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MIT OpenCourseWare
Early Stage Capital
- Instructor
- Prof. Shari Loessberg
- Term
- Fall 2010
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 12 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.391 Early Stage Capital, Fall 2010, Prof. Shari Loessberg — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
- Early Stage Capital: Term Sheets 101 Download
- Early Stage Capital: Term Sheets 101 Download
- Introduction to Search Funds Download
- Emerging Market VC: It's What's Next Download
Assignments
8 files
- Find a Lawyer Download
- Framework I: Lawyer Simulation Rounds Download
- Fact Pattern: MIT/FIT Corporation Download
- Framework II: Venture Capitalist Simulation Rounds Download
- Sample Strategic Internal Agenda Download
- Intra-Team Evaluation Download
- Term Sheet Download
- Dow Jones Venture Capital Deal Terms Report Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Term sheets 101
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Lecture 3: Meet the lawyer Guest: David Capillo, Partner, Goodwin Procter
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Lecture 4: The entrepreneur’s view of venture capital (VC) Guest: Bennett Fisher, Founder and CEO, Retroficiency, Inc.
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Lecture 5: Search funds: introduction to a different kind of early stage capital Guest: David Brown, Partner, Choate Hall & Stewart
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Lecture 6: Compare and contrast lawyer rounds
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Lecture 7: VC from the inside: the partnership Guest: Carmichael Roberts, General Partner, Northbridge Venture Partners
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Lecture 8: Angels, super angels, micro VC: trends in seed stage investing
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Lecture 9: The “A Round” and beyond: living with a VC Guest: Jeff Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
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Lecture 10: Emerging market VC: it’s what’s next Guest: Simon Olson, FIR Capital
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Lecture 11: Raising money for non-tech ventures Guest: Chris Gabrieli, Venture Partner, Bessemer Ventures; Chair, Mass 2020
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Lecture 12: Conclusions: comparisons and contrasts of VC rounds
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Shari Loessberg, 15.391 Early Stage Capital, Fall 2010.
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