angels, venture capital, crowdfunding, initial coin offerings, initial token offerings, short-and long-term bank finance).

There is also a particular focus upon the way different investors, such as banks, venture capitalists and business angels make their investments in new ventures, and how they manage their portfolio after the investments are made.

Course literature

The course literature listed may be updated up to eight weeks before the course begins.