FIN 620 - Financing New Ventures

Institution:

Jacksonville University

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Description:

Prerequisites: FIN 534. Basic concepts of finance are applied to the entrepreneurial venture beginning with company start-up and concluding with the "harvest." Entrepreneurial decisions and alternatives are analyzed in terms of their effect on firm value. The central focus of the course is to understand the financing of entrepreneurial ventures, including ways investors identify and commit resources to create and finance them. Lectures, in-depth discussions, and cases are used to address specific concepts and skills relevant to developing and financing a new venture. These concepts will include: evaluating the opportunity, financing the venture, valuing the emerging company, and harvesting the ventures by selling it or going public. An integral part of the course pedagogy is participation in the Springboard Angel Investor Capital Fund.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.jacksonville.edu

Phone Number:

(904) 256-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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