Advancing Studies · Boston College
This course presents the landscape of venture funding and provides entrepreneurs with qualitative and quantitative decision-making tools to make well-informed, strategic choices about how to fund their new ventures. It covers the broad spectrum of startup funding options, from bootstrapping and loans, tapping friends and family resources, competing for accelerator and government funding, to seeking angel and venture capital investments. Within this spectrum, students will learn how to assess the feasibility of raising external funds for different business models at different stages of company