BUSI 709 Raising Capital for Business Startups

This course provides a detailed overview of process of raising capital for new business ventures. Topics include planning for fundraising, negotiating valuation, funding for startups and small businesses, funding for diversity businesses, funding for inventions and innovations, and community-based funding.

Venture capital should be approached as a subject of entrepreneurial strategy, not finance. This course provides a holistic view of the research pertaining to venture capital as a topic of strategy, with specific importance attached to its place in the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

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Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions (4)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread of at least 1000 words in response to the provided prompt for each Discussion. The student must then post 2 replies of at least 250 words. For each thread, the student must support his/her assertions with at least 5 scholarly citations in APA format. For each reply, the student must support his/her assertions with at least 2 scholarly citations in APA format. (CLOs: A, B, D)

Annotated Bibliography Assignments (2)

The student will submit two 2000-word Annotated Bibliographies in current APA format that focus on the assigned topics. (CLOs: A, B, C)

Literature Review Assignments (2)

The student will submit two Literature Reviews (10 pages, excluding title page, abstract, reference section, etc.) in current APA format that focus on the assigned topics. (CLOs: A, B, C, D)