Entrepreneurial finance book

What is entrepreneurial finance?

Entrepreneurial finance is at the center of a clash of two very distant worlds: that of entrepreneurship and that of finance. Finance is disciplined, based on numbers and logical thinking and looking for proven track records. Entrepreneurship is messy, based on intuition and experimentation and treading off the beaten track.

What could be riskier but also more exciting than being at the center of this clash? Something new and big might come out of it:  the creation of innovative companies that disrupt industries and business models, generate wealth, and improve people’s lives. Welcome to entrepreneurial finance!

The main goal of our book is to understand how entrepreneurial companies are funded.

 

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Endorsements

virgolette Da Rin and Hellmann masterfully combine academic and case studies to analyze how entrepreneurs with ideas and financiers with capital can strike mutually advantageous deals that power society’s future innovations. The result is a lucid and comprehensive book that will be an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in this topic.

Oliver Hart
Department of Economics, Harvard University
2016 Nobel laureate in economics

virgolette This book provides the foundational knowledge MBAs need to master entrepreneurial finance. The authors are leading academics, trained at Stanford, who taught and researched in many countries. They understand not only how Silicon Valley works, but also how venture financing is a global phenomenon.

Ilya A. Strebulaev
Professor of Finance
Stanford Graduate Schoolof Business

virgolette   This book will help students from different backgrounds understand how venture financing works. The authors masterfully combine insights from finance, economics, strategic management, organizational behavior, legal studies and other academic fields. They introduce many new practical tools and present materials in a direct and engaging style.

David Hsu
Professor of Management
Wharton Business School

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The book

An innovative book that explains in accessible language how entrepreneurial finance works. Built on solid academic foundations from a variety of disciplines, it starts with the basics and gradually develops more advanced topics. With a global perspective, it derives practical advice for entrepreneurs and investors.

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About the authors

We met in Stanford in 1989, as the Berlin wall fell and Silicon Valley flourished. Our academic careers brought us across many countries, and we never stopped collaborating. We engaged entrepreneurs and investors, taught them and learnt from them, bringing their experience into our research and into our book.

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Courseware

Learning needs theory and practice. This website complements the book by providing many practical tools created to help readers move seamlessly from concept to application and to get them started as entrepreneurs or investors. Tools cover all major topics explained in the book and are built to analyze real situations.

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Fondamentals of Enterpreneurial Finance is published by Oxford University Press and written by Marco Da Rin and Thomas Hellmann. Contents available on this site are the propriety of Marco Da Rin and Thomas Hellmann. Partial or full reproduction is not permitted. Copyright © 2020