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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:

Management Education

Code SMBA6113
Academic unit Management Education
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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SMBA6004
Corequisites:
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SMBA6001
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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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.

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Session 2 Early Census 2024
Block mode Castlereagh St, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Intensive December 2020
Block mode Castlereagh St, Sydney
Intensive June 2022
Block mode Castlereagh St, Sydney
Intensive June 2022
Block mode Remote

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