Dimensions
190 x 262 x 50mm
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance provides a comprehensive introduction to entrepreneurial finance, showing how entrepreneurs and investors jointly turn ideas into valuable high-growth start-ups. Marco Da Rin and Thomas Hellmann examine the challenges entrepreneurs face in obtaining funding and the challenges investors face in attracting promising ventures. They follow the joint journey of entrepreneurs and investors from initial match to the eventual success or failure of the venture. Written with the goal of making entrepreneurial finance accessible, this book starts with the basics, develops advanced topics, and derives practical insights. Da Rin and Hellmann build on academic foundations from several disciplines and enrich the text with data, mini-cases, examples, and exercises.KEY FEATURESDevelops a comprehensive framework for understanding entrepreneurial financeProvides many practical educational tools, including a case study that runs across the entire text, a set of novel spreadsheet tools, and a variety of applied examples and exercisesHelps the reader move seamlessly from concept to application, and thus to get started as entrepreneur or investorProvides a contemporary, diverse, and global outlook on entrepreneurial finance for students from all over the worldWritten by renowned researchers and pioneers of the field, this text has strong academic foundations that allow students to understand financial structures, the behaviour of entrepreneurs, and a wide variety of investor typesCustom-developed spreadsheets, review exercises, slides, tables, and numerous other tools and support materials available at www.entrepreneurialfinance.netThis title is available as an eBook. Visit VitalSource for more information or to purchase.
