This course focuses on the following complementary objectives in a growth venture:
1. How to create business models and a strategy
2. How to grow revenue quickly
3. How to scale operations
4. How to finance growth

Leading Growing Ventures is taught with the practical experiences that the professor learned in leading his own growing venture, Kenja KK. Frameworks have been selected that work in the “real world”. The course will try to take away the highlights of how to think through these critical issues

*本学の教育ミッションを具現化する形で設定されています。

At the end of the course, students should be better equipped on how to build a strategy, run, and finance a high growth venture. Note that the emphasis is on “better equipped” since it is not possible to properly prepare for the very difficult task of launching a venture in one course. General Critical Thinking Goals are also enhanced in what is expected to be a very interactive discussion.

教育手法 Teaching Method		% of Course Time
インプット型 Traditional		0 %
参加者中心型 Participant-Centered Learning	ケースメソッド Case Method	100 %
	フィールドメソッド Field Method	0 %
合計 Total		100 %

This course is taught by the case method, which allows students to develop problem solving and problem-finding skills through reliving the management case examples and real events in existing companies from their own perspectives. The Participant Centered Learning involving discussions among students and role-plays provides students with effective and rich learning experiences, through which we aim at broadening students’ visions and understandings of the world as business professionals as well as teaching them necessary knowledge in business.

*成績は下記該当項目を基に決定されます。
*クラス貢献度合計はコールドコールと授業内での挙手発言の合算値です。

講師用内規準拠 Method of Assessment	Weights
コールドコール Cold Call	0 %
授業内での挙手発言 Class Contribution	40 %
クラス貢献度合計 Class Contribution Total	40 %
予習レポート Preparation Report	0 %
小テスト Quizzes / Tests	0 %
シミュレーション成績 Simulation	0 %
ケース試験 Case Exam	0 %
最終レポート Final Report	60 %
期末試験 Final Exam	0 %
参加者による相互評価 Peer Assessment	0 %
合計 Total	100 %

評価の留意事項　Notes on Evaluation Criteria

Group Project
Deadline：Two weeks after the last day of class
Submission method：Digital Upload Method

In-class contribution：40%
Individual Project：60%
Project will be announced and decided in class. The current bias is to structure the projects around student’s actual real life interests. A 5 page paper on an area of interest OR a group project utilizing some of the concepts in class.

Note on class attendance: Missing classes will be reflected in your participation grade since you will not be available to contribute during the class and any exercise for that session. Leaving after the lecture break will constitute an absence. In general, it is not possible to pass the class without attendance on both days given the short duration.
Note on course concerns: If you have any questions about the class or class material, you are encouraged to meet with me on class days, contact me via email, or set up an appointment to talk by phone.

Class courtesy: Please switch your cell phones on silent mode or off during class. Also, please use your laptop computers for class use only. Please do not have side discussions (even if it is about the class topic) since this distracts from the main course discussion.

• William R. Kerr; Ramana Nanda; James McQuade「 Entrepreneurship Reading: Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures」Harvard Business Publishing（2014）

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

Entrepreneurship Reading: Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
William R. Kerr; Ramana Nanda; James McQuade
Pub Date: Sep 1, 2014
Product #: 8072-PDF-ENG

Square, Inc.: Financing a Unicorn
Mark Simonson
Pub Date: Oct 5, 2017
Product #: W17626-PDF-ENG

This is my first time teaching this course. I have taught Internet Strategy, Entrepreneurial Management, and Innovation before. Evaluations have been very high based on engagement, practical knowledge of the Professor, and topics covered.