MFIN6602 · Finance
Carroll School of Management
This course looks at the nature of the VC firm, its fundraising, and compensation. It explores the portfolio strategies, valuation, and corporate management issues. Of importance are the VC's exit strategies, term sheet negotiations, and syndicating.Course includes analyzing long term financial projections as part of a simulation, in which you work with the Entrepreneurial Finance course to analyze early-stage deal terms and negotiate an investment round. This course is for people who are not taking nor plan to take MFIN2210 Entrepreneurial Finance.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
3.9 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.3 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.2 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.3 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~3.5
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
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Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Spring 2025
1 sectionFall 2024
1 sectionSpring 2024
1 sectionFall 2023
1 sectionSpring 2023
1 sectionFall 2022
1 sectionSpring 2022
1 sectionFall 2021
1 sectionSpring 2021
1 sectionFall 2020
1 sectionSpring 2020
1 section