Chad Jardine
  • Adjunct Instructor, Finance Department
801-701-1802
http://cmozen.com

Current Courses

Fall 2024

  • FINAN 6300-090
    Venture Capital
  • FINAN 6310-001
    Adv Venture Capital

Summer 2024

Spring 2024

Courses I Teach

  • FINAN 6300 - Intro to Venture Capital
    FINAN 6300 prepares students for FINAN 6310 Advanced Venture Capital and introduces the language, skills, know-how, concepts, attitudes and information surrounding raising capital for new and growing businesses. We’ll focus on four dimensions of funding a new venture: Company, Context, Investors and the terms of the Deal. This course aims to increase your odds for success in dealing with investors, by learning to think like them. In addition to becoming familiar with the process of financing a new venture, the course focuses on how to build fundamental value within a company and increase a new venture’s investment worthiness.
  • FINAN 6310 - Advanced Venture Capital
    FINAN 6310 Advanced Venture Capital builds on the concepts introduced in FINAN 6300 and further develops the language, skills, know-how, concepts, attitudes and information surrounding raising capital for new and growing businesses. These include concepts like the importance of the opportunity, favorable deal structure, clear customer acquisition strategy, presentation of current and projected financials, mitigating the four strategic components of risk, legal and capital structures, venture capital, private placements, initial public offerings (IPO), mezzanine debt, preferred stock, warrants and other forms of new venture financing.