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Related Preparation |
1) |
• Describe the course.
• Welcome and course introduction
• Define the entrepreneurial process and the entrepreneur.
• Explain the sources of the entrepreneurial opportunities.
• Define the principles of entrepreneurial opportunities.•
• Explain syllabus
• Who is an entrepreneur?
• Entrepreneurial traits and characteristics
• Six principles of entrepreneurial finance.
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2) |
• Recognize the role of entrepreneurial finance.
• Identify the successful venture life cycle.
• Explain financing through the venture life cycle
• Discuss life cycle approach for teaching entrepreneurial finance
• Venture Life Cycles: Development stage
• Venture Life Cycles: Startup stage
• Venture Life Cycles: Survival stage
• Venture Life Cycles: Rapid-Growth stage
• Venture Life Cycles: Early maturity stage
• Seed financing
• First-round financing
• Second-round financing
• Mezzanine financing
• Liquidity stage financing
• Seasoned financing
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Review the syllabus.
Read, in Leach and Melicher, chapter 1, p.3-41
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3) |
• Recognize the development of business idea
• Identify the sound business model
• Analyze the best practices of successful entrepreneurial ventures
• Explain time-to-market and other timing implications
• Process for identifying business opportunities.
• Sound business model components 1: The business model must generate revenues
• Sound business model components 2: The business model must make profits.
• Sound business model components 3: The business model must produce free cash flows
• Best marketing practices.
• Best financing practices
• Best production or operating practices.
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Read, in Leach and Melicher, chapter 2, p.41-89
Review the lecture notes.
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Course Notes / Textbooks: |
Entrepreneurial Finance
J. Chris Leach and Ronald W. Melicher, 5th ed., Cengage Learning, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-285-42575-7
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References: |
Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Alen, 10th ed., McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2011
ISBN 978-0-07-353073-5
Girişimcilik Finansmanı
Gülüzar Kurt Gümüş ve Ceyda Yerdelen Kaygın, Gazi Kitabevi, Ankara, 2021, ISBN 9786258494976
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