2024-2025 Catalog

LAW-8065 Capital Structures and Valuation for Early Stage Companies and Venture Capital Investment

This is a one-credit overview of the capital structures and investment issues for early-stage companies receiving venture capital funding.  Topics to be covered include:  an introduction to early stage investing; financial valuation concepts (the time value of money, discount rates, internal rates of return, and valuation methodologies for both mature and early stage companies); the basics of convertible preferred stock investment term sheets.  Students should expect to undertake basic arithmetic and simple algebra.  Prerequisite:  Business Entity Fundamentals; basic familiarity with balance sheets and income statement helpful but not required.  Evaluation:  Pass/Fail.  Passing requires participation in 80% of in-class "Poll Everywhere" polling questions and correctly answering 30 out of 40 multiple choice questions on an open book "final examination" that will be available on Canvas throughout the course and the following weekend.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

Student has completed all of the following course(s) LAW 2136 - Bus Entity Fundamentals