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| Semester | spring semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Every spring sem. |
| Lecturers | Sandeep Dahiya (dahiya.sandeep@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Every year thousands of new ventures are started and a nearly equal number of existing businesses are closed down. Almost all of these ventures are single founder/employee type of ventures where the founder has neither the desire nor the possibility of creating a significantly large business organization. A small fraction of such ventures, however, hold the promise to grow into large businesses. In this course we will focus heavily on such promising ventures or “startups”. The reason for this focus is self-evident - business that are unlikely to grow fast have little or limited need for external financing-making such ventures somewhat irrelevant for a course titled Financing New Ventures. This course is designed to illustrate challenges faced by an entrepreneur in financing and growing a new firm. Exploiting a promising opportunity frequently requires an entrepreneur to marshal scarce resources, especially external capital. The course will focus almost exclusively on issues relevant to the financing of entrepreneurial ventures. We acknowledge that marshalling talent, customers, regulators and other stakeholders is equally and at times even more important than raising financing in many entrepreneurial ventures. However, given that this is a “Finance” course, the primary focus will be on challenges faced by entrepreneurs in securing adequate capital to launch and to grow their ventures. We shall devote significant amount of time on understanding the role of Venture Capital (and to a lesser degree on Angel Investors) in financing new start-ups. The course requires and reinforces the skills needed to analyze a business with a strong emphasis on financing deal terms and valuation techniques. The course concludes by examining the harvesting of entrepreneurial ventures whereby the entrepreneur and the financiers realize the returns for their effort. The course will use a number of case studies based on startups or young firms. |
| Learning objectives | The course seeks to provide insights on the following issues: What are the challenges of financing a new venture? How can these be addressed? Who provides capital to entrepreneurs? What do these investors expect? What are the key challenges in achieving growth of an entrepreneurial venture? How and when should a successful venture be sold to generate cash for the founder(s) and financiers? |
| Bibliography | See syllabus. The course pack of 10 HBS cases will cost approximately $ 45.00. |
| Comments | This course is part of the Summer School, which offers the opportunity to learn more about Law, Business and Economic Policy within an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. |
| Weblink | Weblink |
| Admission requirements | Recommended Prerequisites: Introduction to Financial Markets (Einführung in die Finanzmärkte, 23516) Evaluation of Investments and Companies (Investitions- und Unternehmensbewertung, 10127) |
| Course application | There will be an orientation for all Summer School courses an 19 February 2020, 6-7 pm in room S15, Economics Department. All applications have to be processed through the Summer School office. Please fill in the application form, which can be found on the weblink: https://wwz.unibas.ch/de/summer-school/howtoapply/ |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online course |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Electives Bachelor Business and Economics: Recommendations (Bachelor's Studies: Business and Economics) Electives Bachelor Business and Economics: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: Business and Economics) |
| Assessment format | end-of-semester examination |
| Assessment details | To be published. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Registration/deregistration: faculty |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | 1-6 0,1 |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Business and Economics , studiendekanat-wwz@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Faculty of Business and Economics |