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.
Financing for Startup Businesses
Financing for Startup Businesses
This course is part of Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization
Instructors: Manju Puri
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There are 4 modules in this course
This module explores the securities that venture investors use when they invest in startups, and how the dynamic nature of fundraising creates complex ownership structures.
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6 videos2 readings1 assignment
Venture investors generate returns for their investors by selling their portfolio companies, either to strategic buyer, to other private equity investors, or by listing them as publicly traded firms. This module explores how the proceeds from these liquidation events are distributed among the different investors based on the terms of their investments.
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6 videos1 assignment
This module examines different kinds of crowdfunding. We start with peer-to-peer lending to understand the setup in its early days and evolution, and then examine equity crowdfunding and rewards based crowdfunding.
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9 videos4 readings1 assignment
This module examines credit scoring through the traditional means of credit bureau scores and then looks at new ways of doing credit scoring through a simple digital footprint.
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6 videos3 readings1 assignment
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DD
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Reviewed on Mar 15, 2020
Great course! Helped a lot in preparation for a VC interview!
KM
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Reviewed on Apr 19, 2021
it a important course i have more information about business finsncing
AJ
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Reviewed on Feb 1, 2021
Some valuable information in here. But I'm not sure if the title of this course is all that accurate. It is a little misleading to what is included in the course content. Still a decent course
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