SECRETS OF VENTURE CAPITAL
STEPHANIE HOSPITAL
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the key concepts involved in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship. The objective is to give students an in-depth overview of what Venture Capital is, why Venture Capital is crucial for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, how a Venture Capital fund is run, and the expertise and skills it requires. This course will also go over the way entrepreneurs can leverage Venture Capital compared with other sources of funding and development.
Stéphanie Hospital is the Founder & CEO of OneRagtime, the disruptive venture platform backing early-stage start-ups in Europe in their full journey to success. Operating as a “fund-as-a-platform”, OneRagtime is the next generation of venture capital funding. Internalised technological knowledge, digitalised investment processes, and a hybrid investment model (crowd equity and funds), position OneRagtime as a unique player in the European Venture Capital ecosystem. It already counts over 19 companies in its portfolio such as onoff, +Simple, Make.org, Phantombuster, JellySmack and others.
Before launching OneRagtime, Stéphanie was at the head of the Orange Digital Business Unit where she led the acquisition of Dailymotion, among others, and major partnerships with key internet players. Stephanie graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management.
In 2019, Stéphanie was selected as one of the “40 Femmes Forbes”, a list paying a tribute to the 40 most influential French women. As one of only a few women founders of venture capital funds, Stéphanie champions the “importance of educating women and promoting their success in an otherwise masculine industry” (as she stated while welcoming Michelle Obama at the Accor Hotel Arena on April 2019).
This course will provide theoretical and practical methods to:
- Understand the characteristics of a startup
- Understand the financing ecosystem and Venture Capital funds structure
- Identify investment opportunities and effectively analyze new venture projects
- Develop new venture projects and sell them to a Venture Capital fund
- Understand how to strategically raise money to finance growth
- Understand the added value of Venture Capital funds and how to be the perfect match for one
SKILLS:
-Financing
-Management
-Startups
-Entrepreneurship
ABOUT STEPHANIE
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
DATE: 6 Apr - 8 May, 2020
DURATION: 1 Session per week
LECTURES: 3 Hours per day
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus
COURSE TYPE: Offline
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DATE: 6 Apr - 8 May, 2020
DURATION: 1 Session per week
LECTURES: 3 Hours per day
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus
COURSE TYPE: Offline
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COURSE OUTLINESession 1
Introduction
Start-ups and Venture Funds
In the financing ecosystem
Session 4
Be in the shoes of a venture catalyst and entrepreneur pitching his or her project
Group project presentations
Session 3
Guest speaker on how to select the most promising start-ups (VC venture catalyst) Projects selection
Start-up analysis and investment decision
Session 2
Guest speaker on Understanding the entire investment process (VC head of finance and head of legal)
The structure of VC funds
SECRETS OF VENTURE CAPITAL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups" by David S. Rose (Wiley, 2014)
"The Business of Venture Capital" by Mahendra Ramsinghani
(John Wiley & Sons, 2014)
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the key concepts involved in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship. The objective is to give students an in-depth overview of what Venture Capital is, why Venture Capital is crucial for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, how a Venture Capital fund is run, and the expertise and skills it requires. This course will also go over the way entrepreneurs can leverage Venture Capital compared with other sources of funding and development.
"Exponential organizations" by Salim Ismail & Michael S. Malone (Diversion Books, 2014)
Harbour.Space is a university created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We focus on meeting the demands of the future, while traditional education providers are too often stuck in the past.
We’re one of the only European institutions completely dedicated to technology, design and entrepreneurship, and our interdisciplinary courses are taught by some of today’s leading professionals. Our aim is not only to equip students with the knowledge to take on the real world, but to nurture, create and shape tomorrow’s tech superstars.
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