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SMBA6113: Financing Innovation
2024 unit information
Entrepreneurship and Innovation are fundamental to our increasingly global economy. Every single large company in the world, started with one person and one valued idea. New businesses are created every day. Not all of them succeed in raising venture capital to fund their launch or, indeed, their journey and growth. New ventures and ideas can obtain funding from a variety of sources, each with different motivations, mechanics and agendas. This unit explores the financing of new ventures through sourcing, structuring, negotiation, value creation and exit from the perspectives of both an entrepreneur and investor. This is a highly interactive, cross-disciplinary unit which will include significant spreadsheet modelling, term sheet preparation and both individual and group pitches.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Business (Business School)
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Management Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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SMBA6004 |
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Corequisites:
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SMBA6001 |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. critically evaluate sources and motivations of financing new ventures
- LO2. review, value and model new venture financing from both the entrepreneur’s and investor’s viewpoints
- LO3. understand and negotiate funding term sheets
- LO4. effectively present new venture proposals to potential investors.
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Session 2 Early Census 2024
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Block mode | Castlereagh St, Sydney | |
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Session 2 Early Census 2024
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Normal evening | Castlereagh St, Sydney |
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