This course closely examines various sources for funding new organizations, as well as new initiatives within existing organizations, whether for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid. Through projects, assignments, and readings, students explore various capital markets, their workings, and their effects; different exit strategies; alternative and private markets; debt vs. equity approaches; and the ways in which established and new global financial systems function within global economies. The course also discusses how innovation, design, and sustainable practices are valued within corporate markets (or not), and how they are communicated and validated.