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OLET1203: Business Entrepreneurship: Bootstrap Finance
2025 unit information
In this unit, students learn about bootstrap finance. Colloquially, the term 'bootstrap finance' describes the feat of pulling yourself up by your shoelaces by obtaining rudimentary funding from friends and family for a new business venture and creating the conditions that might allow the venture team to later obtain business angel or venture funding. In this upgrade, students acquire theoretical knowledge of the valuation of a new business idea and venture, learn how to analyse a case and formulate a perspective on the structure of the financial sources and models available. This intensive unit employs experiential learning and provides students with a business case and hands-on tasks to develop the necessary skills and insights into early venture funding.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Business (Business School)
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Explore the dynamics of early-stage venture funding
- LO2. Explain how entrepreneurs 'validate' their financials
- LO3. Develop reverse income statements
- LO4. Effectively pitch business ideas to various audiences
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Intensive December 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney |
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