Entrepreneurship 104: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship Finance
The course provides an overview of the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance covering financial literacy, financial modeling, funding sources, raising capital and valuation analysis.
Entrepreneurship 104: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship Finance
The course provides an overview of the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance covering financial literacy, financial modeling, funding sources, raising capital and valuation analysis.
This comprehensive course offers a deep dive into the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance, equipping participants with a robust understanding of critical financial concepts. Spanning from essential financial literacy to advanced financial modeling, and from diverse funding sources to the intricacies of raising capital, the curriculum provides a holistic view of financial strategies tailored specifically for entrepreneurs. Moreover, participants will gain invaluable insights into the art and science of valuation analysis, enabling them to make informed decisions about resource allocation, investment opportunities, and business growth. By the end of this course, students will emerge with a refined skill set in entrepreneurial finance, poised to navigate the complex financial landscape of startups and ventures with confidence and acumen.
What you'll learn
- Critical Financial Literacy
- Financial Modeling Expertise
- Diverse Funding Sources
- Strategic Capital Raising
- Valuation Analysis Expertise
Prerequisites
None
Meet your instructors
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Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management -
Visiting Associate Professor in the Finance Department at MIT Sloan -
Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management -
Executive Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Antoinette Schoar
Antoinette Schoar
Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Professor Schoar holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Germany. Her research interests span from entrepreneurial finance to fintech, consumer finance and financial intermediation. She has received several awards including the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and the Brattle Prize for best paper in the Journal of Finance. She is the co-chair of the NBER Corporate Finance group. She has served as an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
She also is the cofounder of the non-profit organization ideas42 that uses insights from behavioral economics and psychology to solve social problems.
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Visiting Associate Professor in the Finance Department at MIT Sloan
Professor Rhodes-Kropf’s research on venture capital and exits has been published in many leading finance and economic journals. His work seeks to understand how capital markets interact with the creation of new firms, their financing, growth, governance, and their ultimate exit through a successful IPO or sale or through failure. He has published in leading finance and economic journals, including The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, The RAND Journal of Economics, and The Journal of Business. His 2004 paper "Market Valuation and Merger Waves," published in The Journal of Finance, was nominated for the Brattle Prize for Best Paper in Corporate Finance in 2005.
Bill Aulet
Bill Aulet
Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Professor Aulet is changing the way entrepreneurship is understood, taught, and practiced around the world. Bill is an award-winning educator and author whose current work is built off the foundation of his 25-year successful business career first at IBM and then as a three-time serial entrepreneur. During this time, he directly raised over a hundred million dollars and, more importantly, created hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value through his companies. Since 2009, he has been responsible for leading the development of entrepreneurship education across MIT at the Martin Trust Center. Bill's first book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, released in August 2013, has been translated into over 18 languages and has been the content for three online edX courses which have been taken by hundreds of thousands of people in 199 different countries. The accompanying follow-on book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook, was released in April 2017. Bill has widely published in in places such as the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, the Boston Globe, the Sloan Management Review, the Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneur Magazine, MIT Sloan Experts and more. He has been a featured speaker on shows such as CNBC’s Squawk Box, BBC News, Bloomberg News as well as at events and conferences around the world.
Paul Cheek
Paul Cheek
Executive Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Paul Cheek is a serial tech entrepreneur, entrepreneurship educator, software engineer and cofounder of Oceanworks.
In his role as the Executive Director of the Trust Center, Paul is responsible for the development of the Trust Center’s strategy and operational plans for programs and courses. He serves as an ambassador of entrepreneurship education and MIT's perspective on it to students, alumni, and members of both the local and global entrepreneurship ecosystems.
Paul was MIT’s first Hacker in Residence and has since taught, mentored, and advised thousands of entrepreneurs around the world. Each year Paul teaches hundreds of undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students in the historic "New Enterprises" course, which has run for over 60 years and is believed to be the oldest entrepreneurship course in the country. He has also taught the advanced entrepreneurship course, "Building an Entrepreneurial Venture: Advanced Tools and Techniques.” From working closely with so many students, Paul identified a gap in the entrepreneurship curriculum, designed experimental entrepreneurship education content, and now leads a new advanced course he developed to help student entrepreneurs build their businesses called “Venture Creation Tactics."