New Venture Financing

Michael Glauser, PhD Jay Glauser

A great idea still needs the right legal structure and the money to grow, and this resource teaches students how to build both. Students can work on a new product, service, company, division, or nonprofit, including a venture they already own or started in a previous class. They learn to choose the right business entity, assess and protect intellectual property, bootstrap, and raise capital through both debt and equity financing. They then create a long-term funding plan, learn to read key financial ratios, and build their own financial projections. By the end, students can manage the legal and financial foundations needed to fund a venture's growth from startup to scale.