DAY 1
Examining the Global Continuum of Capital Providers
- Commercial Banking
- Investment Banking
- Debt Instruments
- Equity Investment Products
- Basics on Risk Assessment, Exposure, and Management
- Federal, State, and Local Government Funds, Grants, and Partnership Allocations
- Define: Seed, Angel, VC, PE, Hedge Stages of Investment Profiles and Expected ROI
DAY 2
Individual Accredited Investors [Angels] and Angel Networks-Associations
- Qualified High-Net-Worth Criteria for Individual Risk Exposure
- Very Early-Stage “Ground Floor” Investment Opportunities and ROI Expectations
- Dealing with Individual Angel Investors and Angel-Investor Funds
- Convertible Notes – Cumulative Interest and Conversion Pricing-Features
- Series A Preferred Stock [Cumulative and Convertible Features]
- Voting Common Stock for Angel Investors
- Key Components of Angel Investor Term Sheets: Project Timing and Risk Profile
- C-Corporation, Limited Partnerships, S-Corporations, Limited Liability Companies
DAY 3
Venture Capital [VC] Firms
- The Risk Profile and Investment Expectations of VCs
- VC Portfolio Approaches to Investments and Selection Criteria
- Venture Stage/Life-Cycle and VC Investment Uses of Funds
- Small “Frontier” VC Entities
- Midsize “Working Capital” VC Firms
- Large “Capital Acquisition” VC Firms
- The VC’s Focus on “Scalability” of the Business Model
- VCs Managing Other VC Funds in Massive Portfolios
DAY 4
Private Equity [PE] Firms
- History and Typical Life-Cycles of PE
- Securities That Comprise “Private” Equity: Time Horizons and Relative Betas
- “Private” Equity vs. “Public” Equity … Valuations, Risk Profiles, Investment Expectations
- Liquidity vs. Illiquidity Concerns for Private Equity Management
- Market Efficiency and the Value of Information
- Active Company Involvement vs. Passive / Non-Involvement and “Value” Investing
- Mergers and Acquisitions [M+A] and PE Opportunities
DAY 5
Hedge Funds
- Nontraditional Investment Profiles and ROI Expectations of Hedge Funds
- Basics on: Arbitrage, Short Positions, Derivatives, Bonds, Index Funds, and ETFs
- Structures of Hedge Funds
- Strategies of Hedge Funds
- Assessment-Performance and Mark-to-Market for Hedge Funds
- Institutional vs. Individual Capital for Hedge Funds