Student Managed Venture Fund

Catalog description

This course provides students with an opportunity to make actual investments in local companies, while managing the Clark H. Byrum School of Business Venture Fund. Students become venture capitalists for a semester, meeting with local companies, analyzing business plans and deciding which businesses to fund. Students also maintain a record of the fund’s investments and returns. This course can be repeated and fulfills the elective business experience requirement. The course may be repeated a second time and count as an upper level finance course.