This week’s topics
Financial support and capital structures
- Debt versus equity financing
- Angel investment and venture capital
- Commercial bank lending and microfinance
- Crowdfunding mechanisms
- How to Finance a Company
- Corporate Financing
- Session 17: Optimal Financing Mix I - The Trade Off
What you will be able to do
- 2.1 Compare sources of financial support.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: compare sources of financial support.
Study materials
Videos
- How to Finance a Company · YouTube · Gresham College · 63 min · for registered students
- Corporate Financing · YouTube · Dr Yannis · 36 min · for registered students
- Session 17: Optimal Financing Mix I - The Trade Off · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 19 min · for registered students
- How to Finance a Company · YouTube · Gresham College · 63 min · for registered students
- Session 11: Costs of Debt & Capital · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 88 min · for registered students
- Session 11: Costs of Debt and Capital · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 84 min · for registered students
Further resources
- The Business Finance Guide, The journey and finance options · Reading · Other, report; pp. 6–29 · for registered students
- Entrepreneurship, ch. 9.2: Special funding strategies (crowdfunding, angels, VC) · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 321–330 · for registered students
- The Economics of Small Business Finance: Equity and Debt in the Financial Growth Cycle · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
