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What BUS 552 is really about
BUS 552 begins with how venture capital works: how funds raise money, how they select and structure investments and why most of their returns come from a few outcomes. Students learn the venture capital method of valuation and the terms that divide value between founders and investors.
The course then adds tools for decisions under deep uncertainty. Monte Carlo simulation shows a range of outcomes instead of one forecast, real options and binomial trees value the right to expand, delay or abandon, and game theory examines how investors and competitors respond to one another.
What BUS 552’s assessments ask for
Expect a venture capital fund analysis, a startup valuation using the venture capital method, a term sheet review, a Monte Carlo simulation of a project, a real options valuation with a binomial tree and a game theory analysis of a funding or competitive decision.
Where students lose points in BUS 552
Students lose marks by using a single-point forecast for a highly uncertain venture, by confusing pre-money and post-money valuation, by valuing real options without stating the underlying assumptions and by ignoring dilution in later rounds.
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BUS 552 Module 1 assignment example
Explaining how a composite $80 million early-stage venture fund in Pittsburgh raises money from limited partners, charges a 2% fee and 20% carried interest, selects and stages investments in robotics and industrial software, and depends on a few large exits, with Gompers and Lerner's account of the venture capital industry, Kaplan and Schoar's evidence that fund returns persist, Gompers, Gornall, Kaplan and Strebulaev's survey of how venture capitalists decide and a table of a typical portfolio's outcomes. Full sample paper, read it free.
BUS 552 Module 2 assignment example
Valuing a composite Iowa agricultural technology startup that makes in-field soil nitrate sensors with the venture capital method, from an exit value of $150 million in six years and a 40% target return to a pre-money value of about $8.9 million for a $5 million round, with dilution from later rounds, Sahlman and Scherlis's teaching note on the method, Damodaran on valuing young companies, a sensitivity table and how the founders should negotiate. Full sample paper, read it free.
BUS 552 Module 3 assignment example
Analyzing a $12 million Series A term sheet for a composite Columbus warehouse robotics startup, with Kaplan and Strömberg's evidence on how venture contracts separate cash flow, voting, board and liquidation rights, a payout table comparing non-participating and participating preferences at exits of $30 million, $60 million and $200 million, anti-dilution protection, founder vesting, board composition, the option pool and the terms the founders should negotiate. Full sample paper, read it free.
BUS 552 Module 4 assignment example
Simulating the value of a composite Kentucky startup's first commercial insect protein plant, which turns food waste into feed meal, with Metropolis and Ulam's original description of the Monte Carlo method, Hertz's case for simulation in capital investment, Savage's warning about the flaw of averages, distributions for utilization, meal price, waste fees and costs, 10,000 trials, a results table with the chance of loss and percentiles, a sensitivity ranking and what investors should require. Full sample paper, read it free.
BUS 552 Module 5 assignment example
Valuing a composite Nevada lithium brine developer's phased project with real options, where a $25 million pilot has a negative net present value of $3 million but buys the right to a $180 million expansion in three years, with Myers's idea that growth opportunities are options, Trigeorgis's catalog of real options, Amram and Kulatilaka's advice on using them in strategy, a scenario table giving the expansion option a value of about $27 million and what the analysis means for investors. Full sample paper, read it free.
BUS 552 Module 6 assignment example
Valuing a composite Texas indoor shrimp farm startup's option to build a full-scale farm after its pilot with a two-period binomial tree, from Cox, Ross and Rubinstein's simplified option pricing approach, a project value of $40 million, 35% volatility, a 4% risk-free rate and a $45 million expansion cost, up and down factors, risk-neutral probabilities, a tree of values and payoffs, an option value of about $7.2 million, Copeland and Antikarov's guidance on estimating volatility for real assets and the result's sensitivity. Full sample paper, read it free.
BUS 552 Module 7 assignment example
Using game theory to decide whether a composite Denver venture firm should bid alone against a rival for a hot climate software startup's Series A or propose a syndicate, with a payoff matrix showing that bidding wars leave both firms worse off, Lerner's evidence on why venture capitalists syndicate, Smit and Trigeorgis on combining options and games, Brandenburger and Nalebuff's added value, the founder as a player who benefits from competition and a strategy that changes the game. Full sample paper, read it free.
BUS 552 Module 8 assignment example
Valuing a composite Boston biotech startup's lead drug candidate for a rare inflammatory disease with risk-adjusted net present value, using Wong, Siah and Lo's estimates of clinical trial success rates, DiMasi, Grabowski and Hansen's estimate of development costs, a phase-by-phase table of costs, success probabilities and cumulative odds, a value of about $41 million, a comparison with an unadjusted forecast, the value of staging and how investors should use the result. Full sample paper, read it free.
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Read a finished BUS 552 paper for how it states assumptions before running a model and then explains what the range of results means. Your venture will differ, so reuse the method, not the numbers.
BUS 552 questions, answered
What is a real option?
The right, but not the obligation, to take a business action later, such as expanding or abandoning a project, which has value when the future is uncertain.
Do I need special software for BUS 552?
Spreadsheets handle most Monte Carlo and binomial tree work; follow your instructor's guidance on tools.
What is the venture capital method?
A valuation approach that estimates a startup's value at exit and discounts it at a high target return to find what it is worth today.