Entrepreneurial Finance Fall 2024
General
- Undergraduate
- 40 learners; teams of 5
- 30 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 2 projects wanted
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
- Any company type
- Any
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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October 1, 2024Experience start
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November 2, 2024Mid Project Review
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November 30, 2024Experience end
Timeline
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October 1, 2024Experience start
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November 2, 2024Mid Project Review
Status report to client company
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November 30, 2024Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Beginning in September 2024, teams of student consultants at UPEI will assist your organization in exploring the dynamic challenges faced in securing financial backing to support start-up development, and growth.
Students have a strong background in the evolution of entrepreneurial companies (emphasizing the dynamic nature of issues confronting these firms) and understand the financial factors that affect entrepreneurial firms at various stages through the exit decision.
They will provide recommendations and alternatives to help your company and clients reach their goals. Let the students come up with creative recommendations and a professional plan!
- Learner skills
- Business consulting, Data analysis, Research, Financial analysis, Professional interpersonal and written communication
- Deliverables
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An executive summary of primary recommendations with detailed discussion and alternatives and illustrations in the full project report.
Project Examples
Project activities might include but are not limited to:
- Assessing your potential for entrepreneurial activities within your organization
- Examining and practising the entrepreneurial process: from generating new venture ideas, to exploring their feasibility, through the theory of creating an organization, funding the venture, and implementing it
- Evaluating the feasibility of a small- or medium-sized venture from market, industry, and operations perspectives
- Creating realistic pro-forma financial statements and use them to analyze the feasibility of a new business or the health of an existing business
- Identifying and assessing financing options for a new venture
- Create a pitch package for use with potential investors
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address questions about required information on case details.
Be available for a phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.