Financing and Profiting from Innovation for Corporate Entrepreneurs

Description

This course is designed for aspiring or active corporate entrepreneurs who want to learn how to secure and manage funding for their business. We will demystify key accounting and financing concepts to provide corporate entrepreneurs with a roadmap for developing a business case for their ideas and securing funding to make those ideas a reality.

Syllabus :

1. Introduction to Financing Corporate Ventures

• Finance for the corporate entrepreneur
• The entrepreneurial spectrum
• Corporate entrepreneur vs. startup entrepreneur
• The "too typical" return on investment (ROI) process
• A better approach to return on investment (ROI)
• Intangible assets and return on investment (ROI)
• The roles of products and leadership in return on investment (ROI)
• Financial statement basics
• Financial statement details
• Financial metrics

 

2. Corporate Venture Valuation Techniques

• Valuation techniques
• Net present value
• Opportunity cost of capital
• Why NPV is best
• Project payback period
• Internal rate of return
• Weighted average cost of capital

 

3. Sources of Financing for Corporate Ventures

• Sources of funding
• Internal funding
• Customer and vendor financing
• Franchising
• Joint ventures
• Co-branding
• Licensing agreements

 

4. Creating the Investment Proposal for the Corporate Venture

• Business proposals and the pitch
• How to write an effective business proposal
• What do your funding sources want to see
• How to create a pitch deck
• Do's and don'ts of the pitch

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