New Approaches to Entrepreneurship Financing: Process and Procedures

• At the end of this course, Participants will be equipped with the following knowledge:
• Alternative external financing techniques for entrepreneurs
• Corporate bonds by characteristics
• Crow funding categories: Amount and growth rates
• Comparison of mezzanine finance and other financing techniques
• Private equity by stage
• Equity investors at the seed, early and later stages of firm growth
• Key difference between angel and venture capital investors

CONTENT:

Introduction

• Background and rationale
• Project aims and objective
• Methodology
• The present report and next steps

Traditional debt finance and alternative financing instruments

• Credit risk mitigation in traditional lending
• Alternative financing instrument
• Traditional lending technology

Asset-based finance

• Asset-based lending
• Factoring
• Purchase order finance
• Warehouse receipts
• Lasing
• Trends
• Policies

Alternative debt

• Corporate bonds
• Debt securitization and covered bonds

Crow funding

• Modalities
• Profile of firms
• Enabling factors

Hybrid instruments

• Subordinated debt
• Participating loan
• Silent participation
• Convertible debt and warrants
• Finance
• Profile of firms
• Enabling factors

FOR WHOM:

Business owners/managers, Project Managers, Project Planners, Managers responsible for launching new products and services, Senior operations managers, People launching new business ventures

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.