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  • 1.  Short case studies with Term Sheets for an Entrepreneurial Finance course?

    Posted 02-20-2018 06:15
    Dear all,

    I'm teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester, and I've got an extra 3 hours of class time where I want to go over and discuss examples of term sheets with my students.  I would use a week towards the end of the semester, so the assumption would be that they already know the fundamental concepts captured within term sheets.  

    Ideally I could find short case studies (3-5 pages of text per case study, re: not-too-technical ventures) with term sheets at the end.  It would be nice to find a set of 3-5 such case studies (in part to have some freedom of choice).  Anybody have a tip on where to look for something like this?

    Regards, -chihmao.


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    Chihmao Hsieh
    Research Professor of Entrepreneurship
    Founding Director, Center for Global Entrepreneurship
    Department of Business Management
    SUNY Stonybrook Korea


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  • 2.  RE: Short case studies with Term Sheets for an Entrepreneurial Finance course?

    Posted 02-21-2018 07:28
    Or if you care to provide some serious immersion, give them the basic details of a company -- nondilutive funding already obtained, amount to be raised, number of outstanding shares, number of founders -- and then have teams of 4 or 5 (some designated as the "entrepreneurs", some designated as the "VCs")  work through the WSGR term-sheet generator.  My New Venture Finance students have spent three class days doing this and will have a competitive paired "negotiation" on Thursday, judged by a couple of venture investors.  I'm mentioning this now (rather than after the fact on Thursday), because it all could blow up!  But even now I can say that students have had to learn a lot of the jargon along the way.

    Best,

    Kelly

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    Kelly Shaver
    Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
    College of Charleston
    Charleston, SC 29401
    shaverk@cofc.edu
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  • 3.  RE: Short case studies with Term Sheets for an Entrepreneurial Finance course?

    Posted 02-21-2018 12:12
    Hi Chihmao,

    The Rebel Technologies case in the USC Greif Entrepreneurship case series might fit what you're looking for - there's a term sheet included; comes with teaching note too:
    https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/SCG534-PDF-ENG

    Best,
    Helena

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    Helena Yli-Renko
    University of Southern California
    Los Angeles CA

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