This course will teach you how to manage a startup’s financing strategy, where you will learn how to build capitalization tables (or “cap tables”) in Excel. Cap tables will help you explore different financing strategies for your startup company and determine which financing decisions are best for your entrepreneurial venture. You will also learn about innovations in the digital space that allow new ways to finance entrepreneurial ventures. These include different forms of crowdfunding, and alternative credit scoring mechanisms based on web-based data.
This course is part of the Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization
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- Startup Company
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- Venture Capital Financing
- Venture Capital
- Finance
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Raising Capital from Venture Investors
Exiting Venture Investments
Crowdfunding
Credit Scoring Through Digital Footprints
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