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• ENTR 530 Week 1 Homework Assignment Venture
  Capital
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• ENTR 530 Week 1 Homework Assignment Venture
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• ENTR 530 Week 2 Homework Chapter 2 Questions
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• Chapter 2 Questions
• 1. What are the major subcategories of private
  equity, and how do their investment approaches
  differ?
• 5. Why would a corporation, like Intel, want to
  invest in private equity?
• 6. Which type of LP might be inclined to increase
  its private equity investment allocation going
  forward? Why?
• 7. What is the primary role of a fund-of-funds,
  and what type of investor is likely to invest in
  one?

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• ENTR 530 Week 3 Homework Assignment
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• ENTR 530 Week 3 Homework Assignment

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• ENTR 530 Week 3 Homework Chapter 3 Questions
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• Chapter 3 Questions
• 1. Why do investors prefer proprietary deals? Why
  would an entrepreneur or a seller prefer these
  deals?
• 3. What are the key points to include in a pitch
  to a potential investor?
• 5. What are the channels for an investor to seek
  out an investment opportunity?
• 6. How does an entrepreneur find an investor?
• 8. Why might an investor prefer a CEO who had
  failed in the past?

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• ENTR 530 Week 3 You Decide
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• ENTR 530 Week 3 You Decide

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• ENTR 530 Week 4 Homework Assignment
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• Chapter 6 pg. 196 (Answer questions 1, 3, 5, 12,
  14 in a (2) page paper)
• How do venture capital boards differ in
  composition from the boards of companies that
  have been bought out?
• Chapter 7 pg. 235 (Answer questions 1, 2, 4, 5,
  7, 9, 12, 16 in a (2) page paper)

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• ENTR 530 Week 5 You Decide
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• ENTR 530 Week 5 You Decide

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• ENTR 530 Week 6 Homework Assignment
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• I Chapter 12 page 371
• Question 1 Why are there extreme disparities in
  performance among private equity funds relative
  to disparities in performance among other asset
  classes?
• Question 2 The evidence indicates that
  first-time funds tend to be the weakest
  performers why would someone want to invest in
  one?
• Question 3 Why do subsequent funds tend to
  outperform their predecessors? Is there a
  correlation between performance and maturity?
• Question 4 If performance persists, why would
  anyone ever invest in a mid- or bottom-tier fund?
• Question 6 As a lower-tier fund, how would you
  go about improving your performance?

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• ENTR 530 Week 7 Final Course Project
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• ENTR 530 Week 7 Final Course Project

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