19-657 Special Topics: Introduction to Venture Finance

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is designed to prepare students for roles in the venture ecosystem, either as a venture capitalist, startup founder or management, or corporate partner to earlystage companies. It addresses financing situations from the initial funding and capitalization of a company to the economics of the acquisition of the company. In each situation, the tradeoffs between the various parties investors, management, and commercial partners are considered. Although the lens is frequently on earlystage technology companies, the principles and practices taught are often extensible to other small and midsize businesses. This course was 19656 section C1 in Fall 2019

Prerequisites: none listed

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