Lecture Notes in Entrepreneurial Finance for the Digital Economy

This book is intended to be used as a basis for developing courses in entrepreneurial finance. While many universities, particularly in the United States, have entrepreneurial finance on their curriculum, there is often a gap between the large selection of entrepreneurship courses and courses providing applicable hard skills in finance and accounting. Early-stage ventures cannot succeed without capital and careful management of cash flow for example. Entrepreneurs need skills, such as how to negotiate with investors, so that they don't end up giving up the control of their venture too early. This book aims to fill this gap by providing guidelines for how successful courses can be set up to train finance, accounting, and corporate strategy students for a career in the start-up and venture capital industry.

Contents:

• Preface
• About the Author
• Author's Note
• Introduction to Finance for Entrepreneurs
• Developing the Business Idea
• Managing Cash Flow
• Types and Costs of Financial Capital: Projecting Financial Statements
• Valuing Early-Stage Ventures
• Venture Capital Valuation Methods
• In-Semester Test Instructions
• Pitching 101
• Crowdfunding, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Crypto and AI
• Efficient Markets, Monopolies (Oligopolies) and Startups
• Early-Stage Investors
• Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
• Appendix: The Business Model Canvas
• Bibliography
• Index

Readership: University educators and professors, venture capital consultants and trainers.

Key Features:

• Provides methods on how to train students to gain job-ready skills in entrepreneurial finance such as cash budgeting, financial forecasting, and venture valuation method
• Shows how students can learn business model evaluation techniques and how to pitch a business idea to prospective investors

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