EBC07

Compulsory

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Having successfully completed the course, students will be able to:

• Understand and apply the basic principles of entrepreneurship and innovation
• Recognize business ideas and evaluate business opportunities
• Build a team around the opportunity
• Assess and gain control of the required resources (e.g. financial)
• Define the major strategic and operational issues that typically confront young growing businesses
• Completely design a business plan
• Apply and discuss exit strategies.

• The company lifecycle.
• Financing a venture.
• Interacting with investors.
• Barriers to growth and strategies for overcoming them.
• Growth models, adaptation and evolution and managing transitions.
• Finance for high-growth enterprises: Cash management and funding growth.
• Stakeholder perspectives in a growing business.
• Acquiring controlling interests.
• Venture and development capital investments.
• Start-up entrepreneurship
• Hybrid securities.
• Managing the exit.