Title

'Tommie Tank' Helps Students Learn to Finance Ventures

Author

James Ebben, University Of St. Thomas - MinnesotaFollow

Department/School

Entrepreneurship

Date of this version

2017

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Finance, Pedagogy

Abstract

This paper outlines the design of an entrepreneurial finance course at the University of St. Thomas around an experiential project. The concept is straightforward: students raise money for a business concept and then execute on it; the expectation was that students would better learn everything that was taught in the course, from pro formas to liquidation preference, if they experienced it. The project we developed and implemented has had even better outcomes than we anticipated.

Published in

Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange

Citation/Other Information

This paper/project was submitted for the Special Recognition in Entrepreneurship

Education Innovation Pedagogy Award at the 2016 USASBE Conference and was selected as one of three finalists for the award.

https://eiexchange.com/content/296-tommie-tank-helps-students-learn-to-finance-vent