Entrepreneurial Finance · Strategy, Valuation, and Deal Structure by Smith, Janet -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

List of Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors PART 1 Getting Started Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneur 1.2 The Finance Paradigm 1.3 The Rocket Analogy 1.4 The Stages of New Venture Development 1.5 Measuring Progress with Milestones 1.6 Financial Performance and Stages of New Venture Development 1.7 The Sequence of New Venture Financing 1.8 The New Venture Business Plan 1.9 Organization of the Book 1.10 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 2 New Venture Financing: Considerations and Choices

2.1 Sources of New Venture Financing 2.2 What’s Different about Financing Social Ventures? 2.3 Considerations When Choosing Financing: The Organizational Form 2.4 Regulatory Considerations 2.5 The Deal 2.6 International Differences in Financing Options 2.7 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 3 Venture Capital

3.1 Development of the Venture Capital Market 3.2 The Organization of Venture Capital Firms 3.3 How Venture Capitalists Add Value 3.4 Investment Selection and Venture Capitalist Compensation 3.5 Venture Capital Contracts with Portfolio Companies 3.6 Venture Capital Contracts with Investors 3.7 The Role of Reputation in the Venture Capital Market 3.8 Reputation, Returns, and Market Volatility 3.9 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

PART 2 Financial Aspects of Strategic Planning Chapter 4 New Venture Strategy and Real Options

4.1 Product-Market, Financial, and Organizational Strategy 4.2 The Interdependence of Strategic Choices: An Example 4.3 What Makes a Plan or Decision Strategic? 4.4 Financial Strategy 4.5 Deciding on the Objective 4.6 Strategic Planning for New Ventures 4.7 Recognizing Real Options 4.8 Strategic Planning and Decision Trees 4.9 Rival Reactions and Game Trees 4.10 Strategic Flexibility versus Strategic Commitment 4.11 Strategic Planning and the Business Plan 4.12 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 5 Developing Business Strategy Using Simulation

5.1 Use of Simulation in Business Planning: An Example 5.2 Who Relies on Simulation? 5.3 Simulation in New Venture Finance 5.4 Simulation: An Illustration 5.5 Simulating the Value of an Option 5.6 Describing Risk 5.7 Using Simulation to Evaluate a Strategy 5.8 Comparing Strategic Choices 5.9 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

PART 3 Financial Forecasting and Assessing Financial Needs Chapter 6 Methods of Financial Forecasting: Revenue

6.1 Principles of Financial Forecasting 6.2 Forecasting Revenue 6.3 Estimating Uncertainty 6.4 Building a New Venture Revenue Forecast: An Illustration 6.5 Introducing Uncertainty to the Forecast: Continuing the Illustration 6.6 Calibrating the Development Timing Assumption: An Example 6.7 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 7 Methods of Financial Forecasting: Integrated Financial Modeling

7.1 An Overview of Financial Statements 7.2 The Cash Conversion Cycle 7.3 Working Capital, Growth, and Financial Needs 7.4 Developing Assumptions for the Financial Model 7.5 Building a Financial Model of the Venture 7.6 Adding Uncertainty to the Model 7.7 NewCompany: Building an Integrated Financial Model 7.8 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 8 Assessing Financial Needs

8.1 Sustainable Growth as a Starting Point 8.2 Assessing Financial Needs When the Desired Growth Rate Exceeds the Sustainable Growth Rate 8.3 Planning for Product-Market Uncertainty 8.4 Cash Flow Breakeven Analysis 8.5 Assessing Financial Needs with Scenario Analysis 8.6 Assessing Financial Needs with Simulation 8.7 How Much Money Does the Venture Need? 8.8 Assessing Financial Needs with Staged Investment 8.9 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

PART 4 Valuation Chapter 9 Foundations of New Venture Valuation

9.1 Perspectives on the Valuation of New Ventures 9.2 Myths about New Venture Valuation 9.3 An Overview of Valuation Methods 9.4 Discounted Cash Flow Valuation 9.5 The Relative Value Method 9.6 Valuation by the Venture Capital Method 9.7 Valuation by the First Chicago Method 9.8 Reconciliation with the Pricing of Options 9.9 Required Rates of Return for Investing in New Ventures 9.10 Matching Cash Flows and Discount Rates 9.11 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 10 Valuation in Practice

10.1 Criteria for Selecting a New Venture Valuation Model 10.2 Implementing the Continuing Value Concept 10.3 Implementing DCF Valuation Methods 10.4 New Venture Valuation: An Illustration 10.5 The Cost of Capital for Non-US Investors 10.6 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 11 The Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Value

11.1 Opportunity Cost and Choosing Entrepreneurship 11.2 The Entrepreneur as an Underdiversified Investor 11.3 Valuing Partial-Commitment Investments 11.4 Implementation: Partial Commitment 11.5 Shortcuts and Extensions 11.6 Benefits of Diversification 11.7 A Sanity Check: The Art and Science of Investment Decisions 11.8 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

PART 5 Information, Incentives, and Financial Contracting Chapter 12 Deal Structure: Addressing Information and Incentive Problems

12.1 Some Preliminaries 12.2 Proportional Sharing of Risk and Return 12.3 Asymmetric Sharing of Risk and Return 12.4 Contract Choices That Allocate Expected Returns 12.5 Contract Choices That Alter Venture Returns 12.6 Implementation and Negotiation 12.7 A Recap of Contracting with Asymmetric Attitudes toward Risk 12.8 Information Problems, Incentive Problems, and Financial Contracting 12.9 A Taxonomy of Information and Incentive Problems 12.10 Essentials of Contract Design 12.11 Organizational Choice 12.12 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 13 Value Creation and Contract Design

13.1 Staged Investment: The Venture Capital Method 13.2 Staged Investment: CAPM Valuation with Discrete Scenarios 13.3 Valuation-Based Contracting Model 13.4 Negotiating to Increase Value, Signal Beliefs, and Align Interests 13.5 Using Simulation to Design Financial Contracts 13.6 Information, Incentives, and Contract Choice 13.7 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 14 Choice of Financing

14.1 Financing Alternatives 14.2 The Objective and Basic Principles of the Financing Decision 14.3 An Overview of the Financing Decision Process 14.4 First Step: Assess the Current Stage and Condition of the Venture 14.5 Second Step: Assess the Nature of the Venture’s Financial Needs 14.6 Financing Choices and Organizational Structure 14.7 How Financial Distress Affects Financing Choices 14.8 How Reputations and Relationships Affect Financing Choices 14.9 Avoiding Missteps and Dealing with Market Downturns 14.10 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

PART 6 Harvesting and Beyond Chapter 15 Harvesting

15.1 Going Public 15.2 Acquisition 15.3 Management Buyout 15.4 Employee Stock Ownership Plans 15.5 Roll-Up IPO 15.6 The Harvesting Decision 15.7 Venture Capital Harvesting and the “Internet Bubble” 15.8 Summary Review Questions Notes References and Additional Reading

Chapter 16 The Future of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Global Perspective

16.1 Completing the Circle 16.2 Breaking New Ground 16.3 Public Policy and Entrepreneurial Activity: An International Comparison 16.4 The Future of Entrepreneurial Finance Notes References and Additional Reading Index