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Venture Financing and Capital Structures

LSC601 · Entrepreneurship Development — Week 5 of 16

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This week’s topics

Venture Financing and Capital Structures

  1. Bootstrapping and trade credit
  2. Angel investment and venture capital
  3. Debt versus equity financing
  4. Crowdfunding and public sector grants
  5. 25. Venture Finance, Part 1
  6. Session 17: Optimal Financing Mix I - The Trade Off

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Analyse the various sources of funding available to a business.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the various sources of funding available to a business.

Study materials

Videos

  • 25. Venture Finance, Part 1 · YouTube · Stanford · 10 min · for registered students
  • Session 17: Optimal Financing Mix I - The Trade Off · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 19 min · for registered students
  • The Power Law: venture capital and the art of disruption | LSE Online and In-Person Event · YouTube · LSE · 66 min · for registered students
  • Session 17: The Financing Mix Trade off · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 86 min · for registered students
  • Session 16: The Debt Equity Trade off · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 90 min · for registered students
  • Session 18: Optimal Financing Mix II- The cost of capital approach · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 19 min · for registered students
  • Session 19: Optimal Financing Mix - Determinants and Drivers · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 80 min · for registered students
  • Chapter/Session 7: Business Financing across the Life Cycle · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 28 min · for registered students
  • Session 19: Enhanced Cost of Capital Approach and Determinants of Optimal · 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
  • A Review and Road Map of Entrepreneurial Equity Financing Research · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations and Theories of Entrepreneurship
  • Week 2: The Entrepreneurial Process in Practice
  • Week 3: Opportunity Recognition and Environmental Analysis
  • Week 4: Factors Impacting Venture Viability
  • Week 5: Venture Financing and Capital Structures
  • Week 6: Entrepreneurial Behaviour Patterns
  • Week 7: Entrepreneurial Development Programmes
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Innovation in Business Management
  • Week 10: Entrepreneurship and Macroeconomic Growth
  • Week 11: Regional Development and Social Stability
  • Week 12: Applying Entrepreneurship Development in practice: case stu…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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